Category: Publishing technologies

by M. Bijman March 24, 2019 0

I composed a bit like Bach! – Machine Learning and the joys of aspiring to great art

Computer-generated artistic text and images tend to resemble FrankenArt and FrankenFiction. Using machine learning, designers can build software programs thatContinue Reading

by M. Bijman November 18, 2018 0

Backstories Current events List of similar books Modern fiction Published books Publishing technologies

Dismissive of mass market paperbacks? Think again.

This is the rack of “mass market” paperbacks that I see when I stand in the queue, every time IContinue Reading

by M. Bijman October 4, 2018 0

Current events Publishing technologies

Indie author causes uproar in the French publishing industry – shrugs it off as a matter of survival

I rarely repost news articles in their entirety but this one is a real eyebrow-raiser: – an independent author’s novel,Continue Reading

by M. Bijman September 7, 2018 0

Author interview Backstories Current events Media and Technology Publishing technologies

The Creative Process & Publishing I – How to get published

There are thousands of aspiring authors, thousands of unpublished books, and millions of readers who have not connected with particularContinue Reading

by M. Bijman February 25, 2018 0

Authors to watch Backstories Discussion of poetry Discussion of writing style Poetry Publishing technologies Review of poetry collection Web series and vlogs

Manipulating words like Legos – You Took the Last Bus Home, by Brian Bilston

Brian Bilston’s first anthology of poetry contains more than 200 poems, and despite some of them being only four linesContinue Reading

by M. Bijman January 26, 2018 0

Current events Discussion of current events Humor Humour Publishing technologies Review of new book Review of new non-fiction Subjective non-fiction Trending Web series and vlogs

Will it…Print? – Rhett & Link’s Book of Mythicality

I have been watching Rhett and Link, a.k.a Rhett McLaughlin and Link (Charles) Neal, on their YouTube channel, Good MythicalContinue Reading

by M. Bijman January 22, 2018 0

Art Current events Publishing technologies

What does it take to create something new every day?

One of my favourite marketing professionals, Seth Godin, wrote his 7,000th post on Nov. 14, 2017. That’s quite something. TheContinue Reading

by M. Bijman August 4, 2017 0

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Splashes in a suikinkutsu – Experiential content on the Internet

See me, hear me and walk with me – that’s what many websites try to achieve; in other words, connectContinue Reading

The Exorcist (1973) August 31, 2019
“I'm the Devil. Now kindly undo these straps.” — Demon The Exorcist was not your average blockbuster film. Called “the greatest horror film of all time” by many, it has remained unparalleled in terms of its initial reception, its cultural impact and its subsequent adoption into the American film canon. With a worldwide gross of over $440 million, countl […]
Good Omens (2019) August 9, 2019
“I didn't mean to fall. I just hung out with the wrong people.” — Crowley In the beginning was the word. But Aziraphale and Crowley were there, too. Soon there were also fruit-bearing trees and enormous stone cherubs, phone booths and spaceships, and people – so many people – all marching together on a bizarro pilgrimage toward their doom. This is the p […]