Free (DRM-free) Ways to Trash Your Writing Career [Humorous SFnal Author Advice]

[ATDrake]

Ways to Trash Your Writing Career: The Wisdom of Book View Café edited by Phyllis Irene Radford (ISFDB) is a humorous "learn how to do it by learning how not to do it" professional advice guide for aspiring authors, collected from topical blogposts by the members of the Book View Café backlist author re-publishing consortium, free courtesy of the BVC itself.

This contains contributions from many trad-published sf/fantasy professionals whose books you may well have read, such as multiple Nebula & Hugo Award-winner Vonda N. McIntyre (ISFDB, Wikipedia), World Fantasy Award-nominated Judith Tarr (ISFDB, Wikipedia; one of my favourites for well-researched historical fantasy), popular YA fantasy author Sherwood Smith (ISFDB, Wikipedia), fellow MR member author Sue Lange (ISFDB), and more.

NB: the advice given is not primarily oriented to the speculative fiction genre.

Currently free for a limited time (possibly expiring Real Soon Now, as I think this may have been one of their lingering monthly specials from July) directly @ the Book View Café website (DRM-free choice of ePub, Mobi, & PDF available in exchange for your email, shipping address & phone number information, which their system checkout requires even for freebies, although the latter don't necessarily have to be accurate if you're paranoid).

Description
With a dash of humor, Book View Café presents a review of the surest and fastest ways to bring your writing career to a screeching halt.

Learn how to Never Submit, Cop a ’Tude, Ignore Deadlines, Gossip, and much more!

Wisdom from BVC bloggers:

Brenda W. Clough, Laura Anne Gilman, Sue Lange, Nancy Jane Moore, Phyllis Irene Radford, Madeleine E. Robins, Deborah J. Ross, Sherwood Smith, Judith Tarr

[ATDrake]

At some point (probably during the regular monthly specials rotation) this became a repeat freebie (probably just until after the weekend), in case you happened to miss it earlier.

[GtrsRGr8]

Grabbed it. Thanks.

Somehow I managed to get the book without surrendering my email address, shipping address, or phone number information. I just put the ebook (actually, all three, because I got all of the formats) in the shopping cart, clicked on a button, and bada bing bada boom!, the books were ready to download.