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Writing 101 -- Flavors Of Damnation
I think it's fairly safe to say that e-books are here to say. Seven years ago, when I was debating whether or not to let a somewhat uncertain-looking outfit named Chippewa Press be the literary brow through which Zeus-like I would take the world by storm with a book called Salvation, this was by no means a certain thing. At that time, e-books ( Read more... ) -
I'm 40....
...and I have pneumonia. On a Monday.
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That's A Wrap
For the past few months, I have been dealing with a rather serious back injury. It's called a wedge deformity, and it takes place when some sort of a stressor is placed upon your spine and causes the normally roughly cube-shaped vertebrae to deform into a vaguely wedge-shaped piece of bone and nerves. It's quite painful, and over the course of ( Read more... ) -
Writing 101 -- Nothing To See Here, Move Along
First update in a while.
So back in April, I got an email from a literary agency that I had previously submitted to. The sender said that they had left the agency where I had originally submitted Salvation to, and if I was still looking for a publishing house, they were now engaged in a new endeavor. As it was put to me, "I want to be in the ( Read more... ) -
Revelations
I don't think I believe in the dream any more. -
The Ugly Truth
There's no graceful way to say it, so I won't even try. In the fifth grade, I was a bully ( Read more... ) -
The Only Review On "American Psycho" You'll Ever Need To Read
I am old enough to remember the furor that surrounded the publication of Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho back in 1991. I hadn't seen a shitstorm like that since the release of Salman Rushdies' The Satanic Verses (and when the leader of Iran calls for your head, you know you've ruffled some feathers), but this one seemed even more bewildering ( Read more... ) -
Game Review: RAGE
For nearly 20 years, id Software has been one of the leaders in gaming. Having popularized and then revolutionized the first-person shooter genre with Wolfenstein 3-D, Doom and Quake, id's game engines have often served as a gold standard for the industry. Having been the first to offer now-standard features in their graphics such as true 3-D ( Read more... ) -
RELEASE DAY: Spells And Swashbucklers
The print edition comes out at the end of the month, but as I type this you can order the Kindle edition of Spells And Swashbucklers, the pirates-and-magic-themed collection of short stories from Dragon Moon Press and edited by Valerie Griswold-Ford, aka vg_ford here on LJ, from Amazon!
How do you get it, you ask? Go here.
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Writing 101 -- What's It Worth?
During this long journey I have been on toward publication, a question has popped up over and over again, and I no longer have the ability to be polite in how it is answered. I have been asked many times if I have ever thought of self-publishing something. The answer, quite simply, is no. And based on a story I read recently, it has become a ( Read more... )