Sep
30
Stories From The Backseat
September 30, 2011 | 1 Comment
Here’s a voice that has been mostly unheard of in books – A Chicago taxi driver has written a book brimming with rich stories of cab life: Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab… A ‘Hack’ Shares Years Of Stories From A Chicago Cab “A cab driver’s job is relatively straightforward: shuttle riders from door to [...]
Aug
31
Have You Been Floated Yet?
August 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Think of “Float” as a bigger, better fork with which to consume more and more giant bites of the delicious salad of multimedia.
Aug
24
The Writer in Politics
August 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment
When it rains it pours! We’ve had so many fantastic guest posts recently. Thank you, thank you. And special thanks this week to Leora Skolkin-Smith for allowing us to post her wonderful piece from the Fiction Studio Books blog. Enjoy… The Writer In Politics by Leora Skolkin-Smith The question of “The Writer in Politics†is [...]
Aug
11
Crunching Books
August 11, 2011 | 1 Comment
Finally someone innovates the e-book publishing platform – BiblioCrunch.com.
Aug
5
Our friend David Wilk over at Bootktrix (“Every trick in the book!”) has a new blog post up about the end of Borders Books. He has kindly allowed Livewires to repost the piece here. Thank you David! For more breaking news on publishing and books please visit the Booktrix blog and the Booktrix website (creative [...]
Jul
20
All My Friends Have Gone The F*ck To Sleep.
July 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment
In the snarky vein of Go The F*ck To Sleep, the book marketing sensation of recent internet meme fame, comes a new one: All My Friends Are Dead. It is zapping over the electron highway to a social network near you – and soon, very soon, probably to the bookshelves of at least half the [...]
Jul
11
Every once in a while we here at Livewires pose a question to an author. Our question for the summer is… How do you see the world changing from a writer’s point of view? We posed the question to author (and friend) Erica-Lyn Huberty. Erica-Lynn lives and writes on Long Island, and is the author [...]
Jun
21
Exploding The Old Model: A Continuing Saga.
June 21, 2011 | 1 Comment
So, how many of you have been emailed the pfd of GO THE F* TO SLEEP? It has been sent to me a handful of times. The book’s not on sale yet but it has been on the Amazon’s bestseller list all week. Piracy = book sales? How Viral PDFs Of A Naughty Bedtime Book [...]
May
4
One author complains that “Peddling my work like a Viagra salesman still feels at odds with the high calling of literature” – and yet even before the decline of publisher’s marketing departments and the upsurge of the self-promotion wizardry of social media (or is it more like an albatross?), authors were stuck holding the vile [...]
Apr
14
The Dance Between Dust and Gleam
April 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Our best art forms remain real living expressions, having finally learned how to dance beautifully from stapled and dusty, to ones and zeros, and back again, effortlessly.