Postponing the inevitable, seven facts at a time.

What’s that shiny glove-like thing at my feet? Why, it appears to be a gauntlet hurled in my direction by the esteemed Mr. Ethan Marcotte. Just because tomorrow is Macworld doesn’t mean I’m not checking my RSS feeds, mister. (Does this mean you broke rule …

“Yes, you’re older now and you’re a clever swine...”

I’m more likely to be struck my lightning than I am to have a novel published. Firstly, and probably most importantly, because I have no novel to publish. But secondly, because it is practically impossible for anyone to get a novel published.

I’m not talking about …

Jez Burrows was interviewed.

A few weeks ago, I posted a link to the 2008 Penguin Design Awards with the description “Jez Burrows was robbed.” Now, I would never want to take credit for starting an Internet meme. (Because that’s sort of like saying “I started herpes.”) But in this case, …

Hugga trubba.

Just when I didn’t know what to write about, one of my favorite topics hits my RSS feeds: Plagiarism!

This time, it’s of the musical variety. Behold this article and video in which the ironically mustachioed* frontman of a band called Creaky Boards accuses Chris …

Eight percent well-read. 92 percent lame.

In lieu of a well-considered post that requires me to do more than hit the delete key 919 times, I’ve decided to post the paltry list of books I’ve read from the 1001 (Fiction) Books That You Must Read Before You Die.

Thanks to the staggeringly well-read (20 …

Just not in the mood.

Let me preface this by saying that some of my best friends use moodboards.

I just don’t care for them. Moodboards, that is, not my friends.

Moodboards smack of college dorm room walls: wall-size visual identity crises. “Who am I? Why am I here? What shoes best …

21 Steps to Digital Fiction Enlightenment

Thanks to a friend’s recommendation, I may have just discovered the perfect way to read fiction online.

Billed as “digital fiction from Penguin,” We Tell Stories presents interactive stories from six different authors (or, technically, seven, since Nicci French is …

Preheat oven to 451.

Alright. I’m about halfway through Print is Dead and I feel like I should say something, especially in light of my last post.

Jeff Gomez can be kind of ham-fisted and just as bitterly sarcastic as the publishing-industry Luddites he criticizes when he argues against …