There were a few publishing stories in the news this week, but nothing which I had any strong opinions about. Although some of the readership may feel more strongly about things than me so I’ll briefly discuss them up here…
There were a few publishing stories in the news this week, but nothing which I had any strong opinions about. Although some of the readership may feel more strongly about things than me so I’ll briefly discuss them up here…
This is a new undertaking I’m starting on my personal blog. I wanted to share it with the Foil & Phaser community as well.
This was one of my submissions to the Sword and Laser anthology. It didn’t get accepted, but I hope you all enjoy it anyway. Once mission control gave us the okay, Q and I fumbled our way out of confinement and stared…
On Wednesday morning, Judge Denise Cote issued her ruling against Apple in the ebook price fixing trial. Deciding that Apple acted in violation of United States antitrust laws when it entered into agreements with five of the biggest book publishers…
Paying Short Fiction and Small/Indie Press Markets These links are going to be added to the resources menu sometime in the not too distant future, but until then enjoy. This list does not represent a complete list of paying short…
This week will be a double-dip for news and views with two big news stories in the book world: The merger of Penguin and Random House and the ruling in favor of Google in the Google Books case. First, Penguin…
This will be the first inauguration of Dead Story Day here on Foil and Phaser. What is dead story day? A day to post a story in any condition. Got an outline you want to write the story for, but…
Kindle Worlds, Amazon’s self-publishing market for fan fiction went live earlier this week. The idea is to allow authors of fan fiction to publish their stories via the existing epublishing model established on Amazon for original works of fiction. However,…
When writing fiction, an author will often wish to include science, scientific concepts, or other facts and ideas drawn from the real world. Sometimes this works to the author’s advantage, sometimes it falls flat. In this article I will discuss…