Boing Boing co-founder and science fiction novelist Cory Doctorow wrote in Forbes recently about how giving away free e-books has actually helped him get sales. It might seem a contradiction, but read his explanation to understand why it actually works.

It makes a great deal of sense, and I plan to give away my own “speculative […]

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If you’re an aspiring novelist and just don’t know where to start, how about just writing? NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, is a yearly contest where participants simply write during the entire month of November. The object of the yearly contest is about getting your novel done, not worrying about editing. At least not […]

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Illustrator Marianne Richmond has joined an elite club upon the sale of the one millionth copy of one of her books. Compare this with common figure of less than 99 copies for a given book. Very few books get a print run of over 2 or 3,000 copies, let alone sell in the thousands or […]

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Writing full-time as a career requires strong discipline. Every writer knows this, but it’s easier to think that you’ll meet the writer agent or editor somehow by magic. The boring fact is that you have to do your writing like a project. Each piece of writing is a different project. Imagine that each “project” has […]

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