Reflections on Publishing My Book
My novel, The Childless Ones, was released about four months ago now (the ebook a little before that). While sales have been about what...
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Cam Rhys Lay
Mar 7, 20192 min read
Review: Wolverine, The Long Night Podcast
One of the criticisms I've had of the modern superhero industry (by which I'm referring to the commerce engine that starts with comics,...
Cam Rhys Lay
Mar 2, 20191 min read
Review: My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
In Ottessa Moshfegh's novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, a beautiful, blonde twenty-something (the narrator of the novel) in pre-9-11...
Cam Rhys Lay
Feb 24, 20192 min read
Review: Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne
A few weeks ago, I was perusing The New York Times list of notable books from 2018 when I saw that Lawrence Osborne's Only to Sleep: A...
Cam Rhys Lay
Feb 19, 20192 min read
Review: The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay
Kurt Vonnegut once famously gave the writing advice: "Make your characters want something right away, even if it's only a glass of...
Cam Rhys Lay
Feb 17, 20191 min read
On "Aspiring"
My offensive line coach during my one year of high school football had a saying: "Potential means you haven't done shit yet." I'm not...
Cam Rhys Lay
Feb 16, 20192 min read
Review: There, There
Despite an imperfect ending, There, There is a powerful depiction of the modern Native American experience that's worthy of the high...
Cam Rhys Lay
Feb 16, 20191 min read
Review: Basketball: A Love Story
The TV Documentary turned book is a worthwhile read for fans of the sport. Basketball: A Love Story is a book, which was spun up as a...
Cam Rhys Lay
Feb 10, 20192 min read
Review: Lake Success
A book that is probably unreadable if written by a lesser writer becomes passably entertaining thanks to terrific writing. In Lake...
Cam Rhys Lay
Feb 10, 20194 min read
My Favorite Books Read in 2018
Yes, it's February 2019, but better late than never! 2018 was an uneven reading year for me. I enjoyed many of the 41 books I read over...
Cam Rhys Lay
Jan 6, 20195 min read
Where do Your Ideas Come From?
Answer: mostly, I steal them. Whenever I tell people I wrote a book and describe the high-level premise, the question I'm asked more than...
Cam Rhys Lay
Aug 30, 201811 min read
Haruki Murakami's Books Ranked!
In my early 20s I picked up a copy of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles on a recommendation from a friend. I tore through the book and soon...
Cam Rhys Lay
May 20, 20181 min read
Cover Design
I've been working with freelance book designer Meg Reid on designing the cover and interior for The Childless Ones. One of the challenges...
Cam Rhys Lay
May 12, 20181 min read
Maps!
For the fantasy section of my book I wanted to create some maps to a) help orient readers with the world of the fantasy part of the...
Cam Rhys Lay
Feb 4, 20182 min read
On Shipping and Seth Godin
I recently finished Seth Godin's book, Linchpin, which was the second Godin book I read (the first being the more recently released, The...
Cam Rhys Lay
Jan 27, 20183 min read
My Favorite Book I Read in 2017
Several months ago, I decided to start keeping track of all the books I read or listened to (big audiobook fan!) beginning with 2017. In...
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