something has to happen

Something always has to happen. In the story. It has to be real and convincing, like the sun rising or a gust of wind that picks up down the street and drags dead stiff leaves and animates plastic liquor store [...]

MFA-like: (from the Citrak unabridged dictionary)

a MFA-like piece of writing can contain any one of the following:

  • unusual wordiness, usually in describing something not very important.
  • distinctive liberties in language with the express purpose of completely turning off any readership besides other MFA [...]

Self-Published Titles Skyrocket

according to PW Daily.

Not sure if this is a good thing or what. While i certainly don’t side with the traditional Publisher-Author model, my reasons for it are mostly financial. The authors simply don’t get a big enough cut for their work. [...]

new Air in the Paragraph Line out today

You’ve been waiting like what, two freaking years for this? Well, AITPL #13 is out [...]

quiet lightning call for subs

Quiet Lightning is a monthly submission-based reading series here in the City. QL’s next reading is on January 25th and they’re now taking submissions for it. [...]

that’s how it works

I keep on waiting for it to happen. For inspiration to hit. I walk around during the day and think how great it’s going to be when I make [...]

Google book settlement opt out nears, do you know your (lack of) rights?

As the deadline for the Google Book Settlement opt out, as negotiated by the Author’s Guild, nears, all authors need to be aware of their (lack of) rights regarding this settlement. In my opinion, this is a terrible deal for authors and artists in general as it had not punished Google for illegally copying books and gives them license in to future to continue doing so. [...]

Free

If you’ve been following the revolutionary way that online giant Scribd.com has sought to change publishing, more than likely you’ve heard this on going drama about Wired’s editor-in-chief Chris Anderson’s new book, “Free”. A book that attempts to quantify the idea of free in the digital [...]

reading dates

I’ve got a bunch of reading dates coming up, let me hit you with just the first few.

This Friday, June 19th at the Knockout on Mission. Starts at 7pm.

Tuesday, June 230th, at the Blue Macaw on Mission. Starts at 7pm.

typographical revolution

From F.T. Marinetti’s “Critical Writings”: Destruction of Syntax––Untrammeled [...]