Episode #009 of The Velvet Podcast is now live! Authors Gordon Highland (Major Inversions), Brandon Tietz (Out of Touch), and Caleb J Ross (Stranger Will) have a spirited conversation about self- and vanity-publishing, debating its legitimacy, logistics, and financial aspects, as well as insights from their own experiences in this oft-scorned segment of the industry. Please, give it a listen. Subscribe via Feedburner, Podcast Alley, or iTunes.
Thanks to everyone who voted for the cover of Stranger Will. The winner is... I won't lie; this isn't the cover I was pulling for. But that doesn't mean that I don't really, really like it. Hell, I really, really liked them all.
News aggregator sites collect information in strange ways. Ever since Otherworld Publications went public with their 2011 book lineup, many unrelated aggregator sites have picked up the story. Usually, even with the seemingly unrelated, there is something within the text of a press release that would cause aggregators to jump on board. Let's see if we can find those reasons. First, here's the release in full: Otherworld Publications is Excited To Announce the 2011 Publication Line-up 04/10/2010 Otherworld Publications Louisville, KY (PRWEB) October 4, 2010 Otherworld Publications is tickled to denote the 2011 publication line-up. We have another breathless year ahead of us About the Authors: Michael Wallace Michael Wallace grew up reading all the history texts and novels he could find. His library shelves are filled up with a range of genres from H.G Wells and Jules Verne to Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy. It is only biological he…
VOTING HAS ENDED. You get to choose the cover of my forthcoming novel! Go to the Otherworld Publications voting page and vote for your favorite Stranger Will cover. Seriously, the winner is the winner. No Florida re-counts here (dated reference, I know). I do like one more than the others. But which one, I won't say. The novel is set to be released on March 18th, 2010. Voting ends on November 30th. That means if I don't get the cover I want, I have 3 1/2 months to cry about it. Click here to vote. Click on cover images below to see full size image. 1-Vertical Bench, white 2 - Birds on Wires, red [Picture Deleted] [Picture Deleted] 3 - Snowy Bench, shadow title 4 - Snowy Bench, floating title [Picture Deleted] [Picture Deleted] 5 - Mirror Trees, sideways title 6 - Mirror Trees, wraparound title…
In late 2009 I embarked on a the Blog Orgy Tour in support of Charactered Pieces: stories which took me all the way from my living room to the Javanaut coffeehouse on 39th street and everywhere in between with wireless internet access. Oh, the groupies. But that's for another post. As some of you may know, my novel Stranger Will is set to be released in March 2011 by Otherworld Publications. I miss the road (which remains unmoving just outside my office window). So, I want to do another tour. Announcing the Posting for Strange: The Blog Orgy Tour II: Stranger Will: (Unnecessary Colon) (I’m still working on the name) My goal this time is to embark on a marathon blog tour, from the release of Stranger Will in March all the way to the November 2011 release of my second novel, I Didn’t Mean to Be Kevin (Black Coffee…
Just when you thought you had over a year before getting offended by a book from me (I Didn’t Mean to Be Kevin, November 2011), I go and do something crazy like sign with another publisher to release a novel in March 2011. Stranger Will, a noir story of apathy and abortion, is coming early next year from Otherworld Publications. Otherworld Publications is a young publisher, but one with an impressive drive to promote its authors. This fact is not the sole reason I signed with them, though. This press seems to have acknowledged something that I, and the below authors, have known for a long time: The Velvet and The Cult are cesspools of untapped talent. Of the 11 current Otherworld authors (some noted on the Otherworld site, others not yet public knowledge), 5 have grown up at The Velvet and/or The Cult forums. I think we have Mr.…
(This interview is cross-posted at Outsider Writers Collective) Full disclosure: I’m writing this intro after having imbibed a few pints of Guinness at a downtown KC Irish pub called O’Dowds, which, as a nod to authenticity, has been given my grandmother-in-law’s seal of approval, all the way from Ballyshannon, Ireland. The inebriation is all the more fitting, considering Alan Kelly's Dublin area connections. Alan first contacted me, years ago, by the invitation in one of my first publication author bios: "He welcomes conversation via email." I intended the trailing line to garner no more than a grin from the few who read it. But Alan's willingness to contact a stranger should have clued me in early on to what a true individual he is. We have been communicating online and following each others work since. When I first heard about his novella, Let Me Die a Woman, I was quite…