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Family’s important right? If you take that as a given, as I do, you won’t mind me appropriating this space to give a quick shoutout to a new business venture by my cousin-in-law. Rachel (a young mom herself) wants to serve other parents of young children by providing affordable, reusable cloth diapers. She is just …
Some tips and tricks for fiction writers from the non-fiction side of the divide. I’ve just finished the edit for the electronic edition of my non-fiction book A Parent’s Guide to Paintball (Liaison Press). Considering that I rail constantly against the entire e-publishing enterprise, the fact that I’m editing an e-book may seem to be somewhat contradictory. …
Let’s make no bones about it: publishing is undergoing a massive upheaval, certainly the biggest in my twenty-plus years of professional involvement. Bookstore chains are closing or drastically re-visioning; publishers are being forced to reassess what it is that they do, and where their main revenue streams can be found. This year opened with the …
