Tag: publishing

• The Aylett Project: Rachel Kendall Interviews Bill Ectric

  Rachel Kendall of Sein und Werden interviewed me about the new collection of essays on the work of Steve Aylett, edited by me and D. Harlan Wilson. Here’ an excerpt: Rachel Kendall: A number of writers in the anthology refer to Aylett as a writers’ writer. What does that mean to you, and do you…

  Bill Ectric

  July 14, 2016

  Alan Moore, anthology, art, bizarro, D. Harlan Wilson, literary criticism, Literary Kicks, metafiction, publishing, Rachel Kendall, Science Fiction, science fiction studies, Sein Und Werden, steve aylett

• Reflections on Le Fanu: In a Glass Darkly

  You may have noticed that, here at Bill Ectric’s Place I feature a lot of links to Wormwoodiana. It’s one of my favorite blogs. Today, Douglas A. Anderson tells us, “I was recently reading Herbert van Thal’s interesting autobiography, The Tops of the Mulberry Trees (1971), which covers many of van Thal’s roles in publishing—as an agent, anthologist, editor…

  Bill Ectric

  July 4, 2013

  autobiography, Douglas A. Anderson, Edward Ardizzone, Herbert van Thal, In A Glass Darkly, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, publishing, Wormwoodiana

• Wadsworth Camp Cinema Connections

  There are all kinds of connections in this overview of the Wadsworth Camp short story, The Signal Tower, and the movie that was based on it. As part of my research on Charles Wadsworth Camp, I’ve already written about a film called The Last Warning (1929) that was based on Camp’s novel The House of Fear…

  Bill Ectric

  December 15, 2012

  Charles Wadsworth Camp, Forbidden Planet, Frankie Darro, Metropolitan Magazine, paranormal, publishing, Rudy Vallee, short stories, Sidney Skolsky, The Signal Tower, Wadsworth Camp, Wallace Beery

• My Interview with Sohrab Fracis at LitKicks

        “Imagine you have a friend name Rob,” says our instructor at the University of North Florida Writer’s Conference. “If you want to ask your friend a question, you might begin by saying, ‘So, Rob…’ and that is how to pronounce my first name.” Sohrab Homi Fracis (“Fray-sis”) is the first Asian writer to win…

  Bill Ectric

  September 9, 2011

  India, Indian Literature, Iowa Short Fiction Award, Literary Kicks, Mark Twain Overlook, publishing, short stories, Sohrab Fracis, Sohrab Homi Fracis, The Campion School, Ticket To Minto, UNF, UNF Writer’s Conference, writers, Zoroastrian

• Advice from Alan Moore

   

  Bill Ectric

  September 4, 2011

  Alan Moore, comics, literary criticism, publishing, self-publishing, writing, writing tips

• Morbid Fascination

  Via Literary Kicks, here’s an interview with Michael Largo, author of  “Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die“, “Genius and Heroin: The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, and Reckless Abandon Through the Ages” and “God’s Lunatics: Lost Souls, False Prophets, Martyred Saints, Murderous Cults, Demonic Nuns, and Other Victims of Man’s Eternal Search for…

  Bill Ectric

  September 9, 2010

  death, Michael Largo, publishing, writers, writing

• 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,…

  Bill Ectric

  December 24, 2009

  Bob Kaye, I Libertine, Ian Ballantine, Jean Shepherd, marketing, publishing, Theodore Sturgeon, writing