To all those who think the future is self publishing
Read Cat Valente’s post. Or, if you are lazy, here’s the takeaway: No one goes around suggesting that everyone should become their own autonomous cheesemakers and cheering the death of the cheese...
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If You Build This, Magazines Will Come
During WisCon I had a brief conversation with Jed Hartman about my continued sadness that more online magazines don’t have an eBook version of their stories so I can easily load them on my eReader and...
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Magazine / eBook Coding Project Meetup At ReaderCon
Since a good number of the people who are interested in helping with and hammering out details on the eBook Magazine project I posed about will be at Readercon in a few weeks, I think it would be a...
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My Readercon 21 Schedule
Looks like I will be on four panels/discussions at Readercon this weekend. In addition to that we’re having the eBooks and SF Magazines discussion on Saturday night. Here’s my schedule for those who...
View ArticleeReaders and the reviewing thereof
For those of you who don’t read my LJ, I’m soliciting opinions on how to make eReader reviews more interesting/relevant. eReaders and the reviewing thereof is a post from: K. Tempest BradfordeReaders...
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Not At All Innocent or Hypothetical Question of the Day
This is for the writers out there. If you were to get the urge to write on a mobile phone (not a whole novel, say, but whenever you needed to bust out some words and it wasn’t practical to do so on a...
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Win An eReader and Support Writers of Color At The Same Time!
As some of you know, every year for the past several I’ve done the Clarion West Write-a-thon, a fundraising event for the 6 week writing workshop I attended a few years ago. Usually what I do is split...
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Clarion West, Money, And Me
We have just 7 days left before the Butler Scholarship fundraiser ends. I won’t post about this every day, but I’m going to post about it three more times. This is the first. Here’s a story I’ve told...
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Pictures. Of me. In 2012.
I’m doing this thing wherein I take a picture of myself every day in 2012. I started doing this back in April when I turned 33 thinkign I would take a picture of myself every day of my 33rd year, but...
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Social Media Resources for Sipping From The Firehose #WisCon36
Just about to head into my next panel, “Sipping From the Firehose: Managing Writing and Social Media,” and wanted to get this list of resources up for those attending and those who are following along...
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Another kind of backup
New post over on the tech blog that will be of interest to you writer types: “As I was in the process of moving from one house to another… someone broke into the passenger side window of my car and...
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Towards A Database of Workshops
My post the other week about writers of color and greater access to workshops generated much discussion both on the post itself and on social media. Out of these discussions came some great ideas and...
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Selfies With Books and other things I do for my job
In addition to my weekly short fiction recs over at io9 I have some summer reading recs over at xoJane, too. There I did novels and short story collections/anthologies so everyone is covered. And I...
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Do you subscribe to magazines?
My io9 weekly fiction roundup continues apace. I decided that at the beginning of every month I would remind people that magazines need subscribers, and subscribing is awesome. Go, team! In searching...
View ArticleThe 6 Elements Of A Good Author Website
The other day on Twitter Sofia Samatar laid down some truth: working on updating my website & thinking… dear authors, pls have good clear websites! don’t make amaz*n the best place to find out...
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Who Needs Handwriting? The Write Gear vs Freakonomics Radio!
This week’s episode of my new podcast The Write Gear is almost the entire raison d’être I finally got this project off the ground. I recorded the conversation therein several years ago at ReaderCon,...
View ArticleWin An eReader and Support Writers of Color At The Same Time!
As some of you know, every year for the past several I’ve done the Clarion West Write-a-thon, a fundraising event for the 6 week writing workshop I attended a few years ago. Usually what I do is split...
View ArticleClarion West, Money, And Me
We have just 7 days left before the Butler Scholarship fundraiser ends. I won’t post about this every day, but I’m going to post about it three more times. This is the first. Here’s a story I’ve told...
View ArticlePictures. Of me. In 2012.
I’m doing this thing wherein I take a picture of myself every day in 2012. I started doing this back in April when I turned 33 thinkign I would take a picture of myself every day of my 33rd year, but...
View ArticleSocial Media Resources for Sipping From The Firehose #WisCon36
Just about to head into my next panel, “Sipping From the Firehose: Managing Writing and Social Media,” and wanted to get this list of resources up for those attending and those who are following along...
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