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Here’s just a fun little side story for the day. I woke up this morning to a phone call from a Capital One credit card rep. Now, I know how much everyone loves hearing from credit card companies and banks, especially since most of the time they are calling to…

Here’s my theory. Actually, it’s less a theory and more an observation from my own habits. Reading and writing are cyclical, and they orbit around what is going in one’s life at the time. Maybe this is obvious to most people and I’m just now beginning to realize it. However,…

From Dan Simmons’ forums, here are some interesting facts regarding the ongoing state of the publishing industry: Approximately 25,000 manuscripts are rejected for every book that gets published. In the United States, only about 500 authors are able to earn a living just by writing fiction. The rest of the…

If you like wizards and magic, but maybe aren’t such a huge fan of medieval fantasies, or other “old world” type settings, you ought to check out Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files series, featuring Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only wizard-for-hire, who delves into the nitty-gritty underworld (of both real life and…

And the mail is in my hands. Shimmer magazine‘s contract and payment for “Even Songbirds are Kept in Cages” arrived today. That was a lot faster than I anticipated, not that I’m complaining. I guess I’ve just gotten used to the long response times one tends to get when working…

I want to encourage other people’s writing. I really do. This is why I put up a lot of these links, advice sights, etc. I share your desire to see the writing craft improved upon. For those of you who read this blog and don’t write…well, maybe you read, and…

David Louis Edelman discusses a lot of the marketing techniques he used to spread word of his novel, Infoquake, which is turning into quite a critically acclaimed hit. In one of his blogs, he mentions that he tried to convince his publisher to sell advertisements in the novel itself. This…

Quick post today. I never realized anything could send me into fits of giggles anymore. And it’s probably sad that what sparked such uncontrollable mirth is a collection of badly written error messages and technical jargon. Am I a nerd or what? The link below tells the tale of a…

Aside from actually sign a book contract, there are plenty of other ways of getting your writing out and about. If you write short stories, obviously one way is to submit to magazines, which is another side of the industry altogether and deserves quite a few blogging posts to cover…

I’ve been a martial arts practitioner for about five years now, though I did have to take a break when I came out to New York this summer. I just now found a branch of the school back in Denver that is also established out here, and so went to…