I started reading the web comic Shadowgirls back in August of 2007, shortly after the site went live. Written by David A. Rodriguez and drawn by Dave Reynolds, the about page says:
At the tender age of fifteen, Charon McKay disappeared from the small coastal town of Innsmouth. When she turns up, nine month later, she [...] Read more »

As I wrote the post yesterday about giving away content online, I started thinking about my beloved Duotrope. (Yes, there really is a love affair going on, or maybe more of an infatuation, as is more one-sided. Anyway.) Duotrope is free, they give away their content, and they work amazingly hard at it. Instead of [...] Read more »

There has been a lot of discussion both in the blogsphere and here about giving away book content in pursuit of a book contract and/or publicity. There are a couple successful examples of books published first online, with John Scalzi being one of the most well-known. He posted his first two novels Old Man’s War [...] Read more »

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Zooty & Flapper, a “pre-publishing site” that several sites, including Storycrafters and Writers Beware, warned authors off of as it took away a writer’s first publishing rights for very little payoff. The proprietor of said Z&F site, Mr. Pappalardo, who apparently is tracking down and commenting on [...] Read more »

Via the Marketing Whore, I discovered the Church of the Customer Blog. Run by two marketing “writers, speakers and consultants,” Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba blog about different marketing tactics, companies that have used both good and bad PR, and the way blogs fit into the public and marketing consciousness. I checked it out, [...] Read more »

1.) Smokey Mountain Breakdown - she’s posting flash fiction works throughout the month of February, and I have to say, what she manages to do in under 1000 words is freaking amazing. (Also, her Grandpa Alfie’s recipe for Wiener Schnitzel looks amazing too - I am so trying it.)
2.) The Infomercantile - Couple of [...] Read more »

Thursday at the new local independent bookstore, a fellow writer and I went to the Kindling Words Caravan, where a bunch of the authors who are in town for the Kindling Words Retreat gathered together to meet with local people. There is forty-some odd writers and illustrators, and a good number of them were at [...] Read more »