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Midweek Music Break: Ciara Sidine, “Take Me Down”
[Image: "Ciara and Conor [Brady], acoustic set, Shadow Road Shining launch at Sugar Club, Dublin, 13 May 2011″ (from her FB page)] The [mostly imaginary] scene: Dublin, Ireland, in the offices of a...
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I Have Found It (or Maybe I Haven’t)
[For more about the video, see the note at the foot of this post.] From whiskey river: Discovering the selfless nature doesn’t have a monumental “Eureka!” quality. It is more like being continually...
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Running a Book through the Marketing Wringer
[Image: found it here, at the "family tree" site of a gentleman in a much better position than myself to identify everyone involved.] I haven’t talked much of Seems to Fit here since announcing a few...
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Ten Little Persons of Another Persuasion
[Image: poster for 1945's And Then There Were None, starring Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, et al.... including someone named Queenie Leonard -- who (one suspects) may have been among the first to...
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Skimming Tangentially Against the Agented Universe, and the Scriptwriting One
[Don't read too much into this RAMH post's title.] Last night, I and 40+ others participated in an interesting webinar called Agent Reads the Slush Pile. It lasted from 8pm Eastern time until close to...
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An E-Publishing Experiment: Short Fiction for Under a Buck
I am not even close to the first person to wonder: is it possible — let alone worthwhile — to sell short short stories piecemeal, directly to readers, without going through the intermediary of a...
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An E-Publishing Experiment (2): Short Holiday Reading for Under a Buck
Moving right along… So I’ve had a short story for sale for a week so far, as described in this post. (The book itself can be found on Amazon.com; that’s the Amazon US link, although it’s also available...
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RAMH@6: Discoveries (A Playlist, and a Rumination)
[Image: 19th-century drawing by A. Roeseler for "the German Punch," Fliegende Blätter. Posted on Flickr by user "digitalsextant." For the whole three-panel thing, click the image.] I wondered what I’d...
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Potpourri, June 18th (2014 edition)
[Latest in the apparently annual June 18 tradition, of (as I said last year) commenting about whatever the heck I want to...] Ongoing genre confusion: As a rule, readers of fiction tend to latch onto a...
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NYC Midnight Microfiction Challenge: “What Goes Around”
Don’t know what this is about? My previous general post about it is, um… this one. First, don’t get excited: as I learned a couple days ago, I’m not advancing beyond the first round. I’m posting this...
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