Jeremiah Tolbert

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5 More Ways for Writers to Market Themselves

There are two schools of thought on mar­ket­ing and writ­ing.  Some think that mar­ket­ing can lead to great suc­cess, or that mar­ket­ing alone is respon­si­ble for the suc­cess.   Dan Brown is some­one I hear this accu­sa­tion levied at from time to time.  Others will argue that no amount of mar­ket­ing will make a bad story […]

Five reasons this book trailer rocks

I for­get where I got this, but I think that it’s the level of qual­ity I’d like to see in more book trail­ers online: Having Tim Curry as a nar­ra­tor is prob­a­bly out­side of the range of what we can afford as SF/F writ­ers, but still.  Let’s go over what makes this awe­some: Tight pacing. […]

Today’s Market Health Question: How Many Readers Are There?

How many indi­vid­u­als, all told in the English speak­ing world, do you think cur­rently read SF/F short fic­tion, by which I mean read at least one story pub­lished in the past year? Do you think that num­ber is grow­ing or shrink­ing? Explain your num­ber, if you can. My thoughts after the jump.I don’t think the […]