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Cover to Cover #470: Amazon vs Hachette, or Authors Are Doing It For Themselves

June 30, 2014

Mike and Mike talk more about the fight between Amazon and Hachette, continuing from Show 468 and including comments from your feedback via Facebook.

They talk more about how different authors are taking sides, how the monies are being distributed differently now than before, the different options available to authors (with publishers and going self-published) and things authors should be doing to sell their books and sell themselves.   [Read more...]

Dragon Page Notes

As of December 2014, The Dragon Page is closed. No more episodes of “Cover to Cover”, no more book reviews.

For those seeking more podcast options featuring only topics on reading and writing SF genre literature, we highly recommend Mur Lafferty’s I Should Be Writing, Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace’s Ditch Diggers and Writing Excuses featuring Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal and Howard Tayler.

There will also continue to be related non-fiction genre and science book reviews and coverage at Slice of SciFi.

Thank you all for your opinions, conversations, contributions and support over the years.

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Cover to Cover #469: Talking with Kevin J. Anderson

June 23, 2014

Kevin J. Anderson joins Mike and Mike to talk about his newest novel, The Dark Between the Stars. It's the first of his new series, "Saga of Shadows", which takes place 20 years after the events of his "Saga of the Seven Suns" series, with reviewers calling it "Game of Thrones, with planets".

He also talks about his writing process (dictation), and how he got started publishing ebooks through his own WordFire Press.   [Read more...]

Cover to Cover #326A: David Boop

September 8, 2008

Interview: This week, we talk with David Boop, author of She Murdered Me With Science, a scifi detective pulp noir tale, set in an alternate 1953, with a disgraced scientist working as a private detective who's suddenly set on a course to solve the mystery behind the deadly accident he was blamed for.   [Read more...]

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