News and Notices from the Writing Trenches #27…

#153: Last gasp for relevance or a really neat idea? Esquire Magazine recently announced that it will start publishing eBooks devoted to “men’s fiction.” Besides the question in my subtitle, there are two other questions that jump to my mind here: (1) Why in the world would an author want to (a) bury his struggle for name recognition in the shrouds of an irrelevant magazine and (b) let them rake off the profits to earn the measly royalty percentages that big publishers pay? (2) What the hell...