The Perishables Project

You Have to Spend Money to Imagine Making Money

For the month of August I’ve purchased a banner ad on a gaming-related website, the population of which I thought might be a good fit for the mix of humor […]

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Recommendations Matter Most

The last couple of weeks have been further experiments in pricing, with enlightening and slightly annoying results. The short version of this is that pricing doesn’t seem to matter; it’s

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New Experiences Big & Small

I’ve now sold 30 copies of Perishables! Most of those are to people who are not strangers but many of them are to total strangers. How crazy is that? Last

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In Which I Declare Victory

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Bargain Bin?

One of the most interesting things about putting something out there with a price tag on it is hearing people’s opinions on that price. I went for $2.99 explicitly because

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Now Live on Smashwords!

Live on Smashwords! It’s being reviewed for their “premium” catalog, which comprises the books they distribute to iBooks, Barnes & Noble, etc. Woohoo! In the meantime it can be purchased

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Synchronicity

A part of Perishables involves a woman who’s talking loudly and distressingly on a cellphone while in line at a SuperTarget analogue called ÜberBargains. Yesterday, while in a SuperTarget, I

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Online!

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They Have My Baby & They Won’t Let Me Edit It (Briefly)

The current issue of The Blotter is out and available in places where it’s normally available! Woohoo! In the meantime, I’ve uploaded Perishables to the Kindle store and am waiting

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The Stopwatch Is Your Frienemy

Another major realization while working on editing and formatting this afternoon and rewriting a chunk of Part III last night: a major difference between this and traditional publishing is that

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