I’m reading only two books at the moment. It’s kinda scary. My reading time has been chopped down to next to nothing because I’m writing and releasing so many books. I think I’m squeezing in maybe five minutes a day, and I fight to do that much. But I’ve been bitten by a fiction book […]
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Given the turmoil of my personal life right now, what is sitting on my various reading devices shouldn’t come as a huge surprise. Well, some of it might. I’m flipping between titles on Kindle at the moment. The one I’m most dying to sink my teeth into is Drinking With Dead Women Writers by Elaine
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Goodies I’ve found from chatting and cruising this week: Interesting Sites 350 Pixel Perfect Icons – perfect for just about anything you can think of. And they’re free. Still Broken – Seth Goden’s Squidoo Lens about shit that just doesn’t work — like signs on fences saying don’t hang signs on fences… The Story
This post was going to be about how the US Secret Service formed on June 4, waaaay back in 1778, which impressed the hell out of me. The idea that a country that was still forming, when the British and French were still firing flintlocks and muskets at each other, military strategy was advanced enough
Is bigger really better? Or is it all in how that short length is used? Five years ago, the most popular sized book being bought at Ellora’s Cave was the quickie – short stories under 10K words that sold for less than $4. They sold by the bushel. Ellora’s Cave is a lot of things,
Goodies I’ve found from chatting and cruising this week: Interesting Sites James Bond: Rare and Unpublished Photos From Auditions for ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’ LIFE Magazine. This is fascinating. James Bond(s) as you’ve never seen them. Indie Authors Historical romance author Jennifer Blake is now self-publishing. Various Romance genres. Carolyn McCray – and you
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Goodies I’ve found from chatting and cruising this week: Interesting Posts/Articles Thirty-Two Shades of Green!!! Erotic Romance writer Sahara Kelly’s reaction to Fifty Shades of Grey My Kitchen “Miracle” Cleaner! For all the frugalists out there. Top 1,000 Romance Novels of All Time Interesting in an intellectual way only. I lost faith in the list
In the swirling whirliegig that is publishing, these days, indie authors and indie publishing is the newly-emerging cottage industry…or is it the way of things to come? I get to wrap up Indie Author month at Vampire Romance Books with an overview of Indie Publishing today. Have your say. After all, indie publishing is an
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Goodies I’ve found from chatting and cruising this week: Interesting Posts/Articles The changing definition of e-publishing A long essay about some startling developments in the book world lately. Lawrence Kasdan Goes Indie The Other Side of Piracy Another perspective on ebook piracy. Very interesting. What I Just Learned From A Room Full of Romance
For the longest time I have been using FBReader on my cellphone to read ePub formatted ebooks. It was a fallback app I grabbed quickly when my Sony eReader died a couple of years ago, and I needed something to access all the books I’d had on the Sony. The last laugh was on me:
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