So it’s been almost exactly two and a half years since I posted my first “Navigating Woke SF” blog post, where I demonstrated an anti-conservative bias in the responses I was getting to my traditional short story submissions, and predicted a cultural backlash against the woke moral panic of our times. Those predictions are now… Continue reading Navigating Woke SF, Part 5: Where do things stand now?
Tag: indie publishing
New Star Wanderers cover reveal!
Behold! This is officially the new ebook cover for Star Wanderers. I’ve uploaded it to all platforms, though I haven’t updated the epub files yet. I’ll also update the paperbacks as soon as I have a chance, though that may take a while, especially with the new baby. This image was AI generated using Stable… Continue reading New Star Wanderers cover reveal!
Inflation and book pricing
So with inflation being what it is, one of the questions on my mind these last few months has been whether I should raise my book prices to keep up with the increased cost of living. We’re definitely feeling it every time we go to the gas station or the grocery store, and I’m sure… Continue reading Inflation and book pricing
Print vs. Ebook vs. Audiobook: Pros and Cons
Print Pros: A printed book is a hard, physical copy that cannot be altered, edited, deleted, revoked, remotely accessed, or otherwise tampered with by a third party who does not have physical access to the book. The reading experience is totally private. Governments, corporations, and other third parties cannot easily know about what you read… Continue reading Print vs. Ebook vs. Audiobook: Pros and Cons
Refining my short story strategy
I’ve blogged several times about my short story strategy. To restate it briefly, I’ve found that it works best to self-publish all of my short story singles for free, and to take them down when I have enough of them (+40k words, usually about 10 stories) to bundle into a collection. I earn more this… Continue reading Refining my short story strategy
Camp NaNoWriMo: Day Thirty One
Words written today: 2,521 Total stories written: 5 Total SF-AZ chapters written: 1 Total words written: 30,461 It’s done! I finished Camp NaNoWriMo strong, achieving my goal of 30,000 words. Didn’t finish the last story, but it’s going quite strong, and probably past the halfway point. I’ll probably finish the rough draft next month and… Continue reading Camp NaNoWriMo: Day Thirty One
Navigating Woke SF, Part 3: Toward a New Short Story Strategy
So I really love how China Mike Glyer cherry-picked the excerpts that he quoted from my last blog post, leaving out how I said that it’s important to give people the benefit of the doubt, or how you can’t take diversity statements at face value because of all the elitist signalling language. But the thing… Continue reading Navigating Woke SF, Part 3: Toward a New Short Story Strategy
Are short stories worth publishing?
Every couple of years, I get the short story bug and write maybe half a dozen short stories in the span of just a few months. Then, I get really excited about putting them up on submission, and for the next couple of years I systematically send them out to all the professional markets… and… Continue reading Are short stories worth publishing?
White Science Fiction and Fantasy Doesn’t Matter
If you are white, and you write science fiction or fantasy, it is only a matter of time before you are cancelled. This is the logical end of intersectional identity politics, which is really just the resurrected, zombified corpse of Marxism. White people are the oppressors. People of color are the oppressed. All white people… Continue reading White Science Fiction and Fantasy Doesn’t Matter
A New Short Story Plan
So I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how best to leverage my short stories, not just from the traditional publishing angle, but from the indie publishing side as well. The problem is that self-published short stories really don’t sell much, so after you’ve sold them to a traditional market, what are you supposed to… Continue reading A New Short Story Plan