Nathan Bransford - The Forums

As someone who wants to see the publishing industry financially successful, and as someone who wants to sell lots of hardcovers some day, I think this move makes perfect sense. Here's something I'm not sure I understand, though. Let's say a hardcover retails for $30. How much does the publisher mak...

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Thanks for the link. Actually already started a discussion here: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=59

I think only you can answer whether to pull it out of the drawer, but I will say that any novel that has been in there for an extended length of time would at the very least need a big overhaul to bring it up to the present stylistically. Ultimately, 99% of the time a novel going to sell because of ...

"Well, when you break the universe..." Dude, this is potentially a great line for marketing! (Assuming it isn't already being used as such. And I don't necessarily mean paid for by your publisher...although, given the right publisher, who knows. I certainly wouldn't dismiss mentioning it to them ou...

Great question!

I actually don't read very much science fiction these days, and yet I wrote a science fiction novel. Go figure. I read it much more when I was younger though. Mostly I just like reading a little bit of every genre.

Yeah, as Scott and Mary say you have to narrow it down to one. Even if it's a book that's really science fiction but with fantasy elements or fantasy with science fiction elements, it needs to have a base.

Here's a post on that: http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2009/11 ... ks-in.html

The right place for the e-book is after the hardcover but before the paperback," said Carolyn Reidy, CEO of Simon & Schuster, which is owned by CBS Corp. "We believe some people will be disappointed. But with new [electronic] readers coming and sales booming, we need to do this now, before the inst...

When in doubt: go with whatever section in the bookstore you think it would be stocked under.

If they're closed they're closed.

I'm a definite outliner. I don't like the feeling of not knowing where things are going!

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Should we play 100 questions?

Well, when you break the universe....

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My father had nothing to do with making that ship disappear. Probably. But when one’s own Dad is prominently mentioned in a book about a World War II Navy shipyard experiment gone awry, his name will forever after be associated with that rumored event. Thomas Townsend Brown was a gentle man and a d...