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As I mentioned earlier in the week, tonight, 6 PM Pacific time, I’ll be doing a reading of my new story, Chance Corrigan and the Tick-tock King of the Nile in Second Life. Second Life, as I’ve mentioned before, is free, graphically-based chat software which supports voice-chat. I’ve been using it for over two years […]

I mentioned last week that I had some pictures taken by Heather Hill, and right over there is the first of them. When I first started in the business, the only authors who needed pictures were the ones with big hardback books. Now everyone seems to want them. I guess it’s a mark of how […]

About a million years ago I signed up with Best Buy for their frequent buyer program. Every so often they send me a $5 coupon, so I hit the store and look for some DVD to enjoy. I generally hunt for either a classic or something that looks interesting and, with the coupon, will be […]

Actually, it’s a bit more than a week. Things started at Stellarcon last week. It was great fun and a great convention. I got to spend a lot of time with Aaron Allston and Timothy Zahn, which is always a pleasure. Not only do I love their writing, but both men are very sharp, and […]

As Publishers and Bookstore chains fight for their lives and even just their relevancy, there seems to be some frustration with the public’s apparent desire for lower prices on books—especially ebooks. Ebook readers have protested the raising of prices, occasionally and erroneously targeting authors as being “greedy,” when authors have no control over the prices […]

A recent article in the New York Times takes a swipe at explaining ebook pricing. The analysis breaks down poorly, in my opinion, by ignoring the elephant in the room. That elephant is this: publishers have yet to control their own overhead. If they were to reduce their overhead, by moving out of Manhattan and […]