Alan's comments
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Alan's comments from the Goodreads Sci-Fi/Fantasy Authors group.
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Nicole wrote: "Alan wrote: "Nicole - thanks! Be sure to let me know what you think.I read the Dark Materials Trilogy a couple of years ago and really enjoyed that. After many people recommending Mieville to me,..."
I didn't know until after I bought it that Mieville wrote steampunk. However, having never read any before I thought that maybe this would be a good way to try it.
I must admit that the steampunk concept doesn't really grab me - I'm a bit mystified as to why it is so popular. But Mieville is reported to be a really great writer, so if I'm going to try steampunk I'll try his!
Nicole - thanks! Be sure to let me know what you think.I read the Dark Materials Trilogy a couple of years ago and really enjoyed that. After many people recommending Mieville to me, I picked up Perdido Street Station recently too, so will read that when time allows.
I have a free novella that combines sci-fi and fantasy if anyone's interested to check that out. It's a fairly quick read (around 30,000 words) and free as an ebook from Smashwords - https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/27... Love to hear what anyone thinks.
People are already doing Twitter novels.I started a serial on my blog, then decided to actually write it all first and then seriliase it. I published chapters weekly and every week I'd do one final edit before I posted the chapter. The whole thing is still oon my website and I keep promising another one. Starting it without having the whole thing written was too much for me to bear!
Just because something was serialised doesn't mean it wasn't written in full first. Do we know whether these things were written as they were published or written and then serialised?
Don't you feel that you need to go back and revise, edit and polish once the whole story is down though? Writing and publishing as you go along would prevent that.When I serialised a novella on my website I had the whole thing written first, then published chapters weekly. But I didn't actually write it as I went along...
The differences between fantasy and science fiction -- and just why is fantasy ascendant these days?
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Jun 01, 2009 06:19PM
It's all speculative fiction. Beyond that, who cares?:)
The differences between fantasy and science fiction -- and just why is fantasy ascendant these days?
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May 28, 2009 06:55PM
"Personally, I thought the "ghost" thing was just plain bad writing on Lucas' part..."Now that's a whole different conversation!
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The differences between fantasy and science fiction -- and just why is fantasy ascendant these days?
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May 28, 2009 04:13PM
What about sensing a great disturbance in the Force?Coming back as a ghost?
No worries - I think it's a great function. Happy to share. :)
Cheers!:)
I think it's very cool that Goodreads gives you the option to feed your blog to your profile here. I've done that with mine, so if any of you are interested in following my blog posts, you can select to do that here: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/917...
Of course, you could just subscribe via my site, which some of you may be doing, but I thought this was a nifty option all the same!
Anyone else feeding their blogs to Goodreads?
I blog at my own site, http://www.alanbaxteronline.com My favourite sci fi blog is http://www.sfsignal.com/
Also http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/
http://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/
http://www.locusmag.com/News/
There are lots more, but these are ones I follow regularly.
I've got a serial novella on my website that's free to read and finished now. Have a read and let me know what you think: http://www.alanbaxteronline.com/a-verse-...
I've added you to my links page - glad to receive a link back. Here's my site:http://www.alanbaxteronline.com
Cheers!
The differences between fantasy and science fiction -- and just why is fantasy ascendant these days?
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May 27, 2009 09:01PM
The biggest one for me is always Star Wars - sci fi and The Force, which is essentially magic, which is essentially fantasy. I don't know that one or the other is really bigger. You've got Harry Potter that's massive for fantasy, Star Trek at the moment is massive for sci fi. There's also Terminator and Transformers - I'm using big budget movies to give examples of mass consumption.
Great post, Janny.
I got contacted by a lady that read RealmShift on her iPhone recently. She wanted to tell me as it was the first book she'd read that way, while commuting to and from work, and she said she really enjoyed it. It was apparently quite a liberating experience for her. She enjoyed the book too, which is nice.So, people are starting to do it. In fact, my books seem to be selling better in Kindle editions than print editions at the moment. I expect more people in the US have iPhones than Kindle readers right now, so looks like the e-book revolution really is beginning this time.
No, that's no problem. And the first rights thing is correct to some degree. But this is a new world in publishing that is growing very fast. If you can sell 5,000 copies of your book self-published, it can open doors to better publishing deals than you might get otherwise. Take Jeremy Robinson as an example.There are no hard and fast rules any more!
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