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World Without Pain: The Story of a Search
Adriana’s Family
The Woman Who Fell Backwards and Other Stories
Apocalypse Bluff and Other Stories
The Senescent Nomad Hits the Road
Invasive Procedures: Stories
Heroes and Other Illusions: Stories
Bedlam Battle: An Omnibus of the One Thousand Series
After the Fireflood
Caliban’s Children
The Fantasy Book Murders
Opting Out and Other Departures
Sunflower: A Novel
America Redux: Impressions of the United States After Thirty-Five Years Abroad
Fear or Be Feared: Fantasies
Writing as a Metaphysical Experience
Reviews and Reflections on Books, Literature, and Writing
The One Thousand: A Novella
The One Thousand: Book Two: Team of Seven
The One Thousand: Book Three: Black Magic Bus
The One Thousand: Book Four: Deconstructing the Nightmare
After the Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Memoir of Greece
The Misadventures of Mama Kitchen: A Novel
Dark Mirrors: Dystopian Tales
Love Children: A Novel
Painsharing and Other Stories
The Dragon Ticket and Other Stories
Tag Archives: indie publishing
Book Review: A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinkster
The novel A Song for a New Day, which recently won the 2019 Nebula Award for best novel, has received significant attention for its uncannily accurate prediction of radical social distancing following a series of plagues and terrorist attacks. What’s … Continue reading
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Tagged indie publishing, isolation, On The Road, pandemic, rock music, self-publishing
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Creative Hunger and the Magnanimity of Artists
Rereading Bob Dylan’s collection of autobiographical essays “Chronicles” made me reflect on how we as artists react toward other artists. The book begins in New York where Dylan is a lean, dedicated folk singer sleeping on other people’s couches and … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Dylan, Chronicles, cover design, indie publishing, Writing
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On Rereading “This Immortal” by Roger Zelazny
I first read this book a few years ago when I was still living in Greece. I had found an old paperback copy in an obscure used book store on one of my infrequent visits to the States. At that … Continue reading
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Tagged And Call Me Conrad, Greece, indie publishing, Roger Zelazny, This Immortal, Writing
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The Advantage of Invisibility
I am an invisible man. Though you might see me when we transact business or exchange pleasantries, in the deepest core of my existence I am invisible. This struck me as I walked miles around town today in one hundred … Continue reading
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Tagged Flashback, Henry Miller, indie publishing, invisible, Passive Guy, Tropic of Cancer, Writing
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Microfinance and Indie Writers
I pay my bills by ghostwriting Internet articles. This morning while my youngest son prepared for school I was doing some preliminary research for my first article of the day. It concerned the microcredit revolution begun in Bangladesh by Muhammad … Continue reading
The Next New Wave
I just deleted what I wrote a few hours ago. I had gotten all fired up about an idea and was burning to write it down. I started the first few paragraphs but then I had to scribble some notes … Continue reading
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Tagged indie publishing, New Wave, publishing, self-publishing, Writing
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Book Review: Think Like a Publisher by Dean Wesley Smith
I stumbled upon Dean Wesley Smith’s blog about a year and a half ago, and it changed my life as a writer. At the time he was writing the series “Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing”, which is still available … Continue reading
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Tagged Dean Wesley Smith, indie publishing, Think Like a Publisher, Writing
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