Business of Science Fiction

The late Mike Resnick, was named Locus magazine’s all-time leading award winner for short science fiction, was the author of 61 novels, 225 short stories, and 2 screenplays, and was the editor of 48 anthologies. He lived in Cincinnati, Ohio. Barry N. Malzberg is the author of more than 90 books and has edited science fiction anthologies and magazines. He won the first John Campbell Memorial Award, has won two Locus Awards for essay collections, and is a Hugo and Nebula Award nominee.

• Table of ContentsPreface      Section 1: Writing and Selling1. The Specialty Press      2. Foreign Sales      3. Awards      4. The Marketplace      5. Anthologies      6. Conventions      7. Works for Hire      8. Promotion      9. e-Publishing Revisited      10. Collaborations—Theory      11. Collaborations—Practice      Section 2: The Business12. Agents      13. Money      14. Pseudonyms      15. Print-on-Demand      16. Professionalism      17. Myths      18. Really Dumb Ideas      19. Abuses      20. False Doctrines      Section 3: The Field21. Magazines      22. The Clueless (Part 1)      23. The Clueless (Part 2)      24. Change      25. Tailspinning      26. Google      Index

“a valuable and entertaining read”—SFRA Review; “very good...readers will thoroughly enjoy this journey”—Science Fiction Studies.