Lone Gunman

Last week my friend Andrew Smith looked after the site and pub­lished three posts wor­thy of your time:

• Learn­ing sto­ry­telling from a Sit­com writer – a longer piece that per­fectly dis­sects the story-writing process
• A first hand account of foreclosure
• How not to screw up your career

I’m away on vaca­tion, and last week david (b) hayes took over Lone Gun­man and pro­duced this indis­pens­able seven-part guide, How to Inter­net:

• How to Inter­net: Introduction
• How to Inter­net: Why?
• How to Inter­net: Divid­ing Attention
• How to Inter­net: Stay­ing Current
• How to Inter­net: Reading
• How to Inter­net: Publishing
• How to Inter­net: Epilogue

This com­ing week, your host is Andrew Smith—a good friend and a guy with diverse (and good) taste.

I’ve known Andrew for a num­ber of years and he has con­sis­tently kept me enter­tained over drinks and on trav­els with inter­est­ing sto­ries and gen­er­ally infor­ma­tive and enjoy­able con­ver­sa­tion. I’m look­ing for­ward to see­ing what he posts here over the com­ing week.

As always, Andrew is on Twit­ter (fol­low him here) and has a Tum­blr blog (here).

One of Andrew’s cur­rent pas­sions is pub­lic speak­ing and stand-up com­edy. If you’re even remotely inter­ested in those top­ics you’ll want to keep an eye on his pub­lic speak­ing site, The Naked Speaker.

Thanks to David and thanks to Andrew.

I’ve recently arrived in Seat­tle and over the com­ing two weeks will be slowly mak­ing my way down to San Fran­cisco. I’m on hol­i­day; life is good.

I’m aware that things have been quiet around here lately, so as a pre­lude to the “return” of Lone Gun­man I’ve got a cou­ple of fine guest writ­ers lined up while I’m away.

For the com­ing week your host is david (b) hayes.

David recently got his own tag here on Lone Gun­man thanks to his won­der­ful post, Why You Hate Your Face­book Friends [LG]. How­ever it’s David’s linkblog, Link Banana, which has made the most impact here as it’s been the source of many of my favourite posts over the last few years.

His long form blog, Frozen Tooth­paste, is another a favourite read of mine. Of course, David is also on Twit­ter so fol­low him here.

Join me in wel­com­ing David by leav­ing com­ments on his posts.

Thanks to David and to you.

For the past week you have been treated to Andrew Simone’s thoughts on pub­lish­ing. To recap, these were Andrew’s posts:

• There is some­thing out­side of the text
• Social Pub­lish­ing
• Books, Print­ing, and Self-Publishing
• “We have bro­ken your busi­ness, now we want your machines.”
• News­pa­per
• Odds and Ends
• New Authors and the Web
• Social Writ­ing
• Pub­lish­ing and the Dig­i­tal Landscape

Now that I am back home and (rel­a­tively) free from jet lag I shall be resum­ing nor­mal ser­vice here at Lone Gun­man.

Please join me in thank­ing Andrew for these excel­lent posts.

Still away this week, and with my return flight date fast approach­ing, I have one final guest author wait­ing in the wings to enter­tain you.

For the com­ing few days you will be treated to the mus­ings of Andrew Simone.

Andrew is a thought­ful and amus­ing chap who writes over at the fan­tas­tic group blog clus­ter­flock (Andrew’s posts here) and Anti-Expertism, his per­sonal blog.

Of course, Andrew is also on Twit­ter and you can fol­low his micro-musings here.