Hillary Hard Choices

Kiss Tradpub Goodbye

Evidence continues mounting that indie authors publishing with Amazon have sent the Big Five traditional publishers into a death spiral. An inexorable reality of today’s commercial book publishing world is that it is shrinking. Although there have been no obvious signs yet that actual long-form book reading itself has declined…
August 10, 201710 Comments
Dragon Awards Prelude

Dragon Awards Prelude

Perhaps you've been following the drama surrounding this year's Dragon Awards from the start, or you just found out about the Dragons today. In either case make sure to join me for the inside scoop on why the Dragon Awards are vital to the renewal of science fiction and what…
August 9, 20172 Comments
Career Advice

Career Advice

Having fled the Dragon Awards after my readers and I crushed his SJW cheerleaders' Narrative, midlist author John Scalzi returned to his fortified Twitter bubble to dispense some career advice. [Insert obligatory "I don't care, despite launching into an OCD tweetstorm" joke at Scalzi's expense.] The real lesson for authors…
August 8, 201722 Comments
A True Culture Warrior

A True Culture Warrior

The SF SJWs have responded to The Secret Kings' nomination for this year's Best Science Fiction Novel Dragon Award with a familiar Narrative. SJWs always double down. Last year, they tried to DISQUALIFY Souldancer's Dragon win after the fact based on its number of Amazon reviews. Now they're trying to preemptively…
August 7, 201743 Comments
2017 Dragon Award Finalist The Secret Kings

2017 Dragon Award Finalist The Secret Kings

The final ballot for the 2017 Dragon Awards has been released! I'm honored to announce that my highly praised space opera novel The Secret Kings has been nominated for Best Science Fiction Novel. Because the Dragon Awards do not yet have a Best Editor category, I promised to share the honor with…
August 4, 201710 Comments
Everything Star Wars Should Be

Everything Star Wars Should Be

The Daytime Renegade continues his series of insightful Soul Cycle reviews with his take on the third volume of my space opera/horror cycle, The Secret Kings: Brian Niemeier sure knows how to start a story off with a bang. The third installment of his Soul Cycle trilogy (as of now)…
August 3, 2017
PulpRev Reactions

PulpRev Reactions

Cirsova offers a warning to the #PulpRev in response to the reader feedback I posted pertaining to the Superversive and Pulp Revolution movements. To me, the biggest difference between the two movements is that the Superversive movement is defined by its pursuit of the ideal of “superversive” while the Pulp…
August 2, 20179 Comments
A Confession

A Confession

I have a confession to make. Most of you know me as indie writer Brian Niemeier, author of such books as the award-winning Soul Cycle and the new high fantasy novella The Hymn of the Pearl. Now, a lot of folks know that authors write under pen names, but few…
August 1, 20174 Comments
Superversive vs. PulpRev

Superversive vs. PulpRev

This past weekend I had the pleasure of meeting a few of my readers for dinner and lively conversation. We talked for hours on a wide range of subjects, which as you'd expect of SFF fans getting some personal time with an author whose work they enjoy, included several hot…
July 31, 201724 Comments
Moral Cowards

Moral Cowards

My recent exchange with a British Twitter user in the wake of the Charlie Gard decision provides a case study in the moral cowardice of those who preen about their support for using the state to strip parents of their rights. As the record shows, it didn't take long for…
July 28, 201717 Comments