This essay appeared in Talking Writing in April. Talking Writing is rapidly becoming a high-quality online source of information for writers and content-providers of all sorts. By David Biddle for Talking Writing Imagine that a rigidly controlled country you’ve always longed […]
A Thinking Person’s Music: The Mystery of the Loud Guitar
My new novel, Beyond the Will of God, is intended to remind readers of, or introduce them to, the playful, exotic, and mysterious elements of loud music that I believe we’ve forgotten. Beyond the Will of God seeks to thread the needle between […]
33 1/3: Real Books About Music
Hopefully, a lot of you are thinking about the future of paper books these days. Books are objects. E-Books aren’t (although the iPad and the Kindle reader, and many other electronic tablet type thingies, are pretty amazing pieces of technology). […]
Global illage: Music to Drift into the Wilderness With
Sometimes you are blessed with good friends who have so much artistic talent they inspire the hell out of you. As I work through final edits and publication formatting for Beyond the Will of God, I have the privilege of […]
Conspiracy Theory and The Near Future
A book announcement. The 1970s were the pinnacle years for conspiracy theories in America. Uncertainties about JFK’s assassination got things rolling in the 1960s, but the stories got weirder and weirder the more we watched our great cultural heroes pass […]
Our Real Great American Novelist
We’ve been reading a great deal lately about the issue of gender preference in the publishing world. More than anything, the proclamation a few years back that Jonathan Franzen had written the new Great American Novel (complete with JonnieFranz’s appearance […]
Experiments in Kindle Consciousness: The Plasticity of Digital Indie Writing
I recently received two reader reviews on stories of mine available at Amazon’s Kindle Store. Both reviewers were rather unhappy. That’s fine. I know that fiction, like most everything else, is a matter of taste. Not everyone is going to […]
What is Beyond the Will of God? (contains a full prologue excerpt)
And they also threw this in my face, they said,Anyway, you know good and wellIt would be beyond the will of GodAnd the grace of a king. – Jimi Hendrix, “1983…(A Merman I Should Turn to Be)” Beyond the Will […]
Thoughts on Story Pricing: Trying to Care
I’ve been experimenting with the pricing of my Kindle stories this past month. My book of short stories (Trying to Care) is currently for sale through the Kindle Publishing Direct system. The collection is written for people interested in questions […]
