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Tweet I just read about a Russian “tycoon” called Dimitry Itskov who is putting money into a venture called Initiative 2045, “a non-profit organization focused on creating an international research center where scientists will research and develop the technologies to make eternal life possible,” according to nextbigfuture.com. Apart from the tragic news that people still [...] Tweet I’ve been interviewed a few times now. That part of my life and thoughts which pertains to writing has been explored beyond all relation to its importance or interest. It’s as if a group of botanists descends on my back yard to study it, mark out a square metre of ground and then pore [...] Tweet Ah, the good old days. Science fiction appears to have two big problems in the marketplace. One is that fantasy is outselling it by about 3:1. The other is that at least half (possibly more, depending on your classification criteria) of what is being sold as sci-fi is actually fantasy with some sci-fi [...] Tweet Way back at the dawn of time, I used to do research on hypertext. This was the early Eighties and the Web hadn’t been invented yet. It was a time of wonderful freedom – like the days before the IBM PC and its Microsoft operating system were invented, when there were dozens of different [...] Tweet I’ve spent many hours now trawling through listings of literary agents, trying to find ones that are sci-fi friendly, and there are very, very few of them. In fact, agents who say they handle sci-fi are outnumbered at least ten-to-one (maybe twenty-to-one) by the ones who go out of their way to say ‘No [...] Tweet As a one-time Authonomy user (see why I left) I have been following the recent controversy about what happens to their top-ranked authors. Rumour is that not one has yet had a book contract and, instead, some have been quietly offered the chance to take part in a print on demand (POD) self-publishing experiment. [...] Tweet Every Australian writer will be aware of The Australian Writer’s Marketplace – one of those ‘listings’ books like the UK’s Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook. It’s the must-have reference for anyone trying to find places to sell their writing in Australia. What they may not be aware of is the website, AWMOnline. This has all [...] Tweet Agents are brokers. They are the middlepersons who sit between writers and publishers and make the connections between the needs of each group. Trouble is, agents are in short supply. What we now need is a new kind of broker: one who will sit between agents and writers and make those connections. I mention [...] |
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