This sounds interesting: choosable-path adventures taken to a new level. Your thoughts?
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
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I don’t know if you’ve seen the X-Ray feature in Kindle books. It can help orient the reader to characters, locations, and other details of your book (extra text comes up when they tap on the name).
They’ve opened it up to KDP authors – it’s only been available to certain publishers up until now.
Big grats to Steve, who, because he’s British, didn’t finish the first sentence of his post with an exclamation point. But he’s entitled to one.
I haven’t read this particular series, but what I have read of his has been good.
Originally shared by Steve Turnbull
My forthcoming SF novel KYMIERA has just been optioned by B7Media for TV production.
It’s been a long road for the story because it started as a pilot script over 10 years ago but special effects were way too expensive then. I shifted to writing books and last year I decided to make it into a novel. And now it’s been optioned.
Order your copy of KYMIERA now, it’s available in all formats at a special launch price of 0.99 [$/£/€]:
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Every purchase makes it more likely to be made because more book success = more confidence. Help make this happen!
B7Media.com produce TV, film, and audio. They’ve done a ton of stuff for Big Finish, produced the award-winning Dan Dare audio series and the “I, Robot” radio series for BBC Radio 4.
These could be worth a go if you’re looking to raise your books’ profile and are confident of their quality.
Originally shared by Samantha Dunaway Bryant
Another fantastic list from this site. Very useful if you are seeking review for your work, or would like to publish reviews you’ve written to a wider audience.
“Literary” fiction is a number of things: a mode, a genre, a set of tropes and story structures and expectations, a club. (In the membership sense, not the hitting-people sense, although sometimes…)
Faced with the science-fictional nature of the present, more and more “literary” writers are attempting speculative fiction, with mixed success. Of course, as the article points out, plenty of classic writers have worked with spec-fic; Huxley and Orwell get mentioned, Shakespeare and Virginia Woolfe do not.
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Originally shared by David Brin
Okay, so science fiction has conquered the world. It is the engine behind most of the big, money-making successes of Hollywood. It propels much of the political narrative, from dread of Big Brother to obsession with social collapse scenarios. And now, each year, ever more purportedly “literary” authors try their hand at “doing future” – resulting in romances set in space, thinly repurposed westerns and navel-contemplating angst-ridden time travelers.
On Slate, Laura Miller appraises some of the most recent forays by artistically approved authors, and finds most of them wanting. Only then, what about Chabon? Bacigalupi? Rajamieni? Sue Burke? We embrace them. Yes, in part because they give a little love back. But also because they bothered to heed some of our history, some of our had-learned craft.
Still, should we be glad, or miffed?
“First they ignore you,” Gandhi said. “Then they mock you. Then they fight you. And then they claim to have loved you, all along.” Sigh.
Amazon is about to start weekly charts, showing not only what books are most sold (across ebook, print book, and audiobook), but which ones are most read (ebook and audiobook).
This year’s Campbell Award anthology, now known as Event Horizon, is downloadable (for now) from this link. It includes nearly 400,000 words from 75 authors who’ve had their first professional sale in the past two years, including me. (My flash piece “Forget You” makes up almost 0.1% of the book.)
You will need to give your email address, but I know the guy behind it and I don’t believe he’ll abuse it (plus, you can always unsubscribe if he does).
If you’re very quick, and if you’re eligible for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer, you can apply to be in this year’s anthology at the link below.
The brief form of the eligibility requirements is “professionally published for the first time in the previous two calendar years”. The form links out to the full blah blah.
Originally shared by Bublish
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Amazon has just sent me a (no doubt automated) email asking me to confirm my publishing rights on one of my books, probably because it’s also in a boxed set.
I’m at a bit of a loss how to do this. I’m both the author and the publisher, so I have no contract. I didn’t register the copyright, because it seemed unnecessary. And the email address on my website is an alias; people can send to it, but I can’t send from it. Those are the three examples they give of documentation that can confirm your rights.
Has anyone else had a similar email? What did you do?