A Brief View From the Top

I basically have two kinds of blog posts: Here’s an announcement about my writing career Let me tell you a thing about the writing business I try not to sound too much like I’m bragging in the former, and I try not to get too wonky in the latter. I assume most of you are…

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About also-boughts, or how I ruined everything

In what I expect will be a common practice for quite a few of my fellow writers in the coming years, last week I republished four novels after the publisher (who is closing shop) released the rights. In other words: welcome to the first day of the rest of my writing career! I am very excited.…

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I Have No Time For Your Misunderstanding

I would like to declare an official moratorium on all of the following cinematic tropes: the eternally patient New York editor talking their genius author through personal problems with the grace befitting the Actress of a Certain Age that’s been cast to play the part the fast-talking literary agent negotiating hard with the publishers—this is…

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Whispersync for The Spaceship Next Door

As I mentioned at the beginning of the week, The Spaceship Next Door is now an audiobook! I also mentioned I’d let everyone know when “Whispersync” was available, and in saying that I was relying upon the received wisdom from many online resources, including the kind people over on the KBoards and on the FAQ on the…

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The Way Forward

I’ve mentioned a couple of times now that I’m going to be reacquiring the rights to four of my novels, but after a few conversations I’ve had with a few people—offhand chats with persons not involved in publishing who are aware that I also exist as a writer—I came to realize I never discussed why I’m getting…

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But my book is worth more than that

Today I’d like to talk about what price to put on your book.  Or my book, if you don’t have one.  Or some other writer’s book if we don’t want to talk about my books either. Pricing, though.  Let’s have that conversation. Here are a couple of points I would like to make before taking…

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Please Stop

Note: this is the first article I wrote for the Huffington Post to receive widespread attention.  It’s a tiny bit dated—my perspective on Amazon has evolved somewhat, and the Hachette dispute is over—but I’m re-posting it so it has a home on my new site.  I do believe the widespread attention I originally received is…

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The collective insanity of the publishing industry

Unless you’re a writer, I imagine you haven’t been paying quite as close attention to the publishing industry and all its weirdness as I have, and that’s a shame, because it’s been really entertaining. Actually, entertaining isn’t the right word.  It’s been insane, but the kind of insane that’s unreasonably fun to watch from a safe remove.…

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Kindle Select and the madness of crowds

First things first: I just finalized the last draft of Immortal Stories: Eve, more or less on schedule.  It’s done and submitted and I love it and you’ll forgive me if I don’t want to look at it again for a long time, because that’s how self-editing works. You can pre-order it from Amazon by…

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