Last week, Salon ran an article by Hugh Howey (author of Wool) about how self-publishing is the future and the way new writers should turn. I don’t entirely agree with that, as most of you who’ve been playing along at … Continue reading
Hill: I have a requestfor l’esprit d’escalier me: What’s up? Hill: that you outline what the process IS we’re going through,from writing to editing to query letter to partials to fulls and to representationso I can link it to peopleand … Continue reading
This probably isn’t going to be big news to any of you. Matter of fact, if you know me outside of this blog — if I’ve been to your house, or you’ve been to mine; if you’re a fellow WoW … Continue reading
If you participated and won NaNo this year, you might have seen the offer from FastPencil for a free bound copy of your NaNo project. Sounds pretty keen, doesn’t it? Write a book in November, see it published in December? … Continue reading
In the comments on my rant about the Amazon/Wal-Mart/Target price war, my friend Eric and I digressed a bit into eBook pricing, and book prices in general. Specifically, if you take the cost of printing and binding and shipping out … Continue reading
Word Count: slacktastic I mentioned I bought Under the Dome, right? I have done nothing with my free time since Sunday night but read. I know, NaNo means shutting yourself off from all distractions — including new books from one … Continue reading
They’ve disabled embedding, so you have to go clicky. I cannot wait for this movie. This was the very first book I read when I started my current job. I don’t think words can express how exciting it was to … Continue reading
Last night, I found out something really, really cool about one of Feathermoon’s own. One of our favorite Boomsticks, Homrend, is not only the guild leader of an awesome group of RPers, he’s also a FINALIST in Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel … Continue reading
Cory Doctorow, on why the sales force matters. My favorite part of the article, where I nodded vigorously and whispered “yes.” (good bookselling is fractal: the sales rep knows what the clerk will like, and the clerk knows what the … Continue reading
Since the recent release of Amazon’s Kindle 2, there’s been a bit of a controversy regarding the device’s Text-to-Speech feature. I’ve followed the story on my own, but when it showed up in a friend’s gchat status this morning, and … Continue reading
Night Owls
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