Here’s my (ahem, draft) checklist for things that I look for when an indie publisher hands me a POD. Please let me know if you can think of anything else; I’m putting this together for a class. I think I may need to break things down into subcategories at some point… Cover Does the front […]
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Right, I’m trying to study “Ill Met in Lankhmar,” one of Fritz Leiber’s stories. (Lie-burr…I’ve been saying it wrong.) I started with the collection Fritz Leiber: Collected Stories, edited by Jonathan Strahan and Charles N. Brown, intro by Neil Gaiman (2010). This edition is a hardcopy library property, and as I realized I wanted to study
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Right, this is one of those posts where I wish an actual expert would talk about this, but I’m not finding what I want an expert to have said, so I’ll do my (admittedly non-expert but at least experienced) best. Go to the Google search page. There is a lot of white on that page.
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Now available at Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Smashwords, Gumroad, and more. As usual, the upload to Apple via indirect channels is taking a while. My apologies. “That was before the serum that allows us to retain our presence of mind was invented, my dear Miss Alice,” Mr. Dodgson said, clearing his throat. “Now, if one
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Submissions: 204. Acceptances: 13 (pro sales: 1). Words written (fiction only): 549,246 (goal 365,000!). Indie books/stories published: 12. Hair pulled out: lots.
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I was going to be all contrary and write about something that had nothing to do with the new year…but what I really want to write about are my goals. I forget where I read it, sadly, but I saw a blog criticizing the way most people set goals: “as if Freud had never existed.” Which
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I used to work at Wells Fargo in the Home Equity department as an auditor, so I had to learn the process backward and forward so people didn’t call me out for dinging the wrong things. Fair enough. One of the things we did was look over appraisals. In the appraisal, there were usually 3-5
What with all the ups and downs lately, I’ve had to deal a lot with depression. I mean, first I was going out of freelancing…now I’m not. You’d think that that was a good thing–and it is–but I think the change in hope vs. despair is what triggers depression for me, and it was a
Under the basement…down in the dark… Elly always gets stuck with entertaining her relatives while their parents talk to her mom. Blah, blah, blah. It goes on for hours. But this time, she worked and worked to make a special surprise for her visiting cousins…a haunted house in the basement! With a super-duper, extra-gross surprise
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A writer torn between two genres, two worlds…and Horror always cheats. If only the best writer of his generation, Richard O’Shea, had come down clearly on one side or the other between the horror and fantasy genres, none of this would have happened. But he didn’t, and now both worlds play dirty to get his
