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 target of his campaign is PublishAmerica, a company that claims not to be a vanity publisher but a "traditional publisher" that accepts or rejects books based on their quality. It is often quoted by professional authors such as John Scalzi and Teresa Nielsen Hayden when giving advice on finding an agent and getting published.Ītlanta Nights and PublishAmerica As part of this campaign, he coined Yog's Law, which states "Money should flow toward the author." This rule is named after "Yog Sysop", a nickname of Macdonald that refers to Yog-Sothoth. 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 problems of vanity publishers. Macdonald is well known for his work in educating aspiring authors, particularly for his advice on avoiding literary scams. He has been writing professionally since the early 1990s and has published 35 novels. He attended the University of Rochester, and went on to serve in the US Navy for fifteen years. Macdonald was born in 1954, and raised in White Plains, New York. He works in several genres, concentrating on fantasy, but also writing science fiction, and mystery and media tie-ins. He frequently collaborated with his late wife Dr. James Douglas Ignatius Macdonald (born 1954) is an American author and critic who lives in New Hampshire. Robyn Tallis, Nicholas Adams, Victor Appleton, Douglas Morgan, Martin Delrio Jim Macdonald and Debra Doyle at Readercon
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