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Self-Publishing: A Rant and a Q4U
cba-ramblings.blogspot.com - 11/20/2009
Self-Publishing: A Rant and a Q4U
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This week another major publisher, Harlequin, announced their entry into the self-publishing business. The blogs have lit up over it and there's a lot of interesting reading out there. I think Victoria Strauss gave a great overview on the Writer Beware blog (here.) I have to admit that the ...
Self Publishing Rant
rimworlds.com - 11/24/2009
Self Publishing Rant
— rimworlds.com — I feel a new Blog Entry Template coming on, something along the lines of, pay me X,... I’ll pay you X-Y for your “submitted” story (a professional rate equivalent) and you can call yourself a professional SF writer for the small sum of the balance…  ... (more) Self Publishing Rant
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Et in arcaedia, ego.:  letters from the query wars

Bibliophile Stalker:  November 23, 2009 Links and Plugs

Ecstatic Days:  Harlequin Horizons Links

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letters from the query wars
Et in arcaedia, ego. — ... changing the name of the venture, which, imo, doesn't address the points that RWA and MWA were raising. Or, as SFWA put it in their statement: "does not believe that changing the name of the imprint, or in some other way attempting to disguise the relationship to Harlequin, changes the intention." Here's how some other agents feel about it: * Ashley Grayson - Harlequin Horizons, a mug's game * Janet Reid - here and here. * Rachelle Gardner - a self-publishing rant. Jackie Kessler's version of the author/Harlequin ...

November 23, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker — ... Statement on Harlequin’s vanity press imprint. Sarah Zettel on Harlequin Horizons, or All Is Vanity. Follow the Reader on Publishers: As Harlequin is Finding Out – Sometimes You Can’t Win For Losing. Editorial Anonymous on Definitions for the Perplexed: Self Publishing. Janet Reid on C'mon Harlequin, don't try to blow smoke up our asterisk. Juno Books on Harlequin’s Ethical Ick. Rachelle Gardner on Self-Publishing: A Rant and a Q4U and My Final Comments on Self-Pub. John Scalzi ...

Harlequin Horizons Links
Ecstatic Days — ... vanity press imprint. Sarah Zettel on Harlequin Horizons, or All Is Vanity. Follow the Reader on Publishers: As Harlequin is Finding Out – Sometimes You Can’t Win For Losing. Editorial Anonymous on Definitions for the Perplexed: Self Publishing. Janet Reid on C’mon Harlequin, don’t try to blow smoke up our asterisk. Juno Books on Harlequin’s Ethical Ick. Rachelle Gardner on Self-Publishing: A Rant and a Q4U and My Final Comments on Self-Pub. John Scalzi on ...

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