We started a Kickstarter on Tuesday of six of my standalone science fiction novellas. As I mentioned in the first post here on the site, I was a bit stunned to realize how long it had been since we did any discoverability work on any of these novellas. That includes letting you all know what […]
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I learned something a bit startling late last year. I was putting together the reading list for my in-person science fiction mystery class, and I realized that most of the books I wanted my students to read were out of print—and there was no electronic edition. Most of them were anthologies that came out in […]
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Yes, yes, this one is late. Yes, it’s filled with December recommendations. The reason it’s late, though, is because I read a lot in December and got behind on recording it. So there’s 3,000 words of recommendations here. And now, you get the introduction I wrote almost 2 months ago… My reading behavior is finally […]
Continue ReadingI just posted another blog on Findaway’s rights grab on my Patreon page. Again, I have made this post open to everyone. Usually, I don’t do that, and I won’t do it much in the future, but I want you folks to understand what just happened with Findaway. It’s a business lesson that all writers […]
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I’ve been trying to figure out how to teach an in-person novella class for years now, but I knew it would be both time and cost prohibitive. I love novellas and I love discussing them and I love reading them and writing them and… We tried a novella “workshop” kinda sorta after the in-person workshops. […]
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Last year, I published three pieces of short fiction in Asimov’s SF Magazine. I’m both stunned and happy to report that all three have made the Readers’ Award Final Ballot. Thank you so much, Asimov readers! The two novellas, “The Break-In” and “The Death Hole Bunker,” are part, in very different form, of my novel […]
Continue ReadingI know many of you have asked me to write about Findaway’s giant rights grab this week. I just finished a short post on it. I’m no longer doing the regular business blog. Instead, I post about business things on my Patreon page. I made this post wide, so everyone can see it, but most […]
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My husband, Dean Wesley Smith is a master at that same kind of eerie and just off-kilter story that appears on the Twilight Zone. He wrote for several Twilight Zone properties back in the day, so he’s good at a TZ story. But TZ inspired him from a young age. When he started writing, he […]
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Lots of weird little things to share and announce. First, we’re making a number of changes at WMG and on the websites and such. One of the most visible is the Publishers Blog, which will become something a lot more…shall we say, interesting? Instead of a list of what we’re publishing each week, there will […]
Continue ReadingThank you, backers and supporters of the Hearts Collide Kickstarter! We did very well and that’s because of you! I love making short stories available to all of you, and you backers make that possible. So thank you, thank you, thank you!
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