Tag: marketing
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Fake Book
Jean Shepherd was called “the first radio novelist” by media scholar Marshall McLuhan. He is probably most famous for narrating the 1983 movie A Christmas Story, which was based on his book In God We Trust (All Others Pay Cash), a collection of stories he first told on the radio about his childhood in Hammond,…
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VanderMeer on Booklife
I listen to Jeff VanderMeer’s advice for one reason: He’s too good a writer not to be doing something right. I’m halfway through reading Finch and it rocks. I think maybe Jeff’s parents found him in a rocket ship from a planet with superior writing skills and raised him as an Earthling. Either that, or he works really…
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Fine Lines
I suppose my recent cut-up experiment is more about marketing than writing. It’s certainly easier to write a cut-up than it is to get someone to read it, but I don’t want to trick anyone into reading something that isn’t any good. Quality should always come first. One should believe they have a product of…