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Line Burners

December 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments

You’ve probably encountered references to NaNoWriMo here, at least in the comments — the so-called “(Inter)National Novel Writing Month” of November. This project encourages people who want to write fiction to, well, do it; everyone who signs up agrees to try writing a complete 50,000-word novel over the course of the thirty days.
(There’s no penalty [...]

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Tags: E-Books, E-Reading, E-Publishing · Running After My Hat · Short Fiction · Style and Craft · The Online World · Writing

“Can I Kindleize that Velveteen Rabbit For Ya?”

December 2nd, 2008 · 9 Comments

Like most writing and reading households, The Missus and mine has books way in excess of the available bookshelf space. We’ve lived in this house for more than eight years now, yet still — still! — somewhere around six or eight cartons and big plastic tubs of books take up space in our (mercifully dry) [...]

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Tags: Books as Books · E-Books, E-Reading, E-Publishing · In the News · Ruminations · Tech · The Business · The Internet

Publisher Seeking Authors: The New Frontier

September 14th, 2008 · 4 Comments

At the Dennis Cass Wants You to Be More Awesome site, in a thread about dispensing with the whole query-an-editor/agent process, member Paul Mikos pointed me to an experiment by publisher HarperCollins UK.
The experiment goes by the name “authonomy” (a cute neologism I’m still trying to make up my mind about). From the authonomy page [...]

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Tags: E-Books, E-Reading, E-Publishing · Reading · The Business · The Online World · Writing

Love and Laughter

July 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Yesterday I went into a soapbox-lecture rant, shall we say? (yes, let’s — rants seem to be another thing that’s done a lot), about some of the comments to a recent post on Nathan Bransford’s blog.
At the end of every week, Bransford posts a “This Week in Publishing” entry summing up recent industry news and [...]

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Tags: E-Books, E-Reading, E-Publishing · Everyday Life · Merry-Go-Round · The Online World · Writing · whiskey river Fridays

Sing, Sing, Sing

June 13th, 2008 · No Comments

This Sunday is Father’s Day in the US. Last week, 20 years ago, my Dad died. I thought a fitting tribute to both of these occasions would be to post here a short story which was, in many ways, a story of my Dad (although none of the actual events described in it occurred to [...]

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Tags: E-Books, E-Reading, E-Publishing · Family · In the Blood · Looking Backward · Short Fiction · Writing

The Imprint of Books, One Life at a Time

June 11th, 2008 · 3 Comments

The Editorial Ass blog is running a fascinating series of posts. Collectively referred to as “Celebrate Reading Month,” each post in the series is written by a guest blogger, each describing a book which had an impact on the blogger’s life, understanding of books, reading habits — whatever.
MoonRat, who runs the blog, has made it [...]

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Tags: E-Books, E-Reading, E-Publishing · Looking Backward · Reading · Tech · Uncategorized

Thinning the Herd

May 24th, 2008 · No Comments

The blog known as Editorial Ass (which is short, of course, for “Assistant”) is written by an anonymous editor in NYC who identifies herself only as MoonRat. It’s linked over in the “Touchstones” category.
A recent post there, on the surface, was stimulated by a lecture, which MR attended, given by one Jonathan Karp, one of [...]

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How It Was: Getting the Books

April 29th, 2008 · No Comments

I know, I know… I said, “In my next post on How It Was, I’ll include an excerpt from ‘Book 1: Spring.’” It’s coming.
In the meantime, please check this page. It describes how I’m hoping to make the whole process of posting, downloading, and reading excerpts easier for both you and me. Eventually, it will [...]

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E-readers (and E-writers), Part II

April 26th, 2008 · No Comments

A rough outline of the path taken by a novel to publication in the traditional way:
First, a definition: by “publication in the traditional way,” I mean that the end product is a hard- or soft-cover book which can be found on the shelves of — or can be ordered by — just about any bookstore [...]

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E-readers (and E-writers), Part I

April 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

This will be an ongoing series of posts, because it’s something I believe is about to demolish the traditional publishing industry — and who can sum up everything about an impending apocalypse within the scope of a single blog post?
Short version: Because they lend themselves more readily than books to digital form, music, movies, and [...]

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