Comments on: SFWA Doubling Down

By: Uncle Jo

Uncle Jo — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 08:46:14 +0000

Oh man Jerry Pournelle? I love the internet!

By: Uncle Jo

Uncle Jo — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 08:40:57 +0000

Just read my first Harley Quinn comic today. What a great character. That hammer!

By: C. R. Reaves

C. R. Reaves — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 03:26:21 +0000

Just assume that I hit a “Like” button on that. I’m laughing.

By: Tom Simon

Tom Simon — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 03:16:04 +0000

If ‘literary agents are the ONLY recognized middlemen’, it’s because publishers are too stupid to recognize that they themselves are middlemen.

By: Laura Resnick

Laura Resnick — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 01:50:02 +0000

“Why is that process so slow, Laura?”

Because it was established when dinosaurs roamed the earth and has not be changed or updated since.

By: Travis Hill

Travis Hill — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 01:21:54 +0000

I preferred Inspector Gadget over Maxwell Smart.

(I still prefer Inspector Gadget over Jack Bauer)

By: Travis Hill

Travis Hill — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 01:20:22 +0000

Step 5: ???

Step 6: Profit

(just thought I’d add in the parts you left out of the equation heh)

By: Tasha Turner

Tasha Turner — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 00:59:38 +0000

I love that feature on Amazon. My husband hadn’t been aware of it and was surprised when he got an email letting him know that the book had been discounted so it actually cost him x instead of y saving him z.

I use the pre-order buttons for a few ebooks when I notice they are discounting them as I’ve noticed a tendency of further discounting. I only do this for a few authors and I have a max $5.99 (books without lending) I’ll pay for an ebook so this doesn’t happen very frequently.

By: Will Entrekin

Will Entrekin — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 23:49:37 +0000

Funny: until this moment, I’d associated Writer Beware solely with Victoria Strauss and AC Crispin. I started reading it too many moons ago to count, now, but I’d literally never, until this moment, realized it was an SFWA entity.

Fascinating.

Also, from a recent (as of this writing) WB post:

But there’s a bigger issue here as well. Literary agents are the ONLY recognized middlemen in the publishing business. And you don’t need a middleman to approach a middleman.

(They’re right you don’t need a middleman to get to a middleman, but I’m unclear why one requires a middleman at all, nevermind why one would be recognized.)

By: Mir

Mir — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 23:42:08 +0000

Yep. That’s a good deed.