I spoke with @obrackenbury
on the "So your writing a Novel..." podcast about some of what goes into marketing and promoting books, authors and even entire publishers.
I appeared with the superbly talented @SteveDiamond80 on the Rogues in the House podcast to gush about Sword and Sorcery... and hint at some of the wild plans my publisher, @BaenBooks, has for the subgenre.
I'm also setting up some book signings for January - as someone who has endured 33 years of "Birthmas" knows, competing with Christmas for airtime is a losing gambit - alongside Christopher Ruocchio and @WarpCordova for his CHICKS IN TANK TOPS anthology.
So if you have favorite bookstores around Raleigh-Durham, Richmond, or Northern Virginia? We're looking.
Lastly, there is the convention circuit - in January, I am a guest at both #Magfest and #Marscon, so please chase me down on panel if you are so inclined.
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Comics enjoyed one decade of wild success after dumping kids and spinner racks for collectors and the direct market.
Then the 90s crash it sparked damn near killed the entire industry, and Scholastic and manga eat thier lunch by focusing on selling to the kids they abandoned.
Likewise YA Lit, and to a smaller extent, genre fiction.
Harry Potter, Twilight and Hunger Games drove a gold rush (and movie deals) largely thanks to what was branded the Twlight Mom demo.
Publishing focused on that cash cow, to its detriment.
The great thing about the #Apollo50th is that there have been hundreds of beautiful articles from dozens of authors and outlets. Heck, I even wrote a couple of them.
I don’t know which of them has been the best, but I think this bad hot take from the times is the worst.
There are multiple reasons why offering praise to the Soviet space program on the eve of the #Apollo50th is in very poor taste, but one of the biggest is that they literally only did these milestones for propaganda purposes.
After early milestones like Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin, bits of tokenism like these were the only achievements the Soviet space program could reasonably achieve before us - they knew once NASA got going, the Americans would beat them to anything that mattered, including the moon.