Category: publishing
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Blogs will rise again
Prediction: As people burn out on social media, blogs will rise again. This time around, readers will subscribe via email instead of RSS. Blogs = shareable evergreen newsletter archives. Complement with how to build an organic fanbase, how we made an internet public art project, and this interview about media diets. Get new posts delivered…
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TechCrunch on True Blue
Danny Crichton ran a lovely piece on True Blue in TechCrunch: Eliot Peper and “narrative responsive design” on the web Novelist and strategist Eliot Peper gave Extra Crunch readers a lengthy reading list of great speculative fiction a few weeks ago to help inspire the creation of startups. Now, one of his major projects has…
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Eva Hagberg Fisher on Lifesaving Friendships and the Art of Memoir
I interviewed Eva Hagberg Fisher for the Chicago Review of Books about writing, life, and her brilliant debut memoir, How To Be Loved: https://chireviewofbooks.com/2019/03/15/eva-hagberg-fisher-on-lifesaving-friendships-and-the-art-of-memoir/ “I had to find the heart of the story, which was really my transformation from someone who was loved but couldn’t feel it, into someone who could feel it. And once…
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True Blue: An Internet Public Art Project
For the past two years, I’ve been working with award-winning designer Peter Nowell and illustrator Phoebe Morris on a secret project that is finally ready to share. Some of you may have read my short story True Blue when it came out on Kindle. It’s a tale of persecution and self-discovery set in a world…
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Using science fiction to understand the future of the web
ZDNet just ran a lovely, profound, generous review of the Analog Series that is thought-provoking in its own right: https://www.zdnet.com/article/using-science-fiction-to-understand-the-future-of-the-web/ “Peper’s tomorrow is familiar yet utterly changed.” “We’re living in a world that’s increasingly connected, and in the same moment, increasingly divided. How do we square the circle of the technologies that are at the…
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Nick Harkaway on Algorithmic Futures, Literary Fractals, and Mimetic Immortality
I interviewed Nick Harkaway for the Los Angeles Review of Books about how to make sense of the future, the power of speculative literature, and how he wrote his mind-bending novel, Gnomon: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-interview-with-nick-harkaway-algorithmic-futures-literary-fractals-and-mimetic-immortality “Gnomon muscled its way into my head and it gets to people in a way that seems to be equivalent—that sense of something…
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Interview with Indie Digital Media
I talked to Richard MacManus at Indie Digital Media about lessons I’ve learned writing and publishing novels: https://indiedigitalmedia.com/2019/02/05/interview-with-author-eliot-peper/ “Books (and other creative products) succeed when readers tell other readers about them. That means that the most important thing I can do when I launch a new thing is get it into the hands of people…
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New Books in Science Fiction podcast interview
I went on the New Books in Science Fiction podcast to talk about how tech influences geopolitics and the future extrapolated in my new novel, Borderless: https://newbooksnetwork.com/eliot-peper-borderless-47north/ Complement with TechCrunch on the themes explored in Bandwidth, this interview with the Chicago Review of Books on how feeds shape reality, and this Techdirt podcast on how to imagine plausible futures.…
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Robert Jackson Bennett uses magic to make sense of how technology shapes our lives
In my latest column for Techdirt, I talk to Robert Jackson Bennett about the political consequences of technology, the power of imagination, and his critically-acclaimed new novel, Foundryside: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181106/17231941000/robert-jackson-bennett-uses-magic-to-make-sense-how-technology-shapes-our-lives.shtml Robert and I were on a panel together last month at New York Comic Con and I featured Foundryside in this edition of my reading recommendations newsletter. Complement with…
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Borderless shows us the tech-fueled nightmare that we’ve all created
Ars Technica just ran a wonderful review of my new novel: “Borderless shows us the tech-fueled nightmare that we’ve all created. A matryoshka of a story… Where do you draw the line between who you are and what you want to be?” https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/11/borderless-shows-us-the-tech-fueled-nightmare-that-weve-all-created/ One of my favorite aspects of this review is how its author,…