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Cover to Cover #470: Amazon vs Hachette, or Authors Are Doing It For Themselves

June 30, 2014 2 Comments

Mike and Mike talk more about the fight between Amazon and Hachette, continuing from Show 468 and including comments from your feedback via Facebook.

They talk more about how different authors are taking sides, how the monies are being distributed differently now than before, the different options available to authors (with publishers and going self-published) and things authors should be doing to sell their books and sell themselves. [Read more...]

As of December 2014, The Dragon Page is closed. No more episodes of “Cover to Cover”, no more book reviews.

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Cover to Cover #113: Eric Van Lustbader / Steven Barnes

May 10, 2004 Leave a Comment

Eric Van Lustbader His new book is Mistress of the Pearl is the third book Eric's epic science fiction series, The Pearl Saga. It's a tale of two alien species, one technologically advanced, the other a theocracy forced to modernize quickly. There are six books planned in this epic science fiction cum fantasy tale. Steven […]

Cover to Cover #326A: David Boop

September 8, 2008

Interview: This week, we talk with David Boop, author of She Murdered Me With Science, a scifi detective pulp noir tale, set in an alternate 1953, with a disgraced scientist working as a private detective who's suddenly set on a course to solve the mystery behind the deadly accident he was blamed for. [Read more...]

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Reading Diary #16: WebGenii's Reads

February 11, 2013 By WebGenii

This is WebGenii, with an installment from my Reading Diary. So, what have I been reading lately? [Read more...]

Reading Diary #15: WebGenii's Reads

February 3, 2013 By WebGenii

This is WebGenii, with an installment from my Reading Diary. So, what have I been reading lately? [Read more...]

Reading Diary #14: WebGenii's Reads

December 23, 2012 By WebGenii

This is WebGenii, with an installment from my Reading Diary. So what have I been reading lately? [Read more...]

Reading Diary #13: WebGenii's Reads

December 10, 2012 By WebGenii

This is WebGenii, with an installment from my "Reading Diary". It's been a busy fall, but I have been reading! [Read more...]

Review: "Star Trek FAQ" by Mark Clark

November 24, 2012 By Laith Preston and Library Dragon Leave a Comment

As a solid Trek fan I am always on the lookout for good books on the franchise, and Star Trek FAQ comes through in spades. [Read more...]

Review: "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline

June 8, 2012 By WebGenii

It's a little intimidating to review a book that has been so widely (and positively) reviewed. For authors, I think it would be useful to study this campaign and see what has made it so successful. [Read more...]

Review: "Discount Armageddon" by Seanan McGuire

April 20, 2012 By Laith Preston and Library Dragon

The world is a fairly orderly place, talking mice, gorgons, Chupacabra... these are things of fairy tales, mythology and supermarket tabloids. Not so in Seanan McGuire's new novel Discount Armageddon, the first book in her new InCryptid series. [Read more...]

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