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A New Definition of Writing Success
More on the “ebook apocalypse” front, and the self-publishing revolution, this time from writer James Scott Bell. Here’s a bit (link at the bottom): We all know the traditional model is shrinking....
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ANNOUNCEMENT: The Return of Doc Wilde!!!
In a young adult book market crowded with the depressing and the dour, Tim Byrd’s Doc Wilde swings in on a jungle vine to raise the flag high for adventure. Infused with pace, fun, and all the...
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Small Bookstores and the Ebook Apocalypse
When both the big bookstores in her community folded, author Ann Patchett stepped forward and opened her own small bookstore. In a very charming appearance on The Colbert Report, Patchett offers proof...
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How A Writer Can Easily Make His Own Book Covers
Lately I’ve been trumpeting what I call the “Ebook Apocalypse” and detailing why I think it’s great for readers, writers, even bookstores…basically everybody but big publishers (though they have it...
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ANNOUNCEMENT: The Third Doc Wilde Adventure Will Be…
In my post about this year’s Doc Wilde relaunch, I told you that Doc Wilde and The Frogs of Doom would be re-released in its deluxe improved edition in June, Doc Wilde and The Mad Skull would follow in...
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Are Big Publishers Doing Their Jobs?
Writer Jami Gold has a provocative post on her blog about the fact that big publishers, often seen as the “gatekeepers” of literary quality, are more and more willing to allow books to appear under...
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Crazy Restaurateurs And The Writing Life
You’ve probably heard about, or seen, the batshit crazy Arizona couple who went on Gordon Ramsay’s show Kitchen Nightmares and were so relentlessly, hopelessly, stupidly terrible, both as...
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Writers Who Kill Kittens
Don’t lets the mean writer killz me… So, I’m reading a discussion about how we should or shouldn’t let a writer’s politics affect our enjoyment of their fiction, and I see this: “I don’t give the yuck...
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GREED: The Fine Art of Sticking It To Your Readers
As a writer, there is nothing more sacred to me than the connection between the teller of tales and those he tells them to. I write because I want to be read, and read by as many people as possible....
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