Nick Alimonos's Blog, page 10
May 27, 2022
Is the entire indie book industry a scam?
My two most popular posts involve scams. I’ve received thankful messages from hundreds of writers for steering them clear of Olympia Publishers. Yet, I feel I’ve done nothing but drive them into the bigger scam that is the independent book industry. Don’t get me wrong. If you want to see your name in print or share... Continue Reading →
May 18, 2022
AENYA NEWSLETTER: 5/18/22
Greetings, Aenya fans! It’s been a long while since my last update . . . and for good reason. I have been working for the past month, hammering away at my keyboard for 8-10 hour shifts, to get the latest Aenya release into your hands! And I think the results speak for themselves. My beta... Continue Reading →
April 5, 2022
AENYA NEWSLETTER 04/05/22
WELCOME BACK, fiends and fans, ladies and germs, boyz and goyls, to the ever-popular Aenya Newsletter!!! Trust me, this is going to be a good one, as you’ll soon find out. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show. The Princess of Aenya #2 cover is NOW AVAILABLE! First up on the agenda, the new... Continue Reading →
March 28, 2022
Stephen King Kicks My Ass
Stephen King came to my house and kicked my ass. Yeah, you probably think I mean this in some sort of metaphorical way … as in, his books are so much better than mine they put me to shame. But nope. Let me backtrack a little. My nights, as you may know, are filled with... Continue Reading →
My Ukrainian Friend: Alexey Lipatov
Originally posted on The Art of Storytelling:
The last thing I want is for this post to come off as exploitative. Right now, my thoughts are for the people of Ukraine only. What’s happening there is not just tragic, but the kind of thing that makes you question whether we’re living in a storybook. It’s…
The last thing I want is for this post to come off as exploitative. Right now, my thoughts are for the people of Ukraine only. What’s happening there is not just tragic, but the kind of thing that makes you question whether we’re living in a storybook. It’s…
March 1, 2022
My Ukrainian Friend: Alexey Lipatov
The last thing I want is for this post to come off as exploitative. Right now, my thoughts are for the people of Ukraine only. What’s happening there is not just tragic, but the kind of thing that makes you question whether we’re living in a storybook. It’s like Trump and the January 6th insurrection.... Continue Reading →
February 20, 2022
Why MAUS Matters
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about MAUS, Art Spiegelman’s moving holocaust graphic novel, now recently banned by the Tennessee School Board. Schools in Tennessee are run by ninnies, apparently, because all seven members voted to keep the book from the hands of middle schoolers owing to the book’s depiction of... Continue Reading →
February 8, 2022
The Science of Aenya: Building a Better Fantasy World
Any fan of fantasy will tell you worldbuilding is a big part of why they love the genre. Ever since Tolkien hit the literary scene, authors of lesser imagination have been all too eager to cut and paste Middle Earth. Open any book from Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time to George RR Martin’s A... Continue Reading →
February 2, 2022
Automation will be the death of us all …
A lot of people have pet peeves, but I have more of a PET LOATHING. With the deepest passion imaginable, I absolutely abhor automation. If automation were a person, I’d want to slowly torture them to death. Friends and family can’t seem to understand this, why I go off into a mouth-foaming, profanity-laden frenzy when... Continue Reading →
January 27, 2022
East Side Story: The Wheel of Time vs. The Lord of the Rings
We’re probably going to catch a lot of flak for this, owing to the immense popularity of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time, perhaps the most sprawling epic ever written, rivaling even A Song of Ice and Fire in verbosity. But from what we (Heather and I) were able to assess from the first book... Continue Reading →
