So, you’re not getting much traffic, right? I’ve been there, and well… it sucks. No other way to put it. And worst of all, it’s not always clear why it’s happening. It’s not like you’re a spammer. You genuinely care about your audience, and you try to publish content that’ll help them. But nobody gives a damn. […]
via Why No One Reads Your Blog (and What to Do about It) — The Art of Blogging
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. ~Edgar Allan Poe #quote @quotlr
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‘Twilight’ home for sale: Bella Swan’s house goes on the market for $349,900
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Here’s an intriguing article on famous authors using the color yellow in their works.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. ~Mark Twain #quote @quotlr
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Two stories have made their way to me from around the internet lately. A few weeks ago it seemed everywhere I looked people were sharing the story of a small, “DIY” library in Brooklyn at a work sharing space. LitHub’s Phillip Pantuso speaks with a number of people, including Heather Topcik, director of the library at Bard, who gush that this is a revolution in serendipity where people can actually browse bookshelves. She actually says, “I think there’s some nostalgia there, because people don’t use libraries, unless you’re a student.” Maybe she should drive a couple of hours south and visit some of the NYPL branches Jim Dwyer visited for his piece in the New York Times a few years ago.
Pantuso goes on to say, “Digital classification has abetted the evolution of the library. In the past, a librarian would be tasked with deciding whether to shelve a book…
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“These ‘rules’ have shown impressive staying power. From cocktail parties to kitchen tables, these seemingly fascinating bits of grammar trivia have been repeated over and over, in some cases for centuries. Too bad they’re not true.”
Captain Ahab, 1930 by Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me; that against all natural lovings and longings, I so keep pushing, and crowding, and jamming myself on all the time; recklessly making me ready to do […]
My novelette Alien Embrace will be free on Amazon Kindle on September 6, to commemorate the release of the classic sci-fi/horror film “Alien” in the United Kingdom.
Logan Rickover, owner of a hardware store in a small town in Kentucky, has lucid dreams of life as an astronaut that intrude upon his life at any moment. Which of his lives is real? The quiet paradise of Danville or the terrifying jungle world of Stheno D?
Ron Baker commented, “This short has exactly what I like in science fiction: planet exploration and bizarre otherworldly aliens, in this case insectoid. The horrendous purpose the aliens have for the hapless astronauts who make planetfall to find the numerous previous missing exploration teams is grisly. I love the mystery of the planet and the authors device of alternating from the aliens bizarre perspective then switching to the astronauts point of view.”
I will be offering more of my works for free in the upcoming weeks. Check back often.
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I would like to ask a small favor of my readers: if you have read one of my works (and I hope everyone does), please review it on Amazon and/or Goodreads. Reviews not only help promote my works, but they also help me know what my readers do and do not like and therefore help me improve artistically.
The works I have published so far are mostly short, generally being collections of short stories, which are almost tailor-made for our fast-paced world, enabling someone to read a whole story while waiting for a plane, another while waiting for a bus, another in a doctor’s waiting room, and so on. Only A Tale of Hell and Other Works of Horror is novel length (297 pages) while Nocturne: Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night is about standard size for a poetry collection (110 pages).
You can find all my works by going to amazon.com/author/philslattery.
I would like to ask a small favor of my readers: if you have read one of my works (and I hope everyone does), please review it on Amazon and/or Goodreads. Reviews not only help promote my works, but they also help me know what my readers do and do not like and therefore help me improve artistically.
The works I have published so far are mostly short, generally being collections of short stories, which are almost tailor-made for our fast-paced world, enabling someone to read a whole story while waiting for a plane, another while waiting for a bus, another in a doctor’s waiting room, and so on. Only A Tale of Hell and Other Works of Horror is novel length (297 pages) while Nocturne: Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night is about standard size for a poetry collection (110 pages).
You can find all my works by going to amazon.com/author/philslattery.
The Last Judgment (detail) by Alart du Hameel (c. 1478-c. 1506)
Phil Slattery, Writer, Publisher 