Why self-publishing looks more and more attractive
Mike Shatzkin lays out the ebook royalty arithmetic again, this time for self-published titles. (See this post for his sums on trade…
Read moreMonth: August 2010
Online dating, sexual selection, science fiction
I read an article a week or so ago in the Boston Globe that made me think in SF terms. It’s about…
Read moreThis is a fine, fine woman
photo: Jennifer Durham This is Kelley, dancing the night away last weekend. Colour me smug. And happy. And smug again.
Read moreBeautiful photos of people reading, and more
I’m trying to get into the habit of posting a round-up of bookish bits on Saturdays. So here are the latest nifty…
Read moreLiterature and girl cooties
Yesterday was Women’s Equality Day, the 90th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. It only gives women…
Read moreGarden of books
Continuing yesterday’s garden theme, here, from ArchDaily (via GalleyCat), is a garden of books: photo by Rodney LaTourelle The Jardin de la…
Read moreGarden
As promised, a green-and-growing-things update. ( I use the terms ‘green’ and ‘growing’ loosely.) The heat is making differences apparent. The dill…
Read moreKindred
Last night, I watched the first episode of Kindred. I hadn’t seen it since it first aired in 1996, just a couple…
Read moreWhat are you reading?
It’s a lovely sunny day here. Perfect. Yesterday it rained. All day. Hard. Tomorrow it will be too hot. By the weekend…
Read moreLinkage
Here’s a list of bookish links from this week that you might find interesting. At LambdaLiterary, Victoria Brownworth takes on male/male fiction,…
Read moreFire in their bellies and mouths filled with light
Writing a blog post is a lot like writing anything else–it’s all about choosing what to leave out and how to arrange…
Read moreNatalie Portman and Mila Kunis kiss
Here’s the trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, a ‘ballet thriller’ starring Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis as competing ballerinas. They kiss….
Read moreSeattle boom-boom
Just after lunch yesterday, Kelley and I heard a huge ‘boom’ and felt the house quiver. “Tree,” I thought, or a ship…
Read moreTired but happy
I got back from Los Angeles on Sunday. It went well. Very well. I miss everyone already, all those brilliant, beautiful new…
Read moreWhat books built
Today I’m flying to Los Angeles and won’t be back until 16th. I may or may not be popping in to say…
Read moreWill Nalanda rise again?
An article in the Independent on Wednesday talks about the very real possibility that Nalanda, founded about fifteen hundred years ago and…
Read moreBilly Wilder’s top ten tips
Over at Sterling Editing, we have our usual list of links for writers. Regular readers of AN will recognise two of the…
Read moreSex, booze, joy, and the modern novel
Perhaps because it’s summer, critics are talking about joys of the body as it relates to writers and writing. They sound rather…
Read moreProp. 8 declared unconstitutional by US District Chief Judge
From the Los Angeles Times: U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker said Proposition 8, passed by voters in November 2008, violated…
Read moreLiterary parody competition, and more
Three things that came to my attention today. One, there’s a new blog in town: Prospero, all about books and culture, from…
Read morePerbs in the mist…
…except, eh, the mist evaporated by the time I got out there with the camera. But here’s the photo anyway–the dill is…
Read moreFifteen minutes a day
Writers write. It’s that simple. Not always easy but definitely simple. Go read Kelley’s post about it over at Sterling Editing.
Read moreThe cat who ate cheese
The other day we were visited by a long-haired Siamese cat. She wore a blue collar with a bell but no name…
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