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July 12, 2013
Is Religion Just Fiction? ~~~ Can Fiction Be A Religion?
Friday again—time to go Behind The Scenes of Notes from An Alien ( still for sale and still Free :-) … It’s a short book—belongs to no genre—best friend calls it a Documentary Novel :-) This is the 19th Behind The Scenes post… But… I need to ask, again, for my readers’ help supplying questions […]
July 10, 2013
“Federal Court Finds Apple Guilty of E-Book Price Fixing”
The title of this post is from an article on WIRED. Forbes, a major money magazine, has Apple Loses E-book Case After Judge Says It Played A ‘Central Role’ in Price-Fixing Conspiracy. Back in March last year, when the story broke, I wrote Authors/Readers vs Publishers vs the U.S. Dept. of Justice. Then in June […]
Modern Literature, Genre Bestseller, and Classic Tale
I just finished with three books—completed two, couldn’t get through one… The first was by a friend of a friend—The Fine Colour of Rust by Paddy O’Reilly. I’m calling this book “Modern Literature”. Some may be able to force it into a genre but I feel it resists easy classification. My ultra-short review is: Consistently […]
July 9, 2013
A Blogger’s Best Friend & Why Fiction Writers Should Pay Attention To Poetry. . .
Not long ago I wrote the post Honoring My BestFriend… In that post I wrote: “It’s been said a writer needs the companionship of other writers…“ and “It’s been noticed that a writer feels better about the demands and tasks of their profession when they have a confidant…“ I am truly blest since my Best […]
July 7, 2013
So, What Can You Find On My Blog?
There’s a link in the left side-bar that says “How To Use This Site”, yet I’m sure there are folks who’ve never clicked it… So… I’m going to copy that text right here :-) The most important part of this site is the Comments folks make. There’s a link to the comments in the upper-right […]
July 4, 2013
Why In The World Publish A Novel Promoting Global Peace?
Welcome to another post in the Special Friday Series, Behind The Scenes of Notes from An Alien. Clicking that Behind The Scenes link in the last sentence will take you to the full series and clicking on the Notes from An Alien link will let you have a Free Copy of the novel… In the […]
July 3, 2013
Author Interview ~ Andy Shackcloth
Today I’m interviewing authorAndy Shackcloth. In a previous post, Do You Keep A Journal?, I reviewed his site and the ambitious project he’s embarked on. He’s currently serializing the outcome of research he’s done on the benefits of using a writer’s journal. ~~~ Welcome, Andy. Let’s start by you’re giving us a bit of your […]
So, How Do Writers Find Readers?
The typical traditional way of finding readers has writers finding agents who find publishers who find book outlets who attract readers… Self-published writers are playing in a different league. Back in 2011, I published a post called, How Can Authors FindReaders? In that post, I said: “Some of the wildest relationships in the world are […]
July 1, 2013
A Very Unique Take On Writer’s Block
I have an online friend from Lithuania. Tomas Karkalas. He’s an excellent photographic artist. English is not his first language and some may find his writing hard to understand but I find it particularly Poetic—his use of English is not “wrong”—it’s Unique… I encourage your visiting his blogs: Modus Vivendi Art of Butterfly in Plaster […]
June 30, 2013
What’s Grammar Good For, Anyway?
I heard, many years ago, and have had it somewhat proven in the meantime, that the English grammar taught to us is actually Latin grammar. I’m sure someone has written all this up nicely and I’m sure there are now books proclaiming to be Real English Grammar… I, honestly, don’t care. As long as what […]
