Adam Oster's Blog, page 54

Fat Mogul vs. The Professional Touch

For my regular readers, I hope you’ve noticed quite a few changes around here.  Most obvious is the site, which we’ve talked about before.  There’s also a few other minor changes all throughout the place.  New pages appearing, old pages disappearing, and overall, just updating things all over the place.  There’s a whole lot more that’s been updated on the… Read more →

Book Review: Healing Hands by Laura Emmons

Not too far back, I reviewed the first book in the Queen of the Night Series, (Seeing Magic), and found myself pleasantly surprised with where that book took me on its fun little adventure into the world of witches and magic (I’m not entirely certain they consider themselves witches within the book itself…). So, imagine my excitement when I realized… Read more →

Fat Mogul vs. The Writing Process

Lately, I’ve been catching a trend among my author friends (and many whom I haven’t become acquainted with) where they tell you all about their process for writing, you know, what they do to prepare, how their working area looks, and all that good stuff that really amounts to saying, “this is what I look like when I write.” Quite… Read more →

Fat Mogul vs. The Cost of Art

Each year it seems the debate over how much we should pay for different art forms increases.  Ever since the rise of Napster, we’ve heard the constant fear of how people will devalue music because of how easily they can get it for free.  Of course, those same notes were played at the rise of the cassette (and the video… Read more →

Fat Mogul vs. The Line in the Sand

Oh, the woeful road of developing a marketing strategy…and the very important/specific question of “How far are you willing to go in order to sell your product.” In the past few weeks, I’ve read way too many marketing tip articles, subscribed to several marketing blogs in my feedreader, and, well, I’ve ingested so much advice on marketing that my brain… Read more →

Adam Oster, Adventure Novelist

I’m often asked what type of author I am, generally a question asking for what genre my books lie in.  I’ve always felt uncomfortable answering with the answer of science fiction, as my books generally rely on some fairly light science fiction.  Fantasy also seems to be a stretch, since, again, the fantasy elements are barely a defining factor.  Recently,… Read more →

Fat Mogul vs. Content

Take a quick look at any marketing blog nowadays and you’ll see the phrase, “Content is King” hiding somewhere within.  Even further than that, I recently came across a blog post (sorry, I didn’t keep it, mostly because I don’t plan what I’m going to write on here in advance) which listed a number of marketing professionals and asked them… Read more →

Book Review: The Year of Dan Palace by Chris Jane

Before I start today’s post, I just want to say one quick thing.  I love getting free books.  And if all I have to do in return for getting free books (good ones are especially appreciated) is write down a few notes on my thoughts about the book and give it a rating of stars on a couple sites, well,… Read more →

Fat Mogul vs. Christmas

I love Christmas, I really do.  Something about the season, the music, the anticipation on my kids’ faces, the Elf on the Shelf insanity, the tree (although I also absolutely hate the tree), the lights, and the overall tradition of Christmas just really manages to do an amazing job of easing me into the winter season, where I traditionally battle… Read more →

Fat Mogul vs. A Few (or more) Good Men

I’m not sure that I’ve actually said anything about this in the public forum, but I’m about to take to the stage again.  The Chippewa Valley Theatre Guild (a local performance group) is putting on a production of A Few Good Men and were a few men (good or other) short at the time of casting.  I got convinced to… Read more →