Benjamin Roesch

Month: July 2012

  • Post #57: Stocking Up

    Excited to have grabbed some new books from Phoenix Books in Burlington yesterday.  I went in to buy one and ended up brining home three.  Oh well.  It’s hard to feel bad about money spent on books.  I’ll let you know how they are.   I’ve long wanted to read…

  • Post #56: Out of Step, Out of Time

    By now you’ve no doubt heard that the Boy Scouts of America, after a supposedly exhaustive conversation and study, has decided to uphold its policy of not allowing openly gay youth to serve as Scouts or openly gay adults to be affiliated with Scouting, either in a professional or mentor…

  • Post #55: Home Ownership Vs. Braveheart

    Last night I was safely ensconced in my air conditioned bedroom, cold beer in hand, recently started epic action on the tube (Braveheart) when the heavy rain started.  I cursed it.  I’d started the long movie early on purpose so I’d have time to watch it all.  The storm began…

  • Post #54: The Path to Publication, Part 2

    THE GREAT FREELANCE EDITOR ROUND-UP (guest post by author Ron Dionne) So I had accepted the offer from Delabarre Publishing to publish my novel SAD JINGO as an ebook, and had withdrawn it from consideration at Akashic Books. I had chosen the Wild West that book publishing had suddenly become,…

  • Post #53: Pre-Order Purgatory

    I have to vent for a minute about the sudden (or so it seems to me) availability to pre-order forthcoming whatever.  Books, music, movies.  You can buy anything in advance these days.  Let’s say you do some searching to see what’s new out there.  Whatever purveyor you’ve searched (iTunes, Amazon,…