If you would like a free audio version of this post, please click here. I ended up with an issue after last week’s post on the controversy surrounding The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. It was not the issue I expected. I even sent an email to a friend about that original issue, which did not materialize. What I said to them was, “I’m […]
Business Musings: Social Media: The Year in Review Part 7
I’ve been dreading this post, but not for the reason that you think. Somewhere, probably back in November, I had gotten the bright idea that I would do this post and find a social media site to replace Twitter for my promotion and news needs. (As a former journalist, I found Twitter very useful. I followed journalists in real time, as well as old journalist […]
Business Musings: Supply Chain Woes…Traditional, Indie, And More
This morning, a regular reader of my blog forwarded a tweet to me from a bookseller and writer about supply chain issues for books. He then suggested I blog about those issues. I had planned to, but I had a vague hope that they would improve. The bookseller’s tweet disabused me of that notion. The tweet is below. Read the thread, and note that she […]
The Business Rusch: Social Media Part 2 (or Discoverability Part 10 continued)
Boy, there are a lot of misconceptions among writers about social media and a few of those misconceptions cropped up in last week’s post. If you haven’t read last week’s post, please do so now, because I’m not going to recap in this post. I’m just going to continue forward. First, the misconceptions (or at least those as of the weekend before this post goes […]
The Business Rusch: Social Media (Discoverability Part 10)
As I got deep into this discoverability series, I promised that I would examine marketing strategies from passive to active. I have to abandon that promise now, because most everything we’ll discuss from here on out will be active. By active, I mean you’ll have to do something—write something, design something, or pay for something—and you’ll have to do it several times. You had to […]
Future Tense
My new column on the Internet Review of Science Fiction‘s website has already generated a few e-mails to me–and that was before I announced it. This one is on sf & the future. Check it out here.
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