Scott Michael Powers
I write these ruminations on writing as if they’re destined only for my sock drawer.
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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
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Murder, rockets, ghosts, terrorists, nukes & beach babes
Small-town newspaper faces dead line with live news story
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Hustlers in the woods of indie publishing
Let’s pretend you’re intent on becoming a successful con artist. Who’s your ideal mark? Dreamers, perhaps. Wannabe authors?
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Is it indie bookstores versus indie authors?
The disrupted book retail biz is dividing local indie bookstores from local indie authors.
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Writers reading between the lines of rejection
Writers exact revenge for rejection through ‘Blackout Poetry’
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On Vonnegut, a Sweathog and literacy
Every reader has a Vonnegut though it might be Wilde or Walker or Kerouac.
