Make a Move

There’s a book, Make a Move, that this guy Steve wrote. I’m in it, which is cool, but it’s not published yet, which sucks. Steve wanted to get it out and spread the word – let people see what he’d been up to – so he sent the book off to a printer, and I put this site together.

Make a Move’s different to most books, as it’s broken up into episodes like a tv show – six in all. You can grab the pilot episode “Attack of the 50Ft. Man” for free below, and if you feel like it, send Steve some feedback here.

Jay McFarlane,
November 13, 2009

Download the first episode now:

Steve’s Blog

Going Non-linear

There’s an established process to take you from writing a book to it reaching a reader’s hands, and it goes like this: submit to an agent > agent pitches book to publisher > publisher buys, prints and distributes the book. There’s more to it than that, obviously, but that’s the bare bones (and I’m ignoring [...]

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Paris Stories – Street Dancing

Just south of the Pompidou Centre (just around the corner from the happy people), I found these guys showing off some moves for an appreciative crowd:

The cool part was that, although one of the guys ran around the square to collect donations from the appreciative crowd, that wasn’t why they were here. They’d set up [...]

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Digital Values, Or Lack Of

Not many publishers or agents accept email submissions, so it was refreshing to find an increasing number doing so when I began submitting Make a Move. Paper submissions take time to prepare and are relatively expensive to both produce and post (twice), so it was with some relief that I sent my first four or [...]

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Why Self-publish?

Word of mouth has now carried Make a Move as far as friends-of-friends, and yesterday I heard that a friend recommended the book to someone, only to be told “not a self-published book; they’re just badly written ego-trips”. You could say the same thing about most celebrity autobiographies, and they’re selling okay… Fortunately, the person [...]

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