Tag: sociopath
Our Dystopian Future is Now
Back in 2011 when I first published Any Tomorrow I was concerned that the publishing environment wasn’t right for a dystopian epic, even if in the end, there was a glimmer of hope for mankind. For many of us, hope was in the air and there seemed at least the…
It could be any of us
In his 1962 dystopian novella, A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess coined the term “ultra-violence” to characterize the sociopathic ravagings of a young man named Alex and his “Droogs”. Stanley Kubrick brought it to theatres in 1972. Exceptionally controversial for the time, I remember seeing it at the Strand Theatre in…
Revising the Product Description
Thanks to my friends at eFiction Magazine’s Book Marketing Group, I’ve transformed my long, unfocused product description into a more dynamic pitch for my eBook, Any Tomorrow: The Calling. Advice from eFiction editor Doug Lance and group member Richard Sutton helped me rebuild my product description following some simple general…