Being a novelist is rarely a good career move. For every writer making millions from bestselling books and film deals, there are thousands making much, much less, and even more making nothing at all. The list of professions with better earning potential is astoundingly long, which may be why one approach to launching a career as a novelist is to have […]
Becoming famous in any field generally opens up new opportunities—it’s like hitting the Easy Button on your artistic dreams. A lot of actors seem to harbor the desire to become published authors, possibly because looking pretty on camera doesn’t necessarily bestow respect, especially when your clever bon mots are all written by someone else. While we might argue […]
For over a decade, Jim Killen has served as the science fiction and fantasy book buyer for Barnes & Noble. Every month on the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog and Tor.com, Jim shares his curated list of the month’s can’t-miss new SF/F releases.
This week’s new releases bring us a long-awaited podcast-turned-novel, books by both an SF Grandmaster and a famous genre actor, and more…
For over a decade, Jim Killen has served as the science fiction and fantasy book buyer for Barnes & Noble. At the end of each month, he’ll be sharing the lists of B&N’s bestsellers in the genre, from new hardbacks, to trade paperbacks, to mass markets and media tie-ins, to graphic novels and manga. These are the […]