Not to disparage a fine in-print tradition, but I’m fairly certain published writers tell other aspiring writers to pick up a copy of the latest Writer’s Market tome as some sort of initiation process. They slyly (forgive the adverb) hide their snickers and contempt of potential competition by directing the uninitiated to wade through a [...]

Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts—those splendid, millennia-old expressions of the heart and soul of human existence—then why bother existing? Fortunately, computers have yet to match us in music or writing or dancing or even drawing—the lines are straighter, but that’s not even [...]

Every writer knows getting your book featured on Oprah (your presidential candidate, etc.) is the shortest path to bestseller. But Oprah’s so last century (and so your mother’s Oldsmobile). Online, an Amazon.com endorsement becomes the coveted limelight.
I haven’t read David Wroblewski’s The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, but around 90,000 people have so far after [...]

Want some more free ebooks? Well, who ever says no to free stuff in the first place?
As a follow-up tothis post, I’m going to tell you of a little known lode of ebook goodness. It might be a little bit more complicated than surfing to a particular web site and downloading right off the bat. [...]

I’ve read several reports in the news lately of a decrease in book sales in the US and European markets. Whether this is due to a dwindling interest in reading as a past time or simply because many people are turning to e-books and other digital means for their dose of literature remains to be [...]