SFWA Statement on Harlequin’s self-publishing imprint

...press that relies upon payments and income from aspiring writers to earn profit, rather than sales of books to actual readers. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (SFWA) finds ...course, and returns to a model of legitimately working with authors instead of charging authors for publishing services, SFWA has no choice but to be absolutely clear that NO titles from ANY Harlequin ...

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Lulu Thankyou Note

... if you want to make money out of it... well, drop me a line and get permission first. I'm a reasonable man, despite the stuff that I write. One more thing... if you like my stuff, tell people. Lend the books to folks you think will like them. Mail them the PDF's (I promise, I don't mind, really). Blog, tweet, post and just plain talk. And if you don't like them... well, the most harm you can do...

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The E-book of Pop Culture Magick is now available

... there. Immanion Press is slowly but surely publishing many of its book as e-books and this includes my own writing. Pop ...information . I think the move to e-books is a good idea, though I’ll ... I’m too much a lover of books to really see myself reading e-books. I hope there’s print, through the rest of my life. ... to be my favorite of Alli’s books so far, because it’s the most ...

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Randomness for

...’s right. 6) Smash putt! 7) Twilight: New Moon. “ However, last year in the line, I did interviews, where I handed out a list of ten things and asked for which ones happened in the books. Seven or eight out of ten got circled. Then I pointed out that the list was ten warning signs that your partner is becoming abusive or controlling, and asked what they thought of Edward’s behavior in this ...

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Harlequin: We help (ourselves to) the helpless

...who don’t know better into thinking that paying for publication is a legitimate path into the publishing world. In a stroke, they’ve become the sort of scumbag publisher that writer’s organizations ... Romance look cheap & nasty. Which I believe was the goal of the Harlequin Temptation books, ironically. Mirrored from my website at deborahbiancotti.net . You can respond here or at the ...

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Why yes, you CAN buy my book...

... is "not suitable for minors", contains sex, violence, swearing and oblique references to 1990's comics. Cy Dethan , writer of the truly astounding Cancertown (as well as much more goodness just over the horizon), called it "compelling and unexpectedly uplifting". If you review books, let me know and I'll get you a review copy. If you like it, tell your friends. If you don't, blame Warren.

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Yet another book roundup post!

...recently purchased by me include: Print books : Lilith’s Brood , by Octavia ... three of her novels. E-books (a whole mess of ‘em, ... Juno’s harder to find books): Written on Your Skin , by ... enough of this woman’s books yet. Soulless , by Gail Carriger.... a grand total of 159 books purchased this year. I hope ... just paid a few more publishing industry employees’ salaries! Mirrored from ...

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Janny Wurts, Stormed Fortress

...Light Series, but before that there were three books (starting with "Curse of the Mistwraith") in the... things carry on fairly seamlessly through all eight books. (Seven in the US, I think, but my...out separately.) The series has had a checkered publishing history; the book before this was published (... its duly sanctioned adjective. Or alternatively, that the books would be a great deal shorter if she ...

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Eyes on the Horizons III: Standards? Or Double Standards?

...own books and publishers whose business model and methods of publishing...MWA's definition conflates self-publishing and vanity presses. I'm...or any other authors self-publishing services, literary representation, paid editorial...OnSpec * Paradox * PublishAmerica * Silver Lake Publishing * Small Beer Press * Spectrum SF...brochure . They have "full-color publishing packages": Advantage (399.00) Basic...

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Guns and alchemy.

..., thanks for asking), where I learned some very cool news: Tor Books is re-issuing his 1980 paperback original novel for Dell, The Point Man ( which I reviewed on my LibraryThing account ), and publishing a sequel, The Long Man , set in 2008 or 2009. ...'s The Invisibles ) and psionics; the title character (for both books) is Max August, Vietnam vet, ex-DJ, erstwhile Marvel Zombie (...

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