Scott Michael Powers

I write these ruminations on writing as if they’re destined only for my sock drawer.

  • 50 questions for indie authors to ask

    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

    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

    ‘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

    Murder, rockets, ghosts, terrorists, nukes & beach babes

    Small-town newspaper faces dead line with live news story

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  • The tragedy of Capote’s failed revenge against ‘swans’

    The tragedy of Capote’s failed revenge against ‘swans’

    How two awful TV features lay out a Shakespearean tragedy of our times.

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  • ‘The Murder Plague’ unleashed on the world

    ‘The Murder Plague’ unleashed on the world

    “This book will save humankind. That’s why Ron DeSantis can’t wait to ban it.”

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  • Hustlers in the woods of indie publishing

    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?

    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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