My new Print On Demand (POD) book just arrived in the mail. To be clear, this isn't what I consider a "real" book. It's not a novel, or even an organized work of non-fiction. It's a collection of blog posts that I cut and pasted into an application … [Continue reading] about My POD Book Arrived This Morning
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Literary Journals
I just finished reading the Winter/Spring edition of Gulf Coast. To be honest, I didn't read every word. I'm not huge on poetry, which it publishes a lot of, but the fiction and non-fiction were stunning. There's something so immediate about … [Continue reading] about Literary Journals
Fear The Frog
About a year ago I wrote a post about avoiding cliché in my writing. This month's issue of Poets & Writers brings us an article titled "Consider the Orange," written by Benjamin Percy, which has the topic bouncing in my head again. In the piece … [Continue reading] about Fear The Frog
The Bias Against Print-On-Demand
Here it is - the Month Without Monsanto blog in book form. Well, here's a mock up of the cover at least. In case you're new, I created this book to give as a thank you to folks who donated to my new Digging Deep food awareness campaign (our new … [Continue reading] about The Bias Against Print-On-Demand
Did I Say 100 Days Of Writing?
Today is the first of November and the internet is a buzz with talk of the annual NaNoWriMo challenge. If you haven't heard, it's a website that challenges writers to to spill out 50,000 words in one month. The basic rules are that it has to be a … [Continue reading] about Did I Say 100 Days Of Writing?
Submission
I once heard someone somewhere say that you can tell a lot about a profession by how one finds work. A business man applies for a job. Actors audition. Athletes try out. Writers submit. We submit short stories to literary journals. We submit query … [Continue reading] about Submission
The POD Adventure Begins
After doing some price comparison and reading up on the best Print On Demand (POD) options available, I've decided to go with Blurb.com to publish the book version of my Month Without Monsanto blog. (For more info on why I'm doing this read my post … [Continue reading] about The POD Adventure Begins