Month: March 2012
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Goodbye, iUniverse
No, iUniverse isn’t going out of business. (Well, maybe they are – I haven’t checked.) I’ve just decided to pull my books from iUniverse. I’ve done three books with them, and the idea of print on demand radically changed my writing career. I mean, I have not made millions from it, but prior to…
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Summer Rain, now on kindle
So I spend all week editing a book that’s set in Indiana University, and my news feeds explode with news about IU basketball. Weird how that works sometimes. Anyway, I’m proud to announce that my first book, Summer Rain, is now available in a new edition on the Kindle, and will soon be available in…
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Review: Editorial by Arthur Graham
I’m sick of plot. I mean, I’m sick of the unshakeable, so-called undeniable truth that books have to have three acts, a hero’s journey, twelve points, three trials, or whatever the hell archaic structure every hack writer regurgitating genre fiction on the kindle tells you that you must have in order to sell books. Maybe…
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Summer Rain Redux
I’ve spent the last few days doing something somewhat monotonous and incredibly nostalgic: importing the manuscript for Summer Rain into Scrivener. The import itself wasn’t difficult, except that the original book was written in emacs, which meant every single line ended in a hard return, and all of the quotes were straight quotes. Both of…
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Windows 8 is the next Microsoft Bob
I just installed the Windows 8 preview in a VM and tried it out. My first impression: these people do not get it. Here’s the deal: Windows 8 is basically Windows 7 with the Windows Phone Metro UI slapped on top of it. To be fair, Windows 7 isn’t a bad OS. I’m a Mac…
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And So It Goes
I just finished reading And So It Goes, Charles J. Shields’ biography of Kurt Vonnegut, and have mixed feelings and unchecked nostalgia. The mixed feelings part: the book was somewhat lopsided, but I liked it more than most of the reviewers. Like someone reviewed it “and so it goes – into the trash,” and I…