HOTWIRED!!!!!!!!!!

GHETTORIGGING EPUBLISHING

So, you want to publish your work. You can always epublish. You don't like the constraints of Amazon, Lulu, Bookglutton? You're willing to take a shot at just starting to get your work out on your own terms without printing costs or being pimped by POD publishers. This is a cheap easy way to hotwire epublishing.
1. Buy a domain name that offers free hosting with it (they get a banner of course) or on geocities if you have an account (no new accounts, yahoo's axing it.) 2. Upload a homepage that links to an uploaded pdf of your book. 3.Email your contacts, facebook and myspace friends and guerilla market. Viola, another 21st century dostoyevsky.



THE FUTURE IS YESTERDAY

Now that technology totally rewires disinfortainment unceasingly, how does that change the rules of the writing and publishing game? Does this present writers with a chance to snatch the power of distribution, an increasingly wiggily commodity, from the claws of an oligarghical pompus hierarchy of publishers and agents?What will be the predominate e-reading device? i don't know anybody who owns a kindle. i've heard that it's a craze to read short fiction on a cell phone in Japan. Will people do that here?


iphones? ipods? laptops? PCs? Forget it. Maybe the novel is going the way of the Wooly Mammoth. What is the future of literature?



Not the blog. Maybe 15 years from now people will have the attention spans of guinea pigs and everyone will stop reading anything longer than a tweet.



will the hardware/software zeitgeist continue to transmuteforgate faster and faster until the worldwide virtual media comsumer tweaks past the point of not being able to process any real sensory input data at all? The 5 senses will become obsolete and reality will become irrelevant.

MALL WORLD by Dave Carr

I often read at the mall just to get out of my apartment, be around people, and forget about my not so dire version of living in poverty for a few hours. I notice more than half the people will have a laptop before they have a book. Very few have books. At the Kahala Barnes & Noble, it is usually people reading fashion mags or business/financial mags. These people have to hustle to keep up appearances and keep their incomes on track or start one up. I understand their focus. Over at Sure Shot by the Punch Bowl area, you get kind of a more bohemian feel, but it only goes so far. That's true of cafes in San Francisco as well! These are businesses, and business has never been hip or cool, nor revolutionary or on our side (the workers there may be a different story---sometimes). Without the money ticket in, membership in such "communities" ends.




Undamned! by Zack Kopp, an enovel, on Milehive. Open the 'Articles' tab to read it chapter by chapter. It's a funny, evocotive almost dreamlike tale of a telephone research interviewer stuck between channels in an alternative reality chasing his own tail in AmeriCo.



Zero's Mask, by Raoul Vehill A gender-bending masked ninja superhero and a mutant talking monkey keep the city safe for children. No way? Way!!! read it for FREE @ Enlightened-Pyramid