Brand vs. Platform

Legacy publishers now consider an author's platform to be the single most important criterion for deciding whether or not to offer a book contract. "Platform" is of course one of those nebulous terms that's mostly used to inflate the speaker's perceived importance, like "statistically significant" or "equality". Jane Friedman at…
March 27, 20153 Comments
Archaic Industries that Are Still in Business

Archaic Industries that Are Still in Business

The increasing speed of innovation was aptly summed up by John Lithgow's character from Interstellar: "...[I]t felt like they made something new everyday. Some gadget or idea. Like every day was Christmas." The tireless march of progress has certainly endowed us with an abundance of technological goodies. It has also…
March 4, 2015
John C. Wright on Geek Gab

John C. Wright on Geek Gab

Attention geeks! Superversive author John C. Wright will be joining the hosts of Geek Gab on Friday, March 27 at 9 PM EST for an hour of no-holds-barred nerdery. The show will stream live on YouTube, and we'll be taking questions from the audience comments. Hope to see you there! Update: COUNT…
February 27, 2015

Short Fiction Book Bomb

Larry Correia's Book Bomb for novellas on the Sad Puppy slate was a smashing success. Help the Mountain that Writes replicate last week's success; this time with novelettes and short stories. I'm a little late to the party this week, but Amazon seems to have implemented a delay in their…
February 26, 2015
If there Were an Oscar for Best Hollywood Revenge Fantasy

If there Were an Oscar for Best Hollywood Revenge Fantasy

I recently saw--no, make that had the misfortune of being sucker punched by--an initially promising film that squandered its competent storytelling with a superfluous, jarring and gratuitous jab at a thinly veiled parody of a hate group painted with such broad strokes as to crudely slander millions within is own…
February 21, 2015

Novella Book Bomb

Today only, Larry Correia is hosting a Book Bomb for novellas on the Sad Puppies 3 Hugo slate. The idea behind a Book Bomb is to sell as many copies as possible in one day to maximize the book's Amazon ranking. Today's featured titles include One Bright Star to Guide Them by…
February 18, 2015

The Life Cycle of a Manuscript

On a recent episode of Geek Gab, a listener asked me an excellent question: when is a manuscript ready for an editor? That questions got me thinking about my own writing and editing process, because to my knowledge no two writers follow exactly the same steps. Honestly, my approach to…
February 3, 2015

Magnificent Bastard

YouTube user Insensitive Bastard has prepared a short video relating the struggle fought by GamerGate to the plight of SFF authors who put story before message. (Be advised: Insensitive Bastard isn't just a name. Expect some rather earthy language speaking truth to power.)
January 28, 2015
Larry Correia on Geek Gab

Larry Correia on Geek Gab

Quick but major update: multiple best selling author Larry Correia will be joining us on Geek Gab tomorrow night at 7PM Eastern. Log in to YouTube for the live chat that will accompany the podcast.
January 25, 2015