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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘snail mail’
March 24, 2011 by C.D. Reimer · Comments Off
Filed under: General
Social Tagging: dead trees • ebooks • email • office supplies • snail mail
Filed under: General
Social Tagging: dead trees • ebooks • email • office supplies • snail mail
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 [...]
June 30, 2010 by C.D. Reimer · Comments Off
Filed under: Submissions, Technology
Social Tagging: email • short story • snail mail
Filed under: Submissions, Technology
Social Tagging: email • short story • snail mail
Over the past year or so, I have switched from submitting my short stories via snail mail to email. That decision was driven by both economics and practicality. Being without a full time non-writing job for 16 months had forced me to reduce expenses everywhere to be able to live on my unemployment benefits. Fewer [...]
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