Comments on: Some news about the Hugo voters packet 05/2014/some-news-about-the-hugo-voters-packet/ A Lawyer's Thoughts on Authors, Self-Publishing and Traditional Publishing Sun, 03 Aug 2014 01:52:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 By: Chris Meadows 05/2014/some-news-about-the-hugo-voters-packet/#comment-206863 Fri, 16 May 2014 23:25:37 +0000 ?p=51903#comment-206863 I wouldn’t be surprised if Tor making it available was meant as a thumb directly in Orbit’s eye.

]]> By: Chris Meadows 05/2014/some-news-about-the-hugo-voters-packet/#comment-206862 Fri, 16 May 2014 23:24:37 +0000 ?p=51903#comment-206862 Which is easy for people who aren’t in his shoes to say. Much as folks boost it around here, including me, I’d be the first to admit that self-publishing isn’t for everybody. Stross is one of those who are doing all right with traditional publishing, including making his living writing full-time that way rather than having to fit it in between a day job. If he still feels he can do better staying with Orbit, that’s his decision.

]]> By: Keith West 05/2014/some-news-about-the-hugo-voters-packet/#comment-206654 Fri, 16 May 2014 14:17:45 +0000 ?p=51903#comment-206654 I agree that Wheel of Time will most likely win. I won’t be surprised if it gets more votes than all the other nominees combined. I’m sure the Orbit execs are frothing at the mouth over Tor including the whole series in the voter packet.

]]> By: Marc Cabot 05/2014/some-news-about-the-hugo-voters-packet/#comment-206649 Fri, 16 May 2014 14:07:22 +0000 ?p=51903#comment-206649 Good point. In any event, voted supporting memberships should be at an all-time high.

]]> By: Chris Meadows 05/2014/some-news-about-the-hugo-voters-packet/#comment-206640 Fri, 16 May 2014 13:14:22 +0000 ?p=51903#comment-206640 I don’t see a problem with “traditional.” The traditional way of getting published is to submit to a publisher, have them edit your work, then have them put it out. That’s the way it’s been done for hundreds of years; it’s a tradition.

]]> By: Chris Meadows 05/2014/some-news-about-the-hugo-voters-packet/#comment-206639 Fri, 16 May 2014 13:13:15 +0000 ?p=51903#comment-206639 I doubt the people who are big enough fans of Correia, Vox Day, and the other members of the Puppies slate can hold a candle to all the Wheel of Time fans who joined either to get all 15 of those books as e-books or to vote for their favorite series. Or both.

]]> By: Marc Cabot 05/2014/some-news-about-the-hugo-voters-packet/#comment-206638 Fri, 16 May 2014 13:09:05 +0000 ?p=51903#comment-206638 I would be stunned if this year all records for voting supporting memberships are not obliterated thanks to Operation Sad Puppies II. I still don’t think it’ll WIN, or even come close, but I think that as a percentage of memberships purchased and voted, supporting memberships will be WAY up, and ironically, that’s good for the establishment.

]]> By: Marc Cabot 05/2014/some-news-about-the-hugo-voters-packet/#comment-206637 Fri, 16 May 2014 13:06:57 +0000 ?p=51903#comment-206637 I think somebody did some math recently showing that winning a Hugo has little or negative net worth in terms of long term sales. Or maybe that was the Nebula. Anyway, I don’t see it being all that helpful, unless the market comprised of “people writing theses on historical SF who must buy and read a lot of old Hugo-winners” gets WAY larger.

]]> By: Marc Cabot 05/2014/some-news-about-the-hugo-voters-packet/#comment-206635 Fri, 16 May 2014 13:04:03 +0000 ?p=51903#comment-206635 What would be REALLY funny is if they just somehow pulled a Nader and got Correia the win.

I don’t see it happening, but it would be epic.

]]> By: Joe Vasicek 05/2014/some-news-about-the-hugo-voters-packet/#comment-206597 Fri, 16 May 2014 06:11:35 +0000 ?p=51903#comment-206597 And now that Orbit is pulling their books out of the voting packet, how many fewer people are going to buy the supporting membership?

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