Monthly Archives: September 2004

Talking Contracts

In the comments thread to “Why a Shitty Deal is a Shitty Deal” someone asked about what new writers do when they negotiate with publishers; Michelle Sagara fielded the question at her LiveJournal. Here’s what she has to say. In general, in conforms pretty well (with certain personal variations) to my experience with negotiating the […]

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Why A Shitty Deal is a Shitty Deal

A small press publisher named Jeremy Lassen, who is clearly not getting enough hugs, took exception to the Real World Book Deals definition of a $3,000 book advance as “shitty,” and responded with a comment which I’ll elevate here for you to admire as much for the spirited use of profanity as the content itself. […]

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Why A Shitty Deal is a Shitty Deal

A small press publisher named Jeremy Lassen, who is clearly not getting enough hugs, took exception to the Real World Book Deals definition of a $3,000 book advance as “shitty,” and responded with a comment which I’ll elevate here for you to admire as much for the spirited use of profanity as the content itself. […]

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Happy Birthday, Whatever

Did you know (and its immediate corollary, do you care) that today marks the sixth anniversary of the existence of the Whatever? Well, it does. No one is more surprised about its longevity than I. The Whatever has been very good to me; directly or indirectly it has been responsible for the existence of four […]

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Happy Birthday, Whatever

Did you know (and its immediate corollary, do you care) that today marks the sixth anniversary of the existence of the Whatever? Well, it does. No one is more surprised about its longevity than I. The Whatever has been very good to me; directly or indirectly it has been responsible for the existence of four […]

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Albert and Cthulhu, Sitting In a Tree

I have to say, I wasn’t entirely surprised when plush Albert Einstein and plush Cthulhu decided to become an item. After all, the two have tons in common: The love of water, the enjoyment of naps, a fascination with non-Euclidean geometry and a dislike of quantum physics (Al because it engenders spooky action at a […]

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Albert and Cthulhu, Sitting In a Tree

I have to say, I wasn’t entirely surprised when plush Albert Einstein and plush Cthulhu decided to become an item. After all, the two have tons in common: The love of water, the enjoyment of naps, a fascination with non-Euclidean geometry and a dislike of quantum physics (Al because it engenders spooky action at a […]

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Note About Comments

Some jerkwad is depositing several hundred comment spam messages a day on the Whatever, and I can’t run MTBlacklist because my friggin’ hosting service hasn’t updated its version of Perl since 1997. So I did the next best thing, which is to close comments on every entry except this month’s entries. So if you wanted […]

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Books & Stuff, 9/11

The ever-rocking Lucy Huntzinger has passed along this picture of me at my Noreascon reading, holding up Old Man’s War. Actually, it’s not really Old Man’s War; it’s the cover to OMW wrapped around another Tor book whose dimensions are near exactly what my book’s will be. But it’s more impressive to hold up a […]

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The Real World Book Deal Descriptions

Now, if you’ve read the previous entry about Noreascon, you may have come away thinking that most of what writers do at conventions is drinking and carousing and then possibly drinking some more. And you’d be right. However, I don’t want you to think that nothing of value was accomplished there — or indeed that […]

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Noreascon Wrapup

So, except for the fact that I went through a large percentage of the Tor Books party with a massive zipper malfunction (helpfully pointed out to me by the Tor editor who pointed directly at my crotch and said something along the line of “You’re looking a little loose, there”), I have to say it […]

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Upgrade Day

After going away and coming back and having to remove 500 pieces of comment spam — and still not being done — I’ve decided today is a fine day to upgrade Moveable Type. So that’s what I will be attempting today. If everything suddenly implodes, you’ll know why. Provided the upgrade is successful, I’ll soon […]

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