Joss Whedon

With the question of sexism, discrimination, and gender choices in genre fiction still going full blast, here’s a question for all the writers out there. Riffing off Joss Whedon‘s now-celebrated acceptance speech for his Equality Now award in 2006, still regularly referenced in more recent debates on the subject, I’m taking the opposite tack to [...]

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Maybe it’s not so impossible to get people to watch ads on the Internet after all. Last night, curious to see if Joss Whedon’s recent adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing was available for streaming anywhere, I checked CanIStreamIt and found the only place it was listed for free was ad-supported with “HitBliss.” Curious, I [...]

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In a funny way, fan fiction is the purest form of literary art there is, the one most untainted by commerce. It’s hard to make money from it because someone else owns the intellectual property (unless you change the details just enough, in which case you can make quite a lot of money on it. Just ask E.L. James.)

Amazon’s ready to change that. A new program called Kindle Worlds will let would-be writers publish, and profit from, fan-fictional e-books with the blessing of the original characters’ creators…