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Commented on PSA: New Book Deal
If you and Doctorow actually write that Atlas Shrugged sequel I will pre-order the hardcover....
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Charlie Stross commented on
PSA: New Book Deal
David: Perhaps something a little more subtle/believable next year (say, Star Wars or Warhammer tie-ins)? I've done Warhammer tie-ins. For real. No kidding....
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Charlie Stross commented on
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Throwmearope: Everybody thinks writing romance is easy, except romance writers, of course. For a moment, though, I thought the world as I know it was gone. I can certainly believe romance is a lot harder than it looks to the uninitiated. Crime/police procedural certainly is, as I found out when I nearly broke my teeth on "Halting State" (and am wearing them down to the jawline on "Rule 34"). Similarly, writing Sparkly Unicorns™ properly would, I think, be rather challenging. Especially as I have a couple of decade's of experience at the New Space Opera and sod-all -- either as...
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velochicdunord commented on
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Good April Fool's joke. I twigged in the middle of paragraph 3. :) However (ahem), if you were to write such things, I personally want Good Unicorns Gone Bad(TM) who take their beloved mistresses with them in a twisted cyberpunk world....
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Charlie Stross commented on
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Derek, your estimates of my sales are wildly optimistic. Your estimates of my online sales are worse than optimistic. If I thought I could sell 100,000 copies of anything at $5 a pop of course I'd do it! (For that matter, I'd love to sell 20,000 hardcovers and 80,000 paperbacks -- if I did that, I'd have "NY Times Bestseller" splashed all over my book covers.) But 100,000 online sales of any ebook would be about two orders of magnitude more than the current headline figure for a #1 bestseller on the Kindle platform (the biggest single ebook storefront system)....
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Charlie Stross commented on
PSA: New Book Deal
Derek, I did a series of posts exhaustively anatomizing this stuff -- tagged CMAP, Common Misconceptions About Publishing. They've dropped off the front page (I did them in late January through March) and I really need to collect them and stick a link to them in the sidebar ... when I have time....
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