Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having a moderately popular blog. Most books sell 5, 10, or 15 thousand copies. Most are midlist… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
“No one goes around suggesting that everyone should become their own autonomous cheesemakers and cheering the death of the cheese industry. Why? Because that… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
Tor.com has been a venue for original SF and fantasy since 2008, but we've never formalized our process for submissions. Indeed, for a long… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything,… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
Book publishing was never a heaven "run by editors", and it is by no means today a hell "run by accountants." If our "sole… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff at it?… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction. — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text. — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
So many people's school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn't care for one or more of… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against the success… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote specific projects… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
