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September 26, 2014

COLD IN JULY is among Forbes best movies of the summer

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized best of 2014, cold in july, crime, Don Johnson, elizabeth story, forbes, jim mickle, joe lansdale, Joe R. Lansdale, mark hughes, Michael C. Hall, movie, movie tie-in, mystery, review, Sam Shepard, texas noir

For Forbes, Mark Hughes ranked Cold in July, Jim Mickle’s adaptation of the Joe R. Lansdale novel, as one of the best movies of the summer.

Cold In July — Easily the most “indie” of the smaller counter-programming films on this list, and a very welcome summer surprise. Feeling like an early Coen Brothers movie adapting an Elmore Leonard novel, it’s actually directed by Jim Mickle and based on Joe R. Lansdale’s book of the same name. Featuring a top-notch cast and a story that suddenly pivots into a completely different, unexpected story you don’t see coming, Cold in July was a tense dramatic thriller for adults in the middle of blockbuster season driven by a lot of effects-laden escapism. Not that such escapism is bad, and indeed several such films are on this list; but it’s always great to see films willing to take a chance on decidedly non-Summer-blockbuster tales, and in fact go outside the box of typical summer counter-programming. It’s one of my favorites of the year, and the sort you rarely see these days.

Read the rest of Hughes’ selections at Forbes.

The movie tie-in edition of Cold in July is currently available from all finer outlets.

Cold in July the movie, starring Michael C. Hall (Dexter), Sam Shepard (Black Hawk Down), and Don Johnson (Miami Vice), is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray.

Book cover design by Elizabeth Story.

August 18, 2014

During an IAI tv debate, Cory Doctorow demands transparency from the strong and privacy for the weak

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized boing boing, content, context, cory doctorow, debate, discussion, elizabeth story, essays, forbes, global equality, iai, iai tv, kate russell, nonfiction, privacy, steve fuller, technology, the world after tomorrow, transparency, vassili christodoulou

As part of IAI tv‘s cutting edge debates series, Cory Doctorow, Steve Fuller, Kate Russell, and Vassili Christodoulou participate in The World after Tomorrow – Can technology become a force for global equality or is the future destined to remain unfair?

Doctorow, editor of Boing Boing, Forbes Magazine’s 25 most influential people on the internet, and the author of Content and Context, gives a convincing argument for demanding transparency from the strong and privacy for the weak.

Visit IAI TV for more debates and discussions.

For more information on Content and Context, visit the Tachyon page.

Content cover by Ann Monn.

Context cover by Elizabeth Story.

March 5, 2014

HOLLOW WORLD author Michael J. Sullivan interviewed in Forbes

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized business, david vinjamuri, forbes, goodreads, hollow world, Michael J. Sullivan, promotion, publishing, science fiction

As part of his Forbes article on modern book promotion, David Vinjamuri interviewed Hollow World author Michael J. Sullivan about Goodreads.

When I asked Brown to cite one of the most effective authors on Goodreads, he named fantasy author Michael J. Sullivan without hesitation. Sullivan is one of those writers who’d written a closetful of books before he was first published. He moved from publishing in a small press to self-publishing and then traditionally publishing with Hachette starting in 2011. He’s sold 475,000 books in English and has been translated into 16 other languages.

Sullivan’s told me that he engaged with Goodreads as a reader first, rather than an author. He set aside an hour a day to engage on the site. “Goodreads was 80% of our success early on.” Sullivan joined multiple fantasy groups and avidly read and discussed the work of other authors. While he listed his own books in his signature, he was careful not to push them as a community member. But he built a solid base of friends on the network and these friends helped him grow as he published new books. He had three specific suggestions for using Goodreads:

To learn Sullivan’s three suggestions and to read the rest of Vinjamuri’s insightful article, visit Forbes.

For information on Hollow World, visit the Tachyon page.