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DOOOOM
- Reviewocalypse 2: Amazon is not a censor
- Let's talk copyright
- Notes on morning reading
- Apparently magic will save books
- Andrew Wylie is no Amazon fan
- Fiction in 2043: a load of old toss
- These aren't about books but could be
- Quick thoughts on the Nook thing
- One Ebook, Slightly Used
- Amazon's Magic Of The Insane
- Planet Money: The Cost Of Free Doughnuts
- Leather, Tossers & Ebooks
- Would the last bookseller out please turn off the lights?
- KDP: licensed to ill
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- Hachette, Amazon, rumor and giant apes
- Of publishers and giftanebook
- Andrew Wylie is no Amazon fan
- The new gatekeepers
- Apple, Amazon, and all that
- One Ebook, Slightly Used
- How Not To Fix Amazon's Review System
- Amazon's Magic Of The Insane
- Amazon Reviewhouhaha
- Crawling Back
- Amazon’s markup of digital delivery to indie authors is ~129,000%
- Would the last bookseller out please turn off the lights?
- Why the Publishers Association should walk the plank
- Maths: "ebooks are 10% less to produce"
- KDP: licensed to ill
- Ebooks Encourage Authors To Stare At Their Shoes Instead Of Shoot For The Stars
- Distribution in the Digital Age
- Delisting From The Big A
books
- Not dead, PORTAL OF THE GODS starts
- Review - Jeff Vandermeer's ANNIHILATION
- Leaving Polis
- I've turned myself in to the Polis
- Chuck Wendig's BLACKBIRDS, a late-to-the-party review
- Andrez Bergen's Depth Charging Ice Planet Goth, a somewhat cloaked review
- I can do a 2013 list too, damnit
- The Book Cover Archive
- Book Places in the Digital Age
- Distribution in the Digital Age
- Lessons In Plotting 4: Editing
- Lessons In Plotting 3: Scenes
- Lessons In Plotting 2: Character
- Lessons In Plotting 1: Running
ebooks
- Low prices, zombie memes, and consumer research
- Books, audience, and fat sacks of cash
- Of publishers and giftanebook
- Fiction in 2043: a load of old toss
- The new gatekeepers
- These aren't about books but could be
- Quick thoughts on the Nook thing
- The Observer On Self-Publishing
- One Ebook, Slightly Used
- Here Is A Thing With Monsters
- The Darkerness Insiderer
- In Which I Destroy Philadelphia
- A Writer's Cut
- The Great Ellory Leather Sock Review Tosser Caper
- StoryBundle
- Leather, Tossers & Ebooks
- In Which I Have A Story To Tell You
- Would the last bookseller out please turn off the lights?
- Why the Publishers Association should walk the plank
- Tor/Forge E-book Titles to Go DRM-Free
- Maths: "ebooks are 10% less to produce"
- KDP: licensed to ill
- Ebooks Encourage Authors To Stare At Their Shoes Instead Of Shoot For The Stars
- iBooks Author Rage
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- The new gatekeepers
- The Mad Detective
- Here Is A Thing With Monsters
- The Darkerness Insiderer
- In Which I Destroy Philadelphia
- A Writer's Cut
- Amazon’s markup of digital delivery to indie authors is ~129,000%
- Would the last bookseller out please turn off the lights?
- Why the Publishers Association should walk the plank
- KDP: licensed to ill
- The self-epublishing bubble
- Ebooks Encourage Authors To Stare At Their Shoes Instead Of Shoot For The Stars
- Distribution in the Digital Age
- Delisting From The Big A
- Update: Money, Figures
- Criminal-E Me
- AYLB Review From @dotcomaphobe
- ALL YOU LEAVE BEHIND Out, New Direct Store Site, & No Twitter Spam
- Brief Further: Ebooks, Mosby, Linkage
- Price, Insanity And The Race To The Bottom
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ofnote
- Please shut up; Why self-promotion as an author doesn't work
- The Escalating Scale of Drunkenness, Explained
- American democracy is doomed
- Nick Mamatas on the Tempest tempest
- Richard Morgan on Peak Grit District
- A nation of slaves
- The Setup
- Why Games Should Enter The Public Domain
- Steubenville rape teen Ma’lik Richmond's statement after release is a wake-up call
- James Frey gets 2 million dollars for The Hunger Games 2 - The Hungering
- Myths Over Miami
- The Murderer and the Manuscript
- Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke
- In the shadow of my mother’s suicide
- Amazon’s Multi-Million Dollar Publishing Experiment Fizzles as Indie Titles Claim Amazon's Best-Seller List
- Is Bookbub Still An Effective Sales Tool?
- eBay puts user data on a “silver platter” for law enforcement
- US bank renews decade-old patent for a Bitcoin-esque currency system
- Cyberlibertarians’ Digital Deletion of the Left
- Mandela will never, ever be your minstrel.
pocketed
- Please shut up; Why self-promotion as an author doesn't work
- The Escalating Scale of Drunkenness, Explained
- American democracy is doomed
- Nick Mamatas on the Tempest tempest
- Richard Morgan on Peak Grit District
- A nation of slaves
- The Setup
- Why Games Should Enter The Public Domain
- Steubenville rape teen Ma’lik Richmond's statement after release is a wake-up call
- James Frey gets 2 million dollars for The Hunger Games 2 - The Hungering
- Myths Over Miami
- The Murderer and the Manuscript
- Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke
- In the shadow of my mother’s suicide
- Amazon’s Multi-Million Dollar Publishing Experiment Fizzles as Indie Titles Claim Amazon's Best-Seller List
- Is Bookbub Still An Effective Sales Tool?
- eBay puts user data on a “silver platter” for law enforcement
- US bank renews decade-old patent for a Bitcoin-esque currency system
- Cyberlibertarians’ Digital Deletion of the Left
- Mandela will never, ever be your minstrel.
publishing
- Service publishing - a long thought experiment
- Publishing debates, the drinking game
- Books, audience, and fat sacks of cash
- James Frey gets 2 million dollars for The Hunger Games 2 - The Hungering
- Of publishers and giftanebook
- Fiction in 2043: a load of old toss
- Some notes on 3NJ
- Why I Hate Why Book Publishers Hate Authors
- Leather, Tossers & Ebooks
- Aar! Take Two
- Aar, A Writer's Life For Me
- Delisting From The Big A
reading
- Reviews: THE DARK DEFILES and WINTER'S BONE
- Reviews: INTO THE WOODS and THREE USES OF THE KNIFE
- Review: SMALL CHANGE
- (Partial) review: THE CARTEL
- Reviews: BLOOD MERIDIAN and THE WATER KNIFE
- Reviews: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN and AUTHORITY
- Reviews: STATION ELEVEN and ACROSS THE RIVER AND INTO THE TREES
- Review - Jeff Vandermeer's ANNIHILATION
- Round-Up - Things Wot I've Read
- I can do a 2013 list too, damnit
review
- Review - Jeff Vandermeer's ANNIHILATION
- Chuck Wendig's BLACKBIRDS, a late-to-the-party review
- Andrez Bergen's Depth Charging Ice Planet Goth, a somewhat cloaked review
- Review: WHO IS KILLING THE GREAT CAPES OF HEROPA?
- Review: Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat
- Chuck Wendig's Shotgun Gravy
- AYLB Review From @dotcomaphobe
- The City and the City
- Alice
- Telegraph - THE LEVELS
reviews
- Review: Summerland
- Review: Borne
- Review: The Bone Keeper
- 2017, then
- Reviews: THE DARK DEFILES and WINTER'S BONE
- Reviews: INTO THE WOODS and THREE USES OF THE KNIFE
- Review: SMALL CHANGE
- (Partial) review: THE CARTEL
- Reviews: BLOOD MERIDIAN and THE WATER KNIFE
- Reviewocalypse 2: Amazon is not a censor
- Reviews: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN and AUTHORITY
- Reviews: STATION ELEVEN and ACROSS THE RIVER AND INTO THE TREES
- How Not To Fix Amazon's Review System
- Amazon Reviewhouhaha
- Open Letter On Author Behaviour
- The Great Ellory Leather Sock Review Tosser Caper
- TRG: Reviewage
writing
- First 100 - Instructions
- First 100 - Intelligence
- First 100 - On The Street
- Why STAR WARS should have ditched the text crawl
- Of monster outlines and dialogue-only drafts
- Writers' rooms
- Let's talk copyright
- Richard Morgan on Peak Grit District
- Pixar's 22 rules to phenomenal storytelling
- The City Of Lost Children
- The Mad Detective
- Here Is A Thing With Monsters
- In Crime Fiction, (Almost) Nothing Changes
- The Darkerness Insiderer
- In Which I Destroy Philadelphia
- Weekend Writing: The Frankenovel
- A Writer's Cut
- Novel In 30 Days? Try 3.
- In Which I Have A Story To Tell You
- They Shoot Novels, Don't They?
- Aar! Take Two
- Aar, A Writer's Life For Me
- Project 1: Stats
- Lessons In Plotting 4: Editing
- Lessons In Plotting 3: Scenes
- Lessons In Plotting 2: Character
- Lessons In Plotting 1: Running
- Jurassic Park: Remembering Petticoat Lane
- Wake 3: Me
- Wake 2: Hotel
- Wake 1: Spy
- Advice
