In the upcoming installment of The IndieBookMan Show, called “Kids,” our 6 year old production assistant reads from The IndieBookMan’s first book ever – Coconut Pie. He wrote it when he was in the third grade.
Here is a photo of the book’s cover, in case you were interested in what it looks like after [...]
This highlights the painful side of indie publishing I guess. Obviously, I am pro-indie. I think we all have a book in us, and celebrate the fact that we are now each able to get our books out into the world. I encourage you to do so.
But that doesn’t mean every book [...]
Ok, of course we knew Hunter S. Thompson was a badass, but man – here are some real cajones! I saw this over at boingboing.net and had to share it here.
This is the cover letter Thompson addressed the the Vancouver Sun in 1958… before he became famous, naturally. But reading this, would you [...]
BestsellerBound is a new forum created specifically for indie authors to share their books with other authors. Hang out with writers in your genera, and talk about your book, how you write/publish/market it – getting and giving tips that will likely help yourself and other in the indie pub journey.
If the site takes off, [...]
I would submit that if one is a writer he is also an activist. The idea that a person is called to translate his thoughts onto the page speaks to the fact that there is some manner of passionate movement within him. In this notion, I don’t believe that the genre in which one writes matters. What [...]
For the writers of you out there who desire to avoid trope and cliche’, this Slate article is well worth the read. Apparently, nearly every novel written in the English language in the past 100 years has a dog barking in the distance at some point.
Ok, maybe I exaggerate, but this breakdown of dogs [...]
This is a guest-post by author L.M.Preston, who’s Young Adult Sci Fi novel Explorer X-Alpha launched recently, and who’s next novel The Pack will be released soon.www.phenomenalonepress.com
Nano (National Novel Writing Month) from November 1st-30th. It’s the writing frenzy where you kick out a large number of words to hopefully finish a novel in record time. [...]
Irony has been a big deal for the past, say, 10 years. Or, longer even. Ironic t-shirts and trucker hats and debates over whether something is or is not ironic are familiar to most of us.
But it gets a little confusing, doesn’t it? What is irony? When and how do you [...]
NOTE: This is an online broadcast… you don’t even have to leave your house! Just tune in at http://umbrellaradio.org/, relax and listen…
Our favorite Baltimore related zine (OK, our favorite zine altogether,) Smile Hon, You’re In Baltimore, published by Eight Stone Press, is launching it’s latest issue this month: Waste. We wanted to help them celebrate, [...]
This is a guest-post by author L.M.Preston, who’s Young Adult Sci Fi novel Explorer X-Alpha launched recently, and who’s next novel The Pack will be released soon.www.phenomenalonepress.com
I once participated in a Sci-Fi critique group, where one of the authors asked about World Building. Our leader never expanded on this topic. When this topic was bought [...]
