The regular denial of service attacks on LJ are getting o...
The regular denial of service attacks on LJ are getting old. But I guess that's the point of denial of service attacks.
Genre for Japan raised over £11,000 in one week for Japan Tsunami relief.
The giveaway drawing for a free copy of Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente is still going on through this morning, since people didn't have much of an opportunity to enter yesterday. There are only 39 entries so far, so your chances are good! ETA: The contest is over and the winner of the drawing was![[info]](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380449247i/1833871.gif)
wiredferret
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links:
Writer Beware: Lies Dishonest Fee-Charging Publishers Tell
Juliet McKenna: Equality of Opportunity and Visibility But our genre still suffers from that Default/Lazy Sexism which results in, for instance, the British Fantasy Society publishing a book about horror without a single female contributor and an anthology I contributed to, which when I got my contributor's copy, turned out to have one woman writer - me. When I mentioned this to the editors, a woman among them, they were genuinely shocked and contrite.
Black Gate: Back Issue Sale
The Rumpus.net: DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #69: We Are All Savages Inside
I feel compelled to note these facts at the outset because my gut sense of your letter is that you've conflated the book with the book deal. They are two separate things. The one you are in charge of is the book. The one that happens based on forces that are mostly outside of your control is the book deal. You could write the world's most devastatingly gorgeous book of poems and nobody would give you $200,000 to publish it. You could write the world's most devastatingly gorgeous novel and maybe get that. Or not.
Genre for Japan raised over £11,000 in one week for Japan Tsunami relief.
The giveaway drawing for a free copy of Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente is still going on through this morning, since people didn't have much of an opportunity to enter yesterday. There are only 39 entries so far, so your chances are good! ETA: The contest is over and the winner of the drawing was
wiredferret
!links:
Writer Beware: Lies Dishonest Fee-Charging Publishers Tell
Juliet McKenna: Equality of Opportunity and Visibility But our genre still suffers from that Default/Lazy Sexism which results in, for instance, the British Fantasy Society publishing a book about horror without a single female contributor and an anthology I contributed to, which when I got my contributor's copy, turned out to have one woman writer - me. When I mentioned this to the editors, a woman among them, they were genuinely shocked and contrite.
Black Gate: Back Issue Sale
The Rumpus.net: DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #69: We Are All Savages Inside
I feel compelled to note these facts at the outset because my gut sense of your letter is that you've conflated the book with the book deal. They are two separate things. The one you are in charge of is the book. The one that happens based on forces that are mostly outside of your control is the book deal. You could write the world's most devastatingly gorgeous book of poems and nobody would give you $200,000 to publish it. You could write the world's most devastatingly gorgeous novel and maybe get that. Or not.
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