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So.

Amazon has apparently figured out how to make fic pay:

Kindle Worlds
New stories inspired by books, shows, movies, comics, music, and games people love
Apparently, the idea - and it's not at all a bad one - is to use the current Kindle Direct Publishing model to allow fic authors to publish stories and charge for them, with the original rights ( Read more... )

Originally published at Stillpoint Digital Press. You can comment here or there.


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My guest post over at thebookdesigner.com has sparked quite a lot of good conversation, which is great. Good thoughts, good questions, good suggestions - the perfect blogging storm.

That post also connected with another blogger, Candace Johnson, who used my post as a jumping off point to discuss some of the shadier corners of the publishing ( Read more... )

Ken Schneyer tagged me for this meme in his own post last week.

I'm a bit late posting this... Been madly finishing work on an audiobook and trying to care for my very flu-felled wife. But here's my response!

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What is the title of your book?

Risuko. That's Japanese for "Squirrel," which is the protagonist's nickname.

Where did the idea ( Read more... )

The Seven Gods of Luck - Now Available!
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Stillpoint Releases Classic Folktale

November 1, 2012 - Stillpoint Digital Press announces the release of the fifteenth anniversary edition of the picturebook retelling of the classic Japanese folktale, The Seven Gods of Luck by David ( Read more... )

I have a question for you all about the kind of thing that readers don't usually think about much, but that writers think about a lot too much: tense and point of view ( Read more... )

A novel never sleeps.

We’re on vacation. As my family plays, I’m working on yet another round of rewrites for a young-adult novel, trying to add a scene about half of the way through.

This has had me thinking quite a bit about the idea of justification-not as in left, right, and center, but as in setting up a scene properly so that a reader neither ( Read more... )

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Last night I finished Inheritance, the fourth and final volume of Christopher Paolini’s young adult fantasy adventure series of the same name (but more commonly known by the name of the first book and main character, Eragon). I enjoyed the book-it’s fast-moving, epic, and well-written. But I find myself feeling vaguely unsatisfied, and trying to ( Read more... )