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[keiramarcos]

• Sun, 14:31: Streetlight People by LadyBlahBlah http://t.co/wOgtLzDDL0
• Sun, 15:09: Rough Trade - July Challenge http://t.co/nG7ZqjYEc2
• Sun, 15:13: SHINE LIKE THE SUN BY KYLISESLIE http://t.co/m0idU0ewD3
• Mon, 06:49: The Geeks and Goons Series by likethekoschka http://t.co/T4fir7C24p
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[vasaris.livejournal.com]

*sadface* there was a blog talk tonight? Sucks being a) opposite coast and b) at work.

One question about the challenges: you nixed crossovers with characters from other fandoms - what about elements of other fandoms? I had the damnedest inspiration for SG/Sentinel/His Dark Materials followed by one for HP/Highlander. I'll never write them w/o a challenge (I really, seriously miss Kardasi's). Of course, of I try I'll get screwed by work, but what the hell, I'll never start writing again if I, yanno, don't start writing.

[keiramarcos]

It didn't record. It's a hot mess. I'm going to do another one on Friday for Rough Trade.

I believe I answered the rest of your question regarding this on Rough Trade ;-)

[vasaris.livejournal.com]

Yup. It's all good. It's just unfortunate SGA is a fandom I read but don't normally have plot ideas for. Still, the HP generator is working in the same angst-and-terrible-things way (between snarry and the OMG!angst-blood-Jesus-what-was-that-brain? I doubt you'd ever have seen it, I r mostly a lurker), so only one challenge for me!

Random Question from out of Left Field

[shattereternity.livejournal.com]

So I know you're a published author too, so I was just wondering if you could explain something to me.

I've noticed different authors talking about the amazon book pricing and hatchette debate going on and distributor vs publisher determining price? at least that's the gist I got unless I'm reading things wrong, which happens. And than arguments of paying more for a well known, established author vs a newbie; price fixing by publishers etc and I'm all confused now. Do you think you could give me your take on it? Cause I get that with the advent of ebooks, the whole book pricing model is stuck in prehistoric land and modernization with a lot of upheaval going on (btw, when i want to support an author pricing wise, does it matter if i buy ebook vs paperback/hardback when it comes to royalties?) ..........................

and than i consider how customers have been paying full price for digital copies of console games, so why shouldn't an ebook be the same price to cover advertisement, the author, the editing, and all the background stuff that goes into getting a book to market.....

Sooooo, i have no clue if i'm making any sense and I was honestly just curious about your take on this whole thing as a professional writer...

Re: Random Question from out of Left Field

[keiramarcos]

Traditional publishing houses give the author as little as they can contractually get away with. Independent publishers tend to pay more BUT their market share is smaller.

Price gauging is a problem with New York houses and while I don't think eBooks should be priced very low they have no business being priced at the same rate as a hardcover. The overhead is much, much lower on the production of an ebook.

That being said, even traditional houses pay the author more for eBooks than for print so buy electronic first and foremost if you have a choice.