The Hope & Glory Quickstart in Italian has just been published, as a preview for the crowdfunding we are about to launch, to bring my game out in my native language.
And one of my Patrons decided to print and bind the pdf document, just like he did with the Hope & Glory novellas, and they look like a million.
With a tip of the hat and a thank you to Marco.
Great job!
(because it’s good to be my patrons, but also having patrons like these is just great)
You remember the bit about sharing the funny and surreal bits of the everyday life of a freelance writer, in order to captivate the audience and, in theory, sell more books and get more Patreon supporters?
Well, try this one for size…
A few months back I translated a short essay in narrative form, about time travel and politics, The Political Travails of Time Travel, by Tamil writer and poet Gouthama Siddarthan. It was a fun job, and I enjoyed it greatly. The book in question was published – in a number of different languages – and is having a well-deserved success, and you might want to check it out.
The author was so nice he sent me a bunch of copies of the printed work. Here is where the funny and surreal bit begins.
Continue readingToday is Shirley Jackson’s birthday, and you know that we are big fans of Jackson’s work hereabouts.
And so, why not remember Jackson’s life and work by recommending you to read her book – starting with the classic The Haunting of Hill House.
And you are in luck, because you can read it for free, and it’s a lot better than the TV series.
You can download legally a copy from this link.
Yesterday a story I had submitted for an anthology in November bounced back. Very kind letter from the editor, but alas, my story did not cut it. A pity, but it’s part of the game.
I asked my friend Marina to go through it, and then sent it along to another publisher. A British magazine, this time.
We’ll see what happens.
In the meantime I am writing two stories for two other submissions, the calls closing with the end of this month, and it’s been a strange sensation, because for the first time in almost five years I am back at writing my first love.
In the last three years, as writing became my only source of income, I have written basically anything as long as there’s a market: sword & sorcery & crime thrillers, Lovecraftian horror and time travel stories…
Continue readingBuscafusco: Fun & Games is my 70th self-published ebook under my name, my 101st self-published ebook in total. It’s been a long run, and I do not see an end of the track: I’m striving to get more of my material published traditionally, but I will always be an author/publisher, for a number of reasons we’ll maybe discuss another time.
Right now, I thought I’d like to do one of those bullet-list posts that my personal gurus say are great to attract people on the blog.
So here we go: 10 THINGS I LEARNED SELF-PUBLISHING 101 EBOOKS.
BUSCAFUSCO: Fun & Games is finally available on Amazon!
In the end it was a problem of file coding, or so the kindly gnomes at Amazn KDP told me. So I reloaded the file – this time as a rough RTF, and in about 36 hours the ebook has gone live.
So, if you are curious about the ebook that Amazon did not want you to read… well, now you can read it.
ADDENDUM: with the release of the ebook on Amazon, the special promotion on Gumroad has ended. Thank you to all of those that used it.
Karavansara 