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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'E-Books, E-Reading, E-Publishing'
Publisher Seeking Authors: The New Frontier
September 14th, 2008 · 4 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: E-Books, E-Reading, E-Publishing · Everyday Life · Merry-Go-Round · The Online World · Writing
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tags: E-Books, E-Reading, E-Publishing · Writing
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 [...]
Tags: E-Books, E-Reading, E-Publishing · How It Was · Running After My Hat
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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