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" Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site. "
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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" In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue - I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper. "
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
My Own
Own
Myself
" The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text. "
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Small
Search
Find
" As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote specific projects I'm involved with, for reasons that probably don't need a lot of explanation. "
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Science
Need
Manager
" Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having a moderately popular blog. Most books sell 5, 10, or 15 thousand copies. Most are midlist books. With those people, even a modest online presence can make a difference in sales. "
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Sales
Down
Make A Difference
" I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction. "
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Blog
People
Google
" I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around. "
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Old
Family
Adventure
" There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts. "
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Phone
Experience
Phone Call
" Tor.com has been a venue for original SF and fantasy since 2008, but we've never formalized our process for submissions. Indeed, for a long time, we were totally winging it. "
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Fantasy
Long
Process
" Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against the success in said market of some product of which they disapprove. "
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Success
Always
Quick