Thank You

I am in Ronald Reagan airport on my way home from the Nebula Awards Weekend festivities. While my story "The Old Equations" did not win the award for best novelette, I am so incredibly grateful for having been nominated. It is nearly inconceivable to me that my name was spoken on stage as a...

Jake Kerr

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Writing Update

Last month I queried editor John Joseph Adams about a story for his Armored anthology, scheduled for 2012 release by Baen Books. He told me he’d be glad to read a submission from me, so I sent him a story entitled “The Perimeter.” Submissions close on May 15, so I doubt I’ll get a response for a few more weeks at the earliest. Fantasy Magazine opened for submissions on May 1, and I’ve been wanting to write a fantasy story …

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Ebook Pricing & Competition

Recently there has been quite a bit of discussion about ebook pricing. You can generally break the argument down into one of two camps: Those that feel free or low-cost ebooks are a valuable marketing tool, and those that feel a 99 cent ebook tarnishes the overall value of books and should be avoided. What I wanted to do was work from the assumption that a low ebook price is a valuable marketing tool, one that promotes sampling and the …

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