When I first began teaching writing while I was at Chapman and eager to launch my “new career,” I got Ursula Le Guin’s book Steering the Craft and was powerfully impressed by what I learned from it along with my reading … Continue reading
Amy Sterling Casil
Everyone is familiar with the “Industrial Revolution.” In the past 500 years there have been five official “revolutions” that have changed the way people live. (1600–1740) Financial-agricultural revolution (1780–1840) Industrial revolution (1880–1920) Technical revolution (or Second Industrial Revolution) (1940–1970) Scientific-technical … Continue reading
Right now, approximately 70 million people in North America (US, Canada, Mexico) regularly buy and read books. “Regularly” is defined as buying and reading at least one book a month. This is frequently described in popular media as “nobody reads any … Continue reading
This is about what goes into making the product that comes after the cover of an e-book or between the covers of a print book, from the author’s perspective. The only objective criterion for “is it a good book?” that … Continue reading
Chameleon Publishing just conducted the first of three market validation surveys: the Writer Survey. We are going to analyze and respond to the first 120 responses. Approximately 55 percent of the responses are from working writers who earn more than $5,000 a year … Continue reading
Hey, I started this cookie thing and I rarely eat cookies any more as I’m gluten-free, dairy-free, and additive free. If you want to sell books like Oreos, as Bruce says, you need to be aware of the true quality … Continue reading
WWW Wednesday. This meme is from shouldbereading. To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions… • What are you currently reading? • What did you recently finish reading? • What do you think you’ll read next? • … Continue reading
I was a very, very bad Amy at one of my Baycon panels. I think the programming committee saw that I’d checked I’d be willing to be on the “Romance in SF/F” panel and saw “female” and added me to … Continue reading
In addition to what we here at Book View Cafe believe to be the first self-published novel to achieve a Nebula Award nomination, … Continue reading
WWW Wednesday. This meme is from shouldbereading. The usual questions being: What have you read, what are you reading, what will you read? Well, since I’m working again, I’ve been reading short fiction. I have been reading the September, 2013 Analog, … Continue reading