February 2nd, 2010 | Posted by: Bonnie Kozek
I was asked by The New Podler Review of Books to participate in a symposium on self-publishing. Below are my answers to their questions on this hot topic issue in book publishing. You can read more about the symposium at: http://thenewpodlerreviews.blogspot.com/
NP: How does self-publishing differ from traditional publishing?
BK: At its most elemental level there’s [...]
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February 1st, 2010 | Posted by: Uncategorized
Of the many things that I was bad at in English classes, my lowest point was poetry. To this day, I still do not know why some stuff is poetry and some other stuff isn’t.
When I was dying in a Greek Lyric Poetry class, I liked and maybe understood a quatrain by Sappho, but then [...]
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January 18th, 2010 | Posted by: Philip Persinger
A very smart computer programmer tries to write the formula for love, in my first book, Do the Math: a novel of the inevitable. He’s working on an ancient piece of IBM iron in the basement of a freezing college campus building. Yet despite the many yards of green bar paper that the machine spews [...]
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January 16th, 2010 | Posted by: Christopher Meeks
The Brightest Moon of the Century, a comic novel about Edward, a young Minnesotan blessed with “experience,” has landed at the top of three 2009 Best Books lists. Edward needs a place in the universe, but he also wants an understanding of women. He stumbles into romance in high school and college, whirls into a [...]
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January 16th, 2010 | Posted by: Kristen Tsetsi
“Hey, now,” I say, as someone who doesn’t want kids. “My lifestyle is hardly ‘variant’…”
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January 13th, 2010 | Posted by: Bonnie Kozek
January 11th, 2010 | Posted by: Kristen Tsetsi
There would have been something at once flattering and scary about being taken into her little Algonquin circle (as if I would have been!), and more unnerving would probably have been the way she would look at a new person, followed by the creative ways she would find to insult them that probably wouldn’t really hurt until two hours later when what she said finally settled in.
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December 27th, 2009 | Posted by: Andrew Kent
Over a span of seven weeks in the fall of 2009, the Backword Books authors published interviews of each other on the Backword blog. Now, these interviews have been gathered together in a single volume available for free download (or “you set the price“) via Smashwords, allowing authors, publishers, and readers to enjoy these insightful [...]
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December 19th, 2009 | Posted by: Kristen Tsetsi
(Cross-posted from my blog, “From a Little Office in a Little House“)
It’s been a long time since I’ve taken the time to sit around and read. In high school I always had a book. Always. I would read while I walked, while I ate, while a teacher lectured, and any time waiting was involved (for [...]
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December 4th, 2009 | Posted by: Christopher Meeks, R.J. Keller
The following interview was conducted by Backword Books member and Waiting For Spring author, R.J. Keller. At the end, find out how you can enter to win a copy of Chris Meeks’s book, The Brightest Moon of the Century.
R.J. Keller: Tell everyone a little about your novel, The Brightest Moon of the Century.
Christopher Meeks: The [...]
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