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NaNoWriMo 2011 edition
Happy National Novel Writing Month! Every year I debate whether or not to join the fray on this 30-day writing marathon, which I have participated in—and won—in the past. This year I’ve come up with a title for a potential novel, but I haven’t done any actual
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Letters (and books) of Note
Crowdfunding for authors: An awesome new website I found through Letters of Note (who are going to be releasing a book, yippee!), Unbound provides a platform for writers to crowdfund their books with great tools and incentives
Writing for love, not money
This week’s edition of Lobster Telephone is all about writing for love, not money. While we certainly love and respect freelance writers who make a living from their words, sometimes you’ve got to write for the sheer joy of it. Novelists, for instance, rarely see any cash from their efforts
MFA – yippee-ki-yay or no-MF’n-way?
As someone who only has a lowly BA in writing and is still debating the merits of acquiring an MFA, I find the argument between Poets & Writers Magazine (who recently published their annual MFA
Occupy Wall Street – or a town near you
Rebellion of the moment: Occupy Wall Street, going strong for two whole weeks, yet mysteriously under-publicized by the mainstream (Wall Street-owned?) media, despite support from such figures as Noam Chomsky, Cornel West and Michael Moore. For intelligent coverage,
Taddle Creek, Henry Rollins, ebooks that don’t suck, Reading Rainbow
Lobster Telephone is a weekly missive from editor Laura Roberts‘ desk, chronicling the good, the bad, and the random from around the literary world, as well as writing tips for the savvy submitter. The title is, indeed, inspired by the surrealist
The Sexy, The Sucky, and the Highly Implausible: This Week in Free E-books
As an introduction to my quest for great free e-books, this week I hit up Amazon’s list of Top 100 Free e-books to survey the landscape of Kindle-friendly reading material. (For the record, I own a Kindle*
The Great Free E-book Experiment
In an insightful post at the We Put Words On Paper blog, Black Heart contributor Amanda Kimmerly asks “What is the last book you loved?”
Lit for Less: Rockin’ the Austin Public Library
Everyone knows their local library is the place for freebies: free books, free movies, free Internet—even free A/C in the heat of a sweaty Austin summer. But compared to lots of libraries I’ve had the pleasure of haunting, the Austin Public Library
Gov Perry hates artists, cuts funding
As reported by the Austin Chronicle this week, Texas Governor Rick Perry hates artists—despite the fact that they comprise almost 700,000 of his constituents as of 2009 (or 1 in 12 within the next 5 years) and provide
