I posted earlier about the sales number for best-selling authors. What about the average author? Here’s Patrick Nielsen Hayden, an editor at Tor Books, in an interview on io9.com about the future effects of e-text on publishing: io9: Does it make a difference to you if an author has an online reputation? Does that go into
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In this week’s Writing Excuses comments, a poster named Sam asked: How do you, as writers, get past your own inhibitions concerning the use of profanity in order to write a character who does use it? Why get past them? Any given audience has values (as do you as a writer). Stomp on the values
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Shiny. They moved the David Drake blurb to the side, lightened the lettering and moved things so the title wasn’t covering the top of Hunger’s head. At first I thought they moved the lettering, but they didn’t. It appears the shrunk Hunger a bit so we could see more of him. Small changes, but I
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Our genes aren’t in charge. Yes, you say, of course. There’s environment and choice; both of these affect what we become. But I’m not talking about being in charge at that level. I’m saying that our genes aren’t even in charge of themselves. What? We all know that computer hardware (processor, RAM, motherboard, etc.) is
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Mette Harrison wrote a blog about how various authors respond when they read a book, don’t like it, and then the book’s author asks them directly what they thought of the book. Here’s my response. As an author when I ask someone, especially another author, about their experience with my story, I’m looking for a data
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