Category: Publishing News

  • Romance Industry News

    Author brands — great advice from Author Rescue — not that I’m successfully applying it myself. Oh wait … this rambling, curious mix of topics and styles is me. Oops. Are you an author? Let Jane from Dear Author strike fear and trembling into your heart, too, with all the things authors do wrong with…

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    Eavesdrop on the Frankfurt Book Fair and publishing’s future. Open call: Carina Press is looking for science fiction novellas — holiday themed — for 2012 publication. They’ll be edited by Angela James. Darlings, I love your hats! but … are you wearing them at the right time? Patricia Wrede has an excellent article on author…

  • Romance Industry News

    Lawyer up! No, don’t go out and hire one – well, unless you need to obviously — but start eavesdropping on their conversations, smile at their rants, generally turn them upside down and shake them so you gain a bit of their shark-like commonsense. In other words, publishing is a business and as a writer,…

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    Being busy, I’ve skimmed a number of blog posts, but not actually taken that extra step of linking here, let alone commenting. I know, I’m a bad online community member. In my defence, everyone has busy weeks where no matter how much we churn water, we don’t get closer to shore. Give me credit, at…

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    Psych study that spoilers don’t spoil your reading enjoyment — I’m an avid re-reader, so I agree. I’ve shared this link on Twitter, but given the role of nostalgia in the appeal of Steampunk, I want to share it here, too, just so I don’t forget it 🙂 If you live in and around Perth,…