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    Best Selling Fiction Authors Sign On to New Publishing Project Assisting Newer Authors

    PRWeb – Tue, Jul 19, 2011

    Fiction editor Mike Resnick and publishing house Phoenix Pick are teaming up with best selling science fiction and fantasy authors like Kevin J. Anderson and Mercedes Lackey to create a unique program to help newer authors showcase their talents.

    Rockville, MD (PRWEB) July 19, 2011

    Fiction authors Kevin J. Anderson and Mercedes Lackey, featured on the New York Times best selling list, have signed on to participate in a unique project being put together by Phoenix Pick, the science fiction and fantasy imprint of Arc Manor Publishers. Mike Resnick (winner of over 51 awards, including five Hugos) is the editor of this series called The Stellar Guild.

    The Phoenix Pick program pairs a veteran author with a newer writer, each contributing a story for a single, stand-alone edition within the series. Each of the two stories may be set in the same universe, or complement the other in some other manner.

    This project offers less-established authors a new venue to sell their stories and also provides them with an exceptional opportunity to have their work introduced to science fiction and fantasy fans by current masters in the field.

    It allows veteran authors the opportunity to provide newer authors of their own choosing a distinctive platform to launch or re-ignite their careers.

    Mike Resnick, the series editor, is considered one of the most distinguished writers and editors in the genre. He has been nominated for a record 35 Hugo awards and has won the award five times. He is first on Locus magazine’s list of all-time award winners, living or dead, for short fiction, and fourth on the magazine’s list of science fiction's all-time top award winners in all fiction categories.

    Kevin J. Anderson has penned over a hundred novels, 48 of which have become bestsellers; he has more than 23 million copies of his works in print. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Saga of Seven Suns series and has teamed with Brian Herbert (son of Frank Herbert) to write 13 books set in the Dune universe.

    Mercedes Lackey is a New York Times best selling author with over 80 books in print. She is well known for creating complex multi-cultural worlds inhabited by human and non-human characters. Her acclaimed and best selling series of books related to the Valdemar saga takes place in the intricately woven world of Velgarth. To date there are 27 novels and six anthologies set in this world, and many of these books have become New York Times bestsellers.

    All books issued under the Stellar Guild series will be available as trade paperbacks and ebooks.

    About Phoenix Pick

    Phoenix Pick, http://www.phoenixpick.com/, the science fiction and fantasy imprint of Arc Manor Publishers is a prominent publisher of some of the most respected names in the genre, including L. Sprague de Camp, Daniel F. Galouye, A. A. Attanasio, Christopher Stasheff, Mike Resnick and Alexei Panshin. A forthcoming anthology (Bug Eyed Monsters and Bimbos) includes parodies of science fiction by such masters as Isaac Asmiov, Arthur C. Clarke and Poul Anderson.

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    Shahid Mahmud
    Phoenix Pick
    (240) 645-2214
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    10 comments

    • David Edwards
      David Edwards  •  8 mths ago
      in fact all best selling authors should twitter it. Or facebook it. #no.1 best selling fiction the ebb and flow by David Edwards
    • David Edwards
      David Edwards  •  8 mths ago
      a worthwhile cause - #no.1 best selling fiction the ebb and flow by David Edwards
    • David Edwards
      David Edwards  •  9 mths ago
      Libya – freedom or internal strife? Good v Evil? Who chooses? ? #no.1 bestselling fiction the ebb and flow by David Edwards.
    • David Edwards
      David Edwards  •  9 mths ago
      Libya – freedom or internal strife? Good v Evil? Who chooses? #no.1 bestselling fiction the ebb and flow by David Edwards.
    • Bart
      Bart  •  10 mths ago
      There is nothing, bar nothing, tougher to break into than fiction writing. Movies and the NFL would be a cake walk by comparison. The supply and demand equation is out of balance. It's all supply and no demand. Every third guy on the street is peddling a book manuscript, but readership in this country sinks a little lower every year. This Phoenix Picks thing is a nice idea, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to the immensity of the problem. Everybody is hoping that e-books will help, as it supposedly gives a better percentage of the proceeds to the author while making the book actually cheaper for the consumer. The ultimate answer is going to come down to INCREASING READERSHIP, especially among men. Lose the notion that it's sissified to read a book. And women could stand to read something a little deeper than the fluff stuff that typically makes up their section.
      • A Yahoo! User 10 mths ago
        Couldn't agree more.
    • leo Marquez
      leo Marquez  •  10 mths ago
      This is a bold and exciting project because anyone who writes or aspires to write knows how hard it is to "make it" in the fiction writing world--for that matter the writing world period.
    • MERRY WIDOW
      MERRY WIDOW  •  10 mths ago
      Thrilling! I love it!
    • Walter
      Walter  •  10 mths ago
      Great idea, I look forward to reading some of these books. I wish I had time to write some, but I am sure I will enjoy the results of this project.
    • detroit
      detroit  •  10 mths ago
      thats a great idea. i do have a few questins. for instance. i work full time. so what kinds of dead lines would be involed? also, my lap top is getting slower so do they take notes scribbled in notebooks? are their editors. ?is there a fee to participate? etc.
    • Anthony Edwards
      Anthony Edwards  •  10 mths ago
      Man I'd love to write with either author. I'd better break out my writing material again!
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