Contacting Reviewers: A Few Rules of Engagement « Kim Rendfeld. As a published author, I am very thankful for book bloggers. Not only have these unpaid reviewers given The Cross and the Dragon their endorsements, they have also exposed it to new audiences. So far, The Cross and the Dragon has been the subject of 13 reviews and interviews on the blogosphere, and it’s not done yet. I will continue to reach out to reviewers in the months ahead. In the hopes of being helpful to both authors and reviewers, I’d like to share a few tips for authors, especially those who published with a small press or self-published. Much of this comes from my experience as a journalist, when I was on the receiving end of a pitch for free publicity. Rule No. 1: Be Nice Remember that you are asking someone for a favor. Many reviewers are writing their blogs on their own time, while they maintain a full-time job, fulfill family obligations, have other responsibilities, or a combination of all of the above, just like you.
Rule No. 2: Read the Review Policy Rule No. 7: Be Flexible.
Agents. Editors/Editing. Forge Books Announces DRM-Free E-book Store. Click to Enlarge. On April 24, 2012, Tom Doherty Associates, publishers of Tor Books and Forge Books, announced that beginning in July, all of its e-books would be sold free of DRM. Now Tom Doherty Associates is pleased to announce the impending debut of the Tor/Forge DRM-Free E-book Store, which will sell all Tor, Forge, Starscape, Tor Teen, and Orb e-book titles directly to readers—along with, eventually, offerings from other publishers as well.
“This isn’t in lieu of the existing online retailers, but in addition to them,” said publisher Tom Doherty. “We think there’s room for all kinds of retail models in the growing e-book field—and we aim in particular to provide a rich, informative browsing experience to fans and devotees of the kinds of books Tor and Forge have made their reputations publishing.” Hosted at www.tor.com, the Tor/Forge DRM-Free E-book Store will open in the summer of 2012. About Tor and Forge Books. Is America Philosophical? - The Chronicle Review. By Carlin Romano America the Philosophical?
It sounds like Canada the Exhibitionist or France the Unassuming: a mental miscue, a delusional academic tic. Everyone knows that Americans don't take philosophy seriously, don't pay any attention to it, and couldn't name a contemporary academic philosopher if their passports depended on it. As historian Richard Hofstadter dryly observed in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1963), ''In the United States the play of the mind is perhaps the only form of play that is not looked upon with the most tender indulgence.'' But if the title phenomenon of Hofstadter's classic indeed boasts ''a long, historical background,'' the peculiar attitude directed at philosophy in America is more quizzical than hostile, closer to good-humored wariness than contempt.
Philosophy doesn't threaten or bother the practical on-the-go American. Socrates Confucius Does America take philosophy seriously? Even Tocqueville, however, nodded.
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