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
If you’re one of our Patreon subscribers, you’ve had access to this episode of the Shallow & Pedantic Podcast for a little while. But if you’re not, why then… here it is. The habit now is to bust these episodes into smaller increments, less-than-an-hour: We are expecting to record a new episode this weekend, so… Read More New Old Podcasts: Shallow & Pedantic does the Second Dune Movie
This has been up since the middle of the month, but I delayed this post because we had artwork in it for the first time, and I had to be sure that Amazon could handle it. Or, if you’re the sort of person who wants an .epub AND a .pdf, you go to our Gumroad… Read More Unnamed Journal 37 – Wanna Be Anarchy!
I mentioned earlier that I was going to to be redesigning the site. The idea is for it to be a content hub as much as a blog. So if you click the button in the top corner, you will see some new pages, for the podcasts I am involved with: Shallow & Pedantic and… Read More Content Update and New Shallow & Pedantic Podcast
Choose from a multitude of availabilities, gentle readers: On the Amazon.com: Or, if you prefer, you can get a fancy .pdf of the issue on Gumroad. You get the same .epub as you’d get from Amazon thrown in, and for the same price.
This has become a more easily replicable format than Thumbs Down/Thumbs Up, as I don’t have to pretend that I’m doing anything but observing what I’ve encountered. Half an hour is about right for a program such as this, where I’m really just talking directly into the microphone. Shallow & Pedantic has three regulars now,… Read More Content Blues, The Podcast – Episode 2: Zarathustra’s Funko Pops
We’ve got Swords, Sorcery, and Pirates in The Skeleton King, codes of cat combat in Catakure, A morning of yogurt and pan-dimensional alien invasions in Ale-Man Blues, and Ghost Raid, a mystical take on a Western standard. Buy it on our Gumroad to get in .epub or an aesthetic .pdf! This is an experimental issue… Read More Unnamed Journal 25 – Rabbit Gets the Gun
As promised. This is the first of our paid issues since the first volume of the magazine back in 2015. It’s the same price as what you would pay on Gumroad. (if you subscribe to our Patreon, you get it even cheaper). Above is the July Issue, Below is the October. Next Issue comes out… Read More Unnamed Journal on Amazon
In my wild opinionated youth, I was something of a disdainer. Where other readers and writers widely explored what certain genres had to offer; I tended to stick with the first thing that brought me in the door. I liked Star Wars, and never found another sci-fi world that interested me until I read Heinlein.… Read More Entertainment vs. Edutainment: The New Pulp Narrative
There’s a new publishing platform out there called SubStack. I heard about it on Twitter. It looks cool, it’s free to use, and it’s got a bunch of features like MailChimp that cost extra on WordPress (the number of things this blog doesn’t have because I don’t feel like shelling out for a WordPress business… Read More SubStack, Marketing Lamentations, and Cover Design Refreshes
Content Blues 