Part 2: Changing my mind about self-publishing Cont’ further
not that Traditional Publishing didn’t pump out quantities of poor quality books for profits: Penny Dreadfuls anyone?
Part 2: Changing my mind about self-publishing Cont’
on most sites, there simply is no wall keeping self-published books outside and in their own ‘lesser’ place.
Going it Mostly Alone
iUniverse and the publishing path of the novel A Perfect Blindness Part 2: Changing my mind about self-publishing Cover proofs went to production Tuesday as planned, but a new concern bubbled up—about lyrics and fair use. When going over the proofs, I realized I had misremembered the lyrics of a song that was playing on a dance floor […]
Going it Mostly Alone
iUniverse and the publishing path of the novel A Perfect Blindness Part 1 When I decided I wanted to write a book back in high school, there were two ways to get a book into print. The traditional path, which was serpentine and slow, essentially required two gate keepers to say yes: either an agent […]
Agency Pt. 1—Neurology, the Temporal Lobe and the Self
With recent advancements in neurology, especially the ability to see, real time, what areas of the brain are activated when humans experience specific feelings, neurologists have shown that agency is active most strongly in the parietal lobe.
How Mumbley-Peg and Bloody Knuckles Help Explain the Headlines, Pt 1
“pwn”, which a misspelling of own, and describes achieving such a major victory that one cannot help but gloat, such as defying essentially every political pundit who wrote a word about the 2016 presidential election from the Iowa Caucuses until 11:00 pm on November Eighth.
Going—Mostly—Alone
There, I’ve done it: accomplished one of the items on my list, which is to restart One Candle in the Darkness with a post that hews to its original intent before the Hillary and Donald show derailed it.
Will Creationism Be Booted From Texas Textbooks For Good?
Yes Virgina, it does seem that actual science has a place science classrooms in Texas. Source: Will Creationism Be Booted From Texas Textbooks For Good?
Missouri’s Amendment 3 Is A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing
Source: Missouri’s Amendment 3 Is A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing Within this noble-sounding law to implement a cigarette tax to help improve health care and access to early childhood education hides a sneak around Missouri’s own constitution prohibiting government endorsement of and aid to religious institutions. These places already get tax exemption; they already get privileges not afforded to other […]
White Nationalism Moves Republican Mainstream in Montana
Montana Republicans Warmly Embrace a White Nationalist’s Legislative Candidacy One of many examples of White Nationalism moving from the fringe to the mainstream through the Republican party: The nice clean cut boy from a small town in Montana, winning the support of the local and state Republican party, yet “[w]hat many voters may not realize, […]