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June 8, 2014
Review: The Vagrants by Brian Moreland
A review of Brian Moreland’s The Vagrants by Dawnzilla.
Originally posted on Horror Reviews for You:
Brain Moreland has done it again with his latest novella, The Vagrants. In this nail-biting tale, a group of homeless people is brainwashed to follow an evil man known as Mordecai. Under Mordecai’s leadership, the group is led to believe the end of the world is near and they become mindless cannibalistic zombies.
When Mordecai shows up, a man named Daniel is among the group of homeless he tries to convert to his way of thinking. Daniel is only living among the homeless to do research for a book he hopes will shed light on the plights of homeless people. He resists Mordecai’s efforts which results in a crazy climax at the end of the book.
Moreland delivers the same suspense and scares he has become known for and I spent the last half of the book biting my nails down to nubs.
I love Moreland’s writing because as a reader…
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May 31, 2014
This Is The Kind Of Competition Publishers Want
Very interesting read!
Originally posted on David Gaughran:
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Since the huge shift to online purchasing and e-books, a common meme is that there is some kind of “discoverability” problem in publishing.
The funny thing is readers don’t seem to have any problem finding books they love. Any readers I talk to have a time problem – reading lists a mile long and never enough hours in the day to read all the great books they are discovering.
The real discoverability problem in publishing is that readers are discovering (and enjoying) books that don’t come from the large publishers. What these publishers have is a competition problem not a discoverability problem.
Amazon regularly gets slated for purported anti-competitive actions, but it has done more to create the digital marketplace than any other company. It has also done more to open up that marketplace to vendors of all shapes and sizes than any other company. Small publishers…
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