Video: “How do peasants die?” On the life and death of Tolstoy, famous vegetarian. I love me some novels and short stories. But I am particularly attracted to novellas. (Here’s mine! Buy them!) I was reminded of this after re-reading one that blew me away (see #20). So I thought I’d revisit my own list. […]
ADJUNCTIVITIS: A NOVELLA A struggling young writer, stuck with dead-end teaching jobs he’s literally allergic to, watches glumly from Hollywood’s fringes as everyone else seems to succeed. Then a chance encounter with television’s Mr. Big changes everything—or does it? A “laugh-out-loud funny” novella of about 60 pages. HOW TO BUY ADJUNCTIVITIS: It’s available for $2.99 […]
On Adjunctivitis: To be sure a man, who has enough without teaching, will probably not teach; for we would all be idle if we could. On False Economies: It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crouded together, that the wonderful immensity of London […]
This is really cool. I heard from Dan Mayer, the talented guy who designed the cover for my first Kindle Single, False Economies. While I am certainly pleased with the one we chose, it was really interesting to see the other iterations and how they evoke different aspects of the story. My favorite is Upside-Down […]
Adjunctivitis, my novella about an adjunct desperately seeking health insurance in Los Angeles, is for sale as an Amazon Kindle Single here. If you don’t own a Kindle, you can get a free reading app here. I I had a conversation with a student writing about Bedouins in Israel. “In Bedouin culture,” she wrote, […]
“A romantic comedy with a twist from a startling new talent.“ A struggling young writer, stuck with dead-end teaching jobs he’s literally allergic to, watches glumly from Hollywood’s fringes as everyone else seems to succeed. Then a chance encounter with television’s Mr. Big puts fame and fortune within his grasp — but is that what […]
I’ve had good luck with novellas lately. I recently published one as a Kindle Single and I had another one accepted (although I don’t have a pub date yet). Anyway, it got me thinking: what is a novella? Of course it’s an issue of length. A novella is longer than a short story and […]