My short story, White Metal, took the cover of the Storyteller Magazine’s fall 2006 edition,
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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
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.