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SOPA on hold, PROTECT IP still pending – An Open Letter

MacAllister Stone — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:08:15 +0000

I’m a registered Democrat. I vote, I canvass, I caucus. As a Website owner and as an American, I’m dismayed by Congressional attempts to censor the internet. I’m appalled and chilled that we have a former Senator who publicly asserts that the U.S. should take a lesson from China to establish internet censorship and [...]

A few August 31 Fiction Deadlines

Bartholomew Klick — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:07:32 +0000

Hadley Rille Books: A Quiet Shelter There is an upcoming anthology of speculative fiction about service or companion animals. The deadline is August 31, and the pay is $10 for a story or $5 for a poem, all USD. The minimum word count for fiction is 1000 words; the maximum is 4000. That makes [...]

Oncoming Contest Deadlines, Fee-Free Edition

Bartholomew Klick — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:14:08 +0000

Redstone Science Fiction’s “Identity Crisis” contest is accepting submissions until August 15. There’s no entry fee, and winners get 5 cents per word (4,000 word maximum). The contest’s prompt is an essay titled “Identity Crisis: Who Are We, If We Can Choose Who We Are?” which, along with the publication’s submission guidelines, can be [...]

Soaps.com Looking for a Substitute Recap Writer

MacAllister Stone — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:57:13 +0000

Hey, AWers – I just received an email from Christine Fix, the Editor-in-Chief at Soaps.com:

Substitute Recap Writer:

Soaps.com is seeking a strong writer who resides in Ontario Canada to write “day ahead” recaps for the following soap operas: “Young and The Restless” and “Days Of Our Lives.”

The candidate will be open [...]

Independent Anthologies that Want YOUR Writing!

Bartholomew Klick — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:14:01 +0000

I’ve noticed a lot of indie anthologies popping up lately, and since three of them ended up in the Water Cooler‘s Paying Markets forum, I thought I’d share a few leads here that never found their way into our forum’s warm, loving arms.

But first, one of the three that posted on the forums [...]

Book Marketing With Penny Sansevieri

MacAllister Stone — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 04:50:00 +0000

Wordmountain’s Lisa Abbate brings us a terrific interview with book-marketing guru, publicist Penny Sansevieri. You can listen to the interview:

If you’d rather read the transcript, you can find that [...]

The Pulse of Publishing

MacAllister Stone — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:57:01 +0000

Guest Post by Marian Perera

Changes always seems to be going on in the publishing industry. New publishers appear, editors change jobs, more authors are self-publishing and scams are revealed. How much of this should writers be aware of?

It’s easy to spend hours reading about current news—or even old but scandalous scams—in the [...]

E-books, Used Books, and Piracy

MacAllister Stone — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:23:30 +0000

A terrific essay on authorial control by Cherie Priest, posted on her blog and reprinted with permission at SFWA. I was especially delighted by what she has to say about libraries and used books, since recently I’ve seen an awful lot of doom, gloom, and anger from some writers about not getting [...]

Slush

MacAllister Stone — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:58:51 +0000

A rather silly and inaccurate article from WSJ proclaiming The Death of the Slush Pile.

An excellent post on agent Janet Reid’s blog, Slush Works.

A discussion on the AW forums, that references both essays.

This stuff comes up every now and then. Every week it seems like some new Website goes up, announcing that [...]

SFWA Panel on Google Book Settlement

MacAllister Stone — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:12:20 +0000

Google and the Google Book Settlement might be one of the biggest concerns of the entire decade for published writers. Ursula K. LeGuin resigned from the Authors Guild, because of their capitulation.

So very much has been written about this wrangle and Google’s rather blatant attempt to completely revise copyright law, and I won’t [...]