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
Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against the success in said market of some product of which they disapprove. — 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
