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Apr.15.2010
Just over two years ago when I was teaching creative writing at USC in the Master of Professional Writing Program, I'd volunteered to head up a search for fellow faculty to write proposals for the next AWP Conference.
We were between program directors then, and the associate dean who was...
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Apr.07.2010
Simon Singh wins huge victory for libel reform in UK, but don’t get too excited. Stan Lee wins copyright suit – KAPOW! Plus, who’s threatening who over copyright? Who posted fake interviews? Who was fired for plagiarism? These and other stories for writers and publishers are in this week’s Write...
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Mar.30.2010
Six days remain before I go to visit my hometown of Coeburn, Virginia. The purpose of the visit is twofold: see family and friends and promote my debut novel Jewels.
I am excited, scared and contemplative as I watch the days wind down toward April 5.
I will admit I am a people-person and I love...
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Feb.26.2010
Unaware, perhaps, that they no are no longer reaping rewards for their creator, used copies of my novels find their ways into online used bookstores and resell and resell. What were your chances ten years ago of walking into a second-hand bookshop and finding the obscure book you were after? Nil....
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Feb.26.2010
Do you remember in the nineties, when those enemies of progress decried the big box booksellers nudging independent stores out of business? They claimed chainstore dominance would ultimately decrease the diversity of titles sold. We might have listened. They were right. Once there were thousands of...
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Feb.17.2010
Ever since Macmillan Publishing took on Amazon a few weeks ago in regards to a new contract, the cost of eBooks have been bandied about. Some readers seem to think that publishers are greedy and have money raining down on them by pricing their books over $10. In one Amazon discussion group, a...
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Feb.01.2010
Gabrielle Faust, a horror author best known for her dark fantasy vampire series ETERNAL VIGILANCE, recently interviewed me on her Horror and Sci-Fi Entertainment blog. Read the intervew at this link:
http://www.examiner.com/x-23384-Horror-and-SciFi-Entertainment-Examiner~y2009m10d7-Brian-Moreland-...
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Feb.01.2010
When I'm not writing novels, I work as a video editor on documentaries, TV commercials, and corporate videos. This year I was invited to travel to Iraq to edit a TV commercial. On January 1st, 2010, Tostitos and the USO hosted a "Salute the Troops" Bowl game, where the soldiers stationed...
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Jan.16.2010
I'm prepping the manuscript of my novel So Dark the Night, fiddling with the cover design, composing jacket copy...and, meanwhile, looking into print-on-demand companies.
Initially, I was set to go with lulu.com: the set-up was simple, no frills, seemed to be what I was looking for. But then me...
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Jan.05.2010
Here we are in 2010, and with that comes more predictions about the publishing industry.
The IdeaLogical Blog’s Mike Shatzkin has posted twelve predictions for publishing this year, much related to digital content as well as a couple interesting predictions about authors and retail.
The Huffington...
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