Writing and Publishing Fiction

Link #2. Progress on July Novel Writing Month 2009.

The Deviled Egg Eyes of the Publishing Abyss Gaze into My Soul

'Twas the season to be jolly a short while back.

Dr. Zaius received Charleton Heston, stuffed by the finest simian taxidermist. When wrapped, it was certainly the most oddly shaped gift

Unpublished Guy Fiction Panel (left to right): William Blake, Dr. Zaius, Mrs. Butterworth

William Blake: Kafka, Kafka. burning bright. In the fiction of the night; What existential void. Could dissemble thy inexplicable asymmetry?

Novel Critique: Apes with Bald Kneecaps

Let's hear what the Unpublished Guy fiction panel, including Dr. Zaius, 18th century poet and engraver William Blake, and Mrs. Butterworth, has to say about the novel, 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was developed while the movie was being filmed.

Dear—you don't mind if I call you dear do you? Whether you are following William Blake, the self publisher, or Dr. Zaius, publishing fundamentalist, you will want to promote your fiction. If you are self-publishing or subsidy publishing, you will quickly find yourself in street fight brawl. Oh my, you will need to bust knees with a pipe and deliver a proper beat-down with a heavy chain, to get noticed. No one else is going to help you when you are lying in the street in a pool of your own blood, because you came ill-equipped with the marketing tools necessary to survive in the world of self-publishing.