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Let’s Mythbust Some Nonsense About Indy Writing and Making Money
This isn’t the right header for episode 10. They need to chat with their web editor. With a brick. When it comes to correcting the delusions of others, I try to leave it to the experts. When it comes...
View ArticleKirby Krackle Tags That Lure of the DVD Box Set
While working today, my iTunes kicked up a song I hadn’t heard for awhile. “I Wanna Live in a World Full of Heroes” by Kirby Krackle opens that door that lures us into comic books, in which everything...
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‘You’re Wasting Your Time’ Is Sometimes the Best Advice
Anne Sexton and Rainer Maria Rilke: Giving a Reference. There’s a boundary artists run into at one time or another. It is the line that separates the committed from the dilettante and the wannabe....
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Peschel Reports’ Most Popular Links: 5/27-5/31/2013
Ann Patchett’s suggestion that writers would be better off back on the New York plantations inspired the response you’d expect. It’s the end of another week, this time with the elites and hoi polloi...
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An Author Solicitation Letter that Made Me Snort
Back in the day, I used to review books for the newspaper I worked for. I put a lot of them up on this site. That means I get a lot of emails asking me to review books. Generally, I don’t, simply...
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A Translation Job Offer That Can’t Be Beat
In that book I eventually want to write about the milestones you reach on the path to publication, there has to be one about the people you meet. The author published this photo along with his...
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The Miss Marple Book That Shouldn’t Be Taken to the Beach
Not unless you want to risk serious carpel tunnel syndrome. That’s every novel and story about Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple — 4,032 pages in all — sewn together to make one big, big book. The edition...
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Something Strange About ‘Ghostbusters’ Documentary Trailer ‘Spook Central’
As someone who saw the movie three times in the theaters, something I rarely do even with DVDs, I would sell my unlicensed nuclear accelerator to see this become a reality (a la Room 227):...
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Adding Wii Fit’s Trainer to Super Smash Bros. Brings New Meaning to ‘No Pain...
A panel from R.K. Mulholland’s ‘Rhymes with Witch.’ I’ll explain in a moment. As those of you with kids between the ages of 2 and 27 know, “Super Smash Bros.” is a Nintendo video game in which...
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We Rely On the Living to Speak for the Missing
Every once in awhile, you read something that makes you go, “Hmmmm.” Something that challenges your perception of how the world works. Today’s example comes from Jen J. Danna, a crime writer, who tells...
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How to Use Agatha Christie, David Suchet, Conan Doyle and Robert Downey Jr....
And Warren Beatty, Disney, Michael Moorcock, and just about everyone else in sight. On Amazon, somebody behind Pulptastic Books decided to put up a bunch of public domain works and cash in on that...
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True-Crime Author Sues Over Bad Review from Killer’s Husband
From The Daily Mail: A true crime author is suing a paper over a damning review of her book about a woman who killed her husband – after it emerged the man who wrote it was engaged to the killer. Ann...
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Catching the Wind at Hershey Gardens
Living in Hershey has its compensations, among them the Hershey Gardens. It was started by Milton S. Hershey in 1937 for the sole purpose of giving the residents something beautiful to see. It began as...
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Writer Fail: You Get What You Pay For With Free Editing
While looking for editing jobs recently, I came across another example of a clueless writer hoping to get quality work without paying for it. It was on Craigslist, of course: Seeking Editor for...
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XKCD Gets Soft On Science with Bee Orchid Strip
Still, a blogger’s gotta do what a blogger’s gotta do. Don’t get me wrong, I love XKCD. I can’t imagine anyone not liking the strip, or at least not hating on it that much unless they’ve got a...
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New Novel Resurrects Hercule Poirot
Yesterday, it was announced that 38 years after he died in Curtain,Hercule Poirot will return in a novel by longtime thriller writer Sophie Hannah. The book, as yet untitled, will be published in...
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Rocky Mountain High Dudgeon
Still, a blogger’s gotta do what a blogger’s gotta do. My comments on the XKCD strip got quite a large number of responses, many of them thoughtful and informative. While I didn’t respond to them all,...
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Writer, Fraud Fighter Ann Crispin Died
This working week will have to end on a sad note, but Ann Crispin, science-fiction writer and one of the prime movers behind the Writer Beware scam-alert site, has died. The Making Light blog has the...
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Review: Patrick O’Brian’s ‘A Book of Voyages’
The English writer Patrick O’Brian is best known for his 20-volume series chronicling the career of British naval Capt. Jack Aubrey and “his particular friend” Dr. Stephen Maturin. Based on his...
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Veterans Day and Dorothy L. Sayers
I’m a longtime fan of mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers, so it should come as no surprise that when Veteran’s Day rolls around, I think of it more as Remembrance Day, and think about the soldiers who...
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