Monthly Archives: January 2010

Why, yes …

… I am having a fit of the lazies … brain tired, too much contentment … must source some misery for creative purposes …

Avatar = "wow-porn"

China Miéville on Avatar (aka Pocahontas in Blue) and its ilk … which was fun and visually spectacular (hell, I saw it twice), but let’s be honest: filled with narrative fail and in need of a good edit.

Why the Na’vi Are Making Me Blue (Essay)

There’s a bumper crop of science-fiction wow-porn either currently or recently in
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Gives Good Blog

Great blog post from Joe Konrath at A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing.

What I Know
I’ve been blogging for almost five years, and am closing in on 500 blog posts all about the publishing industry.

As a result, this blog gets a lot of hits from people who don’t know who I am. That’s the point. As I’ve said many times, anyone
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On Self-Publishing

On Self-Publishing

I get a lot of questions in my day job about self-publishing. People increasingly see it as a means of getting around the traditional big publishing companies. In a lot of cases it can mean taking advantage of technology to get your book out there. You may go to a print
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Worlds Next Door ToC

Tehani Wessely (editor queen) has announced the full table of contents for the new Worlds Next Door anthology of spec fic for 9-13 year olds (below). There’s some very nice company there (including two of my fellow Clarionites, Angie Rega and Aidan Doyle).

Angela Slatter    Genevieve and the Dragon
Michael Pryor    Horror Movie
Rowena Cory Daniells    Tabitha
Dirk Flinthart    Best Dog in the World
Dave Luckett    Disobedience
Kaaron
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Interviewy Goodness

Charles Tan, Bibliophile Stalker extraordinaire, interviews Matthew Kressell (publisher of Sybil’s Garage and Paper Cities)

http://charles-tan.blogspot.com/2010/01/interview-matthew-kressel.html

The Book Oven – Interesting coloured …

Hugh McGuire and Stephanie Troeth’s project – in beta phase:

Book Oven helps teams of people turn manuscripts into finished books, and then publish them. It is built for writers, editors, proofreaders, designers and small presses.

The web has given us the ability to make and distribute art and writing to a global audience
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An Essential Rule of Networking

If you are asking for a favour, introducing yourself to someone higher up the writerly foodchain, or trying to build a ‘mutually helpful relationship’ with a fellow writer, here’s a tip: don’t irritate the crap out of that person.

If they don’t wish to accept your friend request (on the grounds that they use FB for their genuine friends and are
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LOLCats – is there anything they can't do?

Dear Qld Rail

Thank you for raising the cost of my train fare by $1.00, with no discernable improvement in service or frequency.