The chap with wings there. Five rounds rapid.
I suppose we’ve all been following this Kindle bullshit, right? If not, you can go read this article, and this one has a roundup of what the media’s been reporting. You owe it to yourself – assuming you possess at least some level of intelligence – to study this development. It’s important. It can hurt you.
Continue reading ‘Kindlenomics’
I should begin by saying that I’m a Luddite. I hate ebooks, and I think everybody who owns an ebook reader is in league with the devil and should be exterminated. I believe ebook owners, one and all, have contributed to the decline of quality literature, eroded the education of our youth, and, therefore, have destroyed America and all that was once good about this country. They are the barbarians at the gate.
Continue reading ‘On Ebooks’
Hello GS readers! A quick note telling you to support a book that means a whole hell of a lot to me: Ray Robertson’s Moody Food.
You can follow that link above to read all about it. What’s important right now is that we get it onto CBC’s Canada Reads top 10 list. It made the top 40, and we have till November 7th to get it into the top 10. How do we get there? You all vote for it! And if that link confuses you, or you’re like me and you have some retarded firewall at your office, then here’s a stripped down link to the poll itself.
You don’t have to be Canadian. Votes can come from anywhere in the world. You can use multiple computers, so dust off that laptop, vote from work, vote from home… Vote from all the computers at the library that aren’t being used by child molesters.
Most of all — spread the word! Get your friends to vote.
Okay? It’ll just take a minute. No big investment. Click of a mouse. Then you can rest easy knowing that a deserving book is in the top 10 instead of nine titles from fucking Atwood which is how the vote’s going to go without you.
Oh my god! I think my brain is dead. But I did it – our latest book hit the printer on Friday morning, and now I just have to sit back, drink vodka, and wait for the proofs…
Continue reading ‘The Latest Book’
I’ve been stealthily avoiding all of the talk about how the publishing industry is dying because, really, are we surprised?
Continue reading ‘The Fall’
From February of 2007. This picks up from mysterious and long lost commuter train notes. No idea where I was going with it… Though I did mention that high school walk home again in the recent post, Train Town.
Continue reading ‘Sunday Archive XIX: Notes on a book review’
Oh god, overstock fees on this book will start October 1st, and they’re going to kill me. So here’s your big chance. Do you want a copy for $2.50, shipping included? No problem. Paypal to janus_808@hotmail.com. Or get something off my Wishlist and I’ll send you a copy along with some other goodies I have lying around in exchange. All illegally through my office mail. Yay!
A hint on the overlong Wishlist — my next planned purchase is book two of the Prince of Nothing series. That’s currently on page two. Also, I’m always on the edge of compulsive Dr. Who DVD purchases. Just let me know your addy on the enclosed note and you’ll get some or all of the following goodies (depending on whether or not I can drunkenly find them when I get home from work):
1) A copy of the above book
2) This one. (Also in overstock limbo.)
3) Weird knick knacks from my home/office/weekend job
Ah, money. Money’s always a problem. But if I had the money, there are tons of things I would do differently with the books I publish.
Here’s an idea: Bookstores and festivals should pay the author for events. I mean, this is a business, right? The author is a commodity that equals attendance/sales, right? So what’s with this attitude that the publisher (or, in many cases, the author) cover travel and lodging?
This especially gets on my tits when the author is invited to attend. I suppose I can forgive the bookstores that are solicited by the publisher, but…well, no, I can’t. It’s criminal and it’s predatory.
Continue reading ‘Predators’
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