experiments

Songs as books? An illustrated version of Lady Gaga’s “Telephone”

Yesterday I wrote up a whole bunch of notes for what will most likely be another long post about some hypothetical near-future publishing idea. That’s not important (yet). What’s important is that in those notes I used Lady Gaga as an example of how musical artists could offer small written works as impulse-purchase content to [...]

Today's bargain book: "Watchlist" by Jeffery Deaver and 20 other thriller writers

“Watchlist” by Jeffery Deaver and 20 other thriller writers Price: $0.00 Amazon Summary: Watchlist is a unique collaboration by twenty-one of the world’s greatest thriller writers including Lee Child, Joseph Finder, David Hewson, S.J. Rozan, Lisa Scottoline, and Jeffery Deaver, who conceived the characters and set the plot in motion; In turn, the other authors [...]

Screenwriter self-publishes short-story on Amazon Kindle Store

The New York Times has an interesting article today about a screenwriter who self-published a short story on the Amazon Kindle store. “The Variant” is a spy-thriller that John August first tested out with a small group assembled from his Twitter followers, then slightly revised, formatted for the Kindle, and is now selling for 99 [...]