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?
Coming soon from Riposte Publishing.
I feel like I have, but I can’t swear to it. This is the result of me wringing out the best of my various pre-andrewjpatrick.com blogs (still out there, under the names Revolutionary Nonsense, and Genre Confusion) and other scribblings into a single collection. I culled it down to the best, and am selling… Read More So Have I Mentioned That I Have a Book Called “Typing Into the Void” Out?
Neo-Neocon penned a refutation on Friday (h/t: Ace) of the notion, oft fulsomely asserted in the 2008 campaign, that eloquence is a substitute for competence: Wordsmiths fancy they could govern quite well, if only they cared to. Neither the skills nor the knowledge base of oration or of writing—especially fiction, although it’s also true of… Read More Politics and the Eloquence Fallacy
A blogger and essayist named Melissa Camara Wilkins, who writes about her life, family, amusing her children, lack of super-caffeinated tea, etc., has a veritable slew of self-published books on Amazon. Several of them are short essays, one of them is an essay collection. One of them is a collection of posts from her blog.… Read More Are Blog Books a Thing?
Yesterday I mentioned that my Essays page was being discontinued as part of the redesign, and that I would probably publish a book of Essays instead, on my Riposte Publishing imprint. Today, after performing the rote and necessary actions which earn the daily bread, I finally managed to put some work into it. Truth be… Read More Upcoming Book, Or Where My Essays Went
Riposte Publishing is about to unload my first book! So get your Sophist on, y’all.
Please look into my fledgling enterprise here. This will be our first book:
I’ve got something I’m working on, so I’m going to withdraw a bit today. I need to transfer a First Chapter from my Moleskine to Microsoft Word. Details will follow when there are any.
Content Blues 