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Monday, February 18th, 2008
John Scalzi has a wonderful rant about SFWA and Andrew Burt's candidacy for president posted on his site. I also like what Charlie Finlay adds in the comments, by describing some of the problems SFWA faces beyond certain candidates themselves.
I myself let my SFWA membership lapse this year. ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
Okay, I can't seem to stop thinking about this, so I'm going to beat the dead horse one last time.
In the first three posts about Science Fiction magazines:Why Are the "Big Three" Dying?, Marketing in Meatspace, and Online Marketing, I wasn't explicit about why I was focusing on marketing ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
My sense of the online sphere is that it remains a place of opportunity rather than threat for a print magazine. Over time, this may change, but the internet provides the best place to attract pre-qualified subscribers, to build a relationship with them, and then to convert them to paying ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
More than anything - more than changing demographics, or the advent of new technologies, or the rise of free content - I have a sense that the loss of sf readers for the "big three" markets is actually a failure of marketing and core circulation management practices, not of the ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
There's been a fair amount of talk about the die-off in the short fiction magazine markets. Interestingly, this is often played as indicating their loss of relevance either generationally (sf market is aging) or else technologically (The internet is where it's at! All else will crumble and fall before it!) ...
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
I had the pleasure of receiving this bit of fan mail today:
From: Tony Stanley
Subject: re: the people of sand and slag
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fuck you
I've responded to him, asking him if this is a proposition or an editorial comment, but haven't heard back yet.
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Friday, April 20th, 2007
In a pair of posts, the current SFWA V.P. has created a firestorm by calling writers who give away their work online "webscabs" a term that he later regretted using and tried to clarify but which has stained the larger themes he was attempting to touch upon.
I actually have a ...
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
So the ever-energetic John Scalzi has started a new gig. Ficlets. Micro fiction that everyone can add on to. It actually looks pretty fun. The sort of communal writing experience that's missing from a writer's general daily life. Creative and community. Nifty.
But, because I'm not ever-energetic, nor even ...
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