Publish Like a Motherfucker Course 7: You Got a Bloody Right

Hey, everybody!  And a Happy Soon-To-Be-New Year!

I'm delighted to bring you a seventh installment of "Publish Like a Motherfucker (With Stephen Kozeniewski)," and our second with a special guest!

I'm pleased to welcome Splatterpunk Award-winning author Wesley Southard!  Wes's new book CRUEL SUMMER will be coming out in ebook and trade paperback.  Since he's already sold his Italian language and limited edition hardcover rights, I thought this might be a good opportunity to talk about all the different ways you can make money off a single manuscript. 

Stop by my business page next Wednesday, January 6, at 8:00 pm EST.  We will, of course, record it for posterity, but if you have questions, you'll want to be there live to participate.  And, as always, if you're interested in future PLAM courses, let me know in the comments below, on social media, or during the course.

Course 7:  You Got a Bloody Right

Date:  Wednesday, January 6

Time:  8:00 pm EST

Syllabus:  You finally got a book published!  Now that cash cow is milked, right?  Well, not quite.  Along with special guest Wesley Southard I'll be discussing:

- how worried about rights should I be when signing a publishing contract?

- what are all the different kinds of subsidiary rights?  which ones should I be paying for and which ones should I be paid for?
- should I be doing all this myself?  isn't this what you pay an agent for?

2020 This is Horror Award Nominations

Hey, everybody!

2020 is almost (thankfully) over.  Around bookworld that means it is awards season.  I've been reflecting on my year, which has been a bit less productive than the last seven, but I blame that largely on a pandemic-shaped hole in the middle.  Still, I had a few works come out that are eligible for awards.

If you're so inclined (please don't feel obligated), you can nominate my works listed below for the 2020 This is Horror Awards.  You can do so by e-mailing awards@thisishorror.co.uk with the subject line "This is Horror Award Nominations 2020."  This year they're also accepting a one-sentence explanation of why the work is worthy of nomination.  More rules and information can be found here.

So, without further ado, here are my eligible works for 2019:

Novel of the Year

THE PERFECTLY FINE HOUSE

Anthology of the Year

BREWTALITY

Cover Art of the Year

THE PERFECTLY FINE HOUSE by Don Noble

Other recommendations:

Since you can nominate two works in each category, and some categories I'm not even eligible in, here are some of my recommendations:

Novel of the Year 

    THE MAGPIE COFFIN by Wile E. Young

    THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS by Stephen Graham Jones

    THE RAVEN by Jonathan Janz

Novella of the Year

    SLAVES TO GRAVITY by Wesley Southard and Somer Canon

    THE DEMON IN THE GLASS by Matt Wildasin

Short Story Collection of the Year

Anthology of the Year

    ONE OF US: A TRIBUTE TO FRANK MICHAELS ERRINGTON

    MIDNIGHT IN THE PENTAGRAM

    UNDER HER BLACK WINGS

Fiction Magazine of the Year 

    "Unnerving"

    

Publisher of the Year

    Grindhouse Press

    The Evil Cookie Publishing

    Dunwich Edizioni

Fiction Podcast of the Year

Nonfiction Podcast of the Year

    "The Horror Show With Brian Keene" 

    "The Ghost Writers Podcast"

Cover Art of the Year

Publish Like a Motherfucker Rides Again (Redirect)

ICYMI...

Head on over to the group blog and check out my latest impromptu "Publish Like a Motherfucker" session.  Or just check it out below.  Either way, enjoy the fuck out of it.

Publish Like a Motherfucker Course 6: So, in Review...

"Publish Like a Motherfucker (with Stephen Kozeniewski)" 

Course 6: So, in Review... 

Originally Recorded: Monday, December 7, 9:45 pm EST 

Syllabus: For some reason, everyone's talking about book reviews today. Something must have happened on Twitter. But as long as it's in the air, in this unscheduled, impromptu course I discussed: 

- what do book reviews do for you as a writer or a reader? 

- what does the book reviewer owe the author and vice versa? (hint: the answer is nothing.) 

- should you always, never, or sometimes read the reviews? 

More information on PLAM and links to previous episodes can be found here.

For the video that inspired this one, thank booktuber Gloria McNeely.