Barry Eisler Interview on the Passive Voice

  “Paper distribution partners are known as publishers. They offer a bundle of publishing services: editing, line editing, copy editing, proof reading, cover design, jacket copy, marketing and promotion. All these are value-added services bundled along with...

Mannahatta

I’ve been reading Mannahatta, A Natural History of New York City by Eric W. Sanderson recently, and it’s been seeping into my writing for weeks now. I’ve always wondered what the island looks like without all the buildings, and the book offers more...

Random Photos

I like to snap photos on my phone as I’m out and about. Most of them aren’t very good or especially interesting, but I enjoy having a visual summary of my day to day life on occasion. My father constantly had a camera in front of his face growing up, and...

Self-publishing Without an Editor

One weekend nearly two years ago I wrote a short story. I wrote it Saturday and Sunday, formatted it Sunday night, designed a quick cover, and uploaded it to Amazon before Monday morning came around. I edited it myself (barely) and didn’t read it through again until I...

Quickies NY PDF

Back in March I did a little publishing experiment which I mostly forgot about until right now. Typically I would think that means it failed, although I’m not sure it’s the case. I took two months of blogs posts and formatted them into a PDF with a bunch...