Tag: business of writing

  • Emotional Artifacts

    I get all metaphorical, and as snarky as I ever get, this morning over at Mad Genius Club. I’m the nice one, over there, but really… they are just special, aren’t they? Books are, as this article eloquently puts it, emotional artifacts. GigaOm: “What makes Amazon’s dispute with publishers different from a typical battle between…

  • All Joking Aside

    All Joking Aside

    A few of us were kidding around in the writing group I belong to online. It’s not your average group: we never show one another examples of work for critique, although we use one another as guinea pigs, er, beta readers, from time to time. This group is more for motivation. We post word counts,…

  • Read the Contract and other Drama

    Read the Contract and other Drama

    I’m cross-posting this from Amazing Stories Magazine, where I blog weekly, on Mondays. Because I have a deadline for that post, this was submitted, early yesterday; I want to make it clear that this was written before the drama in the comments on LibertyCon AAR yesterday afternoon and evening. The comments on that post are…