Tearing the Flesh from your Beloved Authors

- by Elaine Isaak

I’m currently working on a masquerade costume for the World Science Fiction Convention, coming up in August in Reno.  No, I’m not going to tell you my costume–you’ll have to come see for yourself, or ask me about it later!  But part of the work involves re-reading parts of a book by an author I [...]

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Publicist Rebecca T. Crowley on e-books

- by Patricia Rosemoor

E-book Promotion in 2011: No Fooling Around Anymore by Rebecca Crowley “The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity…”—A. Edward Newton (e-book or not!) I am an industry insider, the e-book era came and I stayed calm. Imagine that! Have you heard of such a [...]

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Genre in Academia

- by Victoria Janssen

In a couple of days, I’m going to be attending a conference. Not a writing conference, but an academic conference, hosted by the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance. I’m not an academic, and never completed my Ph.D., but I still retain interest in scholarly work, and have managed to keep fairly up-to-date [...]

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Writer/Illustrator Duncan Long

- by Dara Girard

Tell us a little about yourself. I’m a writer/illustrator who seems to be mostly an illustrator these days, though I still put out a book or two each year. My favorite task is creating illustrations for book covers and magazines. You’ve had various interests and careers such as being a rock musician, private guitar teacher, [...]

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