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116: 1184: 1170: 1148: 217:, a company that claims not to be a vanity publisher but a "traditional publisher" that accepts or rejects books based on their quality. Macdonald organized a group of professional authors to test whether that company was actually reading any submissions for clarity and realism before accepting them. One day after Macdonald issued a press release announcing that PublishAmerica had accepted a manuscript that was created to be as bad as possible, the company withdrew the offer to publish it. 31: 178:
Macdonald is well known for his work in educating aspiring authors, particularly for his advice on avoiding literary scams. Early in his career he was asked by such an author how much he had paid to have his books published, and in response began a campaign of educating other writers about the
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was awarded the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature, 1992, and named to the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age list in 1993. In 1997, he was awarded Best Young-Adult Science Fiction by the
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for fifteen years. He has been writing professionally since the early 1990s and has published 35 novels.
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novel series originally published in the 1990s and re-issued as e-books in 2012.
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Robyn Tallis, Nicholas Adams, Victor Appleton, Douglas Morgan, Martin Delrio
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and also collected in Mike Resnick's alternate history anthology
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when giving advice on finding an agent and getting published.
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Under joint pseudonym "Martin Delrio", with Debra Doyle
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This bibliography is based on Macdonald's entry on the
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As part of this campaign, he coined 1216: 1023: 997:Nielsen Hayden, Teresa (1 July 2003). 981: 975: 394:Harcourt, Brace (New York, NY), 1996. 381:Harcourt, Brace (New York, NY), 1992. 244: 1202:- collective author of Atlanta Nights 1180:Internet Speculative Fiction Database 957:Internet Speculative Fiction Database 433:What Do You Do with a Drunken Sailor? 251:Internet Speculative Fiction Database 1059:. Mythopoeic Society. 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Jim Macdonald and Debra Doyle at Readercon
White Plains, New York
fantasy
science fiction
mystery
madhousemanor.com

Boskone
Dr. Debra Doyle
fantasy
science fiction
mystery
tie-ins
White Plains, New York
University of Rochester
US Navy
vanity publishers
Yog-Sothoth
John Scalzi
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Atlanta Nights
PublishAmerica
Science Fiction Chronicle
Groogleman
Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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