January: Mohanraj and Rosenbaum are Humans podcast launch February: re-release of Torn Shapes of Desire: Internet Erotica, digital edition, Serendib Press, just in time for Valentine’s Day. My first book, coming back — blast from the past. June 1: Vegan Serendib, woot! Fall (or maybe August, so we can have it out in time for […]
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And while we’re talking about book projects and presses, I’ll note here that I’m planning to publish an anthology of Sri Lankan speculative fiction in 2021. I haven’t put together a call yet, and there are fair number of details to be worked out, but I’m excited to bring together homeland and diaspora authors in
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I woke up thinking about how goofy it was to be pushing so hard to get out Vegan Serendib for Christmas. I mean, yes, we COULD do it, and Christmas sales are significant. But it would be very hard, and not done well in terms of promotion. I ended up sending this message to the
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“Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. “Writer, professor, and Strange Horizons founder Mary Anne Mohanraj chats with Gary about…” Episode 523: Ten Minutes with Mary Anne Mohanraj
And this piece appeared in the Corvallis Gazette Times (Corvallis, Oregon): Sri Lankan food offers strong flavors Mary Anne Mohanraj missed a lot of things when she went off to college, but the thing she was most homesick for was her mother’s cooking. When her parents immigrated to Connecticut from Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 1973,
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I’m finding myself totally curious about how newspaper articles work, because Gretchen McKay’s terrific piece on A Feast of Serendib has made its way from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to Sri Lanka’s Daily News! Would she have pitched them this piece? Do newspapers keep an eye out for pieces of interest and then buy reprint rights?
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It’s definitely more efficient to have distributors getting books into stores, to have people ordering from their local indie bookstores, from Amazon, etc. The bulk of my book sales should come from there, hopefully! But there is something very satisfying about getting up in the morning, signing a book, sticking in a postcard or two,
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I don’t think I mentioned that Serendib Press / Home / Garden / Travel / ETC. hired a bookkeeper and an accountant this week, which feels like a little milestone. Should I have done this years ago? Yes, yes, I should’ve. Ah well, onwards.
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Finished a revision of the opening to the big novel. (I’m thinking of it as the little novel and the big novel, but it’ll be nice when I actually finish the little novel and send it out, so I can just refer to the novel instead of big novel, but anyway.) I wouldn’t prioritize that
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SALE! It turns out that Amazon will sometimes do discounts on books, which doesn’t affect how much I make (as the amount they pay the distributor doesn’t change), and right now, Feast is discounted from $40 down to $26.49 on their site, which I have to tell you, is a heck of a bargain. We’re
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