Interesting Authors Blog

The Theory of Everything

Over the course of this weekend I tried to watch “The Theory of Everything.” I must stress that I tried to watch it. When it got to the part with Stephen Hawking sprawled out on the stairs looking up at his child behind the stair blocker I had to turn…

Roland HughesNovember 13, 2016September 27, 2017

Publishing

Perpetual vs. Flash Marketing Pt. 2

WorldCat is another form of permanent marketing. Most of you have probably never heard of WorldCat but it is a world wide book catalog where member libraries create entries for books in their collection they are willing to loan. These must be physical copies. How do you get into WorldCat?…

Roland HughesNovember 13, 2016September 26, 2017

Publishing

Perpetual vs. Flash Marketing Pt. 1

Today’s topic is a break out discussion from my posts on “The Free Labor Economy.” If you haven’t already read part 3 of that discussion please do so now before reading further. There are three main categories of Internet marketing, perpetual marketing flash marketing, and dull glow. Permanent marketing, by…

Roland HughesNovember 6, 2016September 26, 2017

Publishing

Passing It On

Recently Oliver wrote about an artist who mentors other starving/struggling artists. It was a nice piece. I would like to expand on that topic a bit. By and large authors are a territorial bunch. This is my baby, mine, mine, mine. Nobody is going to write it but me! For…

Roland HughesOctober 9, 2016September 23, 2017

Publishing

The Long Tail Effect

As a writer, or an aspiring writer, you no doubt have heard people speak of “the long tail.” Many of you probably thought they said “the long tale” meaning some form of epic novel. This is a topic one cannot really cover or fully understand until they come to terms…

Roland HughesOctober 2, 2016September 22, 2017

Fiction Publishing

The Rewatchable Factor Pt 1

By and large we are conditioned by the film industry to believe only things with massive budgets are worth watching. I will be the first to admit such films have a high rewatchable factor. This would be the reason FX glommed onto the Marvel comic book movies and some other…

Roland HughesSeptember 18, 2016September 22, 2017