Since I last made updates, Tablo has made large structural changes to how it publishes and distributes books. Consequently, I’ve had to make some changes as well. The big takeaway is paperback publishing and retail distribution is now available. Given that the prices seem to be per year, per book, rather than a one-time fee,… Read More Changes in Tablo Prompt The Rise of Poetry
Or, How A Novel from 1985 and a Movie from Last Year are Related in My Head Had an opportunity to rewatch The Last Jedi yesterday and noticed something that made the plot make better sense. One of the things that annoyed me about the B-Plot was how Vice Admiral Pink-Hair’s escape plan ends up being… Read More The Detail You Missed
I encountered this a month ago, when it was written, and I’ve been meaning to blog about it, but honestly, just read the whole thing. https://audreyii-fic.tumblr.com/post/170886347853/the-entirely-unnecessary-demise-of-barnes-noble I will add some of my own thoughts in a later post.
I will miss Barnes & Noble when they’re gone. I have no news of their imminent demise, mind. Just an intuition which recent reports have intensified. Ah well. This is why one builds a library.
Looking over my bookshelf yesterday, I noticed that some of my books had prices that were all over the map. For example, The Devil Left Him was $3.99 for Kindle, $6.99 for Paperback. Last Tomorrow was 5.99 for paperback. The Right of Revolution was $2.99 for Kindle. I think at the time, I was testing to see what priced… Read More KDP-Amazon Price Reduction
Because I actually go so far as to purchase HBONow so I can watch Game of Thrones, because A Song of Ice and Fire is the only fantasy series I’ve gotten my wife to read, because I’m a fan, I occasionally check Wikipedia to see if there’s any rumor of Winds of Winter, the long delayed… Read More Winter is Leaving – A Lament on the Unfinished State of Game of Thrones
Over at Signature Reads, a review of Barry Strauss’ The Death of Caesar. Strauss’ take is that the assassination, whatever the particular motivations of the various actors, was at root a defense of liberty and an attack on tyranny, and so ought be commended. Now, I’ve written on this topic myself. Back in 2016, I argued… Read More A Defense of Brutus?
This post from On a Wing and a Whim, via Mad Genius Club, is old (2014!), but the principles behind it are older, and that makes them, to my mind, trustworthy. OK, now for ebook cover design, we’re going to focus on two layouts. They call them “The Z Layout” and “Perspectives Layout” in that… Read More How to Compose Cover Art
Here’s a book with a great title: Mud, Blood, and Poppycock: Britain and the Great War. From the description: Laced with dry humour, this will overturn everything you thought you knew about Britain and the First World War. Gordon Corrigan reveals how the British embraced technology, and developed the weapons and tactics to break through… Read More World War I May Finally Start Getting It’s Due
Why I might: On the DL, I’ve been sketching pieces of verse. I’ve got notebooks full of them. I’ve even laid them out in Scrivener. In the last year I’ve done maybe ten or twelve. There’s enough for a short paperback volume, anyway. They’re always saying, get the content out. It would be nice if… Read More Another Creation in Embryo…
Content Blues 