A note from Pablo D’Stair on his new novella:
this letter to Norman Court is a novella consisting of 22 sections (each around 1250 words) I am releasing by way of serializing the piece across blogs, by reader request.  A little hub site is set up at www.normancourt.wordpress.com that has a listing of the blogs that [...]

The Enoch Pratt Free Library system in Baltimore is awesome. I am really glad to see them making a move that will support indie publishing in the area.
If you are a Baltimore-based author, I highly encourage you to get in touch with them (contact info below) and sign up to read as a part [...]

07
Oct

I have no tattoos. No tattoos and no piercings. That’s a rule I devised years ago, when I was studying to become an actor. My body belonged to my art, and would not be permanently marred in a way that could limit my ability to become someone else.
Also, I have never come [...]

23
Jul
Posted by: IndieBookMan, stored in: Literature, Websites and tagged: ,

I just ran across Bookazine. Great name, and I think they do something cool – I just can’t really tell what it is.
Their site, which also looks cool at first blush, seems to break every rule of good web design practice. It’s really hard to navigate, all the content seems to be in [...]

I had a really great meeting with my friend David Drager last night. I’m really excited about what he had to show me, though I can’t really talk much about it.
Suffice it to say, he has a brilliant idea that he has been working on for many months – letting me into the lab [...]

Movie night continues! Next up, a horror flick! Finally, a historical novel done right.
There have been rumors flying around for many years that ol’ Abe might have been gay… but this is even more exciting!

So, I went to the In Flagrante launch last night, as I said I would. I dragged my good friend Devlon along with me too.
It’s just so encouraging to see so many people come out to support this type of writing. Not writing about sex; I mean ground-level indie writing, about and done [...]

25
Jan

Though our good friend and fellow Baltimorean over at the Literature Is Not Dead blog would love to disagree with it I’m sure, Mother Jones has a piece exploring the apparent death of literature – or, anyway, the evident death of the literary journal.
It’s written by Ted Genoways, who is the editor of Virginia Quarterly [...]