Etgar Keret’s house is only 4 feet wide but that’s all he needs. He’s also one of my favorite short story writers. I just finished his collection, Suddenly a Knock at the…
Etgar Keret’s house is only 4 feet wide but that’s all he needs. He’s also one of my favorite short story writers. I just finished his collection, Suddenly a Knock at the Door. I can’t tell if he’s insane, a magic realist, someone who is constantly beaten by life and bad relationships, or simply a […]
I got an erection this morning while reading “50 Shades of Grey” by E L James, the newest nominated book for the National Book Award. I can’t help it. She speaks to…
I got an erection this morning while reading “50 Shades of Grey” by E L James, the newest nominated book for the National Book Award. I can’t help it. She speaks to me. Everyone is very upset… Even angry… I’ve seen about five blog posts already this morning that have cried out that “great literature” […]
[an expanded answer from last week’s Twitter Q&A] CAN A NOBODY WRITE A BOOK? Fonzi @fonzib: Do you think it’s a waste of time for a spare nobody to write a book…
[an expanded answer from last week’s Twitter Q&A] CAN A NOBODY WRITE A BOOK? Fonzi @fonzib: Do you think it’s a waste of time for a spare nobody to write a book about their life so far? Answer: I’m sorry you think you are a nobody. There’s seven billion or so people on this planet. […]
Everyone around the dinner table had been brutally rejected hundreds of times. I was at a dinner with a bunch of people who had gone the self-publishing route via Amazon. All of…
Everyone around the dinner table had been brutally rejected hundreds of times. I was at a dinner with a bunch of people who had gone the self-publishing route via Amazon. All of them except for me were fiction writers and all had sold over 100,000 copies or more of their various novels. The guy sitting […]
If you’ve just given someone your business card then you failed. If you have a business card you might be about to fail. Nobody cares what’s on it. I throw out all…
If you’ve just given someone your business card then you failed. If you have a business card you might be about to fail. Nobody cares what’s on it. I throw out all business cards. I’ve written before about self-publishing but more than the “why” and “how” (although I add more info about this below than […]
The Foreward to Claudia’s Book I wrote the forward to Claudia’s new book: Foreward, by Me Before I even met Claudia (on our first date) I knew that she was into…
The Foreward to Claudia’s Book I wrote the forward to Claudia’s new book: Foreward, by Me Before I even met Claudia (on our first date) I knew that she was into yoga and that yoga was her life. For me, this was sexy. In my feeble understanding of what “yoga” meant I knew that […]
I just self-published a book. “How to Be the Luckiest Person Alive”. I published it in paperback form, kindle, and free PDF (see directions below to get free PDF). The entire process…
I just self-published a book. “How to Be the Luckiest Person Alive”. I published it in paperback form, kindle, and free PDF (see directions below to get free PDF). The entire process took me three weeks. Using an established publisher would’ve taken over a year. [Important note:Since this post was written I have also self-published […]
