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Category: Agents

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Publishing

Writers are Sheep and Other Things I learned at SFContario4

by Michael Andre McPherson

I never attend a con without learning something new about the publishing industry, or at

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Agents

Pixels of Skin Tone: Getting the Cover Art Right

by Michael Andre McPherson

World Fantasy Convention 2012, held in Toronto last year, emphasized cover art, and wow did

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Indie Publishing

The Wild West of New Publishing

by Michael Andre McPherson

There have always been vultures in the publishing world. Phoney agents charging “reading fees” to

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e-books

Why I Decided to Write “New Adult”

by Michael Andre McPherson

A panel at Digital Book World agrees with me. If you’re going to indie-publish, the best genres to be in are romance, young adult, and new adult. My novels are new adult. Excellent.

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Apocalypse Revolution

Finally, A Cover I Love!

by Michael Andre McPherson

I’ve heard many traditionally published authors complain that the downside of having a contract with

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Publishing

The Agent Query Letter of the Future

by Michael Andre McPherson

In the future, agents will simply troll through the Amazon Best Sellers Rank to find talent.

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Scams

Is Self ePublishing in a Bubble?

by Michael Andre McPherson

My take on the Guardian’s claim that we’re in a self-publishing bubble.

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Promotion

I Just Found My 1999 Website

by Michael Andre McPherson

I had fun making a book trailer back in 1999 before Youtube and before anyone was making book trailers. It was a lot of fun, but it’s very dated. Hey, it’s 2012. 1999 is a long time ago.

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Agents

Will Publishing Streams Reverse?

by Michael Andre McPherson

There’s a shift going on in publishing that publishers and agents should be discussing over their lattes in the boardrooms of Manhattan.

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Agents

The New Slush Pile

by Michael Andre McPherson

Amanda Hocking, the indie e-pubbed bestseller, credits book bloggers for taking her from a minimum wage dead end job to millions of books sold through Amazon and Smashwords.

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