Last year ECW editor Jen Knoch asked me a few questions about A Tidy Armageddon. I loved the central concept of this book, which basically turned our staggering material possessions into a maze and put a few humans as rats in it. Where did the idea for A Tidy Armageddon come from? I’ve always been a conservationist, […]
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When you do get published, there comes before the typesetting of your work one of the many events of great vulnerability for a writer: the copyedit. The copyeditor won’t tell you if she likes your work – she’ll just tell you where you went wrong, how you went wrong, and how you can make it
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My novel is again free for Kindle, January 21st. You can find a long excerpt here, or here’s a brief sampler: CHAPTER 15 “Your ETA was out by fourteen minutes,” Tessa mutters through a cigarette as she banks to line up the dirt strip. “The wind changed,” Cordell replies. “You haven’t set the gyrocompass in
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My novel Night is a Shadow Cast By the World is free from Amazon again, this time on New Year’s Day. Start 2013 with a rollicking adventure. Wander through the pink city of Jaipur, explore an eccentric book store, smuggle guns, fly a DC-3 below radar, play the flute with exquisite skill (and kill somebody
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My exciting literary adventure novel about books and aviation and travel and love, Night is a Shadow Cast By the World, normally USD$3.99 for the ebook, is free on December 25th from the Amazon Kindle Store. Grab yourself a copy for your (new that day?) Kindle, Apple iOS device, Android device, or to read on your
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Problem: you use the epub validation tool at Threepress Consulting, and consistently receive this error: WARNING: [your epub file name].epub: item (iTunesMetadata.plist) exists in the zip file, but is not declared in the OPF file Reason: you tested your epub by dropping it into iTunes. That’s all you have to do for this rogue file
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The buzz used to be that the best place to publish your ebook was Smashwords, as they would rapidly and faithfully push your book to the big retailers such as Amazon, Apple, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and Sony, but it seems that the company has been damaged by its own success, which has made them
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I’ve got bootleg Harry Potter for my Palm device. And I downloaded it free from a software pirating site on the Internet. Everyone is feeling the pull of the E. Like a huge planet, the digital format is drawing everything into its orbit: film and video, music, and of course, books. Planet E promises a
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“They are reading what they are told to read by this blurbing world. They are acting on the guidance they get. That guidance originates in a literary and literary-critical world that is amiable, bland, clubby, pious, careerist, relentlessly cheerful, desperate for numbers, suavely relativizing, and awash in worthless praise. A universe of invitations and congratulations,
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