It’s now Sunday Morning, the final day of the yearly Novelists Inc blog, and things are winding down. The Industry guests are gone, and it’s just the membership left here to dela with the nitty gritty. That is, to talk about and rehas everything we’ve learned over the past several days in an effort ot [...]

The Novelists, Inc annual conference is coming to a close–alas!– with a great talk by Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords, a platform for creating and distributing e-books.  One of the difficulties of traditional publishing he pointed out is the limited distribution rights often controlled under various contracts, leading, as he points out, to frustrations like [...]

It’s the second full day of the yearly conference, and things are wonderful. Yes, we’re at the beach again, and no, the weather is not the fabulous sun shiny perfect beachyness that we’d expected, but it’s not that bad. After all, we’re still at the beach. Even more than that, we’re getting to mix, mingle, [...]

Shortly after this post goes live, I’ll be on a train from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. so I may attend CapClave, sponsored by the Washington Science Fiction Association. It’s a fairly small conference if you’re used to behemoths like Dragon Con. CapClave usually features one track of panels and one of readings, as well as [...]