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Gods so cheap they’re free
I’ve read a bit about Marie Philips’ Gods Behaving Badly (though not the book itself, I’ll admit). The premise, to quote its Amazon.com page, is: the Greek gods and goddesses living in a tumbledown...
View ArticleEntrekin: A Year in Review
Was it a year ago today I clicked the buttons to launch my own publishing venture? If it wasn’t, it was pretty close, I think. I know it was at the start of March, because I remember thinking about its...
View ArticleShort stories will never die, but they could be awesome again
For a long enough while that I can no longer recall when it began, I’ve been reading lamentations about the current health of the short story, or, more accurately, the complete lack thereof. Seems a...
View ArticleA Boy in Dogland
Will Shetterly, whom I’ve mentioned before, wrote a novel called Dogland, semi-autobiographical in nature, about growing up at an amusement park. He’s posted the first chapter of a memoir, A Boy in...
View ArticleOn Entrekin, reviews, and response
Posted to et cetera, because that’s why I started that particular venture, but worth mentioning here: nearly a year and a half after its release, Cheryl Anne Gardner at POD People reviews Entrekin: The...
View ArticleComparing eyeballs to eyeballs
Caught via Hugo-award winning and NYT bestselling author John Scalzi (and congrats on both counts there), the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Gordon Van Gelder, posts about the...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on Free & Amazon
Lately, there’s been a price trick among independent authors using Smashwords and Amazon: if one made one’s ebook available to Smashwords’ distributors (like B&N and Kobo and Apple) free, Amazon...
View ArticleThe Prodigal Hour: Free For a Limited Time
Self explanatory, isn’t it? Over Christmas, I tried the free thing and saw stories and essays get downloaded more than 1200 times. I’m interested to see what will happen with a novel. For anyone new...
View ArticleThe Free Dilemma: Kindle Select, No-Price Sales, & New Readers
Hey, right now, my pre-/post-9/11 time-travel novel, The Prodigal Hour is free for Kindle. I have to be honest with you: I have absolutely no idea how to feel about that. A lot of authors are doing...
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