Tag: publishing

  • Confessions of a Non-Best-Selling Author

    Confessions of a Non-Best-Selling Author

    My overnight at the Convention Center started out about as uneventful as any other shift I had pulled over the past few weeks. I was already one month retired from the post office, in a funky college section of Boston called Allston, situated nearly dead center between Boston College and crosstown rival Boston University. Allston…

  • Ebook Sales Leveling off… and why that’s a great thing.

    Ebook sales have leveled off to normal growth, and sooner than most technologies. If you’re someone who reads a book every week during your commute, say a detective novel or romance novel, the e-book format is perfect for you. But those people have pretty much all shifted to e-books, and there are only so many…

  • Snow in Summer, New Article, and a return from my Hobbit Hole

    For those who have followed me on here, you know that my blog has waned of late. Though I blame being out-of-town for six weekends in a row, two weeks in the middle, lots of new business and other fancy schmancy projects, deep down I know I’ve a lot of catching up to do for…

  • Blog: An Onomatopoeia for Vomit

    You should love more than you hate, since this world’s filled with far more good than evil. That said, I hate few things, but one is this word “blog.” Oh, I get how it came about. People started creating new pages on a website back in the late eighties (post-Usenet) to create a log of…

  • 038: [title redacted]

    This isn’t a poem, it’s a regular post. Sometimes when you write, you end up writing so honestly that your words are too inflammatory, personal, or polemical to share. It’s not like you lied and got embarrassed about the lie. Rather, the thoughts and words are too fresh, too new, too immature — in the…

  • Noble Beast Transmedia to Publish My Work

    Noble Beast Transmedia Publishing Company will publish the digital story Slice of Life around the middle of February. Fans of Kickstarter might notice the name of their up-and-coming transmedia app, Steampunk Holmes. For Slice of Life, a transmedia team was assembled by the fabulous author Ellie Ann: Consisting of the infamous Gary Morgan, comic artist the mellifluous composers Raphael Cutrufello and…