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Jeff VanderMeer has been involved in the publishing industry from almost all perspectives for twenty-five years as a fiction writer, book reviewer, editor, publisher, publicist, teacher, and creative consultant. In that span, he has had novels published in fifteen languages, won multiple awards, and made the best-of-year lists of Publishers Weekly, the San Francisco Chronicle, the LA Weekly, and many others. His award-winning short fiction has been featured on Wired.com and Tor.com, as well as in Conjunctions, Black Clock, and American Fantastic Tales (Library of America). His nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, the Barnes and Noble Review, the Huffington Post, and hundreds of others. In addition, he has edited or co-edited more than a dozen influential fiction anthologies for, among others, Bantam and Pan Macmillan. VanderMeer's work has been adapted into short films for Playstation Europe and videos featuring music by The Church. He is a frequent guest speaker at conferences around the world.
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Also by Jeff VanderMeer
The Third Bear
By Ann and Jeff Vandermeer, authors
The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals
By Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, editors
The New Weird
Steampunk
Trade paperback / 326 pp. / 6 x 9 / October 2009 / 978-1-892391-90-2
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"Jeff VanderMeer has written a fascinating book on managing a writing career.... Recommended for anyone who writes, wants to write, or has written and now wonders what to do next."
-Tor.com "If you're at all interested in writing, especially an eventual career in writing (which nowadays requires considerable skill in self-management and strategic use of promotional tools), Booklife should be on your bookshelf." -Brad Moon, Wired's Geek Dad "Booklife is an ambitious and successful attempt at a comprehensive guide to maintaining your sanity while chasing your dreams." -Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing "Many books tell us how to write, but Jeff VanderMeer's Booklife tells us how to be an author....VanderMeer made me think, question my own path, and make plans for a more focused move forward." -Mur Lafferty, host and creator of the podcasts Geek Fu Action Grip and I Should Be Writing "Who better than VanderMeer, master of the blogosphere and online innovator, to guide us through the burgeoning, oft breathtaking realm of new media....Jeff helps you hunt down the vast advantages provided by social networks, blogs, podcasts, and the like. And the best part is the silly pith helmet is optional. If you're a writer who knows how to use a computer, then this book is for you." -Joseph Mallozzi, Executive Producer, Stargate SG-1 "Jeff VanderMeer's Booklife is a frank, revealing, riveting manual by a writer for writers, not simply on how to be a better wordsmith, but on how to be a better human being. I'll be recommending it to all my writing students. I don't know how to praise a book more sincerely than that." -Minister Faust, the BRO-Log "VanderMeer has struck a new sort of balance with the Internet: charming his dedicated fan base on the web, creating multimedia promotional tools for his books, and actively seeking out new readers like me in the digital crowds. One of my favorite writers." -The Publishing Spot "Jeff VanderMeer has written a smart practical jungle-guidebook for the wilds of 21st-century publishing - its incredible pressures, joys, poisons, and, most importantly, the dangers of a false sense of control....Floaty creative types - prepare to be taken to task." -Julianna Baggott, author of Girl Talk "Booklife serves as a much-needed corrective to the sad 'market your book like a carnival huckster' approach too often found in books of advice for writers these days. Instead, it challenges you to treat the long view of your career with reverence, to write AND market with honesty, and to commit yourself to the literary culture (whether in genre fiction or beyond) in which you hope to exist. The book is savvy about Web 2.0 marketing and the way that the book business and freelancers need to understand all things in the trade as well as online, true - and that may very well be its selling point as a "survival guide" - but even more, it's a testimony to the commitment that Vandermeer has to what he has been doing for over twenty years as an author: writing with conviction and refusing to dumb down for the sake of the lowest common denominator that sometimes, unfortunately, drives the mass market. No matter what genre you write for, if you are a freelance writer who is in it for the long haul - rather than putting all your eggs into a one-book-wonder-basket - then this book belongs on your shelf, nestled between Bruce Holland Rogers' Word Work and David Morrell's Lessons in a Lifetime of Writing. And make sure that shelf is an arm's length away from your keyboard. For life." -Michael A. Arnzen, http://www.gorelets.com "Booklife is to authors in today's publishing climate what Writer's Market was fifteen years ago: essential. A well-organized, lucid guide to social networking, blogging, and the art of being an author in the age of Twitter. Jeff VanderMeer's advice on maintaining one's focus in an era of unfettered public access to the artist's private life comes from his own hard-won experience; he's been a writer at-home-on-the-web since before most of us had websites. With excellent additions by Matt Staggs and others, Booklife is a worthwhile addition to any writer's bookshelf." -Michelle Richmond, NYT Bestselling author of The Year of Fog "Jeff VanderMeer is everywhere. He's in your house, frightening your cat. He's on your lawn, and even John McCain can't get him to leave. He's applying the poisonous glands of his tongue to the paint of your vintage Chevy. He's scaling the side of the New York Times building (they'll arrest them when he comes down, but he'll never come down!). He's engorged in the Grand Canyon, entombed in Grant's Tomb, and impaled on the Space Needle. He's in the middle of the world's largest ball of twine. He's a roving mercenary who kills to earn his living (and to help out the Congolese). He put the bang in Bangkok and the joy in New Joysey. John Waters wanted to make a film about him, but was too disgusted. Harriet Klausner has never had anything good to say about him. Osama bin Laden considered endorsing him, but said even he didn't hate Western culture that much. And now you're taking him home with you." -Matthew Cheney, the Mumpsimus "Excellent advice on building a sustainable writing career." -Sacramento Book Review |
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