Blaise Lucey
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Why You Need to Curate Your Own Content
You know the guys in the museum that show people things behind the glass and then tell them why those things are significant? When you post some funny thing on Facebook, that guy in the museum is you. Sure, you may be sharing stuff about a dog wearing a hat instead of showing off a…
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How A Sci-Fi Magazine Uses Facebook to Sell Issues
When authors talk about promoting their books, the “S” word isn’t far behind. Everyone knows social media is important for writers in some abstract context, but they’re not sure how it actually works. That includes me. I’ve tried investigating it all month, first by interviewing author Holly Robinson about how she uses Twitter. Then, by taking…
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The Future of Books (Calm Down Edition)
Let’s talk about the future of books by stating the obvious: books take a long time to write. In fact, per hour, I think they’re definitely one of the top most time-consuming forms of art. Writing a book in a year is considered almost a heroic effort. Two, three years, well, that’s about normal. A…
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What We Can Learn From France and Google’s War Over Free Content
There’s a territorial dispute afoot, have you heard about it? French newspaper publishers have accused Google of deterring would-be readers by displaying the first sentences of an article in “Google News.” The working theory is that, rather than clicking into the website for the full article, readers graze and move on, like information-hungry cows wandering…
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5 Famous Authors on Facebook… Let’s See if it’s Useful
With more than 1 billion users registered with Facebook, when authors are considering social media to promote their books, it’s often the first Social Media Channel they explore. Publishers urge authors to get acquainted with Facebook, too. In fact, I recently overheard (at the gym locker room, believe it or not), that one guy who…
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When You Can’t Just Make Art for Art’s Sake
My last blog post, which talked about the merger between Penguin and Random House, reminded me of an important lesson that, as someone who enjoys the notion of “being creative,” I shouldn’t have forgotten. On the internet, you can’t make art for art’s sake. If you do, that’s more or less assuming that your art…
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What the Penguin & Random House Merger Means for Authors
For the past few years, authors have kind of looked on in dismay as publishing houses like Penguin and Random House lumbered like dinosaurs underneath the growing shadow of the meteoric threat known as ebooks. I was – and continue to be – part of that group, so I was proud to hear of the…
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Why You Should Care About Tumblr (And Why You Shouldn’t)
Tumblr. Heard of it? It’s a nifty, micro-blogging website that takes the best parts of Twitter, Pinterest, and Facebook, then mercilessly mashes them altogether. More than anything, it looks like an interactive copyright violation. But this interactive copyright violation has been picking up steam. I’ve wanted to write about it for a month, especially after…
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Never did I think…
A review of one of my short stories have the word “terrifying” in it. But that’s got kind of a nice ring, right? Read about the premise of my short story, “Memory Board,” here. If, on the off-chance, you’re interested/bored. It’s available in the second issue of The Speculative Edge.
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