My new website, RAW FICTION, is starting to take shape. You may have noticed an earlier post in which I described my severe case of computer burn caused by the effort to update my old website with a dysfunctional do-it-yourself web builder program. My sanity has been restored by a talented web doctor named Lawrence McKendell. He designed a wabi home page and other content pages under my logo Raw Fiction. (I'll explain what that means in due course.)
The rest is technical. We need to build out the architecture of the inner pages with the short stories and articles I want to show off.
Unfortunately, my concept of posting short stories in-progress on the site has been compromised. I'm told that once you publish a piece on a website it's disqualified from being considered for publication by a traditional print publisher or an online magazine. They want to have first crack at it and run original work before it's widely available on the internet. Oh well.
A novel based on a noir memoir cloaked in a disingenuous mystery genre narrative dashed with fantasy and romance, which has pretenses of being a literary work. This blog Is the 0ffiical Guidebook
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Saturday, May 3, 2014
SOME BOOK
I think I made a serious error in putting exerpts from fictional reviews on the back cover of the book . When I started building the book cover I thought they were hilarious but intended them as place-holders until I could think of something better to fill the page. I got attached to them, however. It seemed to me at the time that the book's title and its morbid content could benefit from a bit of humor. But evidently the joke went flat.
Confidentially I was appalled that so many readers didn't get the allusion to E. B White's classic children's book Charlotte's Web. Maybe people don't have children anymore, or they were negligent in reading their kids to sleep at night.
In the first mock review the excerpt is "Some Book." Get it? Hah hah hah.
I regret making the assumption that this would be an clear reference to the immortal words Charlotte the Spider spun in her web:
"Some Pig"
Her spelling skills made Wilber the Pig famous and spared him from being made into bacon. My reviewer is named Charlotte Weber, which is either too cute or really stupid,
Hopefully the novel won't be slaughtered into pork chops.
Confidentially I was appalled that so many readers didn't get the allusion to E. B White's classic children's book Charlotte's Web. Maybe people don't have children anymore, or they were negligent in reading their kids to sleep at night.
In the first mock review the excerpt is "Some Book." Get it? Hah hah hah.
I regret making the assumption that this would be an clear reference to the immortal words Charlotte the Spider spun in her web:
"Some Pig"
Her spelling skills made Wilber the Pig famous and spared him from being made into bacon. My reviewer is named Charlotte Weber, which is either too cute or really stupid,
Hopefully the novel won't be slaughtered into pork chops.
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