Wazzup, World? Goin’ for the jugular here. This month’s column is gonna lay out the case for: What You Should Spend Your Hard-Earned Moolah and Precious Time Reading. Too glib? Okay…rephrase. This month’s column is: A Discussion of the Best and Worst Genres. Too blunt? No problem…upgrade to: A Polemic on the “A Priori” Attributes [...]
|
||||||
|
Everything Must Go! When the first Borders store opened near my home, I imagined long afternoons spent roaming the isles lazily running my finger from spine to spine and drinking up the titles along with a cup of flavored coffee. I could just see myself sitting at a little table with a big stack of books, [...] 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 [...] A few weeks ago, publishing and the world lost one of its rare and wonderful beings, and so this month I pay my small tribute to add to those of many others before me. During the winter of ’79, I went to New York on business. The main thrust of the trip was to meet one [...] No matter what side of the self-publishing, Publish-on-Demand, e-Book, Internet makes everyone an author model argument you fall on, there is one fact I find incontrovertible. What I’m about to say is based on personal observation over more than two decades of writing professionally – you can take it for what [...] Over the President’s Day weekend I will be teaching at the Southern California Writers Conference. Because I am no stranger to this conference, its director rarely consults with me regarding what courses I will be teaching. This week I learned that one of my classes is, “Russell’s Rules to Publishing Success.” Given a choice, I wouldn’t [...] I’m not a 13-year-old boy from Western Maine, but I pretended to be one on the internet. That sounds a lot worse than it really is. It wasn’t an undercover sting to flush out predators. It was part of an alternate reality game (ARG) run by Scribner to promote Under the [...] |
||||||
|
Copyright © 2012 Storytellers Unplugged - All Rights Reserved |
||||||