Archive for April, 2009

Pick your first readers carefully.

Take a lesson from Mark Twain and vett those first readers! This is a funny book trailer for the book Who is Mark Twain?
Who Is Mark Twain?

You like me! You really like me! (Sally Fields)

It’s not often somebody writes a poem in your honor.  When it happens it’s the sweetest thing, so I couldn’t resist. This is by a dear friend in my writer’s group, Yvette Francino, whose book, Laptop Dancer Diaries is sure to hit the bigtime—just you wait! She has a way with the rhyme too.
You’re a [...]

Rejection at the Hands of Agents

I recently attended the LV Writers Conference. In the next few posts I’ll write up some of my impressions and include some nuggets of what I thought was useful information. I have to say that this isn’t the best conference, in my limited experience with writers conferences. And if I’d had to pay for it, [...]

IndieBound iPhone App

I don’t have an iPhone (sigh), but if I did this new IndieBound app would be on it. I direct your attention to this article on Publishers Weekly about this new app. It offers an option to the ubiquitous Amazon for finding books, and where to get them. Either directing you to the nearest Indie [...]

Conspiracy theorists may now stand down.

What I said in my earlier post still holds true as far as the opinions I hold, especially in regard to morality being a personal responsibility. But we were ALL (and I am pointing mainly at the TWITterers), speculating without hard evidence. We may never get a satisfactory explanation, but I think this pretty much [...]

Censorship is censorship by any other name.

OK. You’ve no doubt heard about the big stink over Amazon’s “de-ranking” of certain books/writings of an adult nature. It’s all over the internet and Twitter. I’ve been called to task by my own spawn as she seems to think I have some “pull” in the publishing arena. I don’t, but I’ll weigh in [...]

The future of magazine publishing?

I’m talking about paper magazines here. Little ones with not a big readership. I don’t see Vogue or Cosmo doing this anytime soon. We’ve all seen the booksurge of POD books (pun intended) in recent years, but to me, this is a new twist. A site called MagCloud offers a POD model similar to Amazon’s [...]