Daily Archives: July 3, 2014
New Books and ARCs, 7/3/14
Posted on July 3, 2014 34 Comments
Just in time for the Independence Day holiday: New books and ARCs that have arrived at the Scalzi Compound this week. Let me know in the comments which works here appeal to you.
Amazon, Hachette, Publishing, Etc — It’s Not a Football Game, People
Posted on July 3, 2014 199 Comments
And now, some thoughts on subjects pertaining to publishing. I’ll use myself as an example for much of this. 1. I am in business with Amazon, though its Audible.com subsidiary. As you might be able to tell by my post yesterday, I am deeply happy with my experience working with Audible (and thus, by extension, Amazon). […]
The Big Idea: Tobias S. Buckell
Posted on July 3, 2014 14 Comments
As the first named hurricane of the season wanders along off the east coast of the US, it’s perhaps fitting that today’s Big Idea book is Hurricane Fever, by Tobias Buckell. But the hurricanes of this novel take place further south, in the Caribbean — and that’s where its hero comes from, too. Buckell explains […]
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