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Tag Archives: publishing
Scribbles for Jingly
Learn: YA books are booming because adults read them because they’re EASIER TO READ. Break down your own work to 4th grade level and watch your sales blossom. Cynical, perhaps, but accurate advice. Your writing has to be good enough. … Continue reading
Posted in Gene's Art, Sample Essays
Tagged advice, books, despair, pay, publishing, Writing
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Ageism and Obstacles
I was speaking of ageism on a John Shirley thread and told this story: When I was 16 I wrote a story called “Not Buzzard” and sent it, my very first submission ever, to ESQUIRE, being naive. A week or … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiographical Writing, Gene's Art
Tagged ageism, depression, Esquire, illness, obstacle, publishing, Rust Hills, Writing
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Brief Statement About Self Publishing
If you write only one 90,000-word novel per year, all you have to write is ten or eleven words an hour. Publishers want only a book a year. They pretend it’s about quality, as if somehow there is a gauge … Continue reading
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Tagged bottleneck., editors, publishers, publishing, Self publishing
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Heads-Up-Display: Don’t Blink
Rat Stew A Column for Tom Sadler’s APA zine The Reluctant Famulus TRF #96 by Gene Stewart Heads-Up-Display: Don’t Blink Shit floats and imagines itself superior. That’s what came to me as I thought about writing. As I thought about … Continue reading
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Tagged antiquated, category, change, digital, genre, internet, publishing, Writing
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It’s (not) the Thought that Counts, It’s the Stuff
“[Fighting piracy is] becoming a full time job. There’s literally scores of sites containing pirated copies of my ebooks, and every time I get a DMCA notice served on one another springs up. It’s getting to the point where it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged art, corporate, greed, intellectual property, making a living, money, plagiarism, proit, publishing, theft, Writing
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Ebook Bashing, Bashed
Gatekeepers mean nothing but control of extruded fiction product. Are you shocked that most self-published stuff is crap? Why do you ignore the fact that most publisher crap is crap, too. Sturgeon’s Law, which merely rephrases the Bell Curve. Publishers … Continue reading
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Tagged Bell Curve, content, ebooks, money, profit, publishing, quality, Writing
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Owning’s Onus: Intellectual Property Rights and Leftovers*
For ages, the notion of copyright and intellectual property simply didn’t exist. Shakespeare openly used plots from Italian and other plays to hang his poetic dialogue upon. George Freiderich Handel, the composer of “The Hallelujiah Chorus”, “Water Music” and “Music … Continue reading
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Tagged beer, books, copyright, ebooks, Gene Stewart, intellectual property rights, publishing
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Aprés Livre, Le Deluge
Prestige markets for fiction can get away with having a computer program for an editor that filters for recognized names only. They’ll even win awards and accolades for doing this. Lesser paying, lower profile fiction markets are forced to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Deluge, ebooks, editors, Ficta Mystica, Gene Stewart, Kindle, publishing
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