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 […]
Digital Reading Impediments?
I’m a strong proponent of digital reading. I also believe that when folks talk about healing our economy, the key is for consumers to step up and consume. There is no question in my mind that part of the gentle […]
Heart and Soul and Click
There’s a lot of talk about Great American Writers these days. Jonathan Franzen got branded with a version of that moniker (Great American Novelist) a number of years ago when he published The Corrections (and then made the Oprah Follies). […]
Trying to Care: A Story Collection
Trying to Care, a collection of six short stories about love, family, confusion, parenting and mid-life romance, has just been published at Amazon.com’s Kindle Book Store. These stories are not intended to provide answers to the reader. They are intended […]
Happy Birthday David Foster Wallace
Today, February 21, 2012, would have been David Foster Wallace’s 50th birthday. We could have started thinking of him as a gray beard in the American literary canon. Instead, he will be forever young (see my 2008 farewell to him […]
