There is this crazy timid apprehension to ebooks. Not by the people who buy them, but by the people who sell them. A look at the market share for ebooks for 2011 should tell you that ebooks are big. A 10% in market share is nothing to be timid about. Yet, at every turn, publishers [...]
Writing a novella is tough. Ask any writer who has tried. The common misconception is that because the word count is lower than a novel, the work required is less. This is false. Many novellas started life as a novel, and through successive drafts were whittled into their finished, perfect form (see our last #novellachat [...]
Continue Reading →Zach and I have both written, and although some of these works may not have been of the greatest quality, we still know the time that goes into writing. We still know what it feels like to create a work. We both know how important that works becomes to you. The works become almost like [...]
Continue Reading →It’s been almost two months since we started #NovellaChat, and we’ve been having a blast. We’ve read some great novellas, and the best part is, there are so many more out there to read. So many, in fact, that we sometimes have a hard time picking out a novella. That’s where you come in. We [...]
Continue Reading →What a novel novelty is the novella? (Sorry, I couldn’t resist) The fine folks over at Nouvella Books have declared June to be Novella Month. My first reaction – damn, wish I’d thought of that. My second reaction – ’bout damn time. Both reactions are damning, I’m afraid. The point is, we love the novella, [...]
Continue Reading →We have started to get s steady stream of submissions, and with that steady stream will come a writer’s worst enemy — rejection letters. As much as we wish that we could publish every submission, we can’t. There aren’t enough resources, time, and energy to be able to do that. And so, we are limiting [...]
Continue Reading →The writing is on the (Facebook) wall. The days of the major print publishers are dwindling. But it is not the end of print. We’ve been obsessed with seeing words expressed in some semi-permanent way in the physical world for millennia, and that’s not going to change anytime soon. But what is changing is how [...]
Continue Reading →What’s in a query? One of the most important pieces of your finished manuscript should be the query letter. If you plan on going with the route of traditional or independent, small-press, publishing, then you need a good query letter. A query letter is the first, and maybe only, introduction to you that a publisher [...]
Continue Reading →Last time out I talked about the importance of a writing platform. Today I’d like to talk a bit more about one aspect of that platform, Twitter. This is more based off my own experience, and I am no expert, but I have come to know Twitter enough that my curmudgeonly, skeptical reaction to it [...]
Continue Reading →We promised transparency, and so here it is. The following is an update on all the things that are going on at Temporary Infinity. First off, we are still accepting submissions. Currently we have received three query letters and are looking at one manuscript. At this point no rejections have been sent, but as promised, [...]
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