Stackpole Talks Digital Publishing
You’re probably familiar with Michael Stackpole due to his many BattleTech novels and the popular X-Wing series of Star Wars novels. He’s the rare writer who made the jump from working on role-playing games to a career as a successful novelist. He had some interesting things to say about the new role digital publishing will play for today’s authors during a seminar at Origins last week: embrace it or get left behind.
You can read the full report on Stackpole’s seminar, “Writing in the post-paper era,” over at io9.com. While he was primarily speaking in terms of authors publishing works of prose fiction, all of what he said he be equally applied to game publishing. In light of recent controversies regarding the digital publication of games, his comments seem especially relevant.
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July 6th, 2009 6:27 PM
This guy got me reading Battletech books. Well, Technically it was years of Mechwarrior and being stuck in some tiny town when I ran out of books on a roadtrip. He kept me reading Battletech and also got me to read Star Wars for the first time in years. I like this man.
July 7th, 2009 12:24 PM
One of his BattleTech books was my first books into that series as well. One of my favorite authors over the years.
July 8th, 2009 5:28 PM
I bought Warrior: Riposte at a bookstore in the middle of nowhere. I read it three times on that trip then spent the next four years trying to find the other five books. I just got the last one in spring. Pity the truce can’t last.