Since we don’t have a poster for the 31st, I figured I’d take advantage and get in a day early. I wanted – this time out – to pass on what I do, and what I do not know about the Amazon.com KDP Select program. My new collection – ETCHED DEEP & OTHER DARK [...]
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Why on earth do we write fiction? Why do we read it? One of my husband’s favourite “writer” stories concerns a Southern writer with a very Southern mother, whom he called up to tell her that his novel was being published. After a pause, the mother asked, a little desperately, “But do they KNOW it’s a LIE?” [...] There are a lot of things happening in the worlds of writing and publishing. I won’t try to guess whether, in the end, they will be good, or bad things. I will say that I find most of the changes fascinating. Publishing, as an industry, is one of those things that has grown into something [...] Question: What is the appropriate price-point for an ebook? Answer: Whatever the point of intersection is between the readership’s level of interest and willingness to shell out cold hard cash. Until we reach that point, everything is just the accrual of data points. I for one have no particular dog in this fight; I’m merely horrified [...] I’m currently indulging in one of the perks of being an audiobook publisher – I’m listening to SINEATER, by Elizabeth Massie, narrated by Joe Geoffrey. I read this book a long time ago. If I recall correctly, it came out first in the UK. My personal copy was purchased from the author and her agent [...] If you go back a year or two and read over what I’ve been saying all along about electronic books, eReaders, and the digital revolution, you’ll see that I am the sort of creature that evolves along with the world around me. I am first and foremost (as the title of this blog suggests) a [...] As I’ve done previously, I’ve borrowed the title of a wonderful anthology for this column: You’ve Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories That Held Them in Awe, edited by Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard, HarperCollins, publishers. I’ve been reading much of late–and much of that much has been … disappointing. I will not [...] Let’s talk about a unique, but often ignored, sub-genre of fiction: American Horror. It might be argued that American Horror begins with Ye Olde Master, Edgar Allan Poe, himself who wrote some of it and lived too much of it. Whatever the beginnings (which you can argue about in your next term paper), American Horror is [...] |
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