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 […]
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. […]
