Self-publishing platforms vary dramatically in features, reach, and suitability for different author goals. Selecting the wrong platform creates unnecessary limitations and missed opportunities. Understanding platform options ensures you choose infrastructure supporting your long-term publishing goals and reader base expansion.
The self-publishing landscape has evolved substantially. Amazon dominates but isn’t the only player. Smashwords, Draft2Digital, Wattpad, and others serve different author needs and reader communities. Strategic platform selection determines which readers discover your work and how effectively you monetize your writing. Continue reading Choosing the Right Self-Publishing Platform: A Comprehensive Comparison→
If you’ve been around long enough, you might remember a genre of extremely clever novelty records — super popular during the ’70s — that parodied current events and news stories with fake man-on-the-street interviews made up of audio clips taken from charting pop songs. Those early mash-up records were lots of fun, and if you miss them, and wonder why somebody hasn’t picked up on that idea for a long-form project, then a new animated film called The Stolen Lyric is going to really turn you on. Continue reading Recommended Viewing: The Stolen Lyric→
NYC’s very-fun-to-visit Museum of Sex has an entire gallery dedicated to a exhibit entitled The Sex Lives of Animals. It is, to say the least, quite enlightening. Aside from an informative kiosk on “Homosexual Necrophilia in Mallard Ducks” (I can’t believe I just typed that), one of the more bizarre exhibits represents an activity that Amazon River Dolphins apparently find time to enjoy, which is banging another Dolphin’s blowhole. You can’t make this stuff up. Let’s take a closer look. Continue reading Yes, It Exists: Amazon River Dolphin Blowhole Sex→
Perhaps you are unfamiliar with musician Alex Chilton, but if you’ve heard The Replacements’ song by that same name, then you at least know that children by the millions sing for him and are in love with his songs. And that’s all you really need to know in order to enjoy the sublime documentary Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, a profoundly detailed love letter to the wildly influential, Memphis-based 1970’s power pop band that Chilton co-founded along with guitarist/songwriter Chris Bell, drummer Jody Stephens and bassist Andy Hummel. Continue reading Big Star Documentary Nothing Can Hurt Me Comes to DVD→
