There’s an article in today’s New York Times about shopdropping, or reverse-shoplifting. It’s described as “surreptitiously putting things in stores, rather than illegally taking them out.” There’s a picture of a T-Shirt that features three revolutionaries ( Karl Marx, Mikhail Bakunin and Che Guevara) wearing Santa hats. The point being the commercialization of radical [...]
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How To Make A Bad Impression
Posted in self-promotion, shopdropping, writing on December 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Giving It Away – Part 2
Posted in The Writer, self-promotion on November 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
While I am still weighing the pros and cons of making my first novel freely available, I’ve found a tool that will help me if I decide to do so. Creative Commons has come up with a system that enables writers and other creative types to generate a custom license agreement and attach it to [...]
Giving It Away
Posted in The Writer, self-promotion on November 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The October/November issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction has a column about science fiction writers who are giving away their novels. I am intrigued by this because my general understanding has always been that in order to make a living as a writer, one must get paid for the fruits of one’s labor. I’ve understood for [...]
