I sometimes copy my posts to Open Salon. I’ve made “Editors’ Pick” there a few times. Editors’ Pick puts posts in the center column, where anyone dropping by the site is likely to see them. The editors tend to pick posts with universal appeal or dealing with current events. My posts in the center column [...]
The New York Times Magazine has a story, which is only slightly condescending, about Amanda Hocking, the twenty-something self-publishing phenom whose paranormal romance/fantasies have earned her over $2 million. Ms. Hocking recently signed a seven-figure deal with St. Martin’s Press. While stories like hers should do something to lift the stigma of self-publishing in the [...]
Yes, bookstores are disappearing. But I am shocked to find myself asking, “Does it matter?” You had to feel just a touch of schadenfreude when the Barnes &Noble branches started to close. Barnes & Noble in my youth was a store on lower Fifth Avenue. It billed itself even then as the world’s largest bookstore. [...]
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