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Winner! Top Post of the Year #4!
We’re counting down the top posts of the year here at the Jacke Blog. (As well as the worst.) It’s probably not a surprise for those of you following the Jacke Blog that so far the Objects are taking home the prizes. I’ve been very grateful at the response to these – the Blog really Continue reading
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The Countdown of Ugh Continues! Worst Post of the Year #4
It’s been a great year here on the Jacke Blog. We’re celebrating our twelve-month anniversary by posting the most and least popular posts of the year, as measured by your hits. Or lack thereof! Today we’re at #4 of our countdown of ugh. I’m including a pair of posts, each of which could stand (sit?) in Continue reading
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Blogiversary Week – The Ecstasy of an Object
Okay! It’s One-Year Anniversary Week here at the Jacke Blog, and we’re counting down the most and least popular posts of the year, as voted upon by you the readers (via your page views these past twelve months). This morning we started things off with a wayward post about renaming the ebook. I concluded that I should Continue reading
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Blogiversary Week – The Agony of A Bad Headline
It’s anniversary week here on the Jacke blog! That’s right, one whole year of bringing you writers laughing, objects, small-press shoutouts, and whatever the heck else I’ve been up to in these 300 or so posts. So how to celebrate? I thought I’d run through the archives and feature the five most popular posts of Continue reading
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Writers Laughing: Leo Tolstoy
Okay, so it’s not the barbaric yawp of a Seamus Heaney, or the dazzling beauty of Zora Neale Hurston, or the transformative shot of Flannery O’Connor taking in the Amana Colonies. But this is Leo Tolstoy! Born in 1828! We’re lucky to have what we have. And it is mesmerizing. The laughter – you’ll need Continue reading
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Today’s Comment of the Week: About Those Vampires…
Yesterday I posted about the Magic of Storytelling. Yes, I got a full head of steam going on that one (it happens!), and we definitely achieved liftoff. Fortunately, Wonderful Reader Rain, Rain was there to keep the post anchored in the comments. To make one of my points, I asked readers to fill in the blanks Continue reading
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The Magic of Storytelling
Any writer who heads out into the marketplace soon realizes that the marketplace is carved up into sections, organized by genre. Is your book science fiction? Fantasy? Steampunk? Women’s fiction? Literary fiction? Romance? Creative nonfiction? Biography? Historical fiction? Roughly you can think of this as “Where would you look for this in the bookstore?” This Continue reading
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Writers Laughing: Ray Bradbury
Okay, we’ll start with the one I like the most. Ray Bradbury, sci-fi legend, just looking like a classic fifties dad. Full of warmth, full of mirth. Fast forward a couple of decades. The hair’s longer, the face a little older. But it’s still the same laugh. You get the sense he laughed like this Continue reading
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Amazon v. Hachette (or Whatever v. Whatever)
By “whatever v. whatever” I don’t mean to imply indifference. I know people care passionately about this. And they’re right to! It’s their livelihood, their passion, their art that’s at stake. No, by “whatever v. whatever” I mean “traditional v. indie” or “print v. ebook” or “established v. new” or however else you view the Continue reading
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