You finished a book. It is done. It is ready to be uploaded for publication. But before you do, you need to ask a very important question,, "Did I learn anything from this?" If you don't ask it, how will you ever improve as a writer? If you say, "Good enough," and move on, you will not have a chance to discover the things you need to get better at.David Macpherson writes short books. His books are 50 to 80 pages on average. That gives him a lot of chances to think about what he cou...

A lot of people read Perry Rhodan novels. Just not here in the English speaking world. In Germany, the science fiction novels about Perry Rhodan are published once a week. They are rip roaring space operas.There is nearly sixty years of Perry Rhodan novels. But they never took off in America.David Macpherson picked up a bunch of Perry Rhodan novels that were translated and published in the 1970s. He reads eight of those books and takes you along for the ride. While reading the book...

Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker's 1982 video "You Got Lucky" is considered one of the important early music videos. It blended this new form of film with science fiction.This book is a second by second look at that video. It is serious, funny and irreverent. "In This Reality" is an examination of a four minute and thirty second movie. It is a chance to see how the possibilities and variety a small narrative can offer.

One cocktail. One Man. Every damned bar in town.There are a lot of bars in the City of Worcester, Massachusetts. David Macpherson took it upon himself to go to every watering hole and have a drink. Which drink? Why a gin and tonic, of course. He wrote about each of the 144 bars he went to from 2014 to 2015.There were good gin and tonics and then there was the time he got a gin and Coca-Cola. He found lovely people all around the city. He was also ignored and threatened. Dav...

Bad writing doesn’t just happen. It takes time and effort. Bad writing is not something anyone can do. It requires a dedicated student to master the wrong turns and poor decisions that are necessary to excel in lousy work.There are many books and workshops that offer good writing advice. But none for bad writing advice. Where can we go to get the awful suggestion?Fret no more. We have spent years compiling this helpful and useless list. There is not a good idea in the lot. ...

How do I become a prolific writer?Simple. You write.But writing is hard. It is intimidating. I need more details.Okay. Here it is. We are about to give away the entire book.Write 200 words a day. That's it. Just write 200 words. It will take you under ten minutes to do that. You do that every day. You will be prolific. You will be writing and you will have a blast.So do I need to buy this book now?Not if you don't want to. But it goes into gr...

Some people like comic books. They read them. They collect them. They grade them and sell them for a profit. Or, at least, they try to sell them for a profit. Comic book people love their comics from superheroes to romance to funny animals. These are the books that define them. Comic people love to talk about comics.Here, in these pages, comic book people have a chance to take center stage and tell about their comics. Each chapter is another person telling their story.Some ...

This is a list of what to do when the government tells you to stay at home and try not to get sick. It is just one list. There can be others. There should be others. But you get this book, you get this list.The Hangover Hour Report is a new journal where each issue allows an author to write whatever they want. The one rule is that it must be completed in 72 hours.

Bookcases lie in wait.They are teeming with books. Some of them you have read. Some of them you were given as gifts. Other books were bought with enthusiasm and then ignored. Forgotten.Bookcases tell the story of a the owner of the books. They tell you what his interests are and where he buys his books. What stores does he loiter in?This is a memoir of five years of buying and reading and not reading books. David goes through each of the books in the bookcase and te...

Who do you call a criminal?It can't be Martha and Emily. They help the criminals, but does that make them crooks as well?The Sisters are just trying to make a living. They will bring illicit materials to mob bosses. They will copyedit notes announcing that this is a bank robbery. They will teach others how to distribute counterfeit money. They will also drug and transport people. They will not do terrible things to them, just transport them.Does that make them bad?

In 2019, I was going to turn fifty and had my midlife crisis by wallowing in the comic books I loved as a kid.I started buying comic books again. Not new comics. Hell no. I was keyed into old comics.The shit I read when I was a kid.When I was a teenager in the 1980s, I spent all my money on comic books. I would go to the local shop on Saturdays and buy a large wedge of books and spend the next week reading them all.I loved all of them, but would they all stand up?

Who has the time to watch a whole movie?There are so many movies and you don't have the time squeezing in all the cat videos you are constantly scrolling through.How do you get to watch a lot of movies?Why don't you just watch a minute from a bunch of movies?That's a plan, but even that will take time that you don't have, what is to be done?You can let us watch it for you. We have picked Tubi, which has a very large catalog of movies to stream and we...