The Death of the Book Shelf
(A short post today as I’m up to my ears revising An Unsafe Pair of Hands which is due out early next month.) One of the biggest ramifications of the rise of ebooks and online retailing is the demise...
View ArticleThanks, Anne McCaffrey, and Genre Boundaries
Anne McCaffrey’s death, and all the reminiscences and tributes offered in her memory, intersected with what-I-am-thankful-for. Many people, writers and readers both, have described the ways they are...
View ArticleA Genealogy of Speculative Fiction
As speculative fiction writers, we stand on the shoulders of giants. Whatever genre we write, there is an illustrious lineage of other writers who are mothers, fathers, aunts and uncles of the genre....
View ArticleCovers: Trends in Cover Design
Trends in book cover design can be looked at on at least two major levels: traditional trends (which I’ll call genre signals) and current trends, which are much more ephemeral. Genre signals have been...
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