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Blest is now available on Amazon!

March 15, 2016

I’m happy to announce that my book, Blest, is now available on Amazon. If you’re into young adult, fantasy, or romance, I’m sure you’ll love it. Blest is a novel about what defines us as people and whether we let the world define us or whether we get to define ourselves. When sixteen year-old Jim Blest…

Fiction

books, ebooks, fantasy, fiction, romance, writing, young adult

A Novel Told in Instagram Posts

February 25, 2016

I’m starting an experiment today: I’m writing a novel in Instagram posts. I’m not sure how many times a week I’m going to post new mini-chapters (Instagram’s limit is allegedly 2,2000 characters per caption), but every week following the chapters, I’m going to post the full chapter here. Here’s why:

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J.K. Rowling and the New Author’s Discoverability Problem

July 18, 2013

By now, anyone in the literary world… who reads Internet News… has learned that J.K. Rowling released a novel about four months ago under a man’s name. Robert Galbraith, to be exact. The book, The Cuckoo’s Calling, sold a whopping 1,500 copies in four months. Meanwhile, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by contrast, sold 8.3 million…

For Writers

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The Identity Crisis of eBooks, Writers, and Writing

February 26, 2013

Fiction, Rants, Technology

ebooks, fiction, satire, self-publish, short stories, short story, social media, writing