The twice-annual Twitter pitching event for authors, agents, and editors of sci-fi/fantasy returns this Thursday, June 23rd. Please visit the main SFFpit page to review the event guidelines, age category / genre hashtags, etc. The quick version is this: between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. Eastern, participating authors get 10 tweets for each complete-but-unpublished manuscript. […]
An Experiment in Amazon Sales Rank
Amazon is the most powerful online retailer in the world. Although books are just part of their business model, they dominant the literary sector. Around 70% of e-book sales in the United States happen on Amazon.com. Every title in the store has a “Best Sellers Rank” (also called Sales Rank) reflecting how well it’s selling relative to the […]
Three Lessons from Traditional Publishing
About a year ago, I got a phone call that changed my life: Harper Voyager made an offer to publish my debut novel, The Rogue Retrieval. That unforgettable moment vindicated my decision, some two and a half years earlier, to pursue the so-called traditional publishing path: finding a literary agent to shop a manuscript to major publishers. […]
Two More Books with Harper Voyager
I started writing The Rogue Retrieval in 2012. It wasn’t my first novel, but it built upon the most unique idea I’d had yet. Three years later — which seems like a long time, in any world other than publishing — that book was published by Harper Voyager. It’s a thrilling/terrifying experience to have friends and […]
Preparing for Pitchwars: A Tale of Two Entries
If you haven’t already heard, I’ll be returning as a mentor for Pitch Wars. It gets better: This year, I’m co-mentoring with Michael Mammay, my talented 2015 mentee who’s now represented by Lisa Rodgers of JABberwocky Literary Agency. He’s contributed this informative blog post with some advice on preparing for Pitch Wars. If you like it, you should follow […]
