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You Never Know
Here’s the thing about a book: once you publish it, it’s out there. It might live a very long time. There are stories you can buy in bookstores today that are over three thousand years old. When you publish a … Continue reading
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FanX is here!
Tomorrow through Saturday, I’ll be performing / pontificating / pitching at FanX (the FanXperience) in Salt Lake City. Here’s my schedule: Thursday, 7:30 pm — Supervillain US Presidential Debate Friday, 1:30 pm — The Court Battle: USA vs. Captain Lightning … Continue reading
Twisted
The Victorians took photographs of the recently dead. Dressed ’em up nice, posed ’em on chairs or in coffins or surrounded by the living. That fact plays a role in Michaelbrent Collings’s most recent, Twisted. And it’s the least creepy … Continue reading
Street Team
Okay, time to get serious. Wordfire Press is relaunching Rock Band Fights Evil, Crecheling, and City of the Saints this year — starting this spring. And in a year, The Extraordinary Journeys of Clockwork Charlie will be out to the public, … Continue reading
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Tagged City of the Saints, Clockwork Charlie, Crecheling, Facebook, Knopf, Pensacon, Rock Band Fights Evil, Wordfire Press
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Perseverance
Last year, one of my resolutions was to read the Old Testament. My goal was to read the whole thing, but here’s the kicker: I was going to read one chapter a day, first in Hebrew, and then the same … Continue reading
Artisan Publishing
Deren Hansen undersells the breadth and power of his book Artisan Publishing: Why to Choose the Road Less Traveled, claiming it’s a “why-to” rather than a “how-to” book. The truth is that the book fills both roles, and more besides. … Continue reading
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Tagged Artisan Publishing, Deren Hansen, Self-Promotion, Self-Publishing
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Rational Authors
The electronic frontier is neither literary heaven nor hell. It’s simply a new set of opportunities for readers and writers. It’s not a religion that requires you to renounce other forms of publishing. Rational authors, acting in their best business … Continue reading
Human Happiness
For the cities which were formerly great, have most of them become insignificant, and such as are at present powerful, were weak in the olden time. I shall therefore discourse equally of both, convinced that human happiness never continues long … Continue reading
Magic is the Service of the Gods
‘Mageia’ is the service of the gods, and the same man who teaches ‘mageia’ teaches kingly duties. No statement could well be more contrary to current feeling about magic. — Jane Ellen Harrison, Themis: A Study of the Social Origins … Continue reading
Introducing Kenard Pak
I don’t have cover art (that I can share) (yet), but The Kidnap Plot has a cover artist. Check out here some of the work of Kenard Pak on Facebook. And go here and here for examples of previous work … Continue reading
