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Don’t Believe the E-Book Monopoly Ploy
Don’t believe all that hype about government interference that is designed to foster an Amazon monopoly of the ebook business. What the six major publishers were alleged to have done was collude in fixing prices that, if true, was a desperate act that they must have known would fall afoul of anti-trust laws. The new [...]
An Experiment in Self-Publishing for the Non-Genre Novelist: Part One
Based on more than a decade’s experience in pioneering e-books and non-traditional methods of publishing non-genre novels, I am embarking on a costly experiment to determine whether it is possible for an author of such works to take control of his own career, increase his readership and beat the odds in an increasingly confusing and [...]
The Sunset Gang: A Journey from Page to PBS to Musical
A number of years ago, Larry Russell Brown and I met at the Donna Reed Festival in Denison, Iowa. Larry is a songwriter whose credits include such perennial favorites as “Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree,” “C’mon Marianne,” “Knock Three Times,” and many others. We were each invited to speak to high [...]
The E-Book Dilemma
So now that the pricing structure of e-books has been resolved once and for all, where does that leave the authors, without whom the publishers, their employees, and agents might be on food stamps? Once the gatekeepers of the printed word, the power of the publishing community has been severely diminished by the indifferent scythe [...]
Voting Maybe
I no longer take anything at face value. Like Freud asking, “What do women want?” I find myself asking this question without regard to gender, embellishing it further with yet other questions like: “What does he or she really mean?” or “What is he or she thinking?” or “What does he or she want me [...]
Let’s Hear it for the Self-Published Author
It is no small thing to write a book. It takes dedication, concentration, discipline, singleness of purpose, long hours of isolation and, above all, ideas. Years ago, before the rise of the Internet and the ease of digitization and the proliferation of e-readers, those who self-published were considered the bottom of the publishing barrel, rejected [...]
What Is a Literary Novel?
I have been baffled for years over what constitutes the definition of a “literary” novel. Over the course of my career, I have heard numerous definitions, but none quite resonate for me as the one gold standard, definitive answer. In search of this definition, I am tempted to discount all of the various genre novels, [...]
The Dark Underbelly of Modern India
There are many ways to assess the content of Katherine Boo’s remarkable book Behind the Beautiful Forevers which is about, in general terms, the disenfranchised, struggling, impoverished underclass of India. Beyond the general however, is the harsh statistic that India contains one-third of the impoverished people on the planet. This, despite a surging Indian middle [...]
Don’t miss your chance to own the novel that inspired one of the most famous movies about divorce ever made! In celebration of Read An E-Book Week (March 4-10, 2012) we are offering for the first time ever, a free download of The War of the Roses. “Better than the movie!” “Therapists recommend to any [...]
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One can always find things to criticize at the Academy Awards television shows. Its blatant over-the-top orgy of self-congratulation and fawning, its contrived red carpet fiesta of excess, its simpering announcers whose nauseating flattery and butt-kissing is a shameless embarrassment, the contrived grandstanding of movie star worshipers, the general atmosphere of faux glamour and hype [...]
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