Posts Tagged ‘dead trees’

Getting The 2012 Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market This Year?

July 31, 2011 by · Comments Off
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After I got serious about being a fiction writer five years ago, I always bought a copy of “The Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market” (Writers Digest Books) to find new markets for my short story fiction. Every six weeks I would spend a weekend browsing through the current N&SSWM, finding markets that fit my [...]

The Emotional Baggage That A Male Reader Brings To The Novel

March 31, 2011 by · 2 Comments
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Several months ago I started downloading free fiction ebooks from Amazon for the Kindle App on my iPod Touch. I normally don’t read fiction ebooks since I’m a dead tree traditionalist who prefer flipping the pages of paperbacks. Two years of unemployment and three months of being underemployed doesn’t leave much money for buying stacks [...]

Amanda Hocking – Young, Ambitious and Whining About The Work?

March 24, 2011 by · Comments Off
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The writing blogosphere is alit this with the news of Amanda Hocking, a 26-year-old writer from Minnesota who had written nine ebooks and sold 900,000 copies, was looking for a traditional publisher and signed a four-book deal with St. Martin’s Press. That’s like winning the lottery. For those of us tolling away in relative obscurity [...]

A Dead Tree Traditionalist Among E-Readers

June 23, 2010 by · Comments Off
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The big story this week is the price war among the various e-readers. Barnes & Noble cut the price on their current Nook 3G + Wi-Fi e-reader to $199 from $259, and introduced a new Wifi-only version for $149. Then Amazon followed with a similar price reduction for the Kindle, dropping the price to $189. That [...]