My buddy and fellow Grey Gecko Press author Benjamin Card got an interview over at “Authors Interviews.”
Archive for July, 2014
The Hemingway App Comes to Desktop – And It’s GREAT!
Posted: 24th July 2014 by Jason Kristopher in On Writing, The CraftTags: adverbs, apps, hemingway, passive voice, software, tools, Writing
*cough* Sorry, channeled Tony the Tiger there for a second. For those of you who haven’t heard of it, the Hemingway App is a wonderful little tool for analyzing your writing. The web version and the desktop version both have the same core functionality: telling you where your writing could use a little work. The main […]
My friend A. K. Klemm is the author of a great novella, “The Bookshop Hotel,” which had me wanting to build the bookstore she describes just so I could live/work there. Seriously, it’s great, and you should totally buy it (online from a local bookstore, naturally). In the meantime, check out her review (first in […]
5 Stars: “The Walker Chronicles” by… Me!
Posted: 18th July 2014 by Jason Kristopher in My Work, ZombiesTags: 5 star, DOTL, reviews, walker chronicles
The first official review is in for my short story / ‘deleted scenes’ collection, and it’s a doozy! 74 Wave writes: Background Indeed I’ve read both Dying of the Light books and was thrilled with each. The Walker Chronicles add to an already excellent series of books by this talented author. I would suggest and […]
5 Stars: “The Last Man on Earth Club” by Paul Hardy
Posted: 16th July 2014 by Jason Kristopher in BooksTags: Apocalypse, paul hardy
From Amazon.com: Six people are gathered for a therapy group deep in the countryside. Six people who share a unique and terrible trauma: each one is the last survivor of an apocalypse. Each of them was rescued from a parallel universe where humanity was wiped out. They’ve survived nuclear war, machine uprisings, mass suicide, the […]
Don’t Make People Pay for Music, Let Them
Posted: 15th July 2014 by Jason Kristopher in Everything ElseTags: amanda palmer, innovation, Neil Gaiman, publishing, TED
Amanda Palmer, musician, artist, internet pioneer and wife of the nerd-god Neil Gaiman, has had some choice words for her labels and detractors over the years. In this TED talk, she explains why she advocates piracy and the “pay what you want” model. This presents an interesting idea for publishing, too, or really any sort […]
From Amazon.com: With nothing but the clothes on his back—and something horrific snapping at his heels—Jack Winter fled his rural Georgia home when he was still just a boy. Watching the world he knew vanish in a trucker’s rearview mirror, he thought he was leaving an unspeakable nightmare behind forever. But years later, the bright […]
YouTube: “The Dancing Dead”
Posted: 9th July 2014 by Jason Kristopher in ZombiesTags: funny, the walking dead, walken, youtube
Hugh Howey: “Media Bias Against Self-Publishing”
Posted: 9th July 2014 by Jason Kristopher in PublishingTags: ALCS, big 5, Hugh Howey, Writing
Hugh hits it out of the park again with his coverage of the ALCS report on author earnings: The ALCS just released a survey on authors’ earnings, and the news is bleak. The ALCS surveyed 2,454 participants, some of whom considered themselves professional writers. The number of these professional writers who make a full-time wage from […]
