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

June 30, 2014 159 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.

For those seeking more podcast options featuring only topics on reading and writing SF genre literature, we highly recommend Mur Lafferty’s I Should Be Writing, Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace’s Ditch Diggers and Writing Excuses featuring Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal and Howard Tayler.

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Cover to Cover #151: R. A. Salvatore / Scott Ciencin

January 31, 2005

R. A. Salvatore
Bob rejoins the show to talk about The Two Swords, the third book in The Hunters Blade trilogy, featuring everyone's favorite dark elf, Drizzt.

Scott Ciencin
Scott has written an Everquest novel, called Rogue's Hour. Presented by R. A. Salvatore, Rogue's Hour is best synopsized as "Bourne Identity with swords". [Read more...]

Cover to Cover #394A: Daniel Suarez

February 1, 2010

Discussion: Daniel Suarez, author of Daemon and Freedom (TM), joins Mike and Mike for the entire show!

Beyond talk about writing stories that resonate with technology professionals and defense strategists alike, the discussion ranges from social networking, potential uses and abuses of Internet technologies, the ever-evolving (and now impossible to eradicate) sophistication of spam and bots, transhumanism, gene mods and the law, and more. [Read more...]

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Reading Diary #16: WebGenii's Reads

February 11, 2013 By WebGenii 16 Comments

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 10 Comments

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 1 Comment

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 1 Comment

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 1 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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