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Podcastin’
I’m a little late posting about this, but LitReactor has a shiny new podcast, called Unprintable. And it stars Cath Murphy, Joshua Chaplinsky, and me! It’s a fun time. We talk about books and writing...
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Want my novella for free? OK, fine!
As I mentioned last week, I enrolled my novella for Amazon’s KDP Select program. Today, it’s available for free, because I wanted to try on this promotion thing, to see what would happen. Go and get...
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Podcast, episode 2
The second episode of the Unprintable podcast is live. We discuss the aftermath of Sandy, BDSM, books, and various other things. Dig it.
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Various things have happened
The fourth installment of my column, Adventures in Self-Publishing, is live. In it, I talk about the Amazon KDP program. Also live: The third episode of Unprintable, the LitReactor podcast. This is our...
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New class on plot at LitReactor
We’ve got a very cool slate of classes coming up at LitReactor. I wanted to share this one, which I’m very excited about. Patrick Wensink is the author of Broken Piano for President, a pretty fantastic...
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New podcast episode is live.
Episode 4 of Unprintable is live. And it features our first guest: Craig Clevenger, author of The Contortionist’s Handbook and Dermaphoria. We talked erotica, the books we’re reading, and whether...
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Catchin’ up
I’ve resigned myself to the fact that this blog will only ever feature collections of links to stuff I’m doing and haven’t had time to talk about otherwise. It’s cool. I have plans for original content...
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Make that PROFESSOR Hart
I’m teaching a class on marketing and social media over at LitReactor! It’s going to be fun. I’ll share my experience as the associate publisher at MysteriousPress.com, a reporter, a publicist, and a...
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Podcast; hiring; essay
Check out the latest episode of Unprintable, the LitReactor podcast. It features a special guest, literary agent Bree Ogden, and we cover a lot of good ground, re: finding an agent, publishing, etc. We...
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New podcast
A new episode of Unprintable, LitReactor’s podcast, is live. Bask in it. We talk about a lot of goofy stuff, but mostly reading habits. But also how much I LOVED The Chronology of Water by Lidia...
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April news round-up
I wrote an article for LitReactor called Top 10 Storytelling Cliches Writers Need To Stop Using. It’s gotten more than 35,000 hits. Insane. There’s a new podcast episode up, featuring special guest...
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May updates!
I’ve got a piece up at Salon on the cult of self-publishing. I measure my relative success or failure on how long it takes for someone to call me a douchebag. Since it happened in the first comment,...
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James Ross at LitReactor book club
The June pick for the LitReactor book club is a favorite of mine—They Don’t Dance Much by James Ross. Released in 1940, it was the only book Ross ever published, but it’s been lauded by authors like...
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Class is in session… tomorrow!
Hey writer-types: Tomorrow I kick off another round of my marketing class at LitReactor. Sell Yourself runs two weeks and we cover everything from social media to bio-writing to websites. Click the...
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Party time at AWP
Are you going to AWP? I’m going to AWP. In beautiful, sunny Seattle! LitReactor is teaming up with Writer.ly and the Booked. Podcast for some super happy fun times for Thursday, Feb. 27. Mark your...
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New ‘Path to Pub’ column at LitReactor: This Thing Is Actually Happening
For my first installment of The Path to Publication 2.0 at LitReactor, I talk about my first failed attempt at writing this column, and explore my thoughts and emotions related to this thing actually...
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News roundup!
The second round of Path to Publication ran at LitReactor yesterday. I wrote about AWP and readings and book trailers and a bunch of other stuff. You can read that here. The LitReactor podcast is back!...
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Tom Spanbauer: A Primer, and A Review Of His Latest Novel, ‘I Loved You More’
Over at LitReactor, I reviewed Tom Spanbauer’s latest novel, I Loved You More, and looked back at his first four novels, and talk about how much his writing has meant to me. You should check it out....
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Path to Publication 2.2: On Being A Writer And Having Poor Impulse Control
My first novel is the start of a series. In my last column, I talked a bit about the process of researching the sequel, City of Rose. You’d think, in the month since that column ran, I would have...
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Path to Publication 2.3: Sequelitis
My latest Path to Publication column is live at LitReactor. It went live last week, actually, but I’ve been on vacation. Check it out!
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