There is an idea running through some forms of Internet Discourse, known as Elite Overproduction. Which is to say, the high emphasis on College and University education has produced more people trained to do Academic Thinking then there are actual jobs requiring such. In the old days, of course, a college degree in English was… Read More The Joylessness of Reading
When you create a paperback on Kindle Direct Publishing, the default trim size is 6×9. According to Reedsy, that’s a standard size for trade paperbacks, known as US Trade. The other standard size is 5X8, which Reedsy says is standard for novellas. As in, most of the books I’ve published. Those trim sizes make a… Read More Book Sizes and Countdown Deals
I self-published my first book, Solar System Blues, over a decade ago. Back then, I was hopeful enough to believe that if I gave away free copies on Goodreads, that I’d get a bunch of good reviews. I got two, one of which was from Self-Publishing Review. Sales? I got a few. In 2017 I… Read More There Are No Rules For Book Sales
In 1983 a group of Neo-Nazis, calling themselves “The Order” (because of course) committed some bank robberies and stole cars in Idaho. I was alive in 1983, and this is the first I’ve heard of this, probably because they never made it outside Idaho before the FBI brought the hammer down on them. I suppose… Read More Jude Law Thinks Nazis Are, Wait For It… Bad.
Apropos of nothing, I had the theme song to Tiny Toons stuck in my head one afternoon this summer. I sang it, my wife sang it, we knew it, we remembered it. We are old. Back in the 1980’s one of the three networks had three hours of Looney Tunes Cartoons on every Saturday morning,… Read More Tiny Toons and Animaniacs: Exploitation vs. Creativity
Occasionally, I check the reports on Kindle Direct Publishing, to see how many copies I have sold of things. This puts me in the group of “Authors who sit in front of their computer, compulsively hitting Refresh over and over to see their Amazon ranking like one of those perpetual motion bird toys. Peck. Peck.… Read More New Versions of Void now Available
I think the title gave it all away, but in case you’re unclear, you may download the ebook version of Don’t Touch The Dead: A Caenus the Quick Mystery for free through Monday, August 19th, from Amazon.com. Disaster has struck Duvaltry Hall. The heir to the Count of Styria has just turned up murdered in… Read More Don’t Touch The Dead, Available Free until Monday
At various times, and especially in my younger days, I would Get Into a movie, watching them over and over, on a nightly or weekly basis, because something in it is speaking to me. I don’t think I am unique in this, but it is a phenomenon I’ve observed in myself. I recently mentioned that… Read More Movies I Got Into: Casino
Publication Date is August 11th. It will be available in both ebook and paper back. It’s my first mystery story, and it’s set in the fantasy world, Cevalon, that the Tygg and Drea stories also belong to. This has been a project long in the works. I started it years ago, set it aside, rediscovered… Read More Don’t Touch The Dead, now Available for Pre-Order!
There’s two pieces of new content, so I’m smushing them together. First, New issue of Unnamed Journal. These may be acquired in the usual places, such as Gumroad, and our Patreon. Also, Amazon, if you’re into that sort of thing. But wait, there’s more! Podcast updates! Two-part podcast episode on the Japanese rock-and-roll zombie movie… Read More Shallow & Pedantic summer Update
Content Blues 