The article (link below) is a bit mind-blowing when you read the scale of things in China. It starts out reporting the demise of a digital author who worked himself to, well, death… Pulp fiction in the digital age|Society|chinadaily.com.cn. There […]
When Novels Become Assassins: The Problem with Writing on the Edge
A version of this essay was adapted for The Huffington Post. Read that here. I nearly died just after completing the first draft of a novel called Beautiful Morning Blues. The story I came up with is unnerving, possibly amoral, anarchic, […]
An Unexpected Short Book Review and Appreciation
The review below tells the story as well as I ever could here in an intro. Let me just say that Roger Raufer was one of the great teachers in my life when I was learning the ropes in the […]
Divergent Paths: The Most Influential People I Ever Met
I spent the first 30 years of my adult life as a consultant in the world of energy and the environment. I’ve done energy and solid waste audits of over 600 institutional and corporate buildings throughout the United States. During […]
More on the Price of Books in America: addendum to a Talking Writing op-ed
The Apple vs. Department of Justice anti-trust, book pricing case came to an end this past week. It offered a rare and important glimpse of the private nether regions of both the publishing world and the new corporate media industry […]
The Loneliness of the Self-Published Author
I just found a short Huffington Post ditty attached to a video rant by media phenom John Green sort of seeming to trash the idea of self-publishing and going it alone as an author. The link to it is: John […]
Review Redux: Implosions of America
A short five-star book review from El Dink The UK EBook Magazine Reviewer: Barry Purcell Implosions of America: Nine Stories by David Biddle ★★★★★ This book is nine short stories full of desperate, confused middle-aged men who want to have sex […]
