Pressbooks
As traditional publishing continues to struggle with its bottom line, more and more platforms have come online for e-publishing. One of the more interesting ideas I’ve encountered recently is the brainchild of Hugh McGuire at pressbooks.com. If you use WordPress as your blogging platform or content management system (aka website), Pressbooks will look and feel [...]
Welcome to My Editorial Blog!
I edit fiction–only fiction–and only for writers who intend to self-publish. If you’d really rather get a book deal with a legacy publisher, I’m not your guy. If you’re serious about building your own legacy as a writer of exceptional stories, we should talk. Check the “how i work” page to get a sense of what you [...]
The Electronic Novelist Is Open for Questions
The novelist is a hypnotist and must first take a reader out of the everyday experience of the “primary” world and transport her or him to the world of the fiction at hand. As any hypnotist knows, distractions break the trance. Books have become so familiar over the past several centuries that they serve to [...]
Asking Alice
One of the first concrete steps I’m taking in order to learn Objective-C (a prerequisite for learning how to design apps for the iPad, is to go ask Alice. Alice is a free downloadable 3D environment application that demonstrates the execution of simple “OOP” or “object-oriented programming” functions in order to animate objects. So far, I’ve [...]