Because it’s always three o’clock? Sartre wrote in La Nausée that “Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.” OK, he wrote it in French, but the point still stands. Middle age is like that for me. Too late for writing with the crazed energy that possesses you […]
A few months back, I wrote a piece on whether writing is a dying profession. My take was that, given the sorry state of traditional book publishers, there’s no longer any incentive for writers to honor the antiquated model of hiding their work in a drawer for years until an acquisitions editor taps it with […]
I haven’t posted here in a few weeks, but I did write a guest post on my Enemy Glory series for the speculative fiction website Risingshadow.net. Risingshadow has a facebook page. It also has tens of thousands of books in its database, and the folks who maintain it are truly passionate about sharing information with […]
Ewan Morrison thinks so. In a piece in The Guardian called “Are books dead, and can authors survive?” Morrison predicts that ebooks will kill paper books within 25 years. He provides numbers: Barnes & Noble now sells three times more digital books than physical books. Amazon sells 242 ebooks for every 100 hardbacks. Also, baby […]
Elizabeth Gumport knows her stuff. That’s obvious from her piece in n + 1, “Against Reviews.” But that’s not why I printed a copy (yes, I am a Luddite) and carried it around to think about. It’s because Gumport asks a brilliant and necessary question. Why must we read strangers? I seriously love this question […]
Nobody. No one entered the MBD contest. But I did get a few complaints about the contest’s “real name rule.” Per my posting guidelines, I tolerate anonymous posts unless the poster is dissing another writer or dissing me. The “real name rule” for the contest was solely to discourage multiple entries by sock puppets, but […]
