There has been a lot of discussion both in the blogsphere and here about giving away book content in pursuit of a book contract and/or publicity. There are a couple successful examples of books published first online, with John Scalzi being one of the most well-known. He posted his first two novels Old Man’s War [...] Read more »

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Zooty & Flapper, a “pre-publishing site” that several sites, including Storycrafters and Writers Beware, warned authors off of as it took away a writer’s first publishing rights for very little payoff. The proprietor of said Z&F site, Mr. Pappalardo, who apparently is tracking down and commenting on [...] Read more »