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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for March 3 2016 - Rating the Unrateable
In this episode, I play a song from John Howie Jr and the Rosewood Bluff; I talk about the various sorts of things I mess up; how do people keep up with the various digital goods they have purchased? I wonder if I am clinically manic depressive; I talk about an ugly Facebook fight; why don't I rate...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for September 5 2015 - The Cost of Dignity
In this episode, I play a song from Sligo Rags; I tell a story about Cajuns and Irish Music; I wrap up the Dog Days of Podcasting; I tell a story of an altercation and my loss of dignity; I discuss a Kristine Kathryn Rusch article about the crappy parts of the writer job; I talk about Song of Ice...
read articleEbook Pricing vs Revenue
It's amazing how often I see some variant of the phrase "We can't afford to price our ebooks lower because we have costs to recoup." 10 minutes ago I saw that in the current Locus magazine interview with John Picacio. He in general seems like someone who gets it, both here and in the...
read articlePublishing 2010: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?
This post is my attempt to distill together many different threads into a common tapestry. There is a lot of turbidity in the publishing, podcasting, music, film, television worlds right now. I have these feeling that every bit of this is all part of a larger whole and I'm going to take a stab at...
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