BOUNDARY to be in Science Fiction Book Club!

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Eric and I have been notified that Boundary will be in the Science Fiction Book Club magazine as a featured item. This weekend I'll be writing a draft of the blurb which will go with the book. This is fun -- my first hardcover and my first SFBC appearance!

In other exciting writing news, I just received my first "Advance Reader's Copy" -- of Boundary, naturally. ARCs are produced generally as trade paperbacks; this looks SO COOL!

Comments

Short stories are not my forte.

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In general, the sections of Digital Knight represent the shortest material I can write, and they're too long for most "short" venues. Short stories also don't pay worth crap compared to books, so for someone interested in actually making useful spare change out of their writing short stories are generally not the way most people go.

The SFBC is good for exposure, although I don't think it's nearly as large as you imply... and the number who will order Boundary will of necessity be a lot smaller. A few thousand would be very good, though.

Think of it as a filter

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Disclaimer: I work for the SFBC but I do not speak for them or represent them in any way.

The market for F&SF skews strongly towards the F end of the scale (1), around two to one. SF may account for perhaps 2% of the books sold last year.

The SFBC offers as many SF novels as fantasy. I don't know what the relative sales are and probably would attract the attention of the Bookspan Orbiting Laser if I did know and shared but I have good reason to suspect Joe Average SFBC Customer is looking for SF. There are fewer eyeballs involved but they are biased towards SF.


1: It would be very rude of me to speculate why this is but I will say it is not surprising, any more than the general tone of post-Imperial British SF was.