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I made this big announcement at Conflux, the Australian National Convention, and I believe the news has also been sent to Locus, so I am making it public. I have sold another trilogy, the name of which has yet to … Continue reading
Tag Archives: publication
.Today’s blog post is here. It’s all about how I got published in the first place, and why my first book was published in the UK, not Australia. And to answer a question that keeps on cropping up: my next … Continue reading
All of this has been said before, often. Yet if this Harlequin Horizons affair has showed anything, it is that myths are alive and well. Evidently, we can’t say this kind of thing often enough. In no particular order the … Continue reading
.Jo asked a couple of questions on the comments section of the last post, and here’s the answer to one of them: Why do some books come out in hardback and others in paperback? And with paperbacks, why is the … Continue reading
;Interesting article on the publishing industry in US here, by Daniel Menaker, who was Senior Vice President and the Executive Editor-in-Chief of Random House. In other words, he wore two hats and saw the business from two different angles. If … Continue reading
When a wannabe-published writer reads the stats (only between 1-5 of every 5,000 completed MSS gets published by a respectable publisher), they start to despair. But then you realise that most of the submitted MSS deserve to get turned down, … Continue reading
Over at the Locus Blog, from Gary K. Wolfe, are some interesting figures. In 1954, when I was nine years old, there were approximately 74 science fiction titles published. Locus reports 1,669 titles (including fantasy, horror, etc.) for 2008 – … Continue reading
…until Book 1 of Random Rain is published. Sounds like a baby’s gestation. Would you believe, discussion is still ongoing what to call it? Things get a bit complicated too, when there is more than one parent publisher involved in … Continue reading
.This clause is in my new book contract:“The Works shall not contain any recipe, formula, suggestion or advice which if followed has the potential to cause harm…”Oh dear. I immediately cut out the “charm of powerful trouble recipe”, you know, … Continue reading
.[This is actually an idea by author Josh Palmatier. What happens is this: a number of authors are putting up an example of a successful query letter, i.e. one that either got them an agent or an editor. In other … Continue reading