Note: I’ll be having surgery on my leg tomorrow, so this will probably be the last article you will see from me for a few days while I recover. I can be reached via Twitter or e-mail while in the hospital. Sita Sings the Blues is an amazing animated feature created by Nina Paley. I first heard it ...

Case Study 1: During Presidents Day Weekend, the software company Valve tried out an experiment. Valve, the company behind the successful Half-Life franchise, temporarily halved the price for Left 4 Dead, a cooperative first-person shooter title, from $49.99 to $24.99, over the course of a few days ...

Here are two businesses that will probably do quite well during recession: ebooks and print-on-demand book publishers. There is such huge waste in the traditional publishing industry, which gives authors such a raw deal. Why should the writer of a book get only 10 percent of the revenue? Why should ...

It's not as hard as you may think. And, it's not as easy as you may think. But, in the end, it's after your book is completed - and published - that the real work begins. Regardless of how you......

Gawker recently republished a memo distributed to Macmillan employees that announced a pay freeze for anyone making over $50,000. The memo contained one of the most heartless final paragraphs contained in a publishing circular this year. By a strange coincidence, Reluctant Habits has obtained a list...

Now Steve can be more Steve and less the guy who overloaded the server with porn. Spend more of your life living. Go out. Now Rachel can be more Rachel and less the girl who has the office divided on whether or not she's had plastic surgery. Spend more of your life living. Go out. Now Adam can be mo...

Just back from the Christian Writers Guild's annual conference at The Broadmoor where I was once again impressed and not-just-a-little concerned about the level of stardom attributed to such a nerdy, pitiable person as myself. And yes, I know it's just the title and the house I work for, the......

A few months ago, I purchased a PocketPC phone with unlimited Internet. In spare moments, I log onto the New York Times website to read the latest news. When my wife asked me, as we were touring Ft. Macon, to explain the War of 1812, we (thankfully) were interrupted. In the interim, with my PC Phone...

I just read the story in PW about AuthorHouse losing a libel suit. At first I was surprised because from my slightly snobby publisher perspective, I always just thought of places like AuthorHouse as glorified print vendors for the masses. Since beginning my freelance venture I have done some more re...