You Can Follow This Blog

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To the left of this post, just under the thumbnail of the cover of my novel, Beyond the Will of God, you can now click on a “Follow” box to receive information on new posts for this website.

I will be posting information on the upcoming November release of Implosions of America: Nine Stories, including excerpts, along with directions on how you can get free copies. I will also be posting excerpts from my novel Ex:Urbia that will be released in the spring — about love, lust, and madness in the outer suburbs of Philadelphia.

As always, info on any posts I do online, including my new column “Talking Indie” at TalkingWriting.com can be found here. I’m also working on extended essays that I will be posting early next year at my blog The Formality of Occurrence. One is on the attempt to talk about music in novels and how I hope writers can dig a bit deeper in their efforts in the future. The other essay is about a problem I see in modern literature with how men are depicted and the need to create more honest, well-rounded characters. If we don’t get men right in stories, why should we expect them to read books? More to the point, is literature supposed to be about the way life is or some fantasy of how it could be?

So FOLLOW me with one click if you will. I’d appreciate it. Indie authors such as myself need your eyes and frontal cortex to succeed. I wouldn’t be doing this if I didn’t feel I had something different to offer readers.

The Body Era: Blog Entry at Cabin Goddess

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Check out the creative piece I did to promote Beyond the Will of God at CabinGoddess.com.

http://cabingoddess.com/2012/09/the-body-era-david-biddle-visits-for-fourth-wall-friday/

Kriss Morton is awesome.

If you’re up for something different, Beyond the Will of God is it. 

Implosions Making Slow But Steady Progress: Reader’s Draft Available

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CRT Implosion – Source: Niels Noordhoek, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CRT_implosion.JPG

I have Implosions of America out now in Reader’s Draft form. I am looking for readers who are interested in giving me review, copy-editing, and consistency advice. The book is available in any form your ereader wants. Just email me and I can forward a copy. You will likely pay up to $7.99 for the book in final form this fall.

This week I’ve been working carefully with my Reader’s Draft making changes and catching shit that shouldn’t have ever slipped through but did. I’m surprised, Continue reading →

Expanded Horizons and Raising the Price: More Adventures on the New Frontier of Publishing

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Economic and technology revolutions happen in the unlikeliest places…

This week Beyond the Will of God has jumped the Amazon Shark and arrived at two additional ebook sales sites — Nook and Only Indie. I have also raised the price of the ebook. The $2.99 price was an introductory offering. The book will now be $4.99 at both the Amazon Kindle site and the Barnes & Noble Nook site. Continue reading →

Awesome Indies Reviews My Novel BEYOND THE WILL OF GOD

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My little novel about really big issues has been reviewed by Awesome Indies. I’m pleased to announce it made the cut to be posted at their site. Check out the review…

http://awesomeindies.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/review-beyond-the-will-of-god-by-david-biddle-speculative-fictionmystery/

Shifting Gears: From Psychedelia to Reality

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My first novel, Beyond the Will of God: A Jill Simpson Mystery, is a psychedelic mystery that I’m very proud of. The original idea for the story came to me in the mid-1970s. Six years later, on New Years Day, 1981, I wrote the first scene (where Cecil Miller gets off the bus in the middle of Missouri farm country and meets Coral McGrey). I didn’t really know what I was doing then. It took another 12 years for me to actually feel like I needed to get serious about turning that scene into a novel. But what a stupid thing, to write a novel. Continue reading →

More Thoughts on Fake Reviews and Other Stupid Writer Tricks

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ImageI published an opinion piece at Talking Writing called, simply enough, “Can You Trust Online Reviews.” This piece identifies a small component of a much bigger phenomenon in the writing world today. Yes, there are loads of fake and biased reviews to be found at Amazon and on other book sites throughout the worldwide web. But writers are doing all sorts of other things to try to get noticed. It doesn’t matter if we’re talking so-called indie writers here or them that’s been dunned by a publishing house (Big Six or small independent). I for one don’t see a distinction between the self-published and Continue reading →

Real Romance: Implosions of America

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My fellow Americans, we are all so stupid and wishy-washy about love. Those of us in our 50s and beyond are also faced almost daily with the weird little gremlin of loss — loss of parents, loss of friends, loss of libido, loss of joy, loss of sanity, loss of things to hide beyond.

I shake my head here. So many people I know, my fellow parents, have spent their best years lying to themselves and driving their cars. We stop these games long enough to watch TV and drink. Haven’t we been confused? Continue reading →

On Beauty, Genius, and Paying Attention: Tim Williams Got Me Through So Much

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“Morning of the Magicians”Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shitao/3197160727/in/set-72157625031441773

From about 1993 through 2000 I worked as best I could on my first novel. I am deeply indebted to nearly 20 friends and colleagues who read various drafts over that period.

From 2000 through 2005 I tried to get agents and publishers to pay attention to my insane story — best described as a psychedelic mystery about music and consciousness. I came close a couple times, but no one took me on. After over 100 Continue reading →