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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...]

Dragon Page Notes

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.

There will also continue to be related non-fiction genre and science book reviews and coverage at Slice of SciFi.

Thank you all for your opinions, conversations, contributions and support over the years.

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Cover to Cover #433A: Sam Sykes

December 7, 2010 4 Comments

Interview: Mike and Mike talk with Sam Sykes, about his debut novel, Tome of the Undergates from Pyr. It's the first book in the Aeons' Gate Trilogy, a fantasy adventure about preventing the gates of the underworld from being opened and destroying the world, full of eipc, gritty battles and dark, flawed characters.   [Read more...]

Cover to Cover #150: Dr. Fred Alan Wolf

January 24, 2005

Who would have thought you could combine Yoga and time travel together? Sure sounds like science fiction... but maybe it's not? If you saw What the %$@ Do We Know in the theaters, you know how strange things get when you look at the quantum level. Fred's new book is The Yoga of Time Travel, and explores the notion of how the mind influences our own reality... and even time.   [Read more...]

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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

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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 and

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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