I Explode Things.
As so often is the case these days, a Kickstarter campaign marks the pivot point from tinkering in the garage to hitting the streets. This time, the project is Fiction Vortex, an experimental effort to allow digital, written storytelling to discover its native format. Ebooks were a first step. What next? I don’t believe electronic … Read more Can a Kickstarter Create Something Entirely New?
If there is one thing the movie Spaceballs has taught us (and there probably isn’t), it is when you need to suck the atmosphere out of a planet sphere, a space-station-sized Megamaid with a vacuum cleaner is the way to go. But when it comes to getting sucked into exciting new sci-fi and fantasy storyworlds, … Read more Fiction Vortex to Commence Sucking
For those of you who haven’t heard, ebook sales leveled off during 2014. (Hear the collective sigh of relief over New York.) Some industry insiders see this as the end of an electronic fad. (http://www.idealog.com/blog/the-publishing-business-as-we-have-known-it-is-not-going-away-anytime-soon/) Others see it as the eye of the storm. (http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2015/how-to-survive-the-death-of-the-book/) As a full time author and entrepreneur, I think storytelling … Read more Publishing Disruption has Only Just Begun