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“After a prolific and esteemed career, Sir Arthur has passed away in Sri Lanka.”
Clarke’s books were the first real SF I read. It was Tom Swift > James Bond > Arthur Clarke.
This is a sad day for our genre, but who knows … if there an “other side” to this existence, he is now on his most adventurous odyssey.
- Jerry 
I stumbled upon this and thought it was a new form of vanity press. Well, it is, and it isn’t.
This is a rather gray area market which is seeking previously published works of fiction (up to 50,000 words). Your work has to be accepted, and when it is, it goes into the digital equivalent of a big pile at the center of the website.
Readers then comb through the stories, figure out which ones look interesting, and add them to their custom built anthology. When their anthology is full, the reader picks a pretty picture for the cover, ads a title, forks over $14.95 and a freshly minted copy of the book is POD’ed and sent directly to them through the mail.
If they choose one of your stories (or one of your covers, for you artists out there) your account gets credited a set royalty for the sale.
I have my doubts about the ultimate viability of this business model, but you never know. It could be the next big thing.
Did I submit any of my previously published stories to AnthologyBuilder.com? No, I did not. Legit or not it still smells of vanity press to me.
Back in March of last year, I had signed on to my dream job, or at least what I thought was my dream job: Full Time Writer
But now I have my uber-dream job: Digital Marketing Specialist.
Now it’s back to most of my writing being for my own projects. What I’m doing professionally, now, is being a sort of hands-on project manager for several large important corporate websites.
I love creating websites, as you can no doubt tell from my large collection of them.
And now I won’t be burning up all my writing fuel cells at work, which means more writing on these blogs again, and more time spent on my novel.
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