Digital Writes

My guest post, “The Schlock of the New,” on Richard Curtis’ wonderful E-Reads blog is now online. E-Reads is essential reading for anyone who wants to stay abreast of new innovations in publishing. This is the first of my “Digital Writes” series of guest posts for E-Reads centering around New Media and the implications and effects of new technology on writers, readers, and publishing in general under the rubric “Digital Writes.”

This first post is a smartassed epistolary (two words I’m suddenly delighted to use together) addressing the god-given right to stay working in a trade that is assumed — not coincidentally — by the practitioners of that trade. Those poor slide-rule makers. We really did screw them out of existence.