Conference Thoughts: Treating Backlist Like Frontlist

Last weekend, I taught a workshop on self-publishing at the Festival of Writing in York. It was quite a large conference, with a few hundred attendees, primarily focused on unpublished writers.

Most attendees were seeking publication via the traditional route, but there was a lively crowd at the workshop, and I was pigeon-holed by many more curious about self-publishing over the weekend.

I had some free time on Saturday and dropped in on a SF/F genre panel. Much of the advice was excellent, but...