Nathan Bransford - The Forums

Will borders be liquidated? My reaction, and the effect Borders has had on my life.

http://www.charleevale.com/blog

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A couple of mini-reviews and a little bit of soccer and YA talk.

Sometimes We Wait for Miracles (Or: Stuff I've Been Reading)

http://www.hektorkarl.com/2011/07/somet ... stuff.html

We just got back from a retreat in the mountains.

My wife and blog partner blogged about it.

Link in my signature.

I try to have new posts daily, but it's more a part of a personal exercise in discipline. However, on the rare occasion I post something other people may be interested in, I like to let people know. I wrote up my Harry Potter 7.5 review last night:

http://dariankovach.com/?p=196

Please feel free to comment or what have you, I love interaction!

Each drop in print sales causes bookstore closures, which means less stores to sell books, which means lower print runs, which means higher printing costs, which means higher prices, which means another drop in print sales.

But this is only one of a series of vicious circles that mean the end of any significant market share for print and bricks-and-mortar bookstores.

Borders Inches Closer to Liquidation. What Happens Next?

http://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2011 ... pens-next/

The Guardian declares that "boredom is coming back into fashion."

So We Rode the Boredom Like a Racehorse

http://www.hektorkarl.com/2011/07/so-we ... horse.html

The consequences of writing with distractions (hint - they are not pretty for me)

http://hillaryjacques.blogspot.com/2011 ... u-say.html

A post on killing the baby (or rather the idea that our novels are our babies)...

http://urbanpsychopomp.blogspot.com/201 ... -baby.html

"Watching Nosferatu is like struggling to remember a dream upon awakening: It’s a montage of fairy-tale fragments, starting from the moment that Max Schreck as Orlock creeps like a spider from his burrow across his castle courtyard to welcome the fly into his parlor ."

An essay on Great Film Draculas: Max Schreck as Nosferatu:


http://tbdeluxe.blogspot.com/2011/07/gr ... ck-as.html

Thanks for reading!

Thomas Burchfield
Author of the supernatural thriller Dragon's Ark, from Ambler House. Available in paperback and e-book editions at independent bookstores and through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Powells.com, Smashwords, and Scrib'd
Author of the comic screenplay Whackers. to be published by Ambler House, July 2011 on Scrib'd and other e-book stores.
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A review of Harry Potter 7, Part 2, as well as a discussion of the balance between happy moments and sad ones. http://harbingercodex.blogspot.com/2011 ... otter.html

Don't take the easy road
Why it's good to put our characters through the tough stuff, the stuff that changes them (and us) forever.

For any NCIS fans out there, I include fun Gibbs references.

Omaha Science Fiction Convention http://sommerleigh.com/archives/3557#respond

Tidbits on changes in the publishing industry plus reflections on a NYT article that claims "Good spellers are often drawn to poetry and wordplay, while bad spellers, for whom language is a conduit and not an end in itself, can excel at representation and reportage."

Are Bad Spellers Better Reporters? Are Good Spellers Better Poets?

http://www.hektorkarl.com/2011/07/are-b ... -good.html

New approach to my writing, link below.