Movies

Not, I am afraid, movies of the book, but movies of me speaking about the book at the Kimono Wine Bar event on October 19, 2009. Voices off are the audience, some of whom are published authors themselves. Sorry about the “squashed” aspect ratio. Don’t know quite how that happened.

About Beneath Gray Skies

The first clip is me talking about how the book came to be.

Being an author in Japan

Now I go on a bit about how being an author in Japan has its problems:

Working with an agent

I did get an agent, but even when you’re in the biz, it’s tricky to sell outside Japan.

Independent publishing

I go on at some length as to why independent publishing is the future for fiction writers.

Lulu

I went with a self-publishing operation called Lulu. Here’s how it works:

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