Today I shared this wonderful new photoshoot from the Selby, of Boaz Mazor’s apartment in New York, with my family. Mazor is an “executive at large” with Oscar de la Renta, and his place is full of warm colors and interesting objects. This interview with Mazor is interesting too—he talks about “maximalism” as an aesthetic [...]
As I was sitting at my desk yesterday evening, working on No More Dreams in between bouts of feeling blue about my latest romantic misadventure, my friend C tagged me in a Facebook comment enthusing about the anime she was watching. From the description, it sounded like a Wicked City kind of fiasco, into which [...]
As a novelist and an editor, you’d expect me to tell people that they need to be good writers, or at least that they should try to be good spellers, or to punctuate well. Today, a Persian friend apologized to me on Facebook for making a very small mistake in a comment to a post [...]
Great news in the literary world today: PayPal has reversed its position on refusing access to its payment system for authors of legal erotica featuring particular subjects. Smashwords founder Mark Coker today sent an email to independent authors and publishers using their system to announce the policy change, which primarily affected Smashwords. Here are some highlights [...]
Some of you may have heard that PayPal has issued an instruction to electronic self-publishing outlet Smashwords that it must remove erotica containing descriptions of rape, incest, or bestiality, or be denied the ability to take PayPal payments. You can see some coverage of the issue on the Smashwords site here. Without condoning this kind [...]
These days my stories always begin with girls: one of the perils of writing novels about love is that in learning to understand it, it takes on an inflated significance in one’s own life. But then, as Morrissey sang, “if it’s not love, then it’s the bomb that will bring us together.” I believe that [...]
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Kiss Me, Genius Boy is Ben Hourigan's debut novel, and the first of three volumes in the No More Dreams series. Available on the full range of ebook platforms starting at just 99c on Kindle, KMGB is an unforgettable tragi-comic tale of teen romance and obsession. Full details here.About
Ben Hourigan is an indie novelist, the author of Kiss Me, Genius Boy (2011). He is also the manager of digital operations at a Melbourne design publisher, a freelance writer and editor, and the founder of ebook label hourigan.co.
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