STARVE BETTER

ISBN: 9780984553587 Géneros: VSPT:CBV:0 Sinópsis: Starve Better makes no promises of making you a bestselling author It wont feed aspiring writers dreams of fame and fortune This book is about survival how to generate ideas when you needed them yesterday dialogue and plot on the quick and what your manuscript is up against in the slush piles of the world For nonfiction writers Starve Better offers writing techniques such as how to get relatively highpaying assignments in second and thirdtier magazines how to react to your first commissioned assignment and how to find gigs that pay NOW as the final notices pile up and the mice eat the last of the pasta in the cupboard Humor essays and some of the most widely read blog pieces from Nick Mamatas author and editor of fiction that has caught the attention of speculative fictions most prestigious awards come together for the first time in a writers guide that wont teach anyone how to get rich and famous but will impart the most valuable skill in the business how to starve better Blurb Mamatas offers up a nononsense guide that should be required reading for all writers Prepare to have some illusions shattered because you need them shattered A great resource from a guy with the experience to back up the advice Jeff VanderMeer author of City of Saints and Madmen and Finch About the Author Nick Mamatas is the author of three and a half novels over seventy short stories and hundreds of feature articles and is also an editor and anthologist His fiction has been nominated for the Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild awards and translated into German Italian and Greek his editorial work with Clarkesworld earned the magazine World Fantasy and Hugo award nominations Nicks reportage short stories and essays have appeared in venues such as Razor Asimovs Science Fiction Silicon Alley Reporter the Village Voice The Smart Set The Writer Poets Writers and anthologies including Supernatural Noir and Lovecraft Un