Chris Jackson

2011 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards

June 27, 2011

This weekend at the ALA Conference in New Orleans, ForeWord Magazine announced the winners of the 2010 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards. I’m extremely proud to have edited the following 2010 ForeWord winners. Check them out if you haven’t… Gold Medal, Horror Toothless by J. P. Moore (Dragon Moon Press) Gold Medal, Fantasy Scimitar [...]

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Round-up

April 19, 2010

It’s been a busy couple of weeks! I went to Ad Astra and had a wonderful time! I staffed a Dragon Moon Press table with Erik Buchanan and Chris Jackson – a couple of really great people. I spoke on four panels, we had a very successful launch (click for pictures) for Erik’s new book [...]

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Relevant Credits vs TMI in Queries

March 25, 2010

If I’m an unpublished author and I don’t have any relevant credits, what should I put in that paragraph in the query where authors list their previous publications and qualifications? I covered this a while ago in my post on query letters, but it’s come up again recently and I thought I’d give it its [...]

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Ad Astra 2010 – Schedule

March 15, 2010

Ad Astra is going to keep my on my toes this year! I’m especially thrilled to see other people interested in speaking on the verbal/written dichotomy. Working with the novels of so many podcasters, it’s become a strong interest of mine. I note that Dragon Moon Press dominates the “working with a small press” panel [...]

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Author Sightings

August 24, 2009

I’m listening to Michell Plested’s podcast interview with Dave Sakmyster over on Get Published. Dave’s new book SILVER AND GOLD was a pleasure to work on, and it was recently released by Dragon Moon Press. I’m flattered by the mention I receive in the interview — completely unsolicited, I promise! At around 29:15: Dave Sakmyster: [...]

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