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June 22, 2014
Clarion West Write-a-thon to the rescue!
I continue to be extremely listless writing-wise since Jay Lake’s death. I’ve been keeping busy, though. I finally organized my trip to Britain for a friend’s wedding the beginning of July. I’ll be staying a couple of extra days to research some sites for A Wasted Land.
This weekend, we also went to the Bodensee / Lake Constance, with a short jog into Switzerland to see the Rheinfall, the Rhine Falls. That was a lot of fun.
It inspired us to promise each other to get away a bit more again. Si...
June 11, 2014
The last excerpt from Island of Glass and a request
First off, I want to apologize for being such a bad blogger-friend and WIPpeteer in the last couple of weeks. Normally, I always try my best to at least return the favor and post on the blogs of those who posted on mine. But since my dear friend Jay Lake was admitted to hospice and died only a few days later, I haven’t even managed to respond to the comments on my own blog. I hope you will all forgive me.
For over the last week, I haven’t been doing much new writing, allowing my creative brai...
June 9, 2014
Who’s Afraid of Very Cheap Books?
Interesting post by David Gaughran, reviving the 99c price point for ebooks.
Originally posted on David Gaughran:
A common meme in publishing is that cheap books are destroying the world or literature, and that low prices are undermining the viability of publishingor writers’ ability to make a living.
I’ve long thought this position is nonsense – a narrative which plays on misplaced fears of change and a confusion of price and value, whichis also based on flawed assumptions and an...
Looking for feedback on map and description for Island of Glass
As I’ve mentioned in my last couple of posts, I have once again switched from creative, “new words” mode to editing and formatting mode. But I think once I have Island of Glass published, my brain will be out of mourning enough that I can I can get back to creating new words on a fairly regular basis. On Saturday, I woke up dreaming about the story I want to write in the Villa Diodati shared world that I mentioned here. That inspired me to call up the file, and I added nearly 500 words to my...
June 5, 2014
Amazing deal on Amazon.de: Get Almost All the Way Home From the Stars for under 1000 Euros!
Once again, a vendor on Amazon has outdone itself, and is offering my collection of SF short stories with Jay Lake, Almost All the Way Home From the Stars for only 999,11 Euros! Since I don’t know how long this incredible deal will last, I took another screen shot:
I only wish I could sell it for that …
I wonder what bots were at work this time to come up with such an incredible opportunity.
June 4, 2014
Sharing a bit from our collaboration process in memory of Jay Lake
I didn’t think I was going to post today for WIPpet Wednesday. I haven’t gotten any new writing done since Jay died, after all. Instead, I’ve been doing writing business stuff. That has to be done too, though, and when my creative brain is on strike, it’s a good time to do it. So in the last week, since Jay went into hospice, I did another complete editing pass of Island of Glass, got some of the formatting done for the ebook, and started working on the glossary. I also finished editing passe...
June 1, 2014
Goodbye, buddy: Jay Lake, June 6, 1964 – June 1, 2014
For some reason, I never quite believed that this moment would come, that I would be writing this farewell. Jay was such a big guy, with a big heart and a big laugh and energy to burn. I couldn’t believe that cancer would win out over all that, kept hoping against hope that Jay’s huge spirit would triumph. No such luck. Jay was crazy, extravagant, generous, a force of nature. When he entered a room, he took it over; it was his, he commanded it, and whether you liked him or not, you sure as h*...
May 28, 2014
Reintroducing Guinevere / Ginevra for #WIPpet Wednesday
It’s been a mostly good week writing wise for me, with an effortless 1,000 word day last Thursday. The last couple of days have been a bit slower, what with lots of garden work on the weekend, and then the news that my friend Jay Lake has been admitted to hospice. That’s been eating my brain a bit. :(
Anyway, back to writing. I mentioned a while back that I was doing some of the exercises in the Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook right now to flesh out the middle of A Wasted Land and help wi...
May 22, 2014
NoiseTrade: Build Audience While Boosting Your Mailing List
Interesting concept — I just might give it a try with a book or two.
Originally posted on David Gaughran:
What if I told you there was a cool new way to share your work with the world that could help you build audience, boost your mailing list, and make money at the same time?
Welcome to NoiseTrade.
The idea is simple. Authors can upload ebooks (and audiobooks) and NoiseTrade’s community of readers can download them for free – for as long as the author wants. There is a tip-jar, an...
May 21, 2014
A “troupe of players” for #WIPpet Wednesday, and a progress report
Since getting back from Spain, I continue to make steady progress on my fiction again. On the weekend, I finished a short story, and promptly turned around and got back into A Wasted Land. My word count since last Wednesday comes to 3700 words, a lot more than I’ve managed in new fiction in a long time! I think I will soon go back and revise some of my goals for the quarter. :)
BTW, this will be my 300th post on this blog! :D
On to the true business of the day — WIPpet Wednesday! For today’s...
