I’ll be in Baltimore, MD tomorrow through Monday to attend one of my favorite cons: Balticon! If you’re there, please say hi, and be sure to attend ISBW LIVE where we’ll have Gail Carriger, John Anealio, and a live Good Cop Bad Cop segment with Matt Wallace!
My reading is at an inconvenient time (5pm [...]
7x20x21 is a presentation that I’ll be hosting at Book Expo America with my buddy and all-around good guy Ryan Chapman. Here’s five reasons why you should come if you’re at the convention, or why you should keep an eye out for the video online next week.
1) Cool format. Each presenter has [...]
I’ve gotten some “what’s going on?” and “where’s the new show?” emails lately, and I wanted to reiterate that I’m taking a break from podcasting ISBW in May. It will return in June. As a result, I won’t be scheduling any new interviews for a while (I still have several recorded and ready to go), [...]
Guest blogger J.R. Blackwell is a writer who believes that people can change shape, size and minds.
For some reason, the process of finishing up the first draft of a novel is proving to be one of the most creatively rich times I’ve ever experienced. I have ideas for [...]
I’ve been saying for years that you should allow yourself the freedom to suck at writing. With the freedom to write horrible things, you get discouraged less, you learn faster, and you understand the difference between good and bad writing.
But lately I’ve been thinking that that needs to be changed. Because, at the beginning, [...]
I got a chance to interview Jonathan Coulton before his Raleigh show last Friday. I hadn’t talked to him since ’07 when he came through town backing up John Hodgman, and he was the opening band for Paul and Storm. Things have changed a bit since then.
I asked him about [...]
Guest blogger Alasdair Stuart grew up on a rock in the middle of the Irish sea, a fact that not only instilled in him the ability to create his own fun but also provided him with a bolthole in the event of a zombie uprising. Â He’s grateful for both those things. Â Alasdair hosts
Guest blogger Ami Greko is the director of business development for AdaptiveBlue, working with their website and browser add-on GetGlue. She has previously worked as a publicist at Viking Penguin and FSG, marketing director at Folio Literary Management, and digital marketing manager at Macmillan. She is a graduate of the 2004 Columbia Summer Publishing Course.
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