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When Books and Social Networks Mate

The share of the book market attributable to self-published books is not an easy number to track down. But a lot of folks with skin in the game feel data like this is pretty important now that the indie publishing […]

What Can Bookstores Do for Writers? Indie + Indie = LOVE?

My most recent “Talking Indies” column is about independent bookstores and whether their interests mesh with promoting indie authors. The piece is called “Why Bookstores Aren’t Helping Indie Authors—Yet.” You can read it in the Spring Edition of Talking Writing […]

Notes on the Heart of Darkness: Ex-Urban Wildernesses

When someone speaks knowingly of a heart of darkness somewhere, understand that they don’t realize this heart is only an opening or an entrance into something that is hard to understand. Inside a real heart of darkness there are dimensions. […]

The Physicalism of Hallucinations | Psychedelic Press UK

“So here we have the case that pathological people can be experiencing parts of reality in ‘high-definition’ compared to that of ‘normal’ people or, in other words, an experience of the heightened awareness of certain areas within the sensory stimuli  […]

PsyPress UK Literary Review: Beyond the Will of God

My psychedelic novel, Beyond the Will of God, was reviewed by the Psychedelic Press UK — a book review site that does exactly what you’d think it does. Here’s a snippet from the review: “Very few novels come across the review desk of […]

“The Ass Hole Club” : an excerpt from a novel-in-progress

This excerpt is getting a major facelift today. It will self-destruct into a few truncated sample paragraphs very soon, so read up now. Please let me know your thoughts in the comments section… He discovers two bananas, soft to the […]

World-Class Baseball: The March World Series is Extraordinary

Ah, baseball. I don’t write about it enough anymore. Last night’s World Baseball Classic face-off between the USA and Dominican Republic was one doozy of an event. The DR won in the 9th, busting open a 1-1 tie with scrappy […]

Re-Blog: A Day in the Life of a Freelance Journalist – 2013

Check out the insights into life as a freelancer re-blogged from Nate Thayer. Follow the link and read the comments. Ironic that bad communication is the modus operandi here. A Day in the Life of a Freelance Journalist—2013 By Nate […]

Ralph Ellison and the Floating Self

No one is really sure, but March 1 was either Ralph Waldo Ellison’s 99th or 100th birthday. We have at least three copies of Invisible Man floating around our house. More than likely, if you ask, all three of my […]