A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark I’d never read anything or heard anything about this author, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. I don’t always like to read stories about female protagonists set in historical periods, because it often fills me with feminist rage, but Mrs. Hawkins manages to live in the …
Tag: publishing
Aug 02
Book Review: Emotimancers and the Impending Feline Overmind
Emotimancers and the Impending Feline Overmind by Beth Pratt I was really surprised when I found out that the author of the quirky outsider comic “Barely Representational” had written a novel. It came out on kindle about a week ago. The story starts at Bradford and Chadwick, a major publishing house dedicated to publishing emotion spells. …
Jan 30
My Amended Publishing Plan
I’ve had all kinds of strategies in mind for how to make it as a writer, based on stuff I’ve been told to do by other writers, marketers, agents. You have to have a web presence, they say. You have to build a blog following. You have to make a name for yourself as a …
Jun 08
Seeing Things, Part 11: paper books and cover design fallout
Dear Blog Friends, My right arm has been hurting for about a week, and I finally figured out why: Mouse Elbow. Yup. Too much time with gimp. So, I’m going to take a break from cover design for a while, even though (because) it is SO MUCH FUN now that I’ve figured out some of …