Scott Michael Powers
I write these ruminations on writing as if they’re destined only for my sock drawer.
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Let’s rename “Banned Books Week,” to be “Buy Banned Books Week”
A simple answer to a question that haunts many of us: “What can I do?”
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Barnes & Noble’s trademark problem for indie authors
Yet another discussion of the wild-west lawlessness of the indie publishing biz.
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The unspeakable outside the gates of Indie Publishing
What is the difference between indie authors and small business startups?
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On the Morning After the Retirement of the Baby Boomers’ Generation
Joan Didion, Amazon Echo, neckties and the rubble and ash of cultural infrastructure.
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From Algonquin Round Table to Alvarium Experiment
If you are a writer and you have an opportunity to commune with similar writers, court it like you’ve found true love.
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50 questions for indie authors to ask
Everything you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask.
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The sock drawer of dreams
I can’t recall if it was Doris Lessing or Nadine Gordimer who said it: please help me here if you know. One of those Nobel laureates said something several decades ago that I, as an author, have always found inspiring in the most discouraging of times. She said (or maybe wrote) something like, “I would…
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‘The Road,’ ‘Handmaiden,’ Pulse and the dystopian novelist’s job
That plus a literary award
