Monthly Archives: April 2017

meddling—but in a good way

Posted on 28 April 2017 by Paul Vitols

Do you like book reviews? As a reader, I’m sometimes ambivalent about them, especially for fiction. I don’t want my impression of a work to be polluted by the thoughts of someone else who has already read it. Reading is … Continue reading →

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the writer-publisher on the flying trapeze

Posted on 21 April 2017 by Paul Vitols

I’m reading a biography right now: Pursued by Furies: A Life of Malcolm Lowry by Gordon Bowker. I’m learning a lot about this troubled, alcoholic genius, who spent the best years of his life, by his own reckoning, living in … Continue reading →

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Smashwords SSR?

Posted on 14 April 2017 by Paul Vitols

I’m in the process of publishing my short story A Tourist Visa as an e-book. It has been successfully published to Amazon, and can be seen and bought in any Amazon store. Yippee! That was easy. For publishing to non-Amazon … Continue reading →

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the thrice-born story

Posted on 9 April 2017 by Paul Vitols

When my father arrived, at age 14, with his mother in Halifax in 1948 as a refugee from Germany, it had been 4 years since he had last seen his father, Alexander. Alexander had waved goodbye to them from the … Continue reading →

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