I've had a few friends send me personal messages and emails asking where I've been lately. I've been around. Yes, I'm reading your blogs and following the various controversies and developments in this crazy world of publishing and genre fiction, but mostly I'm staying busy in the outside world. I saw a commercial the other day where a young woman ( Read more... )

The title to this post is a quote from Clark Ashton Smith within a letter I discussed earlier on my blog. Feeling inspired, I decided to have fun writing a piece of impossible, pulp-inspired science fiction. "The Path" is the result of that day's writing. Many thanks to editor M. of the Austrailian ezine, Roar and Thunder, for publishing this story ( Read more... )

From The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson:

"A cheese strand dangled from her mouth to the edge of her left nipple, and I wanted to rappel it like a mozzarella commando to storm her lovely breasts."

This is either the best or worst writing I have ever encountered. Either way, Doubleday felt it was worth a $1.25 million dollar advance for a debut ( Read more... )

  http://a-r-williams.livejournal.com/96174.html

*blink, blink* Wow. The times they are a-changin!

BTW -- I must add a_r_williams  to my list of One Lovely Blog Award winners. He follows publishing trends, and he's a great dude, too...

Also, this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anis-shivani/the-15-most-overrated-con_b_672974.html -- I'm still trying to ( Read more... )

First off, I want to clarify something so that there is no misunderstanding. I want publishers to succeed. I want authors to get paid fair wages for the work they put into their writing. I want editors and marketing staffs and agents and everyone else involved in this industry to succeed. I find it distasteful that Amazon pulled titles and punished ( Read more... )

There’s currently a lot of debate going on among those with vested interests in the publishing industry concerning the consumer price of e-books.

Many industry professionals say that e-books are the future of reading. I’m not entirely convinced, but I do see the market for e-books increasing exponentially in the next decade or so. I don’t think ( Read more... )