Orna Ross recently posted a wonderful blog entry about creative intention over at the ALLi Self Publishing Advice website. From the article:
Planning to write 1000 words a day through 2014? Resolving to definitely get that title that’s been hanging around forever up and out there?
Oh yes, it’s that time of year when indie authors make our resolutions about the books we are going to write (and sell and publish) over the coming months.
Cassie MacDuff has posted in the Press Enterprise about Lake Gregory. To be honest, I have never been there; it’s a sign with an arrow on it on my way up to Big Bear or down to the flatlands.
Over the past 20 years, Lake Gregory in the San Bernardino Mountains has languished in the shadows of its bigger, glitzier cousins, Lake Arrowhead and Big Bear Lake.
Visitors bypassed the forested lake and continued to the bigger, better-tended resorts up the hill.
AuthorReading.com will start offering expedited reviews to better serve the literary community. This year, small press and self-publishing has blossomed as never before, with self-publishing now very much a legitimate publishing option for authors. Today much of the literary community has shed its bias against those who have chosen to self-publish. Authors Reading welcomes this change and hopes it can be instrumental in helping those Indie authors in their uphill battle to promote and sell their books. As authors quickly learn, once a book is finished, tapping into a receptive audience is a formidable task. In the book publishing world, that is known as “discoverability.”
xRez Studio has put up an AMAZING app for the iPad and Oculus Rift “Yosemite Spyglass.”
From their website:
We love Yosemite and have found a few new ways to experience it in gigapixel on the iPad and Oculus Rift!
The Oculus Rift version of Yosemite Spyglass is available for the Mac and PC. The Yosemite Spyglass for the iPad is available in the Apple App Store. Yosemite Spyglass is a free download for either platform!
Yosemite Spyglass Tech Demo is a collaboration between Art + Science Labs and xRez Studio and powered by GigaEngine, a spherical gigapixel viewer for the Oculus and iOS. If you would like to add gigapixel viewing to your App email info@gigaengine.com
Background
The Land Management Plan or Forest Plan is the principal document that guides the decision making of Forest Service managers. Forest Plans provide long–range management direction. The National Forest Management Act (NFMA) is the primary statute governing the administration of national forests. The planning rule interprets the NFMA and guides the amendment and revision of all land management plans.
The U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Southwest Region has released the final assessments for the Sierra, Sequoia and Inyo National Forests, the Bio-regional assessment, and a preliminary Need to Change. The public is invited to provide feedback on the Need to Change.
