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2026 3

  1. AI and Creative Professions
  2. Opting Out of the Bartz v Anthropic
  3. The Rise of Airt

2025 1

  1. Anthropic and the Future of Copyright

2023 2

  1. Konrath Thanksgiving - Black Friday - Cyber Monday Kindle Bundle Sale
  2. English Language Sues Bestselling Authors for Using English Without Permission

2019 9

  1. Six Things Writers Need To Stop Worrying About
  2. New Punctuation?
  3. 30 Free Ebooks
  4. Writer's Guide To Dealing With Haters
  5. An Email to Jack on His Birthday
  6. Trying Something New and Different
  7. Your Book Marketing Plan Won't Work
  8. On Writing Shit
  9. Let's Ban All Firearms... Or Not

2018 1

  1. Amazon Ranking and Bestseller Lists - What's the Deal?

2017 6

  1. Konrath's New Year's Resolutions for Writers 2018
  2. Interactive Ebooks? Almost...
  3. Ebooks Sales Slowing? Yes and No
  4. How Good is Good Enough?
  5. Joe's Got a Movie Blog
  6. New Konrath Zombie Novel GRANDMA

2016 20

  1. Konrath's New Year's Resolutions for Writers 2017
  2. Do Ebook Preorders Work? Part 2
  3. Last Call is Released!
  4. Chasing Publishing Trends
  5. Permafree
  6. Self Publishing my First Audiobook
  7. Fisking Porter Anderson
  8. Harlequin Settles
  9. Do Ebook Preorders Work?
  10. Webcam
  11. New JA Konrath Preorder
  12. More Advantages to Self-Publishing
  13. Fisking Lee Child
  14. Konrath's Advice For Indie Booksellers
  15. Attack of the Bibliography!
  16. Book Cover Art Sale
  17. Guest Post by Silas Payton
  18. Freedom of Expression?
  19. Latest from the Authors Guild
  20. Pay the Writer?

2015 49

  1. Konrath's New Year's Resolutions for Writers
  2. Guest Post by Nick Kristof
  3. Fisking the Authors Guild
  4. Guest Post by Andrea Pearson
  5. Konrants
  6. Maybe You Suck
  7. A Gentle Reminder
  8. Guest Post by Gary Ponzo
  9. Zombie Publishing Meme #4: Self-Publishing is Costly and Risky; Legacy Publishing is Guaranteed and Free.
  10. Shocking WSJ Discovery: Higher Prices=Lower Volume!
  11. Zombie Publishing Memes #3 - Without Legacy Gatekeepers, No One Will Be Able to Find Good Books
  12. The Amazon Agenda
  13. Zombie Publishing Memes #2 - Low Prices Devalue Books
  14. Ten Days of KENP with BookBub Boost
  15. Guest Post H. L. LeRoy
  16. Zombie Publishing Memes #1 - Amazon is a Monopoly
  17. Ebooks and Libraries and Self-Pubbed Authors
  18. Konrath Kindle Unlimited Numbers
  19. On Character Building (with Ann Voss Peterson and Linda Style)
  20. Guest Post by Macaulay C. Hunter
  21. How to Compete with Amazon
  22. Barry and Joe and More Authors Guild Nonsense
  23. Kindle Unlimited Thoughts
  24. Guest Post by Gordon Hopkins
  25. Joe's Letter to the Assistant Attorney General
  26. Douglas Preston's Fail-A-Thon Continues
  27. Fisking Douglas Preston
  28. More Authors Guild Nonsense
  29. Authors United Epic Fail-O-Rama
  30. Amazon and Reviews
  31. Ebook Subscriptions Q & A
  32. Subscription Ebook Services
  33. Guest Post by Keith Hunter
  34. Fisking John Scalzi
  35. Guest Post by Bryan Higby
  36. Guest Post by Bernard Schaffer
  37. Back Ups and Ownership
  38. On Book Designing
  39. More On Kindle Worlds
  40. Grandma? Part 2
  41. The Path to Success
  42. Guest Post by Tracy Sharp
  43. Self Published Authors Guild
  44. When Jack Meets Derek - A Guest Post by Mark Terry
  45. Kindle Worlds Launch
  46. On Copyright Again
  47. Jack Daniels & Associates Kindle Worlds
  48. My Thoughts on the Amazon Debate
  49. Welcome to 2015

2014 106

  1. Translating John Sargent
  2. Erotic Romance
  3. Thoughts on the DBW Writer Survey with Author Lisa Grace
  4. Guest Post by Anjo Bordell
  5. A Novel Approach To Box Sets
  6. Don't Pay to Self-Publish
  7. Preston Amok, The Bookseller Sucks, Antitrust Redux*
  8. Guest Post by Jennifer Selzer & Daniel Huber
  9. The Authors Guild: Do More Than Hope
  10. Amazon/Hachette Negotiations Finally End
  11. Embrace Change – Guest Post by David Gaughran
  12. Agents Behaving Badly
  13. Twelve Shades of Self-Promotion
  14. More Advice To Authors United
  15. Amazon Will Slash Your Royalties!
  16. Eisler & Konrath & Patterson... Again
  17. Fisking Salon and Rob Spillman
  18. Guest Blog by Leslie Wells
  19. Is the NYT Coverage of Amazon vs. Hachette Really Propaganda?
  20. The Publishers Guild Strikes Again!
  21. Lee Child Responds
  22. Lee Child Chimes In
  23. My Advice to Authors United
  24. The Name Game
  25. Nonsense United
  26. Author Conference of the Future
  27. Ebook Sales Down? Here Are 15 Tips!
  28. The Opposite of Legacy
  29. Publishing Advice I'd Give My Younger Self
  30. Amazon vs. Hachette
  31. Konrath's Advice to Publishers
  32. William Ockham Fisking Michael Pietsch
  33. David Streitfeld - An Embarassment to the New York Times
  34. If We Were James Patterson
  35. Melinda DuChamp Free Erotica
  36. For the Authors Guild & Other Legacy Publishing Pundits
  37. Michael Cader of Publishers Lunch
  38. Fisking Shatzkin's and Cader's Fisks of Amazon
  39. So the Real Authors Guild is... Amazon?!
  40. Must. Stop. The Stupid.
  41. More Preston Nonsense
  42. Barry & Joe Discussing The Guardian Discussing AuthorEarnings
  43. Guest Post by Tracy Sharp & Iain Rob Wright
  44. Collective Narcissism
  45. Amazon-Hachette: The Sounds of Silence - A Guest Post by William Ockham
  46. Konrath and Eisler vs. Richard Russo: The Sequel
  47. The Fox
  48. Douglas Preston's Blood Money
  49. Amazon's Latest Proposal
  50. Fisking Hugh Howey
  51. Fisking Chuck Wendig
  52. Authors Behaving Badly and Authors Who Aren't
  53. Konrath Collaboration Update
  54. More Konrants
  55. The Hachette Job
  56. Guest Post by KD James
  57. I Understand and Sympathize
  58. Konrath Vs. Colbert
  59. #JamesPattersonSTS
  60. Guest Post by Michael J. Sullivan
  61. James Patterson BEA Fail
  62. Amazon Speaks
  63. Fisking Charlie Stross: More on Hachette/Amazon
  64. Turow & Patterson: A Plateful of Fail with Extra Helpings of Stupid
  65. Fisking Lilith Saintcrow and the Hachette/Amazon Situation
  66. Guest Post by Celeste Buie
  67. Konrants
  68. Time to Reform Copyright
  69. Tend Your Garden
  70. Ug and Zug's One Stop Wheel Shop
  71. Suffering Fools
  72. Letter from a Literary Agent
  73. Latham Conger and Kickstarter
  74. Guest Post by Dale T. Phillips and Vlad V.
  75. A Wake Up Call for Tracy Hickman
  76. My Last Blog Post
  77. New Jack Daniels Novel Q & A with Jude Hardin
  78. No One Knows
  79. Guest Post by Lisa Alber
  80. Guest Post by Chris Eboch
  81. Here's What I Know
  82. My New Amazon Petition
  83. Identity and the Writer
  84. Melinda DuChamp & Summer Daniels
  85. Guest Post by Tahir Shah
  86. A Big Bestseller Weighs in on “Publishing Is A Lottery”
  87. Konrath on Patterson Deux
  88. Eisler - Publishing is a Lottery & Konrath - Publishing is a Carny Game
  89. Legacy John Fisks Hugh Howey
  90. Guest Post by Richard Fox
  91. Indies Eat Publishers Lunch – A Semi-Fisking of Michael Cader
  92. Guest Post by Curtis Edmonds
  93. Guest Post by Joshua Guess
  94. A Case of the Shatz - Fisking Mike Shatzkin
  95. Guest Post by J. Scott Nelson
  96. Me, Hugh Howey, and Legacy John on AuthorEarnings.com
  97. The New Role of Gatekeepers
  98. Fisking Donald Maass
  99. Guest Post by Chris W. Martinez
  100. A Longwinded Screed for Mike Shatzkin
  101. Questions for Literary Agent David Gernert
  102. Author Barry Eisler and Literary Agent Robert Gottlieb and an Open Invitation to Debate
  103. Questions From Steve Zacharius, CEO and President of Kensington
  104. Ultimate Supernatural Horror Box Set
  105. Keeping It Up
  106. Konrath's Resolutions For Writers

2013 113

  1. Konrath's Publishing Predictions 2014
  2. Happy Holidays
  3. Guest Post by Avril Sabine
  4. Konrath and Eisler vs. Richard Russo and the Authors Guild
  5. Guest Post by Maia Sepp
  6. Guest Post by A.C. James
  7. Guest Post: Lois Lavrisa interviews I.M. Wright.
  8. Guest Post by Julius St. Clair
  9. Guest Post by Jennie Bates Bozic
  10. Death and the Self-Pubbed Writer
  11. My Proofreader
  12. Zen and the Art of Bitching
  13. Straight Up and Racked and Amazon's Also Boughts
  14. Guest Post by Al Boyle
  15. Jacked Up with Tracy Sharp
  16. Guest Post by K.D. Lovgren
  17. Naughty Questions with Konrath and Peterson
  18. Guest Blog by Birgit Kluger
  19. Quitter Quitter
  20. Halloween Sale
  21. Guest Post by Tom Keller (and Konrath talks numbers)
  22. Guest Post by Joan Rylen
  23. Guest Post by Adam Lawson
  24. Guest Post by Alistair McIntyre (with Kris Kramer and Patrick Underhill)
  25. Guest Post by Paul Draker
  26. Guest Post by Brianna Salera
  27. Guest Post by Hillary Rettig
  28. Guest Post by David Haywood Young
  29. My Collaboration Agreement
  30. I Have Seen the Enemy
  31. GRANDMA? by JA Konrath and Talon Konrath
  32. Guest Post by Kay Bratt
  33. Guest Post by Amy Padgett
  34. 8 Hour Ebook Challenge Winners
  35. Jack Daniels Franchise and the 8 Hour Ebook Challenge
  36. Guest Post by Tim Myers
  37. Patrice Fitzgerald Interviews Hugh Howey
  38. Guest Post by Larry A. Winters
  39. Guest Post by Mary Louisa Locke
  40. Guest Post by Paul Comstock
  41. Guest Post by Kevin Blackmore
  42. Guest Post by Mark Edward Hall
  43. Guest Post by Laura Nance
  44. Guest Post by Wayne Thomas Batson
  45. Guest Post by Alan Tucker
  46. Guest Post by Sabrina Chase
  47. Guest Post by Geraldine Evans
  48. Guest Post by Zander Marks
  49. Guest Post by Jeff Carlson
  50. Guest Post by Helen Smith
  51. Guest Post by Billie Hinton and Dawn Deanna Wilson
  52. Guest Post by Nikki M. Pill
  53. Guest Post by Richard Stooker
  54. Guest Post by Joe Flynn
  55. Guest Post by Chris Everheart
  56. Guest Post by Gary Ponzo
  57. Guest Post by Ian Kezsbom
  58. Guest Post by Constance Phillips and Jenna Rutland and Konrath's Early Years
  59. Guest Blog by Nick Spill
  60. Pacing by Ann Voss Peterson
  61. Guest Post by Richard Denoncourt
  62. Guest Post by Katherine Sears
  63. Guest Post by Brandilyn Collins
  64. Guest Post by Lisa Grace
  65. Guest Post by Jeff Schajer
  66. Guest Post by Mark Terry
  67. Guest Post by Kevin Hardman
  68. Guest Post by G.E. Nolly
  69. Guest Post by A.J. Abbiati
  70. Guest Post by Tracy Sharp
  71. Guest Post by Iain Rob Wright
  72. Guest Post by Douglas Dorow
  73. Guest Post by Mike Dennis
  74. Guest Post by Shantnu Tiwari
  75. Guest Post by Patrick Balester
  76. Three and Box Sets
  77. Guest Post by Todd Travis
  78. Guest Post by Carlos Cooper
  79. Guest Post by Dakota Madison
  80. Guest Post by Marcus Sakey
  81. Want to Guest Post on Konrath's Blog?
  82. Guest Post by Jude Hardin
  83. The Konrath/Kilborn Collective 99 Cent Sale
  84. Guest Post by Robert Swartwood
  85. Hit
  86. Haunted House
  87. Blood Moon and Having Control
  88. The Proteus Cure
  89. Konrath on Patterson
  90. Eisler on Digital Denial
  91. Konrath's Thank You 99 Cent Sale
  92. Fair Use
  93. Scott Turow And The Politics of Cowardice by Barry Eisler
  94. Dealing with Bad Reviews
  95. Cover Art
  96. Konrath Flip-Flops
  97. Obsolete Anonymous
  98. Joe Answers Your Questions
  99. Brett Battles Robert Gregory Browne
  100. Exclusivity
  101. The Harlequin Survey
  102. Backlist Then and Now
  103. Tie-Ins
  104. The Million Dollar Idea
  105. Doom! Destruction! Not...
  106. Ann Voss Peterson's Big Regret
  107. Hungry Dogs
  108. Ebook Parts
  109. Amazon Numbers
  110. How To Sell Ebooks
  111. Under New Management 2
  112. Under New Management
  113. Cover Art Blowout

2012 59

  1. Konrath's Resolutions For Writers
  2. Interview with Guy Kawasaki
  3. Amazon Removes Reviews
  4. Be Afraid
  5. E-books in Libraries: They Still Don't Get It
  6. Konrath Posts Fake Amazon Reviews!
  7. Konrath's Sales
  8. Interview with Marcus Sakey
  9. Get Over Yourselves
  10. Ethical Roulette
  11. Guest Post by Summer Daniels
  12. Writers' Code of Ethics
  13. Ebooks For Libraries
  14. Independence
  15. Harlequin Fail Revisit
  16. Fifty Shades of Alice in Wonderland
  17. Harlequin Fail Part 2
  18. Zero Sum
  19. 99 Cents
  20. Exclusivity and Free
  21. Audiobooks
  22. The Slippery Slope
  23. Guest Post by Jude Hardin
  24. JA Konrath vs. Stephen King
  25. Tone
  26. Joe's Letter to the DOJ
  27. Unconscionability
  28. Guest Post by Robert Gregory Browne
  29. Pricing Books and Ebooks
  30. Exploited Writers in an Unfair Industry
  31. Guest Post by Tom Schreck
  32. Agent Fail
  33. Simon Says
  34. AAR Fail
  35. Harlequin Fail
  36. The Agency Model Sucks
  37. What, Me Debate?
  38. I Take Everything Back
  39. Ebook Covers for $150
  40. Presumed Inane
  41. Barry, Joe, & Scott Turow
  42. And Now For Something Completely Different
  43. PayPal, Erotica, and Censorship
  44. Writing Matters
  45. Do Legacy Publishers Treat Authors Badly?
  46. Guest Post by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
  47. Amazon Will Destroy You
  48. The Big Kindle Boogie
  49. Franzen and the Ebook Bubble
  50. At Home with the Sixes
  51. Burners and Floaters
  52. The Myth of the Bestseller
  53. The Value of Publicity
  54. Self-Pubbed Author Beware
  55. Reality Check
  56. $100,000
  57. Interview with Editor Susan Tunis
  58. Interview with Jeff Strand
  59. New Blog and Updates

2011 121

  1. Interview with my cover artist Carl Graves
  2. Free
  3. The List, A Story of Rejection
  4. Konrath's Resolutions for Writers 2012
  5. Eisler & Konrath Vs. Hachette
  6. Guest Post by Elle Lothlorien
  7. STIRRED is now available
  8. Guest Post by Stephen Leather
  9. Guest Post by Robert Swartwood
  10. Book Country Fail
  11. Interview with F. Paul Wilson and Alan M. Clark
  12. Stirred
  13. Guest Post by David Gaughran
  14. Guest Post by Barry Eisler
  15. Guest Post by Lee Goldberg (and Konrath talks numbers)
  16. Guest Post by Selena Kitt
  17. Guest Post by Barry Eisler
  18. Guest Post by Blake Crouch
  19. Guest Post by Jeffrey J. Mariotte
  20. Guest Post by Adam Pepper
  21. Guest Post by Rob Siders of 52 Novels
  22. Hiatus Part Deux
  23. Hiatus
  24. Race to the Bottom Part 2
  25. Exposed - A Thriller Novella (Chandler Series) by J.A. Konrath & Ann Voss Peterson
  26. Drink the Kool-Aid
  27. Konrath's Ebook Predictions from 2009.
  28. Ebooks A La Carte
  29. Guest Post by Rick Mofina
  30. The Pie
  31. Dead Man Walking
  32. The Detachment by Barry Eisler
  33. Guest Post from Bella Andre (aka Lucy Kevin) (aka Bella Riley)
  34. Over
  35. Digital Me
  36. Not Caring
  37. How To Succeed
  38. The Race to the Bottom
  39. Who Wants Whom? - A Dialog Between J.A. Konrath & Blake Crouch About Who Has the Power in Publishing
  40. The End is Nigh
  41. What's Wrong With Sex?
  42. Guest Post from Simon Wood
  43. Same Tired Arguments
  44. Benefit to Help Author L.A. Banks
  45. Thinking Global
  46. Are You Writing?
  47. Be Deliberate
  48. One More Nail in the Coffin
  49. Ann Voss Peterson Interviews M.J. Rose
  50. The Tsunami of Crap
  51. Interview with Scott Doornbosch
  52. Attack of the Self-Publishing Memes! - A Guest Post by Barry Eisler
  53. Estributors Redux
  54. Interview with Catherine MacDonald from BookRooster.com
  55. Your Second Storefront
  56. JK Rowling Will Self-Pub Harry Potter Ebooks
  57. Ebook Sales Down?
  58. Notice to Appear
  59. MWA(BNSP) - Mystery Writers of America (But Not for the Self-Published)
  60. Guest Post by Raymond Benson
  61. Interview with James Rollins
  62. Indie Bookstores Boycott Konrath?
  63. Tech Talk and the Active Ebook
  64. Why You Won't Succeed
  65. Guest Post by Stephen Leather
  66. Guest Post by Scott Sigler
  67. What Works: Promo for Ebooks
  68. Konrath's New Stuff
  69. Guest Post by Diana Cox
  70. 276,112
  71. Are You Dense?
  72. Guest Post by Bob Mayer
  73. Guest Post by Brett Battles
  74. Guest Post by Ruth Jordan
  75. First Book
  76. Guest Post by Guido Henkel
  77. Guest Post by Blake Crouch
  78. Guest Post by Scott Nicholson
  79. Origin 99¢ ebook Charity Experiment
  80. Another Talk with Ann Voss Peterson
  81. Guest Post by Mark Coker, Creator of Smashwords
  82. Depression and Writers
  83. Interview With My Print Book Creator Cheryl Perez
  84. Another Update on The List Experiment
  85. The List Experiment Update
  86. LOL NYT
  87. 1846 and 1762
  88. Guest Post by Zoe Winters
  89. Guest Post by Selena Blake
  90. Guest Post by Ann Voss Peterson
  91. Guest Post by John Locke
  92. Ebooks Ain't A Bubble
  93. The List Experiment Update
  94. Monetizing Your Intellectual Property
  95. Guest Post by Jon F. Merz
  96. Guest Post by Blake Crouch
  97. The List Hits the Kindle Top 100
  98. Guest Post by Jeff Strand
  99. JA Konrath Interviews Barry Eisler
  100. The List Experiment Update
  101. Time Is Money
  102. Shaken
  103. KILLERS (Sequel to Serial) at the Cutting Edge of Collaboration
  104. The Numbers Game
  105. Guest Post by Victorine Lieske
  106. Guest Post by Guido Henkel
  107. The End of the Bestseller
  108. Guest Post by B.V. Larson
  109. Love is Murder
  110. Guest Post by Blake Crouch
  111. Guest Post by Sam Torode
  112. Guest Post by Terri Reid
  113. Time Investment
  114. Guest Post by Jeremy Robinson
  115. Guest Post by Lee Goldberg
  116. Guest Post by Aaron Patterson
  117. Guest Post by Selena Kitt Part 2
  118. Guest Post by H.P. Mallory
  119. Guest Post by Robin Sullivan
  120. A Response to Richard Curtis
  121. Guest Post by L.J. Sellers

2010 98

  1. The Death Spiral
  2. You Should Self-Publish
  3. A Bedtime Story
  4. Holiday Ebook Buying Guide
  5. Kindle Nation
  6. Resolutions for Writers 2011
  7. Interview with Robert W. Walker
  8. Guest Post by Selena Kitt
  9. The Bestseller Shift
  10. Konrath Self-Pubbed Sales
  11. Black Friday Sale
  12. Monetize It
  13. Guest Blogger James Swain
  14. With A Little Help
  15. Observations at #8
  16. It's Your Universe
  17. Shaken Breaks Top 100 Kindle Bestseller List
  18. Live Undead - Marketing Draculas
  19. Draculas Hits Top 100 Kindle Bestsellers
  20. Blake Crouch on Ebooks
  21. Can Ebooks Outsell Print?
  22. You Aren't J.A. Konrath
  23. The Acquisitions Editor
  24. Ebook Pricing
  25. Konrath Ebooks Sales Top 100k
  26. David Morrell on Ebooks
  27. Henry Perez on Ebooks
  28. Banana Hammock - A Harry McGlade Mystery
  29. DRACULAS Advance Reading Copies
  30. DRACULAS Teaser Chapters
  31. DRACULAS Q & A
  32. DRACULAS
  33. Scott Nicholson on the Never-Ending Book
  34. Journey of the Late Adopter
  35. On Beyond Ebooks
  36. Doers and Waiters
  37. Publishers Weakly
  38. Guest Post by Libby Fischer Hellmann
  39. The Changing Face of Publishing
  40. The Beginning of the End?
  41. The High Cost of Self Promotion
  42. Guest Blogger Stacey Cochran on “Sequels” and eBooks
  43. Ebook Predictions Redux
  44. Konrath on Wylie
  45. A Newbie's Guide to Publishing
  46. With Change Comes... Anger?
  47. Konrath Sells 1/10 of Patterson
  48. How To Make Money on Ebooks
  49. The Difference Between Sales and Fans
  50. Celebrate Good Times
  51. Interview with Barry Eisler
  52. Konrath Kindle Stats
  53. JA Konrath Releases Two Original Kindle Thrillers
  54. Kindle Nation Daily: J.A. Konrath, King of the Kindlesphere, Gives Big Publishers a Rejection Slip with "Endurance" and "Trapped"
  55. A Brave New World
  56. The Time Is Now
  57. A Writer's Serenity Prayer
  58. Steal This Ebook
  59. Platform, Shmatform
  60. J.A. Konrath's Thriller Ebook "The List" sells 16,000 Copies on Kindle
  61. Publishers Weekly Epic Fail
  62. DRM Free
  63. Piracy... Again
  64. Kindle Teaser Chapters for Shaken by JA Konrath
  65. Shaken by JA Konrath Press Release
  66. Top Ebook Questions
  67. The Ark by Boyd Morrison
  68. Flash Mobbing with Scott Nicholson
  69. Is Print Almost Dead?
  70. And They Say That A Hero Will Save Us
  71. The Newbie's Guide to Publishing Book
  72. How To Format For Kindle
  73. Interview with Karen McQuestion
  74. You Can Become A Kindle Millionaire Part 17
  75. Print is Eternal
  76. Looking at Kindle Bestsellers
  77. Guest Post by Wendy Webb
  78. Is Print a Subsidiary Right?
  79. Publishers + Ebooks = Epic Fail
  80. Guest Post by Mark Terry
  81. March Kindle Sales Top $4200 and 5850 Ebooks
  82. A Writer Looks At 40
  83. Am I Good Enough to Epublish?
  84. Status Quo Vadis?
  85. SERIAL UNCUT
  86. The Value of Ebooks
  87. Whoa There, Ebook Writer
  88. JA Konrath Kindle Sales: 30k Ebooks In 11 Months
  89. Shelf Space and Paper Trails
  90. Understanding Kindle Bestsellers
  91. Kudzu and Kindle
  92. You Can Pry My Ebooks From My Cold, Dead Fingers
  93. You Can Pry My Paper Books From My Cold, Dead Fingers
  94. Digital Perception
  95. Selling Paper
  96. Booty Call
  97. Good Things
  98. Luck You

2009 99

  1. What I Know
  2. Resolutions for Writers 2010
  3. Promotion, Social Networks, and Going Viral
  4. Email Answers
  5. JA Konrath's 2010 Ebook Predictions
  6. Guest Blogger: Simon Wood
  7. You, Artist
  8. Enter the Nook
  9. E-Volution
  10. Lolly, Lolly, Lolly Get Your iTunes Apps Here
  11. In Defense of Print
  12. Estributors
  13. The Game
  14. Kindle Numbers: Traditional Publishing Vs. Self Publishing
  15. Working With a Publicist by Rebecca York
  16. That About Covers It
  17. Stealing The Future
  18. The Great Ebook Experiment Part 2
  19. The Great Ebook Experiment
  20. Stanza and the Future of Ebooks
  21. Keeping Up
  22. Hint Fiction Anthology Open Submissions
  23. JA Konrath Tweets
  24. If It Gets Made, Someone Will Like It
  25. The End of The Critic
  26. Get Better, Not Bitter
  27. Brain Donors
  28. Cherry Bomb by JA Konrath
  29. Truck Stop by Jack Kilborn & J.A. Konrath
  30. How Not To Write A Story
  31. Are You There, Amazon? It's Me, JA
  32. Should You Self-Publish?
  33. Should E-Books Be Cheap?
  34. Amazon Kindle Numbers
  35. Ten Questions
  36. JA Konrath/Jack Kilborn Newsletter
  37. Helping Each Other
  38. More on the Amazon Kindle
  39. Advice For Professional Writers
  40. Ebooks and Free Books and Amazon Kindle, Oh My
  41. Kilborn 200 Tour Wrap Up
  42. SERIAL by Blake Crouch and Jack Kilborn
  43. Afraid Tour Day 17
  44. Library Events
  45. Afraid Tour Day 13
  46. Afraid Tour Day 10
  47. Marshall Karp Interview
  48. Afraid Tour Part 2
  49. The Jack Kilborn 200
  50. Jeff Strand Interview
  51. Alison Kent Interview and Contest
  52. The Kilborn 200: Touring For Afraid
  53. Books For Ads
  54. Obsession, Reviews, and the Afraid Tour
  55. Ebook Blowout: Amazon Kindle Free Downloads
  56. Where's...Enough Already! Blog Tour Recap
  57. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #31 Finale
  58. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #30
  59. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #29
  60. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #28
  61. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #27
  62. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #26
  63. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #25
  64. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #24
  65. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #23
  66. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #22
  67. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #21
  68. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #20
  69. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #19
  70. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #18
  71. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #17
  72. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #16
  73. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #15
  74. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #14
  75. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #13
  76. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #12
  77. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #11
  78. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #10
  79. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #9
  80. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #8
  81. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #7
  82. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #6
  83. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #5
  84. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #4
  85. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #3
  86. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #2
  87. Where's Konrath? Blog Tour Day #1
  88. Where's Konrath? Blog Touring
  89. Newsletter #9
  90. Confident or Delusional?
  91. Tequila for Sheila
  92. I'm Better Than You
  93. Con Etiquette
  94. Your Tack Hammer
  95. The Writer As Spendthrift
  96. How To Get Published
  97. Hail, Caesar
  98. Becoming Cyber-Effective
  99. Control Freak

2008 56

  1. Resolutions For Writers 2009
  2. Writing: The Temporary Career
  3. Just Plotting Along
  4. Discipline
  5. Top Ten Reasons Books Are Better Than Sex
  6. Everyone's A Critic
  7. Back Up!
  8. Contest and Stuff
  9. Needy
  10. Conference Culture
  11. Investment
  12. Artistic Anguish
  13. Casting Your Net
  14. No Dues is Good Dues
  15. The Myth Of The Good Book
  16. Interview with Jason Starr, author of The Max
  17. Flashy 24
  18. Brain-Check
  19. Fix Your Billboard
  20. Revamping Your Website
  21. JA Konrath Message Board
  22. More On Net Promotion
  23. Sidebar Mania
  24. Fuzzy Navel Book Trailer
  25. Widget Alert
  26. Validate My Parking
  27. Now Somebody Scream
  28. Bending Over and Taking Advice
  29. How Not To Start A Story
  30. The Newbie's Guide To Publishing Book
  31. Success = Pwned
  32. Summer 2008 Newsletter
  33. Speak To Me
  34. Stealing
  35. Risky Business
  36. Reviewing Reviews
  37. Contests
  38. Uncertainty
  39. Peers and the Healthy Writer
  40. Why I Self-Promote
  41. For Those About To Give Up...
  42. Writing Organizations: Should I?
  43. Free Books For Fans
  44. MONEY With A Capital M-O-N-E-Y
  45. Your Daily Inspiration Booster Shot
  46. Dealing With Discouragement
  47. Bad Promotion Techniques
  48. Write A Good Story
  49. The Best Promotional Bang For Your Buck
  50. The Short Of It
  51. Inform and Entertain
  52. Let's Hear It For Podcasts
  53. Heels
  54. Escaping The Vacuum
  55. Who Knows You?
  56. Bad Stories

2007 59

  1. New Year's Resolutions Part 3
  2. As The Publishing World Turns: An Advertising Idea
  3. Blog Post Number 300: Your Goals
  4. NaNoWriMo Day 25 - On Goals
  5. NaNoWriMo Day 19 - On Crap
  6. NaNoWriMo Day 13 - On Speed
  7. NaNoWriMo Day 6 - On Plotting
  8. NaNoWriMo
  9. The Art of the Soft Sell
  10. Charging
  11. Keeping Up
  12. Milestones
  13. That About Covers It Part 2
  14. That About Covers It Part 1
  15. The Top Ten Signs You're Spending Too Much Time Online
  16. Looking at POD
  17. Ants and Grasshoppers
  18. What Works?
  19. Pride
  20. Writing Myths
  21. Firestarter
  22. More on Drop-Ins
  23. Newsletter #7
  24. The Follow-Up
  25. DeceptiKonrath
  26. Have a Dirty Martini
  27. Negotiating Contracts
  28. Backlistics
  29. A Fistful of Blurbs
  30. Losing Touch
  31. Submission
  32. I Talk, You Pay
  33. More Green Eyed Monsters
  34. The Harder They Come: Writing Woes
  35. Review Redux
  36. Faking Confidence
  37. Happiness and the Writer
  38. Your Game Face
  39. More on Ebooks
  40. Future What Ifs
  41. Momentum
  42. Booklaunch Party!
  43. One Book at a Time Part 2
  44. First Three Weeks
  45. One Book at a Time Part 1
  46. Vacation Time
  47. Buzz, Balls, and Advertising
  48. Unreproduceable Phenomenon
  49. Internet Real Estate
  50. Welcome to Vent Club
  51. It's Viral
  52. Attention All Booksellers!
  53. My Speech at Google
  54. Communication
  55. INDEX
  56. Self Image
  57. Blogging Isn't Temporary
  58. Storm Front
  59. Crush Your Hope

2006 148

  1. New Year's Resolutions Part 2
  2. Rant Against Advertising Part 3
  3. Thanks, Graham!
  4. Rant Against Advertising Part 2
  5. Rant Against Advertising
  6. MySpace Redux
  7. How Good Am I?
  8. Pimping
  9. Reader Expectations
  10. Formula 209
  11. Neurotic Author Moment
  12. Ebooks!
  13. Haters
  14. Library Events 101
  15. Thanksgiving for Writers
  16. Your Daily Motivational
  17. Distractions
  18. How the Hell Am I Doing?!?
  19. Internet Stuff
  20. The Rusty Nail 600
  21. Why Do You Do What You Do?
  22. How to Handle Success (Everyone Else's)
  23. Perpetual Touring
  24. Community and Commitment
  25. Treading Water
  26. Publishing Myths
  27. Royalties
  28. Odds and Ends
  29. The New Zoo Review
  30. Conferences
  31. Conference Tips
  32. Support the Infrastructure
  33. This is Your Career Wake Up Call
  34. The Five Habits of Highly Neurotic Authors
  35. Time to Make Time
  36. Worry By Numbers
  37. Books for Troops
  38. Driving Traffic
  39. Peerfest
  40. JA Konrath Saves Publishing
  41. The Great Bookstore Experiment
  42. Do Something
  43. Tour Day 52, 53, 54, and 55
  44. Tour Day 49, 50, and 51
  45. Tour Day 44, 45, 46, 47, and 48
  46. Tour Day 41, 42, and 43
  47. Tour Day 36, 37, 38, 39, and 40
  48. Tour Day 33, 34, and 35
  49. Tour Day 30, 31, and 32
  50. Hero Worship and Money
  51. Tour Day 28 and 29
  52. Tour Day 26 and 27
  53. Tour Day 23, 24, 25
  54. Tour Day 20, 21, and 22
  55. Tour Day 18 and 19
  56. Tour Day 16 and 17
  57. Tour Day 15
  58. Tour Day 14
  59. Tour Day 10, 11, 12, and 13
  60. Internet Happenings
  61. Tour Day 8 and 9
  62. Tour Day 5, 6, and 7
  63. Tour Day 4
  64. The Tour: Day 1, 2, and 3
  65. Rusty Nail 500 Tour Info
  66. Booksignings: Everything you Need to Know
  67. Responsible Blogging
  68. To Be a NYT Bestseller
  69. Rusty Nail, Street Dates, Jacket Copy & Book Covers
  70. Remainders
  71. Press Releases
  72. Business Cards and Computer Savvy
  73. Newsletter #6
  74. Create-A-Story
  75. Interviewing 101
  76. Ads
  77. Work Ethics
  78. Weaknesses
  79. Today's Motivational
  80. Tess Gerritsen's Blog
  81. Copycatting
  82. A Discouraging Word
  83. 2006 Genny Award Winner!
  84. Promotion: A Biased Account of Cost vs. Benefit
  85. Whose Space? My Space!
  86. Theme
  87. Villainy
  88. Another Link in the Chain
  89. So You Wanna Write About Handguns
  90. Chat with JA Tonight
  91. 3... 2... 1... Contacts
  92. Excuses, Excuses
  93. Holy Sense of Entitlement, Batman!
  94. Self-Promote or Die
  95. Writing Full Time: The Good and the Bad
  96. Property Values and Writing
  97. Damning You With Praise
  98. Humor Me
  99. Barry Eisler Naked!
  100. The Elements of Dialog
  101. Am I Evil? Yes I Am.
  102. The Importance of Being You
  103. Submit to Submission
  104. True Grit Quiz
  105. Being Edited
  106. Blogging 201
  107. Talent and Craft, Luck and Persistence
  108. For the Children (and the Adults)
  109. Twelve Things Writers Won't Ever Admit To
  110. Money Money Money
  111. Parlez vous French?
  112. What Makes a Good Blog
  113. Wine Me, Dine Me, 69 Me
  114. A Newbie's Guide to Writing Conferences
  115. Conventions, Panels, & You
  116. Liability and Responsibility
  117. Outlines, Writer's Block, and Motivation
  118. 35 Days
  119. Relax, Don't Do It
  120. Deadlines
  121. Why
  122. Jim Crow Publishing
  123. Your Own Personal Censor
  124. Future Tactics
  125. Talking 'Bout Your Reputation
  126. The Secret World of Blurbing
  127. Potential
  128. Writers, Start Your Sales Pitch
  129. Are Awards Their Own Reward?
  130. Love is Murder in Chicago
  131. The "Are You a Hack?" Quiz!
  132. Goals
  133. Ask but don't Answer
  134. Thinking POD? Think Again....
  135. Be the Bra
  136. Get Your Hands on my Shorts
  137. Hope is a Four Letter Word
  138. Down in the Infodumps
  139. Writer's Block
  140. The Best Kind of Marketing
  141. On Blogging
  142. Driving Miss SASE
  143. Intangibles
  144. More Intimidation
  145. Four Countries
  146. Important Stuff: Disregard at Your Peril
  147. Is Blogging Incestuous?
  148. Get Off Your Ass and Do Something

2005 88

  1. Mantra for '06
  2. No Vacation for You
  3. When Did You Know?
  4. Short Story and Audiobook Contest Winners
  5. E-Book vs Paper: Which Will Win?
  6. New Years Resolutions for Writers
  7. The Truth About Publishers
  8. Massive Website Update
  9. Super Holiday Super Contest
  10. Quitting
  11. Stacking Numbers
  12. Size Does Matter
  13. Have a Safe and Secure Holiday Season
  14. Creating Dynamic Characters
  15. Avoiding Plodding Plotting
  16. On Beyond Google
  17. Library Redux
  18. Fair Use
  19. Eggs in Baskets and Hatched Chickens
  20. Amazonymous
  21. Everyone is the hero in their own movie
  22. First Lines
  23. Cleaning House
  24. Conference Culture
  25. What I've Learned So Far
  26. Writing Scams
  27. At What Point Success?
  28. Cinderella Boy
  29. Calling the Guinness Folks...
  30. Sandy Tooley Part Deux
  31. The Stuff They Don't Teach You
  32. "Self-Publish" Isn't Always a Bad Word
  33. Still Life with Hate Mail
  34. A Word From My Better Half
  35. Not Enough Time in the Day
  36. Libraries #2
  37. Libraries
  38. Long Weekend
  39. Final Thoughts
  40. How Much is Too Much?
  41. Conference Checklist
  42. Trekking the Amazon
  43. David Morrell Part Deux: The Publicist Speaks
  44. David Morrell on Book Marketing and Publicity
  45. Radio Daze
  46. A Face Made for Radio
  47. Drinks are on Ed
  48. You Have the Rights to Remain in Print
  49. Buzz, Balls, and Self-Promotion
  50. Jack Until '09
  51. Back From Vacation... Sort Of
  52. Day #11--Last Day of Book Tour
  53. Day #10
  54. Day #9
  55. Day #8
  56. Day #7
  57. Day #6
  58. Day #5
  59. Day #4
  60. Day #3
  61. Day #2
  62. Day #1
  63. Tourage
  64. Damnazon.com
  65. The 24 Hour Advertisement
  66. Celebrating Alcohol
  67. To the Pros
  68. Positively Positive
  69. A Face Made for Radio
  70. I'm Certain that I'm Uncertain
  71. Self-Doubting Thomas
  72. The Ups and Downs of USPS
  73. With a Little Help from My Friends
  74. Booklaunch Party June 18
  75. And the Hits Keep Coming...
  76. A Weekend in the Life
  77. Of Dark and Stormy Nights
  78. An Award Nomination is its Own Reward
  79. Bea
  80. Newsletter Blues
  81. Distribution
  82. Views on Reviews
  83. Judging a Book by its Cover
  84. The value of self-promotion
  85. About Publishers
  86. Amazon.com
  87. Website Relaunch
  88. Who am I and why should you care?