You're an Author? Me too! The trend of increasing authorship and decreasing readership.
posted by stbalbach on Apr 26, 2008 - 61 comments

Philip M. Parker^[1][2] has written and published over 85,000 books on Amazon in the past few years, although by his own count the total published is over 200,000. He is like a writing machine - in fact, he has created a machine that churns out an original book about every 20 minutes. A few sample titles: [more inside]
posted by stbalbach on Feb 8, 2008 - 46 comments

Planet Simpson. An author's-eye look at the warts-and-all business side grind of book publishing, complete with a FedEx horror story, Radiohead's Johnny Greenwood being asked "So…do you sing, or do you play an instrument?", and the immortal interview question "Doooode: which character on The Simpsons is the hottest?" (Note: one mildly NSFW photo on the main page).
posted by The Card Cheat on Nov 19, 2004 - 7 comments