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SFF Markets that Consider Patreon Stories for Publication

So last year Andrea Phillips put together a great list of markets that do and do not consider taking stories which were created viaPatreon support. Because Patreon is a new-ish crowdfunding too, it’s not generally mentioned in submission guidelines whether or not the venue considers a Patreon story already published or not.

Now that I’m producing my own work via Patreon, I wanted to see what other magazines would take these stories, and if any other had changed their minds. It’s great to prod...

The Worldbreaker Saga Gets Its Final Book, & Other Happenings

As reported by Angry Robot Books today, we’ve sold rights to the third and final volume in The Worldbreaker Saga, titled, THE BROKEN HEAVENS.

This deal has been in the works for awhile (THE MIRROR EMPIRE did well; it was just a matter of coming to terms on the deal, and for AR to unpack after their sale last year), and now it’s official.

For those keeping track, this means I’ve sold 5 books in the last 16 months (and the year isn’t over yet), which is a long way from 17 months ago when it loo...

What’s it Like to Be a Creator on Patreon? My First Month

I’ve never crowdfunded anything before now, though not for lack of thinking about it. I have contractual obligations on everything novel length at this point, and with Tor’s new novella imprint paying so much for novellas, it didn’t make much sense to crowdfund them. So I looked at the type of fiction that generally pays the least no matter how I try to publish it – short fiction.

Oh, short fiction, you are great, but $100 does not cover the 20-40 hours it takes to make you.

I’m not a fan of...

On Internet “Bravery”: This is not Nazi-Occupied France, Folks

My grandmother grew up in Nazi-occupied France. When she was nineteen, she and her friends found a Nazi boot containing a severed human leg while walking along the river. For every Nazi the French killed, the Nazis would kill ten French citizens. So how many would the Nazis kill, my grandmother thought, for a severed leg? She and her friends huffed the boot and its fleshy occupant back into the river, and spent the next month waiting to hear how many of them would be shot in the street.

Compa...

Books I Read on my Twitter Vacation

My to-be-read pile is a thing of wonder, as my voracious need to own all the books will never keep up with my pace of reading all the books.

At any rate, taking a Twitter vacation turns out to have been great for that part of me that was hardly reading anything anymore, and look! Hey!

As promised, here’s my slightly deeper reactions post to what I’ve been reading.

Today seemed like a great day to talk about great books.

PLANETFALL by Emma Newman (November2015)

This was a book I was reading f...

Thoughts on That Controversial Awards Announcement…

So, that Tiptree list, amirite?

(what, you thought there was another awards announcement I was interested in talking about? Silly rabbit!)

I had a few people ask whyMIRROR EMPIRE wasn’t on the Tiptree longlist, which is always awkward, when people ask why you weren’t nominated for something, because the short answer is always, “Uh, because people didn’t vote for it? Go figure!”

My work has only been longlisted once, for GOD’S WAR(though I have a hazy recollection of a short story of mine also...

Why I Don’t Generally Boycott Conventions

Most people know I notonly check the woman box on forms, but I’mnot exactly the straightest arrow in the quiver (I know! Shocker!). I’m often known for angry, loud feminist rants online. So why is it, then, that when people loudly declare that they won’t attend conventions with harassment policies, or that they are no longer going to Gencon, say, because it’s legal to discriminate against, well, anyone, there if you decide that treating them humanely is against your religion (“no popcorn for...

Writing Income Timeline: The Long Game

Now that the year’s taxes are done, it’s time to play the yearly “How much I made writing fiction last year game!

I’ve written before about how fiction earnings have made up about 12-15% of my yearly income in times past.Since I know you all love these graph posts, here’s a nice neat graph of how much I’ve made in fiction writing earnings since I sold my first novel the first time in 2008. It was cancelled, then re-sold in 2010, which is why youseethe rise and huge fall there in the middle wh...

What I Did on my Twitter Vacation

It’s amazing how much you get done when you’re not on social media.

Here’s what’s been happening.

STORY SALE

I have a new short story in Jonathan Strahan’s upcoming Meeting Infinity anthology, which has a fabulous Table of Contents. The story is called “Body Politic” and it’s dark and weird, as you’d expect from me. You can order that one now. It comes out in December (I’m sometimes asked if I get royalties on anthologies. YES. Buy away!)

WORKSHOP

I’ve been accepted to the Launchpad Astronomy...

Break in Service: What I’m Working on For You Behind the Scenes

I’m often asked why I bother posting “I won’t be on the internet for awhile” posts on the internet, and it’s because these posts aren’t really for you all, they are to remind ME every time I’m tempted to come back that I told YOU that I had WORK to do.

In addition to my usual social media burnout (when I started muting people for correcting grammar mistakes, I knew I was DONE) that occasionally crops up, I have… a lot of WORK to do. People think “being a writer” is writing 300 words a day lik...