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Sortmind Publication – What You Need to Know

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on February 16, 2019 by Michael D. SmithJune 25, 2019

Sortmind, the Novel published February 2016 by Sortmind Press eBook: Amazon Barnes and Noble Smashwords paperback: Amazon (trade) lulu.com (mass market) The Overview Trantor Group CEO Peter Trantor scrambles to reassure his latest client, the lovely but unreadable bank executive … Continue reading →

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The SolGrid Rebellion in Paperback

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on September 17, 2018 by Michael D. SmithJuly 11, 2020

The SolGrid Rebellion, Book Six of the Jack Commer, Supreme Commander series, is now out in paperback at Amazon. The novel expands a theme introduced in the previous books, the possibilities of telepathic understanding shared among an entire race, versus … Continue reading →

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The Karma of Fancy One-Line Blog Posts

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on August 14, 2018 by Michael D. SmithAugust 14, 2018

I don’t pay much attention to my list of ideas for blog posts, because new ideas keep arising and, when I do peruse my notes, I see many I’ve retained out of obligation and which I know I’ll never write.  … Continue reading →

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Allan Larson Talks Back

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on May 25, 2018 by Michael D. SmithJuly 12, 2020

Class Act Books publicist Toni V. Sweeney recently introduced me to author Beverley Bateman, who kindly interviewed CommWealth’s resident anti-hero Allan Larson on her May 24, 2018 blog along with glorious snippets of my bio, novel excerpts, and buy links.  … Continue reading →

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The Akard Drearstone Mass Market Paperback: A Photo Essay

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on November 30, 2017 by Michael D. SmithJune 26, 2019

It arrived in the mail the other day and once again, a cinder block falls on Akard Drearstone’s head and leads to an alternate 1975 history of rock music as seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl. Regular 6” … Continue reading →

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I’ll Write Your Book Blurbs, or, When Lilith’s Beloved Kentucky Horse Farm Goes into Bankruptcy …

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on November 9, 2017 by Michael D. SmithNovember 9, 2017

Writers know how difficult it can be to come up with a decent book blurb. How can we possibly distill our novel’s entire universe into one attention-grabbing slab of marketingese? The good news is that now you can just blow … Continue reading →

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Three Legacy Novels

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on June 18, 2017 by Michael D. SmithAugust 20, 2019

Why should writers’ blogs, including my own, continue to spout, in glorious marketing-ese dialect, a sort of Chamber of Commerce civic boosterism about our stunning writing careers and our usually boring buy-my-book blurbs? Why should I post as if everything … Continue reading →

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The SolGrid Rebellion / The Title Change

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on December 24, 2016 by Michael D. SmithJuly 12, 2020

If anyone had paid attention to Jack Commer’s son before this day, it was to jeer that the kid had emerged non compos mentis from his stunt in Alpha Centauri, that he was an egomaniacal fool and that it served … Continue reading →

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Reviewing Reviews

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on September 13, 2016 by Michael D. SmithJune 26, 2019

Recently an episode of relentless plowing through a novel I didn’t really want to read sparked a happy realization.  I’m always open to abandoning a book I’m not enjoying–after all, there are millions of great books out there, so why … Continue reading →

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July Sale: The Soul Institute and The First Twenty Steps

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on July 2, 2016 by Michael D. SmithJune 26, 2019

Sortmind Press is participating in the Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale which runs through July 31.  As Smashwords points out, it’s winter in the southern hemisphere and this is a global enterprise, thus Summer/Winter sale. You have proof of this in that … Continue reading →

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