I was at the Frankfurt Bookfair about two weeks ago. First time in 13 years. I started out in publishing after high school and went every year at the end of the 90s. Then I switched careers and the re
Golden Age of short fiction?
There was a panel at the recent Science Fiction Worldcon in Reno, where a few notable figures from known short fiction markets discussed how technology changed or will change short fiction. You can re
Amazon Kindle Store in Germany
So its been a month since I managed to blog about something. Back then I wanted to do a post about how Amazon should finally open their Kindle store to the rest of the world … or at least to my neck
$500,000 vs. $2,000,000
Wow … what a week so far. Let’s recap the 2 major news I want to a adress in this post. 1) Barry Eisler, an NYT bestselling author turns down a $500,000 deal from St. Martin’s Press in order to self
On writing
So I am trying this blogging thing again. And since I am a writer, I might as well start with writing about … writing. Right now it seems, that there is a bit of a revolution going on in the US publ