Future of Publishing
Publishing: The Revolutionary Future by Jason Epstein provides an interesting take on cultural implications of digital publishing in current issue of New York Review of Books.
Profile: Robert Runte, Editor at Five Rivers Publishing
As part of our continuing profile series at Five Rivers, we feature an interview today with Editor, and man of many hats and talents, Dr. Robert Runte. Q. When not working as an editor at Five Rivers you’re a university professor. Tell us a little about your day job, your personal life, and how you dovetail that with your role at Five Rivers. Robert: I’m an associate professor at the University of Lethbridge. A lot…
Editor as Interviewer
Five Rivers Editor, Robert Runté, has an interview with Canadian SF writer Casey Wolf in the Feb 8 issue of Strange Horizons. Robert also has a review of Casey’s recent anthology Finding Creatures and Other Stories in the current issue (#18) of Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine.
On Writing by Stephen King
On Writing: A memoir of the CraftBy Stephen King 297pp. Review by Robert Runté I’ve been an academic and editor for 30 years, but am now working on my first novel. Two-thirds of the way through, I felt the need for a little moral support, so ordered a shelf of books on writing from Amazon.ca. This one happened to be on top of the stack when I went on holidays and needed something for the…
Amazon vs Macmillan
A very cogent analysis of the current fight between Macmillan (one of the major American publishers) and Amazon that has Amazon removing ALL of Macmillian’s titles from its “shelves” is presented by author Charles Stross. Stross is mostly focused on the fate of the large commercial legacy publishers here, but in an aside points out that if monster corporations like Macmillan can’t take on Amazon, micropresses like ours and self-publishers will have to accept any…