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Bookshops

11/24/2013

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What can one say about bookshops. 
I used to be a big supporter of boutique bookshops, the kind you'd find in your local shops, carved out of an old building. They were a shelter from the world. A place where you could escape reality, find friends and build your own world, but are they providing the same utopia? Or are they in desperate need of a reinterpretation?
I find bookstores fall into three main categories right now:
1. Awful franchises with outdated genre specification and cataloging and a functioning model so outdated, it should have gone out with the space shuttle.
2. Small local, still hanging-on, old building style, second hand, overcrowded, smelly wastelands that we all used to love visiting, but now just seem sad - devoid of life and alternate for the sake of being alternate.
3. Upmarket snob-fests where 'literary-fiction', although highly controversial as being a 'genre' or not, is the beacon of intelligence. It's touted as the only writing that's really 'writing', the new French, the new black that's old. These bookstores are not even bookstores, they are insulated and inbred, authoritarian wannabe's that only breed with their own. They are genetically manipulated, hybrid sheep.
Yes, this is no exhausted list, and it doesn't maintain to be 'the' list by any stretch of the imagination, but just go out there and try to find a nice balance in your bookstore. If you've found one, then let others know, otherwise I think that as a society, as a bunch of lucid individuals, we owe it to ourselves to re-invent the dinosaur before it's gone forever.
Guaranteed that won't be long. The internet is doing a much better job at being less intrusive, less snobby or demanding of their clientele.
In the end, all that matters is the writer, the book and the reader.
Long live the word.


R.C
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Been a.....

11/23/2013

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Hi all, It's been a little while. You know how it is with work an all. Anywho,
the release of Our Little Every-day has gone relatively smooth *cringe*, no seriously - very exciting for Robby A. Lyon.
Debut novel - really hope you enjoy it. The ebook is available world-wide via Kindle at this stage and the paperback will be ready by Christmas *crossing fingers*

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Shantaram

5/14/2013

 
Just stumbled upon Gregory David Robert's site http://www.shantaram.com
Happy to read that he has updated his progress on the sequel to Shantaram, titled: Mountain Shadow.
Have been waiting for this novel since I turned the last page of Shantaram, but I guess he's been very busy with many of the charities he helps.
It really is an amazing book, and I'd have to put it close to the top of my list of best books of all time. GDR has a talent of description and story telling that seems to come naturally, although I'm sure he's gone through the ringer just like us all.
If anyone hasn't yet read Shantaram I would highly recommend it for its magnificent story, undeniably perfect pace and brilliant poetic writing that hooks you from the first paragraph, if not the title alone.

Reading service, worth the read!

4/26/2013

 
We highly recommend the services of : 
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Their services are both personal and professional. Everyone should have their manuscripts read - don't bother your friends or family, and they're not the most objective readers either.


Anthology

2/28/2013

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Progress so far on the OFF THE BENCH program is going well; plans for the first publishing are under way with a Science Fiction slash Fantasy kick off. The format will be five different authors writing individual novelettes of fifteen thousand words. The anthology will show-case these writers talent, giving them a foot into the market.

The following anthology at this stage has not been strictly set in stone as to what genre; nonetheless it will not be sci-fi/fantasy. It’s more likely to be literary fiction or something along those lines.

I hope word is getting out about our BLOMIC section set up by Lester Balfort. He is taking submissions NOW if anybody would like to attempt this interesting format. Eventually the Blomics that are published here will be published in print with some amazing illustrations. We are all looking forward to this!

R.C

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Leaps and bounds

2/24/2013

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The website is coming along great. We are so proud of what we’ve put together and the package we have. The idea of creating a new model for publishing is strong in our minds and one of the exciting things about this business is working with and alongside many creative and special people that have a lot to offer.

So far we have set up the OFF THE BENCH program and will begin to implement the marketing strategies over the next few months. This will see to it that the writer stars and has somewhere to flourish.

The other thing that we are proud of is the BLOMIC. Lester Balfort has kicked off the blomic season with an intriguing Sci-Fi that will take us who knows where. We hope to have other BLOMIC writers and contributors very soon. We’d really like to see these into print in the future, wherein they could be set amongst some beautiful illustrations tailored for the stories.

UpNComing is displaying a work that is in the publishing process. The writer is Lord Fly and he has some serious convictions and a style that pulls no punches; can’t wait to see it in print.

Ciao for now,

R.C

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It's another first

2/22/2013

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Lester Balfort has blessed us with his Sci-fi writing presence here at 9thDraftproductions. With his web-based writing series he has managed to combine the short and sharp writing of a comic with a blog and he's called it a BLOMIC.
Well Done, we love it and hope that you all will enjoy it.
I guess he'll be hard at it for a while considering that he's got a book coming out soon titled 'Tolly'. Looking forward to that.
Take your time to look around the site that we are feverishly putting together. We launched a totally new format of incubation for writers in which we actively go out and look for them. This allows for the dedicated writers to come out of the wood-work and show us what they've got.
We whole-hartedly believe that writers are VERY precious beings that shouldn't be shunned or made to feel in any way useless in a society that needs them now, more than ever.
All the best,


R.C
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The start of something great

2/21/2013

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Hello everyone and welcome to 9thDraft publications. We are a new publishing house that wishes to wipe the slate clean. I'm going to be writing this blog to inform everyone and anyone how it is all going.
I'm not only going to jot down the cool things that are happening, I'm also going to share the hurdles, obstacles and barriers along the way.
This will do two things: provide transparency and show any person interested in what and how we manage things.
At this early stage, we won't be asking for submissions although at anytime someone wants to discuss something, I am available.
We intend publishing our first novella in the very near future as a paper back and e-book. 
Hope to hear from you soon.
Regards,


R.C
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