I’m going to tell the story of something that happened to my wife this week.  It will piss you off.  I know it pissed me off.  It’s about a type of scam that’s apparently been in play for a little …

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It’s amazing what a little competition can do. I’ve never had a traditional publishing deal, but in the last ten months since I’ve started educating myself on how publishing works I’ve learned a thing or two about them. For decades, …

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Passive Guy linked yesterday to an appalling example of ignorant pessimism. Read it, if you have a strong stomach, and a strong tolerance for BS. I can’t fully express how idiotic this speech, or whatever it is, is.  The guy goes …

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Yesterday, Dean Wesley Smith linked to a great post by Zoe Winters about why she doesn’t agree with charging $.99 for novels, and why that should never, and will never, be the standard price for novel-length fiction. For the record, …

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It’s Thursday.  And lately, on Thursdays, I inevitably find myself thinking, “It’s Thursday.  I wonder what Kris wrote about this week?”  And so I have to rush over to The Business Rusch to find out.  Today’s a special treat, because …

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It seems that’s what some independent bookstores are doing. I went by Joe Konrath’s blog today, and read his post about J K Rowling self-publishing Harry Potter in ebook format.  In that post, he also discussed other developments in the …

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So I was reading the news a bit today, and I came across this story.  It’s about how the Chinese economy will overtake the US’s by 2016. Well pardon me but…DUH! Hello, McFly.  There are 1.5 billion Chinese.  1.5 BILLION. …

Xenophobia – or – Why do we hate that China is getting richer? Read more »