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How To Support a Book Release

With GENERATION SHIP coming out in just about a week, I thought I’d address a question that I get a lot. A lot of well-meaning people say “We’d love to support your book. What’s the best way to do that?” It happens enough that I thought I’d put it into a resource where I could...

On Publishing and Luck

There’s this idea in publishing that you have to be lucky to become successful, and I think that’s true. There are so many factors beyond the control of the author. There are really good books that never find their readership. There are mediocre books that definitely do (and no, I’m not going to name them....

Who Wants Some 2023 Debut Science Fiction?

It’s hard being a debut author. Like really hard. One of the things that’s the hardest is just getting your book out there and having people find it. To help with that, here’s a post of all the debut SF that I know about that’s coming in 2023. Methodology…lol…like there’s one of those. I’m including...

Guest Post: Adam Oyebanji

Adam Oyebanji is the debut author of the novel BRAKING DAY, available now everywhere you buy books. I had a chance to read it early, because, well, my job is great like that. It’s a story about a generation ship nearing its destination and about to start slowing down…hence, Braking Day. After over a century...

Guest Post: Wayne Santos Talks About Subjectivity and Being Rejected by Pitch Wars

Wayne Santos is the author of THE CHIMERA CODE, published by Rebellion Publishing. Recently, he reached out to ask if he could do a guest post as part of my new series. He wanted to talk about the book NOPHEK GLOSS, which is one of my favorite new SF books, so I was excited to...

Guest Post: K. Pimpinella Writes About a SF Series That She Loves

Having recently opened up this space to guest posters, here’s our first one. K. Pimpinella is here to tell us why she loves The Edge Series by Andria Stone. And it’s interesting. When I came up with the idea for this guest series, I thought people would come on and talk about all the books...

Lessons From Page Proofs of PLANETSIDE

This weekend I finished my first pass pages for PLANETSIDE. If you’re not publishing savvy, what that means is that I got a formatted copy of my book and went through it one last time to make any last changes. It was a pretty short turn, and as I was doing it I had some...

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I am a former Soldier and current science fiction writer. Usually I write about Soldiers. Go figure. I’m represented by Lisa Rodgers of JABberwocky Literary Agency. If you love my blog and want to turn it into a blockbuster movie featuring Chris Hemsworth as me, you should definitely contact her.

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