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You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTIONS and Caveat Emptors
CHAPTER ONE:
Writing Advice, or, Avoiding Real Work The John Scalzi Way
John Scalzi's Utterly Useless Writing Advice
Even More Long-Winded (But Practical) Writing Advice
Ten Things I've Learned About Writing in Ten Years of Doing It
Ten Things About Literary Rejection
What Publishing Is
What Online Writing is Good For, 2005 Edition
Writing Tips for Non-Writers Who Don't Want to Work at Writing
CHAPTER TWO:
Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Writer's Life For Me
The Money Entry
15 Things About Me and Books
15 Things About Me and Writing
Wanting to be a Writer
Expired Contracts
Criticism
Get Me Rewrite
The Gripes of the Unpublished
Real World Book Deal Descriptions
Why a Shitty Deal is a Shitty Deal
Novelist Money
The Money Involved
Creative Commons and FanFic
The Stupidity of Worrying About Piracy
Selling Books Now
Writing in the Age of Piracy
There is Always Another Way
CHAPTER THREE:
The Schadenfreude Needle is Buried Deep into the Red: On Writers
Bob Greene Gets Canned
Bob Greene Redux
Attack of the Monkeyfishers
Stinky Cheese
Being an E-Author
The Stupidest Criticism of a Clinton, This Week
Envy
Workshop Fracas
Authors Whining
Cover Letters
A Little Libel
I, Hollywood
Celebrity Books
Sympathy for the Publicist
Writers on Writers, And It's Not What You Think
What Passes For an Online Literary Feud These Days
How Not to Plagiarize
January is Literary Fraud Month!
CHAPTER FOUR:
Science Fiction, or, Don't Skip This Chapter, You Damned Writing Snobs
The Cynical Writer
Science Fiction Outreach
Revenge of the Science Fiction Writers!
PublishAmerica Douses Self in Kerosene, Lights Match
The Politics of SF
Who the Hell Cares What's Wrong With American SF?
The Myth of the Science Fiction Monoculture
Asimov and the Cleti
Acknowledgements
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