I’m starting to think I should keep all my short-form content free on Amazon. Sarah Hoyt advises it, and now I’m starting to wonder if the price of zero would spare me reviews like this: No true fan of Aaron Burr would like this book., November 23, 2013 By jaybee43 Amazon Verified Purchase(What’s this?) This review… Read More I Get Bad Reviews
I don’t know if it’s my subconscious ruminating on the debased state of American politics, or just the idle curiosity to re-watch a train wreck, but I found myself viewing, for the second time, the 1979 film Caligulia with Malcolm McDowell on Netflix. I only got an hour or so into it before I decided that… Read More Madness in Great Ones Must Not Unwatched Go.
Off the Sidebar at The Other McCain: I liked the cover, and the intro sounded freshly erudite, so I plunked down the price of a cup of coffee for the Kindle edition. I mean, I’ve always figured the Labor Theory of Surplus Value was bunk, but it would be nice to have it systematic.
I’m one of those people. I’ve read all the books. I kept my mouth shut during the last season while everyone on Facebook was expressing hope that the Starks would somehow outwit the Lannisters. I still know things that the TV-only crowd doesn’t know (Lannisters always pays their debts). Since I don’t have HBO, I’m… Read More The Unremitting Torture That is Game of Thrones
T.B. Markinson at Self-Publishing Review calls it “an exhilarating read”. Not only is this story science fiction, but it’s also a thriller. As Burton and his assistant travel further and further into space the story slowly unfolds. It all starts to make sense. In the meantime, Burton has music from decades ago to keep him company… Read More The Solar System Blues Review is In!
It will help you keep an audience when you’ve got one. That’s not what this post at Book Designer starts to say, but that’s what they end up concluding. The lede is buried here: Your key to more followers isn’t posting more frequently or having more conversations. Nor is it constantly checking your feeds to… Read More Authors: Social Media Will Not Bring You an Audience.
Is there anything lamer than having two “Sorry I no blog” posts in a row? But I seriously had a good reason. Seriously. Anyhoo, while I prep for the school year, here’s some nonsense. First my first feedback on Solar System Blues from someone who doesn’t know me and is therefore under no pressure to… Read More Content? Fie Upon Your “Content”
I am giving away 10 copies of my new book, Solar System Blues, to Goodreads members. Goodreads Book Giveaway Solar System Blues by Andrew J. Patrick Giveaway ends July 31, 2013. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win You know what to do.
Solar System Blues began as a spoken-word element of a band show for The Fest, a music and arts festival that my brother and his friends used to put on in Lancaster, PA every July. It’s the first thing I consciously created a First Draft for, and circulated said draft for comments from friends and… Read More My Daddy Drives a UFO….The Official Launch of Solar System Blues
How recently would that question have made no sense at all? Having played around a bit with Amazon’s CreateSpace service (Those books on the sidebar: They’re mine, I swearsies), I find it functional, intuitive, and free. Zero complaints about how the system works or how Amazon pays out. Yeah, you don’t make tons of money,… Read More To Lulu or To CreateSpace?
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