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Classical Blackface

Publishers Weekly announces a new joint initiative between Penguin Random House and Barnes and Noble that's sure to shape the future of publishing. A collection of classic books with new culturally diverse covers will make their debut at New York City’s largest bookstore. To kick off Black History Month, Penguin…

February 5, 202019 Comments

The End of an Era

Jason Rennie, editor-in-chief of Superversive Press, took to Facebook to share some sad news. Jason broke onto the scene as a publisher during the Sad Puppies saga when his magazine Sci Phi Journal received a Best Semiprozine nomination. It was an honor having Jason publish my short fiction in SPJ and…

January 20, 20204 Comments

Neo-Patronage

Lately a lot of folks have been asking me where I think the publishing industry is headed next. It's a fair question. After all, our society is undergoing runaway change, and publishing is a subset of the whole. Many of these questions are prompted by the ongoing censorship campaign sweeping…

January 7, 202016 Comments

Newpub Talk

Last night I had a lively and wide-ranging conversation with author David V. Stewart on his Newpub Talk show. The billed subject was the mecha genre, but we ended up chatting about the pulps, writing, tips, and Dino Riders, among other topics. David is always fun and interesting to talk…

January 2, 202013 Comments

Fempub

May be a better name for the dying New York publishing cartel than oldpub. Data courtesy of author Ben Cheah: Some significant context: digging under the following data points turned up that it predominantly applies to oldpub. In that regard, they make for a pretty accurate snapshot of oldpub's readership…

December 26, 201928 Comments

Oh the Mundanity!

Author JD Cowan sifts through the wreckage of the Mundane Sci Fi Movement so we don't have to. Take, for instance, one of the offspring of his ideas. As of 2019, the Mundane Science Fiction movement is 15 years old. Never heard of it? Then you understand how much of…

December 13, 201910 Comments

No Company for White Men

Best selling author Jon Del Arroz relates the cautionary tale of Spencer Ellsworth, a promising author who put his career in oldpub's hands and had to watch helplessly as they threw it away. First a little background: Spencer made his oldpub bones writing articles for cult agitprop organs like Bleeding…

November 19, 201917 Comments

The Death of the Mid List

... has not been highly exaggerated. As megabestsellers command more of publishers’ marketing budgets and retailers’ shelf space, breaking out the next crop of hit makers has become a challenge. Book publishing has long been a hits-driven business. The bestsellers, the logic went, paid for the flops. And it was…

November 7, 201912 Comments

JDA #Killstream

Author and comic book writer Jon Del Arroz joins independent journalist Ethan Ralph on the notorious #Killstream! Join Ralph and Jon as they talk #ComicsGate, Cruci-Fiction, and the future of pop culture. Will it be written by Christian newpub authors or by Chinese bots? Listen in to find out! (Skip…

October 9, 2019

What Really Killed Comics

Everybody has a theory of how the American comic book industry died. "It was the early 90s investor boom," some say. "The glut of variant covers and similar sales gimmicks created a bubble, and when it burst it took out the direct market." Others lay the blame on publishers driving…

September 23, 201940 Comments