Theodore Beale aka Vox Day aka Johan Kalsi trolls John Scalzi, has too many aliases
Last Tuesday, Tor Books released The Collapsing Empire, the latest novel from sci-fi juggernaut John Scalzi. The previous day, a mysterious doppelganger writing under the name Johan Kalsi released The Corroding… Read more »
Scalzi signs 13 $261K deals at once
John Scalzi, sci-fi author and blogger, made headlines yesterday for his $3.4 million dollar deal. The deal is not for one, but thirteen books, with Tor that will play out… Read more »
Today in mergers and standoffs: Lagardère releases sales info (Updated)
You remember that Hachette recently acquired Perseus and changed distribution for 400 indie publishers. The sale wasn’t completed yesterday, as they’d initially announced, but the deal is expected to close at the end of August.… Read more »
The Amazon Fable
Aesop is the mind, or voice, or storyteller most able to capture the story of Amazon. Some talking animal indigenous to the Greek imagination must have died from an inability… Read more »
The only real space books are the intolerant space books, insists intolerant publisher of space books
It’s time for our regular check in with the science fiction culture wars so goggles on, everyone. The last time we looked in, some very self-satisfied and widely respected old… Read more »
We live in the future—stop being a damn creep at science fiction conventions
It’s been a hell of a year for science fiction readers, with the death of a few greats—Iain M. Banks, Jack Vance, surely others I’m forgetting—and the release of some… Read more »
Amazon to monetize fan fiction, he moaned
“Blair,” Jeff whispered, his lips almost touching her earlobe, “I have something I need to tell you.” “Jeff, please,” Blair danced away. She laughed coyly, mercilessly. They’d both had too… Read more »
Under pressure, Random House’s Hydra e-imprint changes author contracts
After an outcry, Random House’s new digital sci-fi imprint, Hydra, has announced changes to its contracts, based on feedback from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, the Horror… Read more »
New Random House ebook-only imprint de-listed by the SFWA
Those rad-hardened spun-toroid regions of the internet that concern themselves with science fiction publishing were nearly all talking about a single story this past weekend. The Science Fiction Writers of… Read more »
You wrote a book; now step away from the keyboard
It’s time for another exciting episode in everyone’s favorite series, where we feature writerly hijinks, hoodwinks, and bad online behavior of all sorts. Our first case features a recent review… Read more »