Dale T. Phillips' Rounded Corner

Yes, we've been doing a lot of interviews here, because there are so many cool writers doing great work! Here's one that's a bit...

Saw an online discussion recently that made me think of a comparison, of how publishing is a bit like the movie It's A Wonderful Life...

Well, of the things that could have started the year off, most of us didn't expect the spate of mortality among the arts. The loss of a ...

Let me tell you of a kingdom that possessed many small magical items of bound paper. These items contained stories , and had been produce...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Have a safe and enjoyable holiday. In the spirit of giving, here's a plan to save Big Publishing. How...

Malcolm Gladwell’s book, David and Goliath , made me think about the whole Amazon/Hachette spat as a parable. Hugh Howey started talking abo...

Elizabeth K. Burton commented on a previous post. http://daletphillips.blogspot.com/2014/05/amazon-and-hachette-godzilla-vs-mothra.html Tha...

With so much stupid in the world and on the Internet- even more so lately- it's tough to pick out just one thing to comment on. But her...

Many modern businesses run a particular model of short-term thinking. They deal with investors and stock, and play a game where they predict...

There is a revolution going on in publishing, where, for the first time in history, writers can choose how to control their career. Some be...

We lost a great light when Pete Seeger left this life. His music and work resonates across this country, and the world. He was the cultural ...

It seems the tide is turning. Corporate bigwigs from the traditonal publishing houses are starting to emerge from their bunkers to talk to t...

Good advice for your writing career can come from unexpected sources. Two important places for you to check out- though the people involved...

As a writer, I love bookstores, especially the non-chain ones, which are accomplishing somewhat of a resurgence, as the big chains suffer an...

Kristine Kathryn Rusch has a post about writing careers , and how the crap of the industry almost did her in at one point. But she found a w...

Now that writers have a number of options in ways to publish, some of them espouse one particular way above all others. They're adamant ...

Noted best-selling author Barry Eisler gave an address (On Digital Denial) at the Pike's Peak Writers Convention. You can read all about...

Ironic story seen today. On The Passive Guy site, a great place for publishing news and links, had a story about a former opponent of self...

My last post was on encountering trolls on the Internet, and it proved to be timely. Writer John Scalzi has been in the news recently, wit...

Writers need editors, good ones, to make the work better. Too often in this day and age, editing is not giving the pre-eminence it deserves....