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Sunday, January 4, 2009
At Warren Wilson now, with no time to write. Beautiful blue mountains, wonderful students... It feels like coming home. Underland stuff continues apace without me. Feeling very lucky.
NPR
Monday, January 5, 2009
Underland and the wovel were featured on NPR today. Thanks to Rick Kleffel for a great piece. You can listen to it on the NPR web site.
If you need any more convincing that information online travels fast and travels wide, check out this Gakwer bit.
The email list got 350 new sign-ups, just yesterday. And, with all the great commenter ideas about how to make the wovel better, I think we're on our way to a really great thing.
Thanks for reading, and thanks for listening. Don't know about you, but I'm pretty thrilled...
The snow shovel wovelWednesday, January 7, 2009
A wovel is a web novel. It is also a snow shovel on wheels. Check out the website for the amazing wovel here. You do not read the snow shovel kind of wovel. You use it to shovel snow. If I lived in snow land, I would buy one for myself.
As I and my lawyers understand US Copyright and Trademark law, multiple companies can trademark the same name if those companies exist in different businesses. Trademarks are different than copyrights. Therefore, the Underland wovel, the web novel wovel, is legally trademarked for book publishing, whereas the shovel kind of wovel has been trademarked for, well, snow shovels.
That should clear up any lingering questions, floating out there on the web.
InternetMonday, January 19, 2009
Anybody who has any sort of online presence has experienced, and / or written about, the sometimes mean spirited things people post. I've never understood why we are meaner in cyber print than we are face to face.
In my past life as a journalist and art critic, I had a horrible experience with an artist who, upon reading my negative review, sent a text message to all of his friends telling them to write bad things about me. They did. It hurt. I cried. But my editor backed me up, and I learned the difference between standing behind what you do and buckling to what people say.
There are exceptions. I like the comment board here on the Underland site because even those who dislike or disagree with the wovel idea offer their thoughts constructively. We are a community, after all. That's part of what the wovel experiment is all about.
Reviews
Friday, January 23, 2009
A great interview with Brian Evenson here. Want to know where Brian writes? When he writes? This is your source. Courtesy of Velvet.
A review came out in Locus this month. I'm not sure it's online, but certainly check out the paper copy.
International!
Monday, January 26, 2009
The wovel has gone international! We're on a Columbian radio station. Listen here. It's pretty funny to hear yourself dubbed.
Life after schoolMonday, January 26, 2009
Today I organized my bookshelves. I assembled a bed frame. I drank two cups of coffee and one chai, while reading "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell," a book I am reading for pleasure, a book that nobody assigned to me, a book that has no purpose in my life but that of providing enjoyment, and of letting my imagination roam.
It's good to be free . . .