Five Links Make a Post

[rolanni]

1. A Literary Agent talks about royalties, and which sales are better for the author — ebook or paper? — here

2. Don’t be a Victim! Jim Hines talks about self-defense and self-control.

3. Women with clean houses don’t write epic fantasy.

4. For those who missed it yesterday, the Interactive Map of Entitlements. You can sort by year, and by program. Pay particular attention to the slideshow.

5. The Hugo Administrators want you to know that the Hugo Nominations deadline is March 11. Here are the rules. Here’s a list of eligible Lee-and-Miller, and Miller, titles (yes, it’s the same old list that you’ve seen before).

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

Which is better for the author,, ebook or paper

[james parks (from livejournal.com)]

I read/skimmed the analysis so maybe I missed it, but it seems to assume that there will be the same volume of sales for $26 hardback and $12 ebook or $12 paper back and $7.99 ebook. I buy fare more books at $7.99 than I do at $12 and very few hardback at $26. The only hardback books I buy is for a series that I started as paperback and just cannot wait for the paperback. And yes I will buy Dragon Ship and it's sequel in hard back. If I stumble across a series that is new to me, as a rule I will only buy in ebook format. My wife, with very very few exceptions, will not buy a hardback period, even if I offer to pay for it. She doesn't like the size, weight or price.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

The Clean Houses post struck a chord, as I grapple with a deadline and a house that needs a major stem-to-stern and has needed it for years.

Yesterday I baked 5 big chicken breasts. Today, I hacked them into chicken salad. That's the extent of my cooking for the coming week.

Hardcover, Trade Paperback, etc.

[claire774.livejournal.com]

My brain isn't strong enough to actually read all that analysis of the profit from books. But it seemed like it leaned towards the either or but I could be wrong. Hardback or e-book, etc. What happens I think is first a book is published in either hardback or some never come out in hardback. They start in trade paper. Then they come out in e-book. Then after a suitable time....except for the very most popular books which stay in hardback for a very long time...they come out in mass paperback. So if the books are published in all available formats it seems the authors and publishers will eventually receive profits and royalties from all the formats at one time or another.

As for the map of entitlements. It's too late for me to read the article but the Right wants us to moan and groan about how horrible everything is. Oh, I have the vapors. However publishing a map from 2009 in the midst of what is the worst downturn since the Great Depression can't be very cheery. If and when the economy improves everyone will do better. If we can get out of Afghanistan and perhaps even stop being the policeman of the world we'd have even more money....replacing our crumbling infrastructure anyone? Spending some $ on improving our education? And if we can get the Bush tax cuts to expire even better. Europe is proving that just going for austerity...cut cut cut! is not working.

I'd be careful who you vote for in November.

Clean houses

[claire774.livejournal.com]

Forgot to say.....here's a compromise...although it may be too expensive back east. A cleaning lady comes in every other week for about 2 hrs or so. Her house what with the husband and the four kids is bigger than mine but...cleaning makes me very depressed. So she cleans. She likes cleaning. That's why she's a cleaning lady. If things are very muddy out she comes in every week.