There are a few kinds of author bloggers. I won’t enumerate them here. But what I will say is that it’s largely otiose for promotional purposes unless … and that’s a big unless. You have to be willing to put too much effort into it I can write short stories … Continue reading
Category Archives: Publishing/Development
Marketing to the mainstream: Is the Surface Web a conservative stronghold?
The more I observe what’s happening online, the more it’s reinforced that the high-visibility surface platforms of the Internet are conservative strongholds… Locating the freaks Where are all the freaks, after all? Where are all the cyberpunks? Who responds positively to the freaks anymore (who ever did?) … with anything … Continue reading
Progressive conservative and recursive conventional versus radical/experimental science fiction
As far as I can tell, there are three main ways of writing fiction: progressive conservative, recursive conventional/commercial and radical/experimental or, more broadly, unconventional. The three categories hold true in science fiction as well. When I started out writing science fiction, I was particularly naive about what the limits of … Continue reading
The tribes we lead, follow and join in publishing: reflecting on Seth Godin’s marketing wisdom
Adopting tribes I’m not sure whether I’m a fan of Seth Godin or not, but his May 2009 TED talk is perhaps a bit prescient as far as Internet social marketing is concerned. Even though the use of the concept of tribes wasn’t his own, this was still fairly early in … Continue reading
Conventional commitments in narrative criticism
A lot of narrative criticism revolves around conventional commitments about what shape good stories should take; this much is obvious, although some people may call it good judgment when it applies to their own criticism… There are a few key things that need to be noted about this: People are often … Continue reading