Start building your author list now

Plus ponderings on IF, authentic dialogue and, er, Spider-Man

Coming up in a moment are some thoughts on why building a mailing list is essential for any author, regardless of how you go about being published. Before any of that, though, a newsletter recommendation:

Interactive fiction has fascinated me since I was a child back in the 80s. It was Choose Your Own Adventure books back then, which were really quite im…