#publishing
Watch my weekly videos. Talking about books and writing.
My weekly roundup of #publishing news, #writingtips, and #bookmarketing links is up.๐
Reading Between The Lines
https://buff.ly/3IBGfLi
#writingcommunity #amwriting #indieauthors
Podcast 250! Also a fairly in-depth look at costings for TTRPG books and contrasting print on demand vs off-set publishing including the costs of shipping vs distribution using real numbers from EN Publishing. Essential to costing and planning your next successful Kickstarter!
https://morrus.podbean.com/e/250-the-cost-of-printing-an-rpg-book/
10 hardest things about writing/revising/publishing:
10. Writing the actual words
9. Making sure the words actually say what you meant
...
3. Figuring out where the damn chapter breaks go
2. Coming up with a title that's, like, interesting, but doesn't give the game away
1. Writing back copy and the blurb!
Listen to all the voices in our @Flipboard community. If you are a #flipboard fan and want to share your experiences about how you use the app DM your details and your profile and Iโll add your articles (space limited) https://link.medium.com/sC7yLGXJaAb #content #writing #creating #reading #publishing #magazine @salvomic @thetaoistonline
So, #writers and #writingCommunity ... can we chat a bit about traditional #publishing vs. #SelfPublishing?
Do you think non-fiction is a better fit than fiction for self-publishing?
Do you think pursuing agents, navigating contracts, and courting publishers is a waste of time in 2023?
Do you value self- and traditionally-published books differently? Do traditionally published books retain a kind of glamor over self-published books?
Should I put all self-promotion stuff behind a hashtag (so you can opt out), a content warning (so you can opt in), or just post it willy nilly?
How can we #write about places that inspire us in an authentic way even when they are not our own country? Tony Park gives his tips for #writing setting, and also outlines how his #publishing experience has changed over the last two decades.
https://www.thecreativepenn.com/2023/05/22/writing-novels-inspired-by-place-with-tony-park/
โZeitung machen statt Sonntagsausgabeโ
Atelierhaus Akademie der bildenden Kรผnste Wien
Fanzineist #Vienna #Art #Book & Zine Fair is an annual international #independent #publishing event that focuses on presenting self-published #publications and independent works in the fields of art, #design, #literature, #culture, and more.
My weekly roundup of #publishing news, #writingtips, and #bookmarketing links is up.๐
Reading Between The Lines
https://buff.ly/3IBGfLi
#writingcommunity #amwriting #indieauthors
This article by @janiceharayda captures some of my main issues with the modern #publishing industry, as well as the pressures on #art and #artists in general in the age of social media.
#RecommendedReads #Medium #Writing #SocialMedia
https://medium.com/the-pub/writers-are-expected-to-do-too-much-self-promotion-63a5de81da1
Since we can't measure what will be good / bad for individuals or groups, and we can't know what is good or bad for individuals / groups not ourselves, double-blind / anonymity periods / bans etc. come from individual preferences. Applying mathematical logic to these preferences doesn't make sense.
[anonymity period, social media, academic fights] I have definite opinions about these things, that openness is better & there shouldn't be restrictions abt talking about your work by conf.s or journals.
& have been thinking of how to get some quantitative evidence of how one approach is better than the other.
It is an impossible task. I'm coming around to the idea that double blind is used b/c it can be ~measured, while other pros/ cons cannot.
#peerReview #publishing #socialMediaBan
Getting ready to send my fantasy novel to a publisher. I've prepared the sample and written a synopsis. Now all I have to do is the covering letter.
My weekly roundup of #publishing news, #writingtips, and #bookmarketing links is up.๐
Reading Between The Lines
https://buff.ly/3IBGfLi
#writingcommunity #amwriting #indieauthors
Found this among Lucireสผs old posts on Mastodon, going back five years. I think the coverสผs aged pretty well. Our fashion ed. Sopheak styled this. All done in #Aotearoa #NZ.
https://mastodon.art/@lucire/99602885578908270 #Lucire #FashionMagazine #ArtDirection #fashion #publishing #NZTwits
New junk/predatory journal scam email:
"As we promised, this is the Coupon: 101492 that will allow you to publish
your paper in our Journals without fees"
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New #WriterBeware blog post: Does the publishing contract you were just offered include a fee for early termination? Don't gloss over it: it could be bad for you, and bad for the publisher too #WritingCommunity #Publishing https://writerbeware.blog/2023/05/26/termination-fees-in-publishing-contracts-not-just-bad-for-authors/
The Dread Machine is venturing into meatspace! Here's where we'll be this year.
July 20-22: ConnectiCon
August 3rd-6th GenCon
August 26th-27th RetroWorld Expo
October 12th-15th New York ComicCon
#connecticon #gencon #retroworldexpo #nycc #scifi #indie #publishing #Magazine #fiction #fictionwriting #wrtitingcommunity #amwriting #amediting
I ponder giving up on writing. I no longer feel any resonance that kept me going in the past. It was never easy but I always had people who got in touch, commented, critiqued, etc Without Facebook and Twitter, and without a publisher, I'm writing into a void and I feel increasingly discouraged. I can no longer convince myself that what I do is good, necessary and that it touches people. Maybe it's time to stop, after 11 years and focus on something else. #writing #publishing
New study on the state of academic #publishing in #China.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/leap.1545
"China now has more researchers than the US, outspends the US and EU in research and development and publishes more scientific papers each year than any other nation in the worldโฆ China continues to have problems with research integrity and has the highest number of retractions of any country due to plagiarism, invented data and fake peer review."
Hi! I'm working to raise awareness about a charity event this weekend for a cause so personal to so many, and ask if you'll consider any size donation (it's a quick click to donate $1 or more).
If you're busy or not interested in the event itself, but are willing to take my word and help, please donate (any amount!) here: https://donate.tiltify.com/@arvaneleron/arvcon2023
And please boost! (1/3)
#CancerResearch #Publishing #RPG #TTRPG #Michigan #Connecticut #DamonRunyon #Twitch #TwitchTV #Streaming #Gaming #ArvCon2023
Ugh. Gollancz has changed up their cover style for The Lost Metal. It's similar to the old style, but doesn't match ๐คฎ
Publishers (all of them) need to stop doing this. Just pay your artists what they're worth. Stop switching cover styles mid-series!
Currently in Hannover at #BiblioCon23: @margoline & Tabea Klaus are presenting ideas to strengthen institutional #DiamondOA #publishing. #OpenScience
In unserer #OMP - Instanz ist jetzt das Institut fรผr Strukturwandel und Nachhaltigkeit der #MLU als Verlag vertreten, und es wurde schon ein Konferenzband verรถffentlicht! https://omp.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/halis/catalog #publishing #openaccess
๐ตMigrating account.๐ต After most of my adult life in South Carolina, I landed in Arizona. ๐ค After a satisfying 6mos on home.social, I landed here because it's closing down. I boosted a few of my old posts, just so as not to be a blank account. As an eclectic poster, I can't promise any exact ratios, but followers will likely see posts to do with:
#USPol
#christofacism
#GermanShepherds
#GSDs
#Arizona
#Homestead
#WritingCommunity
#horses
#dogs
#publishing
Will update a pinned post when the process is complete.
My weekly roundup of #publishing news, #writingtips, and #bookmarketing links is up.๐
Reading Between The Lines
https://buff.ly/3IBGfLi
#writingcommunity #amwriting #indieauthors
How Much Do Tina Turnerโs Recordings Earn Everyย Year?
Check it out! ๐
https://www.billboard.com/pro/how-much-money-tina-turner-recordings-each-year/
I joined Jake Parker and Lee White on their THREE POINT PERSPECTIVE podcast to talk about #making #comics! It was a good chat about getting your feet under you, as well as the ways in which #publishing feels like it's changing.
Hey #believeInFilm friends, I'd like to have some honest #feedback and also be frank about #ethical content #publishing.
I don't want to host 3rd party ad platforms on my blog. It's not good for your #privacy and is a bad presentation for content I care deeply about. Instead, I'd like to test some paid support options โ but I need your help deciding on what would work best for you.
So what do you think about (pick 1+ option that you'd be OK with and please tell me more in replies):
#EPUB 3.3 Becomes a #W3C Recommendation https://www.infodocket.com/2023/05/25/standards-epub-3-3-becomes-a-w3c-recommendation/ #publishing #standards
"Blogging is Graffiti with Punctuation!!"
Would you agree?
A link to my Medium story below that will be interesting for us all to discuss.
(just don't shoot the Messenger!!)
Delta Think: "Fully Open Access Journals โ Size Does Matter" & More Headlines https://www.infodocket.com/2023/05/25/fully-open-access-journals-size-does-matter-global-open-access-initiative-scoap3-drives-dramatic-increase-in-reach-and-readership-of-taylor-more-news-headlines/ #oa #publishing #scholcomm
Publishing Briefs: Primary Wave Buys Skillet Catalog; Reservoir Signs Armaniย White
Check it out! ๐
https://www.billboard.com/pro/publishing-news-primary-wave-skillet-reservoir-armani-white/
#Reservoir #PublishingBriefs #PrimaryWave #Peermusic #CatalogDeal #Publishing #Business
@michellelaverickmusic @io
Yes, and itโs mirrored in seemingly all creative areas like #journalism & #publishing where unpaid internships mean mostly wealthy people get into the industry (which limits voices)
And #academia, where those without resources are excluded for lack of connections and resources the privileged take for granted
Who gets to be artists, writers musicians, designers when no one is paid to be creative?
Thereโs always been rich wannabes, but there will be nothing but
Songwritersโ Streaming Royalties Have Been Determined (Finally)
Check it out! ๐
https://www.billboard.com/pro/songwriters-streaming-rates-2018-2022-determined/
#Streaming #Songwriter #Nmpa #CopyrightRoyaltyBoard #Publishing #Business
I miss "DVD extras". What extras would be fun for you as a reader?
Piers Anthony always had these huge author's notes at the end, which were kinda like that. For #Duplicate the hardcover comes with a map of all the people. What else?
Early in the pandemic (April 2020) I started what became a long #Twitter thread on #gender bias in academic #publishing.
https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/1252981139855355904
Starting today, I'm stopping it on Twitter and continuing it on #Mastodon.
Here's a rollup of the Twitter thread.
https://resee.it/tweet/1252981139855355904
Watch this space for updates.
One of my many sisters asked me what my goal was in sharing links to my published essays with the rest of our family. As in, "why do you share them?"
My reactions were varied:
1. I don't know. Validation?
2. To share good news?
3. To be seen and heard
4. You aren't a writer, are you?
#Business #Introductions
Understanding news topic authority ยท How Googleโs new system surfaces expert news in search results https://ilo.im/1345ee
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#GoogleSearch #GoogleNews #NewsTopicAuthority #SEO #SearchEngine #Publishing #Website #Content #News
The Council of Science Editors is hosting the webinar How to Start an Image-Checking Program on Thursday, May 25, at 8 a.m. Pacific Time/11 a.m. Eastern Time. #Image #manipulation and #falsification is an ongoing problem in #science #publishing. This webinar will discuss practical considerations. Go here to register: https://cse.memberclicks.net/imagecheckingprogram#!/ #Bookstodon
TIL: it's standard for authors to have to pay for the rights to license images that will appear in their books, even if the book is published by a trad publisher, even one of the Big Five.
#publishing #tradPub #books #bookstadon #AuthorsOfMastodon
Just ran across this interesting looking anthro article, by Hosna Sheikholeslami, on a specific Iranian form of invisible publishing labor: "Invisible Experts: The Curious Case of the Book Knower in Iran." Below is the last paragraph of the introductory section.
This week in the wake of a LOT of agency shakeups, we asked an extremely basic question: what if the publishing world treated writers like they were professionals? This frame lets us talk about the discourse from the past few weeks, all which shares the common theme of โtreating writers really poorly.โ Come vent with us, come laugh with us, come imagine a better way of doing things with us. Episode Summary https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/print-run-podcast/id1159396548?i=1000614188098 #Publishing
I want to be clear: when I talk about #publishing, I'm not (just) talking about my own experiences. I've spoken to a lot of writers about a lot of situations. When I cough up a bit of advice, it's based on the experiences of multiple people.
We always hear the success narratives, and those are useful. It can also be useful to recognize how to (try to) avoid pitfalls that have swallowed others.
Hey #rstats and #quartopub folks: I'd like to write up a #casestudy on a 300-level #stats class that I built in Quarto (originally in #Rmarkdown with #blogdown) and that heavily leverages R and Quarto to teach both the stats *and* R and Quarto.
Any suggestions for possible outlets for a piece like that? #academicchatter #academicpublishing #academia #publishing #Statistics
In my blog
Business Book Awards on Panos: the official review
https://jackyan.com/blog/2023/05/business-book-awards-on-panos-the-official-review/ #book #BusinessBookAwards #autobiography #PanosPapadopoulos #PanosEmporio #publishing #award
Reminder that I keep up a free aggregated paying calls for submissions email newsletter for writers. Subscribe by RSS or email. Subscribe via email at https://rk.groups.io/g/writerop/join, or RSS, at https://rk.groups.io/g/writerop/rss #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #Publishing #Fiction #Nonfiction
From 20 May: Even Without Book Bans, Publishing Has a YA Issue - Young Adult (YA) literature has found itself under attack from an increase in book banning and cens... https://www.themarysue.com/even-without-book-bans-publishing-has-a-ya-issue/ #book-bans #books #publishing #ya-literature
So here's a writer's survival tactic: never forget that #writing and #publishing - all types of publishing - are two separate things.
I run a free calls for submissions list for writers. No junk, just submission calls! Subscribe via email at https://rk.groups.io/g/writerop/join, or RSS, at https://rk.groups.io/g/writerop/rss #Publishing #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #Writing
Aphorisms, from my forthcoming #book, appeared in Tiferet #Journal โ at the nexus of #literature & #spirituality โ alongside #poets that I admire, such as Paul Muldoon.
https://m.youtube.com/@Yahia.Lababidi
@bookstodon #books #poetry #wisdom #SilentSunday #publishing #WritingCommunity #reading #meditation #art #peace #reading
Readers Aren't Flocking to Chatbot Novels Just Yet https://countercraft.substack.com/p/readers-arent-flocking-to-chatbot #Publishing
Draft2Digital: Stop letting censorship be an excuse to fuck over your authors
Last week, I received an email from Draft2Digital about my short story collection Whips & Fangs.
The collection is blocked from most major etailers for dubcon and noncon -- content that those etailers have no problem with in mainstream romance books.
Rather than supporting authors against these unfairly applied policies, @draft2digital is enabling them.
https://jessmahler.com/draft2digital-stop-letting-censorship-be-an-excuse-to-fuck-over-your-authors/
Wow, (over) 30 years of the PDF. I use them daily. From the linked article:
"The concept of PDF - Portable Document Format - actually began with the Camelot Project in 1990. And Camelot itself would be nothing without the very backbone of the idea, PostScript, which started all the way back in 1985, and kickstarted the desktop publishing software revolution.
Back in those days, cross-platform compatibility was a nightmare, which led Dr. John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe, to initiate that project. Its goal was simple in its concept but ambitious in its execution: create a format that would enable anyone to send any document electronically to anyone else, and that person would be able to read and even print it with its formatting perfectly preserved.
...to us jaded computer users nearly at the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, this may sound like nothing to be excited about, but back in the 80s and 90s, which was the personal computerโs infancy, this was a big deal.
...back then, you couldnโt be sure which software someone would be using. You wouldnโt even know which fonts were installed on their machine. If you used one that wasnโt in that other computerโs repertoire, it could at best mess up your documentโs formatting. To make matters worse, there was the Mac/Windows divide which was often viewed as a deal-breaker. Many remained convinced a file created on one type of computer could not be opened on another."
https://www.techradar.com/features/30-years-of-pdf-the-file-that-changed-the-world
#PDF #PDFs #TechHistory #1980s #1990s #Adobe #fonts #DesktopPublishing #Apple #Windows #tech #history #publishing
Are you ready for a TRAVEL THROUGH TIME?
The Rolistes Present... returns to talk about UK TTRPG publishing with Sasha Sienna (MacGuffin & Co), @jellymuppet (#Soulmuppet Publishing), & @jameswallis (Everybody Wins: the Greatest Board Games Ever Made).
Join us @ukgamesexpo on Saturday, June 3rd!
#TTRPG #IndieTTRPG #UKGE2023 #UKGamesExpo #UKGE #panel #publishing #uk
Sneak peek at a piece of mine appearing in an Australian #magazine, later this month :
#Australia #publishing #desert #Egypt #meditation #poetry #book #WritingCommunity #friday
New #WriterBeware blog post: Editing clauses in publishing contracts: do you know what kind of language to look for, and what to avoid (or negotiate to improve)? A tutorial, with examples #WritingCommunity #Publishing https://writerbeware.blog/2023/05/19/editing-clauses-in-publishing-contracts-what-to-watch-for/
"A new industry is extracting fees from well-heeled families to enable their teenage children to conduct and publish research that colleges may regard as a credential."
https://www.propublica.org/article/college-high-school-research-peer-review-publications
Please read the whole thing. This is not about #predatory journals in the usual sense. It's a new kind of #misconduct, both on the #publishing side and the side of parents buying #university slots that would have gone to worthy #students from less chiseling families.
Predatory journal junk email of the day. "We invite you to submit the same or similar..." Really? Submit the same manuscript? Just...no.
Sounds jolly. I know short stories aren't very popular anymore but I really love books of them and it could be a way to discover new writers.
IDK. It's your publishing house. Anyway, here's some tags to help people find your idea.
#Publishing #AIFree #SF #Horror #Mystery #GenreFiction #GraphicNovels #Writers #ScienceFiction #SciFi #NewVentures
I published my first academic paper thirty years ago.
Overnight, a researcher contacted me to ask if I had the data for the main figure in the paper so that they could reproduce it.
Could I help? The data was from the time before Windows, 5.25-inch floppy discs, and graphs sent from a Unix environment directly to a printer for redrawing for publication by a cartographer.
You bet! In my archive, there was the original input data and code (Fortran77). And now shared.
#academia #publishing #science #research #HigherEd #caves #climate #academicchatter #Fortran #datascience
Uber-Prolific #Publishing, #Hanging, #Standing, #Punching (my column this week in New Scientist) https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25834391-600-race-is-on-to-publish-the-most-scientific-research-papers-in-a-career/
My latest article at Taproot Edmonton is about a conference coming up at the end of the month exploring health and well-being in cities.
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#yeg #journalism #writing #health #wellbeing #conference #publishing #edmonton
Pushback on Florida's #bookbanning frenzy: parents, authors, PEN America, & PRH file lawsuit against a FL school district over "unconstitutional" removal of books from school libraries #WritingCommunity #Publishing #WriterBeware https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/92322-pen-america-penguin-random-house-sue-florida-school-district-over-unconstitutional-book-bans.html
Faber Books in the UK are hiring a designer/senior designer
In Australia, authors & illustrators are paid for the use of their books in libraries & educational institutions.
These are called Public & Educational Lending Rights (PLR/ELR).
This means that, even if you donโt buy my books, borrowing them (or ordering them) means that I get paid. And thatโs great.
Better still, this year they also counted ebooks (thanks to the Australian Society of Authors).
#writing #writingCommunity #writingAdvice #author #authorLife #authorCommunity #publishing
We reached 1000 research articles published in Quantum Journal!
Thank you to all the editors, board members, employees and volunteers who keep Quantum running!
I wrote about the first case where we're using an #AI language model to extract key data from unstructured obituary content, used in writing and #publishing a list of death notices in our #newspaper. https://stumble.press/2023/death-notices-meet-ai/
@AbandonedAmerica At a #tech meeting, last night, with bright young things working in #AI & one young man in his early twenties, who referred to himself as โthe villainโ, assured me it was ๐ฏ % over for content-creators, #writers such as myself.
To prove his point, he boasted about #publishing a #book on #amazon , entirely โwrittenโ by AI, which took him all of 5 days to compose.
And, to think that I was attending this meet up looking for a #job โฆ Sigh
Just received this from MIT Press...
The MIT Press Receives $10 Million Endowment Gift for Open Access to Knowledge.
The gift establishes the Arcadia Open Access Fund to support open access books and journals in science and technology, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
The new fund will support the MIT Pressโs ground-breaking efforts to publish open access books and journals in fields ranging from science and technology to the social sciences, arts, and humanities. It will also help the MIT Press continue to develop tools, models, and resources that make scholarship more accessible to researchers and other readers around the world.
Arcadia is providing an outright endowment gift of $5 million, as well as a $5 million โchallengeโ gift to incentivize other funders by matching their support of MITโs open publishing activities.
#publishing #OpenAccess #scholcommn #OAbooks #scholarlypublishing
Neuroimage, the leading publication globally for brain-imaging research, [...] charges to authors reflect its prestige, and academics now pay over ยฃ2,700 for a research paper to be published. The former editors say this is โunethicalโ and bears no relation to the costs involved. #Elsevier #highered #science #publishing #journals #openaccess
Elsevier, a Dutch company that claims to publish 25% of the worldโs scientific papers, reported a 10% increase in its revenue to ยฃ2.9bn last year. But itโs the profit margins, nearing 40%, according to its 2019 accounts, which anger academics most.
#highered #science #publishing #journals
"More than 40 leading scientists have resigned en masse from the editorial board of a top science journal in protest at what they describe as the โgreedโ of publishing giant Elsevier."
Elsevier's profit margin is around 40%. Claiming that academic publishers prey on researchers, more than forty leading scientists are setting up "a nonprofit open-access journal".
Publicly-funded knowledge should be free.
"More than 40 leading scientists have resigned en masse from the editorial board of a top science journal in protest at what they describe as the โgreedโ of #publishing giant #Elsevier."
๐ โToo greedyโ: mass walkout at global #science #journal over โunethicalโ fees
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/07/too-greedy-mass-walkout-at-global-science-journal-over-unethical-fees
#science #research #APCs #ethics #journals #subscriptions #libraries #academiclibraries
๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐๐ผ๐: โ๐๐ค๐ค ๐๐ง๐๐๐๐ฎโ: ๐ข๐๐จ๐จ ๐ฌ๐๐ก๐ ๐ค๐ช๐ฉ ๐๐ฉ ๐๐ก๐ค๐๐๐ก ๐จ๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ ๐๐ค๐ช๐ง๐ฃ๐๐ก ๐ค๐ซ๐๐ง โ๐ช๐ฃ๐๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐กโ ๐๐๐๐จ
Entire board resigns over actions of academic publisher whose ๐ฅ๐ง๐ค๐๐๐ฉ ๐ข๐๐ง๐๐๐ฃ๐จ ๐ค๐ช๐ฉ๐จ๐ฉ๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐๐ซ๐๐ฃ Google and Amazon
#SciComm #science #openscience #openaccess #publishing #academia
'"Too greedy": mass walkout at global science journal over โunethicalโ fees'
The publisher is Elsevier, the journal is Neuroimage. The same team of editors is establishing a nonprofit open-access journal in its place.
#academia #publishing #science
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/07/too-greedy-mass-walkout-at-global-science-journal-over-unethical-fees
This is big. No #embargoes. No #APCs.
"The #EU is ready to agree that immediate #OpenAccess to papers reporting publicly funded research should become the norm, w/o authors having to pay fees & that the bloc should support #nonprofit scholarly publishing models.
In a move that could send shockwaves through commercial scholarly #publishing, the positions are due to be adopted by the Council of the EU member state governments later this month."
https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe-infrastructure-2023-5-eu-ready-to-back-immediate-open-access-without-author-fees/
How Academic Bullying Led This Data Scientist to Open Science.
In her insightful article, @pcmasuzzo shares how she was bullied into producing bad science, how she became fed up with academic culture and what she had to do to rediscover her love for science.
Read the full article here:
https://www.eurac.edu/en/blogs/connecting-the-dots/how-academic-bullying-led-this-data-scientist-to-open-science
#science #publishing #academia #bullying #quality #research #phd #postdoc #datascience #openscience #opendata #openaccess
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There, at the end of the day,
with twilight whispers,
and shades weaving tales.
I lost my innocence,
somewhere along the way.
It was a dream within a dream,
of a world as I wanted it to be.
A bad incarnation of stories,
prejudices, and beliefs,
showing how things should be.
Free as a bird, in my ignorance,
just like the wind that does not listen,
breaking waves with my strength,
refusing to accept
I will grow weak one day.
. . .
~ Iva
~โข~
An extract from a poem "At the End of One Day" from the collection "Life is a Remembrance".
Author copies of my book have arrived!
After over a decade of working on First Family, it's surreal to finally hold the final product in my hands. Official release: June 6.
This has been on my mind for a while, but I finally sat down and did a quick post about it.
People complain a lot about content, but 1) don't really know or care about why things are the way they are, 2) aren't willing to pay for the content they say they want to exist, and 3) evidence shows that when it does they don't actually find + consume what they claim to want.
#publishing #tech #journalism #writing
https://dissociatedpress.net/2023/04/30/stop-calling-things-clickbait-already/
So so so proud of my wife, who has sold her first novel, OLIVE DAYS, written while working full-time and raising 3 kids. It's a beautiful story (yes, I've already read it multiple times) about love, faith, identity, and Los Angeles. Can't wait for everyone else to read it, too!
#literature #fiction #publishing #judaism #LosAngeles #atheism