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ISBW Success Story- Phil Rossi's CRESCENT comes out today!

It always astonishes me that people get a lot out of my ramblings about writing, but Phil Rossi claims he was greatly influenced by ISBW. All I know is that a couple of years ago he went on to write the horror SF thriller CRESCENT. He then released it via podcast, and then it got picked up by Dragon Moon Press for release TODAY. Rossi is doing what I did with the launch of PFK last summer, which is asking everyone to buy the book on the same day, getting it more attention. Us small press types n

ISBW #121 – PANTS! / Laura Mixon Interview

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00:07: ISBW #12100:37: GoTo Meeting Message01:30: Not much writing except for column.01:57: Collaboration effort with JR Blackwell, Her Side02:10: Goals for July03:55: Promo: The Burning Skies05:01: Pants are powerful

More excuses and then some goals

Starting around midweek last week, the house went to hell. The fish is already sick (dropsy, I think, but she's not responding to any treatment), and the ten year old dog is showing signs of exhaustion after spending over a week with a puppy. The Pink Tornado got sick with strep throat, and Jim got a cold/sinus infection. So I got to use one of the best excuses for not writing:

I can't write, I am taking care of a sick family.

So yeah, that held me back a bit – but today I have to start writing ag

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ISBW #120 – Don't Be an Ass! / Matthew Wayne Selznick Interview

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00:07: ISBW #12000:37: GoTo Meeting Message01:303: I just don't manage to podcast during vacation.02:40: Collaboration effort with JR Blackwell, Her Side03:57: I have a new agent! Brandi Bowles from the

Revolutions and Pitfalls

Seems that this has been coming up a lot lately- authors bypassing the traditional publishing avenues and doing stuff themselves. Now, don't laugh; of course it's been coming up, as I and my podcasting peers have been doing it for years. But now some new developments are coming up, and they bear watching.

Tim Pratt (former guest of this show and an excellent writer) is releasing a "reader-supported novella" called Bone Shop . It's a prequel to his popular urban fantasy Marla Mason books (first fou

Rule 5- Don't be an ass.

I'm adding to my Rules for Writing – as I said, it's a work in progress, created as I discover something else people should know.

And dude, this is something that everyone should know. It's a golden rule you learn in preschool.

Rule 5- Don't be an ass.

While this is one of my main rules in life, I hadn't thought to include it as a specific writing rule. But it seems people need to know. Especially in regards to the Internet. Back in The Day, a popular phrase was "on the Internet, no one knows you'r

Good news on vacation!

I am happy to announce that as of yesterday, I am being represented by Brandi Bowles, an agent with Howard Morhaim Literary Agency!

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Sudden thought today: it seems the scifi authors who wrote about things that actually ended up happening (like the Internet or nanotech) seem to happily embrace the swiftly changing landscape of the world, while others (cough*Ray*cough*Bradbury*cough) seem to hate the science-fiction-come-true of today. Do we think there’s a connection?

Vacation has been full of fami

Pregnancy (it’s a metaphor)

Traveling always wreaks havoc on my writing – blogging included. Yesterday my family and I drove 12 hours (plus more to accommodate a 6 year old’s bladder) from Durham, NC to Buffalo, NY. Needless to say, neither writing nor blogging got done. I know people who can blog/write while they travel, but I don’t seem to be some of them.

But now that I’m here, I can blog, write, read and plan, in between family visitation. Which is good, cause I’ve got stuff on my mind, which is the topic of today’s blo

Links for 2009-06-17 [del.icio.us]

Kiva - Loans that change lives

This looks like an excellent idea, will be participating when I return from trips this month.