I’ve added a Project Wonderful ad to the sidebar. I’m not doing this to make any kind of significant money. Most sites with my traffic might get a penny a day in advertising if they’re lucky. I’m doing an experiment to see how Project Wonderful works, both as a publisher Read More ...
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If you haven’t been reading A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing, you should. As with any blog, read it with a critical mind, but Konrath does address a lot of good points about publishing and the effect that e-books are having on the industry. I’ve been reading The Innovator’s Dilemma recently. Read More ...
I began the month intending to write 50,000 words. I got a bit past 5,000 and then got sidetracked by another project. I shouldn’t be surprised. This is how it’s been in the past. From the title, you might guess that the distraction was a game, and you’d be right. Read More ...
Every November, I mean to buckle down and write 50,000 words. Every November, something comes up that keeps me from doing it. Last year, I taught an introductory course to creative writing at Texas A&M University. The year before, I probably got too busy with work. This year, I’m going Read More ...
Last week, we explored the Poisson distribution as a possible distribution of sentence lengths. If you look at the figure for Hunter Crackdown, the Poisson seems reasonable, but it breaks down when looking at other works. In this post, I’d like to go back and try to derive a Read More ...
Thursdays are my research days. I have a couple things cooking away that I’m not quite ready to write about yet, but I want to take a little time today to explore something that I plan on doing a lot more once my cooking is done. I’m interested in studying Read More ...
I bit the bullet and pushed my novel out to the Kindle, Nook, and Smashwords stores. Feel free to download a copy and write a review! It’s only $2.99, but if you want it for less, comment here sometime in the next week (before August 4th, 2011) with a link to Read More ...
The Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) is in a week. I’ll be teaching a course on data discovery, management, and presentation using a platform I’ve been developing for the last couple years. This will be the first time other people will try to use the platform to build a project. Read More ...
A couple of weeks ago, I gave a talk at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) with the same title. I’ve linked to the video here so you can see the slides along with my monotone voice. In this talk, I use imagery and music along with Read More ...
I’ll say right off that I don’t know how to create a great book cover. What I want to explore in this post is my thinking behind the evolving cover for my first novel, Of Fish and Swimming Swords. When self-publishing, you have to provide covers for each of the Read More ...