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Steven Reynolds wrote a new blog post: Review: Sleeper’s Run by Henry Mosquera 3 weeks, 1 day ago · View
When Eric Caine is found wandering the streets of South Beach, dishevelled and mumbling Arabic, he’s taken for just another of Miami’s homeless. But when someone notices his military ID card they promptly take him to the local VA hospital. He’s crashed his car and has no memory of the last eight days, save that he’d [...] -
Steven Reynolds commented on the blog post Bad Writing Doesn’t Matter Anymore 10 months, 2 weeks ago · View
I’m a keen sampler of self-published work at Amazon’s Kindle store, and I think there is actually a discernible difference between the quality of the top-sellers and the quality of the rest in each category. None of it’s great, but there are varying degrees of mediocre. I think “bad stuff selling well” is mostly a [...]
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Steven Reynolds commented on the blog post Barry Eisler Turns Down $500K to Self-Publish 10 months, 3 weeks ago · View
Thanks for posting this, Henry. Just goes to show what a game-changer electronic distribution is becoming, not just for self-publishing but for the whole industry.
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Steven Reynolds commented on the blog post Operation Concrete: An Interview with Richard Galbraith + Contest! 1 year, 3 months ago · View
Cool idea, and it looks like it’s beautifully packaged, too. Thanks for alerting us to this one, Henry. (I’ve shared this on Facebook.)
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Steven Reynolds commented on the blog post Self-Published Design Review: The Fiddler’s Gun by A.S. Peterson
I’m already struggling against my desire to buy this book, and I don’t even know what it’s about! It really does have that “special something” that would have me uncontrollably grabbing it off the table in the bookstore, or immediately clicking on it over at Amazon. It’s probably the best looking SP book I’ve ever [...]
1 year, 11 months ago · View
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Steven Reynolds commented on the blog post Self-Publishing is Humanity’s Progress (and also the Apocalypse)
Just read that article at NYRB. I think Epstein makes some great points.
The reappearance of the backlist is something I’m really looking forward to. Here in Australia, our market for local writing is very small. It’s almost impossible to get copies of some Australian novels published as little as twenty years ago. Only the bestsellers [...]1 year, 11 months ago · View
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Steven Reynolds commented on the blog post This isn’t about self-publishing.
FYI, “The New Yorker” has a web page with links to the 13 stories Salinger published there between 1946 and 1965. With just a few clicks, subscribers ($39.95 pa) can instantly access scanned copies of those magazines … oh, and the ENTIRE ARCHIVE containing every page of every issue from 1925!
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/backissues/2010/01/postscript-j-d-salinger.html
There’s something delightful about seeing [...]2 years ago · View
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Steven Reynolds commented on the blog post Finding the Moon in Sugar by Gint Aras
“…once you’ve decided that your narrator is a pot-head from Berwyn then you write from the perspective of a pot-head from Berwyn.”
Sure you do, but in coming to that decision one of the first questions you must ask yourself is this: “Can the perspective of a pot-head from Berwyn sustain a 90,000 word novel?” [...]2 years ago · View
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Steven Reynolds and Carol Buchanan are now friends 2 years, 1 month ago · View
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Steven Reynolds and Henry Baum are now friends 2 years, 1 month ago · View
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Steven Reynolds wrote a new blog post: Finding the Moon in Sugar by Gint Aras 2 years, 1 month ago · View
I swear right now that everything your gonna read in here happened 100% true. Cauze when I used to look back at all this crap that went down with me, sometimes I wouldn’t even believe it myself. I used to trip a lot on shrooms and acid, plus get high off weed or hash in weird [...]
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Steven Reynolds wrote a new blog post: Finding the Moon in Sugar by Gint Aras
I swear right now that everything your gonna read in here happened 100% true. Cauze when I used to look back at all this crap that went down with me, sometimes I wouldn’t even believe it myself. I used to trip a lot on shrooms and acid, plus get [...]
2 years, 1 month ago · View
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Steven Reynolds posted a new status update:
Reading the ”Twilight” saga. God forgive me.
2 years, 1 month ago · View
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Steven Reynolds wrote a new blog post: Gingham Blindfold by Eric Rohr 2 years, 6 months ago · View
After completing an internship at the famous music magazine Record Shelves (read Rolling Stone ), and scandalizing conservatives by running a story about youth masturbation rates in a Wyoming college newspaper, twenty-something wannabe rock journalist Ethan Ames was on track for greater things. Resisting his father’s wish that he would one day takeover from him as editor of [...] -
Steven Reynolds wrote a new blog post: Gingham Blindfold by Eric Rohr
After completing an internship at the famous music magazine Record Shelves (read Rolling Stone), and scandalizing conservatives by running a story about youth masturbation rates in a Wyoming college newspaper, twenty-something wannabe rock journalist Ethan Ames was on track for greater things. Resisting his father’s [...]
2 years, 6 months ago · View
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steven-reynolds wrote a new blog post: Threshold by Bonnie Kozek
Honey McGuinness has seen it all, and willingly indulged in most of it. The child of a crazed mother who died apparently trying to kill them both, Honey once followed a path of willful self-annihilation.
I’d ingested, digested, shoved up my ass, and shot into my bloodstream every [...]
2 years, 7 months ago · View
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Steven Reynolds wrote a new blog post: Threshold by Bonnie Kozek 2 years, 7 months ago · View
Honey McGuinness has seen it all, and willingly indulged in most of it. The child of a crazed mother who died apparently trying to kill them both, Honey once followed a path of willful self-annihilation.
I’d ingested, digested, shoved up my ass, and shot into my bloodstream every kind of consciousness-numbing intoxicant, narcotic, and medication known [...]
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Steven Reynolds wrote a new blog post: Red Asphalt by Scott Cherney 2 years, 8 months ago · View
Meet Calvin Wheeler – thirtysomething and unhappily married to Karen, his childhood sweetheart, who in Chapter 1 reminds him that the proper name for his unsightly cold sore is “herpes”. A former actor, one-time traffic school instructor, and presently a courier for Healthfirst clinical laboratories, Calvin’s day consists of driving around Stockton, CA and environs making [...] -
Steven Reynolds wrote a new blog post: Red Asphalt by Scott Cherney
Meet Calvin Wheeler – thirtysomething and unhappily married to Karen, his childhood sweetheart, who in Chapter 1 reminds him that the proper name for his unsightly cold sore is “herpes”. A former actor, one-time traffic school instructor, and presently a courier for Healthfirst clinical laboratories, Calvin’s day consists [...]
2 years, 8 months ago · View
