Love at Absolute Zero | Love at Absolute Zero
May.12.2012
I'm surprised, I'm delighted, and I don't know how else to explain this, so I'm giving you the press release:
Los Angeles, May 12, 2012
Call him as focused as his physicist. Deep into his next novel, Christopher Meeks didn’t realize his book Love At Absolute Zero was a finalist in ForeWord Reviews...
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Feb.18.2012
The notion of “love at first sight” has a lot of basis in fact. That's what I learned in research for my novel. The big premise of Love At Absolute Zero is that a 32-year-old physicist, in tune with his inner salmon, can find his soul mate in three days using the Scientific Method. What folly, you...
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Sep.27.2011
THE 99-CENT EBOOK DILEMMA: ROAD TO SUCCESS OR A SUGGESTION “IT SUCKS”?
When Amanda Hocking first made news earlier this year that a 26-year-old out of Austin, Minnesota, could become a millionaire by selling her books for 99 cents on Kindle, anyone with a flicker of a story hammered it out and...
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Sep.20.2011
Do you remember the scene in Annie Hall where Woody Allen argues with Diane Keaton in a movie line, and a pedantic man behind them rattles on about Marshall McLuhan? Pissed off, Allen disagrees with the professor and pulls out McLuhan who tells off the professor. (Click here to see the one-minute...
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Jul.22.2011
I grew up in a Frank Lloyd Wright house--or it would have been an official one if he'd had lived a little longer. In a few tours that were given before the house was knocked down last year, people asked me what was it like growing up in an "organic architecture" home. I've thought about...
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Jun.29.2011
Perhaps the biggest touchstone in my life--though I didn't know it at the time--was when President John F. Kennedy spoke at Rice University's football stadium in Houston, Texas, in the late summer of 1962, the day before my tenth birthday. He said, "We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go...
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Jun.04.2011
As much as I've written about how the book industry is changing, there are changes about to happen that you may not be prepared for. First, think how much technology has shaped our lives in the last ten years. People have home movie theatres now with large flat screens and surround sound systems,...
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May.28.2011
If you listen to NPR, you know the voice: the upbeat, inquisitive, even comical voice of science correspondent Robert Krulwich. I recently heard his story about honey bees. He explains well--as he always explains everything well--how when bees are in search of a new hive, it’s an absolute democracy...
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May.22.2011
There’s a recently installed bust of Bruce Springsteen in Asbury Park, New Jersey, that’s getting the wrong kind of attention. That’s because the bust is just garish. The concrete statuary has a red bandana painted on it, and if people don’t know who he is, the placard says he’s a “soulful...
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May.15.2011
Today is my new novel's publishing day, so I thought I'd write about the marketing it took to get here.
I won’t bullshit you. The publishing industry is changing fast, and what to do is confusing. Like a bar magnet, the industry has two strong poles: traditional publishing and self-publishing. If...
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