This is a FAQ I’ll be pointing people at in the future, and updating as needed. EPUB is the name of a format for electronic books and other publications. It works pretty well, it has small file sizes, it’s compatible with business models that both require or don’t require DRM, and it’s actively maintained and [...]
Here’s a recent trend I can get behind: shared worldbuilding. Mur deserves credit as one of the pioneers here, with the rollout of Playing For Keeps and all the Stories of the Third Wave. Another that caught my eye was the Mongoliad, a serial novel by Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, and others, with lots of [...]
Writer writes story. Writer submits story to market. Market requires submissions in Standard Manuscript Format. Market requires submissions as DOC or RTF. This narrative plays itself out every day. But it’s a problem for users like me that don’t rely on Microsoft tools. I get notes back from editors kindly mentioning that the story didn’t [...]
Now official; check it out. My story The Knuth Number has been published by On The Premises issue #14 with the theme “Numbers, numbers, numbers”. Editor Tarl Roger Kudrick was a breeze to work with, and I’m thrilled to have made my first sale in a fiction market. Tonight we celebrate (by writing more).
Why 14 months? Because numbers are arbitrary, and there’s a better beginning, middle, and end this way. The primary drawback of my choice of writing as an avocation is that on top of a sedentary, computer-centric work day of 8-10 hours, I throw on a few more hours of the same. There’s a serious risk [...]
If you own an ebook, you should at least be aware of the line of reasoning behind the Kindle Swindle campaign. Ebooks, in particular the DRM therein, deprive users of rights they would have with a conventional book. For example, lending a book to someone, or selling the used copy, or donating it to a [...]