While I am still weighing the pros and cons of making my first novel freely available, I’ve found a tool that will help me if I decide to do so. Creative Commons has come up with a system that enables writers and other creative types to generate a custom license agreement and attach it to [...]
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Giving It Away – Part 2
Posted in The Writer, self-promotion on November 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Giving It Away
Posted in The Writer, self-promotion on November 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The October/November issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction has a column about science fiction writers who are giving away their novels. I am intrigued by this because my general understanding has always been that in order to make a living as a writer, one must get paid for the fruits of one’s labor. I’ve understood for [...]
OED
Posted in The Writer on November 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A lot of my friends play video games. Lately it has seemed as if I’m the only person I know who doesn’t own an Xbox 360. Over the past couple months, Bioshock and Halo 3 are the only things I’ve heard about. Don’t get me wrong, I like video games, too. I grew up in [...]
Nom De Plume
Posted in The Writer on October 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been thinking, lately, about adopting a pseudonym. I write science fiction, mostly, and some of what would probably be labeled “mainstream.” That stuff would continue to be produced under my real name. I also like writing horror, and I think that my efforts in that genre might benefit from a stage [...]
