This is an idea I’ve had for some time: doing a book tour reading from the comfort of my office and sharing it with YouTube. Here is a dip in the toe from the idea: six minutes from the first Drunk Vampire Hunter story, “Edge of the Graveyard” It’s six minutes because my current web… Read More Introducing Virtual Book Tours: Drunk Vampire Hunter Reading
Here’s a Podcast: We had this recorded last month, and of the 2 hours+ we recorded, this is the stuff that was actually about the ostensible topic, Neil Gaiman. I think we went over the edge on this one. The rest of the merry nonsense is going up on a “Bonus Episode” for Patrons, which… Read More Neil Gaiman Goes Over The Edge, Caligula Goes into Rewrites, and The Journal Still Has No Name: An End of July Update
Anchor does this thing where you can record and build podcast episodes on the Anchor web site, and intercut Spotify-licensed music. I’ve done two episodes this way: This one has precisely 1 listen.Here’s the one I did last night: It has no listens. This is because it can only be listened to on Spotify, so… Read More Stupid Podcast Tricks and New Old Magazines
I’m in the middle of adding old issues of UJ to the web site, and putting finishing touches on the new Paperback edition of UJ 29, and I find myself being told something I already suspected: Yup, it’s that bad. Just as Hollywood is incapable of making a major-budget film that isn’t an existing IP,… Read More Publishing is Pravda
My goal for this site is to be less of a blog (although it will remain that) and more of a publisher. By which I mean, there will be works published here, for people to read. Right now it’s a free-with-donations-accepted model. I’ve got the first volume of Unnamed Journal up in that way, I’ll… Read More New Content, Old Blues
A few years ago, you’d never see the words “Huffington Post” mentioned on social media without someone getting in a dig that they pay their writers “in exposure”. Larry Correia made a point of it when fisking a HuffPo author (as is right and just): I’m pretty sure the average HuffPo writer considers me a… Read More Larry Correia, Delicious Tacos, and Terror House: The Exposure Pay Conundrum
Which is to say, we’re adding some features to the site to give Unnamed Journal and other publications a more prominent place on it. Swapping out the theme was part of that. I may or may not change it again. You know me, this place is an experiment. As of now, both podcasts associated with… Read More Your Eyes Don’t Deceive You; We’re Under Construction
This is a fun issue. I brought back two recurring characters: Rand Thrax, starship captain two jumps ahead of the Empire and perpetual smartest guy in the room, for a Cantilever Jones story. I hit the Raymond Chandler in space aspects pretty hard. Also there’s Tygg & Drea, barbarian and witch, fighting their way through… Read More Unnamed Journal 28 – The Arms of Pulp
Of all the characters I’ve made on Unnamed Journal, DVH has been the easiest to write. I inhabit him (he inhabits me?) almost effortlessly. He’s bumbling but competent, self-overhearing but uninhibited, a Hamlet that fears not action, nor anything, save the cruelties of sobriety. He won’t get a name any more than Continental Op ever… Read More Peerless, Fearless, and Hammered: Drunk Vampire Hunter Gets His Book
I sometimes thing that the only profitable part of self-publishing is sniffing out the flop-sweat on people who are desperate for attention because they wrote a book. Here’s a classic example, found on Facebook. It looks like every other website of this kind: Long scrolling page Center-justified, bolded text. Buy button placed at regular intervals.… Read More The Internet is Filled With Writing Gurus Who Want Your Money
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