Paul Blaney's Blog - Posts Tagged "novella"

An interview with Rutgers Today about my various writing projects and teaching philosophy.

http://news.rutgers.edu/focus/issue.2...

A nice article in Time Out Hong Kong about my novella, Handover, and thoughts on writing, cultural (mis)connections, and the future of Hong Kong.

http://www.timeout.com.hk/books/featu...

Very agreeable review of Handover just posted on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-r...

Coming soon (next month). Check it out and let me know what you think of the cover design:

http://redbuttonpublishing.net/red-bu...


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An interview with Rina Mody of The Daily Targum (Rutgers undergraduate-run newspaper) about my new e-book, The Anchoress:

http://www.dailytargum.com/inside_bea...

My latest novella, The Anchoress, is available on Amazon (US and UK) from today. E-book only, but that's no excuse! You know what you need to do.

It's a bit of a departure from my last one. More dialogue and elements of the surreal/irreal/supernatural. I don't mean witches or vampires, though I've nothing against these really.

A link to the interview I conducted with Red Button, publishers of my new novella The Anchoress:

http://redbuttonpublishing.net/2013/0...

A thoughtful review posted by one of the Byte the Book reviewers:

http://www.bytethebook.com/recommenda...

Lovely new review of The Anchoress from a well-respected, UK-based book blogger.

http://bookemstevo.wordpress.com/2013...

It's thoughtful reader responses like these that make all the writing seem worthwhile.

Short (but sweet) review of The Anchoress at: http://lattin-rawstrone.com/read-and-...

Rebekah makes a good point about small publishers. In my experience, the smaller the publisher, the higher the likelihood of their publishing a book that's offbeat or quirky.(Of course they're not all brilliant.)

We can safely rely on the mainstream industry to produce well-packaged, readable, competent novels (as we can rely on Hollywood for movies). But the mainstream industry is risk-averse. Risk-aversion may be a good business strategy, but it's not the most exciting strategy for readers.