Dorchester Publishing Bankruptcy
Coincidentally, shortly after finishing my post on the impact of publisher bankruptcy on authors, I saw this post from The Passive Voice (which I highly recommend): Dorchester Publishing Closes Its...
View ArticlePublishing is Not a Job, It’s a Button
I am paraphrasing the eminent Professor Clay Shirky in his post on the Findings.com blog: - How We Will Read: Clay Shirky. The bulk of the post is about his view of social reading and annotations (and...
View ArticleIs Amazon Evil?
I want to talk today about Amazon and how it exercises its self-interest. There’s been a lot of ranting discussion about Amazon lately. Various news articles and blog posts more or less accuse them of...
View ArticleAnother Disruptive Change for Publishing
Amazon’s disruption of traditional publishing has been has been covered in the press and blogosphere ad nauseam. But a less visible, though equally disruptive, change is happening in another area of...
View ArticleHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Bankruptcy
Another publisher bankruptcy. I saw this last Friday in this post on the Passive Voice blog: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Enters Bankruptcy Process. The article blames the bankruptcy on debt from...
View ArticleAmazon Publishing Buying Dorchester Titles
I’ve been too busy with a family wedding and a staycation for a proper post. But since I’ve written previously about the Dorchester Publishing bankruptcy, I wanted to mention this news: Amazon...
View ArticleBook Review: Let’s Write a Short Story! by Joe Bunting
Joe Bunting, of the well-known writing blog The Write Practice, recently published the e-book Let’s Write a Short Story!. I agreed to review an advance review copy (and my apologies, Joe, for being so...
View ArticleWork In Progress Challenge
I just got “tagged” by Vikki of The View Outside with the Work In Progress Challenge. I’m supposed to answer the following ten questions about my Work In Progress (WIP). Like Vikki, I don’t have a WIP...
View ArticleHope Laughs
This post goes out to all those writers hoping to land a traditional publishing contract: This comes (with permission) from one of my favorite web comics, Wombania. Seems somehow apropos to post...
View ArticleMatt Haig: 30 things that every writer should know
Novelist Matt Haig had an insightful and amusing list of things he has learned after ten years as a published author in The Telegraph: Matt Haig: 30 things that every writer should know Definitely...
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