Why should I try to get Published?
I had a friend ask me that question a while ago. His actual words were, “Why the fuck should I ever try to get published? Shouldn’t I wait ’til the [...]
Category Archives: strictly speaking
The future of publishing (part 3 of 3): publishers
When considering the future of the business from a publisher’s perspective, it must be noted that this is extremely hypothetical. Too much of the business is in a state of [...]
The future of publishing (part 1 of 3: the readers)
As I think about the future of publishing, there are three aspects of the business that I’m concerned about: 1 – the readers 2 – the writers 3 – the [...]
Unsubscribe! Unsubscribe!
I like to think that I am above all the useless email marketing that I have been inundated with over the years across my multiple email accounts. But that would [...]
How many email addresses do you have?
So I’m one of those guys out there that was worried about internet privacy for a while. As such, I started up separate accounts for registering with certain places and [...]
Time-traveling Lincoln meets daughter
Abraham Lincoln traveled through time. We all know this. But what we may not know is that when Old Abe went into the future, he fell in love with Joan [...]
“The book you want, just a click away!”
Not to get too theoretical about the biz or anything, but as I thought about the validity of a publisher using their website to sell their books, I couldn’t help [...]
The new pair of dimes…
Okay, so Amazon is doing well, and the rest are fading into mediocrity or below… Great. That’s all we need in America: one more freakin’ monopoly. But it’s not all [...]
Pubsite winner and loser
Looking around on the wide world of the web, I stumbled (no I wasn’t drunk) onto a couple sites from publishers of the books on my shelf. I checked out [...]
Your digital identity
Right now, people are in a war over how you are going to create your online identity to travel through the halls of the great and wonderful interweb. The main [...]
