Tag Archives: Disappointment

Demi-Famous, Semi-Successful

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: February 27, 2013

Kickstarter. You know the drill by now. I’d put a direct link up but I can’t seem to figure that out lately, so here’s something you can copy and paste into your browser. http://kck.st/11Sqo1v While anything is possible, I’m beginning to doubt this thing will get funded, which is a shame, but not completely unexpected. [...]

Posted in Blog, Writing | Also tagged Audience, Crowdsourcing, Current Project, Day Play, Dumb Luck, Easy Score, Failure, Fame And Fortune, Janet Evanovich, Job, Kickstarter, Lt, Notion, Novels, Paradox, Play Video Games, Productivity, Robots, Shame, Slime Monsters, Stephen King, Successes, Widget | 4 Comments

Can’t Fight the Future

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: August 24, 2012

People who believe voter fraud is happening are like people who think the only way they can lose is because everyone else is cheating. It’s like that jerk who decides you must be hacking your Xbox because there’s no way you could possibly have defeated him. Oh, and of course, there are the racists who [...]

Posted in Blog | Also tagged Bad News, Bigots, Democracy, Game, Jerk, Marginalized, Nutshell, People, Privilege, Racists, Sore Losers, Specter, Struggle, Vote, Voter Fraud, Xbox | 17 Comments

Best(ish)

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: August 14, 2012

“It’s not his best book…” That always strike me as a strange review. By definition, there can be only one best book, and it is highly unlikely that every book I write will be better than the last. I’ve published nine novels, and it’s safe to say that they don’t line up in some rigid [...]

Posted in Blog, Writing | Also tagged Beethoven, Disagreement, Entire World, Incredibles, Legacy, Love, Macbeth, Magnum Opus, Monsters Inc, Nostalgia, Novels, Pixar, Pixar Film, Romeo And Juliet, Shakespeare, Sixth Symphony, T Line | 3 Comments

Influential

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: September 16, 2011

How about a special Friday post? One of the reasons I don’t like being considered a silly writer is that it lowers the bar. Silly is fine, but it’s just a trifling thing. It will always be considered unimportant. And to some degree that’s to my advantage. If someone reads a story of mine with [...]