The Sagging: Spirits & Skin. Poetry by Jason FiskPropaganda Press, 2009
The Sagging: Spirits & Skin sings eloquent tales of loss and the big truths that are learned within small pieces of emptiness. Through these poems, Fisk lurks like a quiet voyeur into the dirt-smeared windows of a embattled collection of naked and lonely souls. There [...]

Well, the age is upon us. It is time for novels to become more than they ever have been. Video, music, literature… it’s all hitting the blender and the blender is on “puree.” Hold on tight.
And here is a grand experiment – an attempt to dive right into the blender without regard [...]

Ok, so I don’t have a Nook in hand yet. Unlike the high-flying super famous tech bloggers of which I am pretty envious, I don’t have gadget companies sending me stuff for free in hopes that I will give a 2 thumbs up to millions of faithful readers. And, I’m too poor to [...]

I just discovered (thanks to badbadbad) a website that serves as a great resource if you are an indie publisher, looking to get published by an indie publisher or looking for places to buy indie books. Honestly, I am suprised I had not found this site before now, as it is so right up [...]

From today’s Publishers Weekly:
Beginning in November, Amazon will begin offering free downloads of Kindle for PC, an e-reading application that will allow consumers to download Kindle edition e-books to any PC running Windows 7, Windows XP or Windows Vista and read them on the PC. While the new application will allow Kindle owners to [...]

… poetry and jazz from the Grizfork Studio, in the shadow of the Absarokas, in the reflection of the Yellowstone River, in the range of the redtail and raven …
Report #36 is now online, featuring the poem “October” from The Moon Cracks Open: A Field Guide to the Birds and Other Poems by Marc Beaudin, [...]

Last night on the Indiebookman radio show, Brad mused about my perspective on eBooks. The answer is that I do not believe printed books are endangered, and I assume there will always be new developments in the distribution of information. I don’t regard eBooks as replacements for physical books, in other words: they will simply [...]

This is why I love the Swedes—passionate hot-blooded people, they.
A war of words is being waged between Swedish authors over the future of Swedish fiction, with one faction advocating a move away from popular writing such as chick lit and crime, and the other side responding with a blast against elitism.
Seven Swedish writers—Susanne Axmacher, Jesper [...]

I think I have a new hero. His name is Christopher Herz, from Canal Publishing and his book is The Last Block in Harlem.

This guy takes indie/guerrilla marketing to absolute new heights. What he does is called “handselling,” and that in-and-of itself is nothing new. As the name implies, it’s basically making sales [...]

Report from the Mountains, a weekly radio program of poetry and jazz from the Grizfork Studio: in the shadow of the Absarokas, in the reflection of the Yellowstone River, in the range of the Redtail and Raven …
After some tech issues and annoyances, Episode #31 is now available, featuring a new poem “Anatomy” and a [...]