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My Contract With My Book
Dear Book, I love you, I truly do even though I, as of yet, do not know you fully. I love your curves as you move through time, I love your heart as you show me the humanity of the most despicable characters, I love your brain as you teach me about Ancient Rome and the origins of wool. But we need to talk. I’ve been through this with some of your siblings before, five of them to be exact, and... [Read more]
Flash Fiction Contest: Sewing Climax
Short Version: Write a short story in 750 words or less in which the final climactic scene involves…SEWING!!!! Mail it to thiswhiterabbit@gmail.com. Next Friday-ish a winner will be announced and they will win signed copies of Probability Angels and Persistent Illusions. And if you have a blog or site where you want to post your story, feel free to link to it in the comments. Longer Version:... [Read more]
I Think It’s Time to Start Book Three
Oh god I can’t believe I just wrote that blog title. I have so much more research I need to do. Currently I’m halfway through a book on the history of textiles and sewing methods. I have no idea when the book was published, I grabbed it for my Kindle without checking, but it discusses at length how you shouldn’t store your thread next to a fire or heating stove because that can make... [Read more]
Prague Film School and My Creative Commons License
Earlier this week I received an email from my new friend in Prague, Roma Raju. I mentioned her a few months ago. She attends a film school in Prague and wanted to know if she could adapt my short story, Private Showing, into a film for her final project. My response was something along the lines of, “F*&! YES YOU CAN THAT’S SO F&*&#$G COOL OHMYGOD!” She wrote me to let... [Read more]
The Pins are Out of the Grenades: More Thoughts on Self-Publishing
I haven’t been sleeping real well lately and my eyes are all kinds of blurry this morning. That’s partly because of allergies and partly because I’ve been pretty stressed out this past week. As I mentioned last Wednesday, I’ve started seeing signs of my self-promotion paying off. It’s clumsy but, for the first time ever, I have a marketing machine that makes some sort... [Read more]
A Few Words About Advertising Your Books
Last week I chatted a bit about marketing my books, what has worked, and how revisiting my core strategy required some shifts in my current methods (that sounded like jargon-speak). At one point I mentioned that advertising was a pretty lousy way to sell books. That may have been a bit of an overstatement. The phrase “advertising” is broad and I don’t think one blanket judgment... [Read more]
Marketing as an Indie Publisher, the Amazon Algorithm, and Why My Books Are No Longer Free
I was talking to a friend of mine once about what I’m trying to accomplish in the world of independent publishing and he commented with a quickly astute, “Huh. Sounds like a lot of chicken and egg stuff.” Every time I try to gather my thoughts and plan my next move for my books, I come back to that comment and it has continued to ring true. I put out a new story? Great, so I want... [Read more]
Recent Photographs
So I’ve been taking a lot more photographs than usual lately. I made a New Year’s Resolution to take my camera out with me more and I’ve actually been doing a pretty good job of keeping up with that. I also go to a lot of bars. So the end result is a lot of pictures from bars…well and some other places. At any rate, I always find it amazing how easy it is to share my work on... [Read more]
3rd Annual Joseph Devon Art Contest
Just wanted to drop a quick word this week to start plugging the 3rd Annual Joseph Devon Art Contest. Technically it’s been open since the last one ended but the deadline is now officially a few months out so it’s time to chat it up. The winner can choose from a handful of great prizes including an iPad or a Wacom tablet. It’s open to the world (which I love) and I encourage anyone... [Read more]
10 Things Overheard on the Set of Luck
A few weeks ago HBO announced the cancellation of the show Luck before the first season had even finished airing. The show, an interwoven story line of multiple characters centering on a horse track in California, had a slow start but picked up drastically towards the end and could have really been a show to watch. The reason it was cancelled was utterly baffling to me; it seemed too many horses were... [Read more]
