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May 10, 2012
Update; Brust, health, and artists.
update
First, a quick update on my books. I’m still waiting for Singularity Deferred to get accepted into the premium catalog, which will put the book into Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and iTunes. Until then, I’m not really advertising in any significant way itsexistenceon Smashwords and Amazon. Once I can officially say, “Available everywhere ebooks are sold,” I’m spamming the world! (Okay, not really. I kinda like not being hated. But I’ll be letting people know, easy like.)
However, without any adv...
April 28, 2012
No Kickstarter, but Singularity ebook is a go!
Okay, so the Kickstarter project to get the novel Singularity Deferred didn’t go over so well. That’s fine; it was something of a long-shot. So, we move on to Plan B: While I won’t be able to crowdsource the funding from contributors (who would have received the book as well as incentives), I’ll simply put out a first edition e-book to raise the funds. This will allow me to possibly succeed in two ways:
1. If the sales of the e-book go really well, then that’s all I’ll need to rely on and the...
April 24, 2012
“The Return of the Novella, the Original #Longread”
The Atlantic has a really interesting article entitled, “The Return of the Novella, the Original #Longread.” The author discusses how the novella, once the literary standard, is now the red-headed stepchild of the publishing industry. I like this section from Stephen King’s discussion on the topic in Different Seasons:
“I couldn’t publish these tales because they were too long to be short and too short to be really long,” he lamented. King illustrates his point with a geographical metaphor: Th...
April 23, 2012
30 Day, not so much
sorry 
I’m afraid I’m going to have to renege on that earlier promise to go through a rough draft process using the book First Draft in 30 Days. That is, I’m probably going to continue using the book, but I’m afraid if I try to analyze and review and blog about each step, I’ll be doing more words of that than my actual story! And right now, I can’t afford that. Let me explain:
I was laid off of my day-job last week. Sort of. That is, my job goes away by the end of June, and technically I’m wit...
April 22, 2012
Podcast 008: Singularity Deferred, chapter 6
Please see podcast episode 3 (http://www.tragic-sans.com/2012/03/27/podcast-003-singularity-deferred-chapter-1/) for background on this podcast and the reading of this novel.
At the time of this podcast release, a Kickstarter should be running to help fund the publishing and distribution of the novel. (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1696794878/singularity-deferred-a-novel)
The complete audiobook will be published for free on Podiobooks, probably coinciding with the end of the Kickstarter a...
April 17, 2012
Quick Kickstarter update
Well, the Kickstarter project to publish my novel, Singularity Deferred, is nearly over, but it’s far from successful. Despite the contribution of some very generous people, it doesn’t look like it’s going to reach the goal. The various places I planned on promoting the project hadn’t turned out quite the way I’d hoped. For example, just as I sent my promotional material to Dragon Page: Cover to Cover, they decided to stop putting out episodes.
However, I have one last hope: a favorite author...
April 13, 2012
Podcast update
Sorry for the delay on a new podcast episode; I’ve had a horrible cold all week. I and my voice are better, now, though, so I’m planning on getting a new ep with the continuation of the reading of Singularity Deferred this Sunday evening.
Thanks for your patience!
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April 12, 2012
Response: Name of the Wind
I’m calling this a “response” as opposed to a “review” because, well, an actual review deserves a much more involved and lengthy analysis. I just wanna make some comments!
So, I finally finished Patrick Rothfuss‘ a couple of nights ago. I started it…early last year, but only got about 20 pages in when I got distracted by something shiny. Then, a few weeks ago, I went on a Hunger Games jag and read that trilogy in about 4 days. As I mentioned in my post, “Hunger Games revie...
April 4, 2012
First Draft in 30 Years. Days! Sorry, days.
So, there was a time in which I collected writer's guide books. I still have most of them, from Orson Scott Card's Characters & Viewpoint to Jack Bickham's The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes, novel books like Oakley Hall's The Art & Craft of Novel Writing and Bickham's Writing and Selling your Novel (I seem to have a lot of Bickham's books), a handful of writer's guides like Police Procedural and Scene of the Crime, idea books like The Writer's Idea Workshop and The Writer's Book of...
