July 25th, 2010 | Posted by: R.J. Keller
The updated release date for The Wendy House (the follow up to Waiting For Spring) is April 2011. I know that’s six months later than originally scheduled, but I want to make sure the book is absolutely the best it can be. I promise it will be worth the wait. In the meantime, as a peace [...]
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June 30th, 2010 | Posted by: Henry Baum
In the tradition of Cheryl Anne Gardner’s What a Pod Peep Reads, here’s what I’ve been reading:
and
The trajectory of underground comics is somewhat similar to that of self-publishing - something that no one took seriously, and now is given art exhibitions. From an interview with Dan Clowes:
Early in your career, did you find that [...]
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June 24th, 2010 | Posted by: Henry Baum
I like this post I wrote at the Self-Publishing Review regarding Laura Miller’s post on Salon - her theory is that the onslaught of self-published books being released out into the wild will lead to “slush fatigue” and it will be hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. Does she think that self-published books [...]
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June 12th, 2010 | Posted by: Henry Baum
Winning a Gold IPPY award recently for my novel is sort of a strange feeling. In a way, it’s like the acceptance of a publisher, and I’ve spent a fair amount of time arguing that the acceptance of a publisher doesn’t mean that your book is good or bad - or else all traditionally published [...]
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June 12th, 2010 | Posted by: Kristen Tsetsi
I was lightly accused, in a recent discussion on the Kindle Boards, of “railing against” ebooks when I posted the following message:
There’s been a lot of talk lately about ebooks, the death of the print book, etc., and after reading yet another such article (on my computer, ironically) I immediately posted this facebook status:
[I]will not [...]
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June 7th, 2010 | Posted by: Eddie Wright
Moxie Mezcal recently reviewed Broken Bulbs and interviewed me (Eddie Wright) about my writing, self-publishing, the future, and Backword Books.
Enjoy.
http://blog.moxiemezcal.com/2010/06/eddie-wright-is-not-nothing-explosive.html
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May 31st, 2010 | Posted by: Craig Lancaster
(Cross-posted from my blog, A Mind Adrift in the West)
When I started writing The Summer Son more than a year ago, I began with a first-person point of view. The idea for the story came from a personal place, and I found that I wanted to steer the protagonist, Mitch Quillen, from inside his own head.
My resolve [...]
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May 30th, 2010 | Posted by: Henry Baum
There’s a fascinating post by author Daniel Pinchbeck at Reality Sandwich about new independent media. He’s currently my favorite writer in any medium - non-fiction or fiction - for his willingness to take on far-out ideas with some well-reasoned sobriety. He manages to be both eloquent and concise. All in all, his writing [...]
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May 24th, 2010 | Posted by: Craig Lancaster
(Cross-posted from my blog, A Mind Adrift in the West)
I’m pleased to announce that my second novel, THE SUMMER SON, will be released in October 2010 by Missouri Breaks Press*.
I started writing this story in the middle of 2009, just as my first novel, 600 HOURS OF EDWARD, was making its way from a self-released version [...]
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May 23rd, 2010 | Posted by: Henry Baum
This rules - I’ll be showing this to my daughter when she’s old enough to understand it:
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