The New Juiced?
The sports pages are full of details about Floyd Landis’s admission that he used performance enhancing drugs during his cycling career. So we’re taking bets: how long until Landis signs a book deal? With the bestseller success of Jose Canseco’s 2006 book Juiced: Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big, it seems to…
continue readingJason Pinter on Technology and Self-Publishing
Over at the Huffington Post, Jason Pinter writes an interesting piece entitled “The Konrath Effect: Will New Technology Ruin Talented Authors”. It’s an intriguing piece because he contrasts two types of authors who are using e-books to further their career. Along the way, he looks at the strengths and weaknesses that each of these authors…
continue readingHow Can Authors Make More Money?
Would you bid in an auction where your favorite author’s pen is up for sale? Would you buy a T-shirt from a cool scribe? How about paying five dollars extra to get a signed book? As writers, would you offer such items for sale in an attempt to make a few extra bucks? If the…
continue readingFloods, Nashville, and Literary Musings
Hopefully the folks in Nashville are finally starting to dry out. Although it will undoubtedly be a difficult journey as those affected by the floods begin the process of putting their lives back together. In The New York Times, Ann Patchett provides an interesting perspective on floods in her op-ed piece, “Our Deluge, Drop by…
continue readingTroubles Facing the Horse Industry, and Some Good Books
On the front page of the New York Times website yesterday was an interesting article on the massive challenges facing the horse racing industry. Joe Drape’s article features a number of staggering statistics about the decline in the sport. One of the most eye-catching is the fact that the stud fee for Smarty Jones used…
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