Nook video expands to Android, iOs, and Roku. That’s something I didn’t see coming. Might be some new models to explore here.
Nook Simple price drops. So looks like Nook is going all out here.
– Steven
writing
How To Create a BAD Crime Fiction Series With Jackie Speel
(In the grand tradition ofJohn Van Sickle’s Grand list of Overused Science Fiction Clichés, the Grand list of SF clichés, Things I learnt at the Movies, and Not So Grand Cliché List, Jackie Speel is here to make her own contributions to literature – and what not to do – at MuseHack)
This is an attempt to create a list of clichés and tropes to be avoided in crime fiction, whether written or onscreen. As with other such lists it is the way in which the cliché is handled that is the key factor. Even middling to good series are likely to have the occasional episode which ‘ticks several of the boxes.’
Angels, Angles, And Self-Publishing with Harrison Paul
Teenage girl versus Angels. Sounds like a throaway anime or YA novel. What if I told you the novel was set in Medieval Scandinavia? And the problem was the Angels were suddenly turning on mankind? It’s biblical smackdown where a young girl is the weapon against mankind’s former guardians.
Welcome to the world of Kaybree Versus the Angels.
The author is Harrison Paul, a man who’s had a rather active life from music to religion, and is channeling his talents into creating a dark fantasy adventure in the YA vein with his own twists.