Jim C. Hines

It’s been some time since our last few posts covering the Sad/Rabid Puppies Hugo Awards controversy, and a few interesting developments and articles have come out since then, so it’s time for a roundup. First of all, Jim C. Hines has put a lot of time and effort into compiling a comprehensive history of the […]

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For a splash of levity on this frigid (here in Philadlephia, anyway) Friday, we bring you this amazing piece from io9 about a group of sci-fi and fantasy authors who got together to do a gender-flipped parody of Poul Anderson's Young Flandry. Featuring Mary Robinette Kowal, Charles Stross, Pat Rothfuss, John Scalzi and Jim C. Hines, the shoot is part of an effort to support the Aicardi Syndrome Foundation

We'd love to see someone remake Vonnegut's Sirens of Titan. What book cover would you like to see given the same treatment?

—Brian Howard

A post by Cory Doctorow on BoingBoing (reprinted under a Creative Commons License): My latest Publishers Weekly column is “A Whip to Beat Us With,” which describes how publishers who allow retailers to add DRM to their products hand those retailers a commercial advantage to exercise over the publishers themselves. Jim C. Hines’s e-books are marketed

My latest Publishers Weekly column is "A Whip to Beat Us With," which describes how publishers who allow retailers to add DRM to their products hand those retailers a commercial advantage to exercise over the publishers themselves. Jim C. Hines’s...

A reminder today that, if you self-publish with Amazon, you’re not guaranteed to be in control of your e-book pricing. Fantasy author Jim C. Hines recounts a recent pricing snafu with his e-book Goblin Tales, self-published through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo. Hines had put the book on sale for 99 cents over Christmas [...]

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