m. c. de marco

It’s time for me to plunge into the guts of the website and resurrect the To Appear block, for my upcoming story “Sympathy from the Devil,” to appear in Paramourtal, a paranormal romance anthology coming out this summer from Cliffhanger Books. Check out their website for more details…

Via io9: Publisher’s Weekly discusses the runaway success of paranormal romance in “When Love Is Strange”.

Paranormal romance—like romance in general—is doing extremely well during a period when the economic meltdown has exiled much of publishing to severe doldrums. “What’s going on in the world now has an impact. With wars and the economy, romance is fantasy—these books are the ultimate escape,” says Tsang from Avon.

Via a mailing list: an article about Twilight in the LA Times Movies section tells how Stephenie Meyer became a bestseller through “a brilliant and strategic use of the Web.”

The Fix has an epilogue to “The End of Science Fiction” by Nader Elhefnawy, in which he makes some interesting connections between economics and scientific progress (the mother of science fictional content):

The “end of science” to which I referred is connected with this, certainly at its technological end. As economist Joseph Schumpeter (one of the earliest proponents of the long cycle theory) wrote, “an apparent absence of novel propositions of the first magnitude [is] part of the familiar pattern of any depression.”