Author name: Ronin Kurosawa

Living in a Writer’s Dream World

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On most Wednesday nights, Diana Allandale reads to a small audience of dedicated fans at Passionate Books. The shop is one of four that Diana owns and operates. When she’s not reading at one of her stores, Diana travels to faraway places where she always finds a receptive new audience. Diana’s life may sound like every author’s wildest fantasy. What strange world is this where writers own bookstores, travel far and wide, and never read to a room full of empty chairs? It’s called Second Life, and it’s proving to be a valuable marketing tool for the authors who venture […]

Marketing For Introverts

Publishers Explore the Metaverse

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BS: While we are off to attend O’Reilly Media’s Tools of Change conference, we invited a guest writer to fill in. Ronin Kurosawa came highly recommended, though, in retrospect, we should have been more suspicious of his references. Still, we find his reporting to be thorough and excellent reading. One note, however: Ronin seems to be confused about the concept of a per diem. He seems to think it means “per word.” For months now, the media has been buzzing with enthusiastic reports about Second Life, a virtual reality world that looks something like a video game but acts more

The Future of Publishing
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