My short story, White Metal, took the cover of the Storyteller Magazine's fall 2006 edition, but this is not that
It seems the Charlie Sheen school of publicity has hit the indie publishing scene in a big way. Author Jacqueline Howett took great exception to book blogger Big Al's review of her indie novel.
Less than a week after Barry Eilser walked away from a $500,000 dollar contract with St Martin's Press so that he could self-publish his next novel, Amanda Hocking, the self-publishing star who has sold over 2 million copies of her e-books, has signed a seven figure deal with St. Martins for her next four novels.
I prefer not to simply publish links to other people's content on this blog, but this warning from Amanda Hocking
Rebecca Senese and I shared a strange place in the history of Storyteller Magazine before we even met.
The trouble with this is that one of them doesn't have a compelling enough reason to walk into Afghanistan.
I like writing because it's a solitary task. I'm the complete dictator of an entire world when I sit in front of my keyboard. I decide who lives and who dies, who get's laid and who joins the priesthood.
I've turned into one of those bloggers. You know the kind: they start up, blog excitedly every day for a few weeks, then slip to twice a week, once a week, and stop all together. I guess they thought a massive following would be instantaneous, or was deserved.
If I'm lucky enough to live my full lifespan, it could be that twenty years from now I will preside over the last meeting of the Crime Writers of Canada.
I chose physics as my major in university because it was my best subject in high school thanks to an excellent teacher, it seemed like an interesting field of study and I wanted to be a science fiction author and I thought it would help.