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Well, we’ve just started the big summer movie season, and already have some contradictory indications of just how it’s going to go for the studios. The first big summer movie, John Carter, was what has to be considered one of the biggest box office failures of all time. Costing north of $200 million, it’ll be […]
January 29, 2012
For many first time authors, e-publishing may seem like a very attractive option to the more traditional route of print publishing. You typically get a much higher royalty rate than you would with a print publisher for one, and you also gain a great deal of control over the process that you cede when you […]
January 19, 2012
DC Comics recently conducted its first house cleaning in the wake of the much vaunted reboot. 6 titles were slashed from the line-up of the “New 52″, and to keep things at that number, (which as I mentioned, DC seems to be obsessed with for no apparent reason), DC added 6 new titles. Among the […]
January 18, 2012
The Master of Izindi is now available on Smashwords, for multiple e-readers. Here is the direct link. As for Kindle, this is also $.99. The Nook, I-Pad, Kobo, and Sony e-readers are supported, and a sample is available for free.
January 18, 2012
There’s a whole industry that’s grown up around cooking, and it isn’t related to kitchen supplies. Or rather in part it is, but that’s all tied into another phenomenon, the rise of celebrity chefs on TV. Again, celebrity chefs are nothing new, they’ve been around pretty much since the dawn of TV. True, they’ve evolved […]
January 18, 2012
The Walking Dead, Justified, and Powers are all TV shows. Well, the first two are, and the third is a TV show in development hell. All three have something in common, though. That something is that all three are based on other media, something of a trend these days. The Walking Dead and Powers are […]
January 17, 2012
Back in the ’90s, Valiant Comics was a big name among the so-called indy publishers, (referring to pretty much any comic book publisher that wasn’t DC or Marvel, or later Image). They published titles lifted from defunct publisher Gold Key, as well as original titles; all in a shared universe, where the character could and […]
April 2, 2012
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