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Apr25

Jason Boog

Know More: Online Publishing, Publishers, Writing Resources 2.0, Writing Resources

After a birthday weekend in sunny Los Angeles, I return in a jet-lagged fog this early, early morning...

I apologize for the dead air yesterday, and I'll be running a normal schedule this week--including a travel writing and Peace Corps-themed interview series.

First, the unfinished business. I'd like to thank everybody who sent birthday wishes last week, they were appreciated.

I also wanted to run this correction from John Sundman about my post about his great work over at WetMachine:

"There are four main writers on wetmachine, of whom I am one. I don't write all the entries there. On average, I write about a third of them. The fellow who made the video about the power lines with his wife is my friend Howard Stearns, a software engineer who works on the Croquet project."

Finally, while you are waiting for Five Easy Questions this week, check out Anna Louise's (who works for the publisher Tor) literally priceless LiveJournal essay (discovered via Boingboing) about the economics of publishing an unknown writer.

Check it out...

"I unfortunately had my company spend some money to send me to an NYU class during which I learned about "the business of publishing". I was bored for most of the time because a lot of it was about magazines and academia, and the stuff that was about book publishing was the stuff I already knew. This is stuff you learn as you do it. The more you do it, the better you get -- if you want to get better."

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