This is a short series, The Twenty-First Century Reader’s Manifesto, where I will share what I see as the essential strategies and tactics a reader (you and me) should use to maximize their reading experience here in the twenty-first century. For links to previous posts, and the rest of the series as it is published, […]
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This is a start of a short series, The Twenty-First Century Reader’s Manifesto, where I will share what I see as the essential strategies and tactics a reader (you and me) should use to maximize their reading experience here in the twenty-first century. About ten years ago, an English writer, Michael Allen, wrote an essay
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Have you noticed that some or <gulp> most of your reviews are being deleted by Amazon, lately? Yeah, it’s a big club. Some history. First, a bit of history about Amazon reviews, so you can understand why Amazon are doing what they’re doing. Amazon have always had a “review policy” that determined what was an
The creative process involves risk. An author risks themselves and their ego every time they put a story out for readers to read and judge. Authors also have to experiment in order to try new processes, new story ideas, new ways of showing character, and more, or their stories stagnate and grow stale. With each
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Each of these books is only $1.99, but only for a few more hours. The Branded Rose Prophecy, all 600 pages of it, is $2.99, a 60% discount, but only until midnight. Click here to buy.
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I had a whole other post lined up for today, but it didn’t happen for a number of reasons (long story … isn’t it always a long story, have you noticed?) Anyway, over the next few months, I will be having a lot of guest authors on the blog, just to break up the sound
For those of you who like to tap the vast public domain resources of Project Gutenberg, this item from their latest newsletter may be of interest. __ The Trans-Pacific Partnership or TPP is a secretive effort of nations to agree on a variety of social and economic mechanisms to facilitate commerce. The TPP negotiations were
All Romance eBooks is launching a mobile app and to celebrate, they’re offering 50% rebates on all their titles…for today only. Even if you read using a Kindle or Nook, or the Kobo, you can still take advantage of this offer. I’ll explain below. But here’s the dirt: ___ The All Romance Reader Android App
Discount Romance Books – 1 Day Only (today, in case you’re wondering). Read More »
More fiction! I think I’ve read more fiction in the last three months than I have for the whole year before that. Steel World B.V. Larson Link Space Opera! And a military hero that goes through a huge learning curve. This isn’t a romance, but it is filled with heroes and other worlds. Fun stuff.
Kobo is like the little engine that could. It’s a Canadian-based globally-distributed ebook retailer that provides all the same services as the big guys, and often does it better. If you are unhappy with any aspect of shopping at the other retailers, you might want to give Kobo a try. Here’s four reasons why Kobo
An Alternative to Barnes & Noble, Amazon and iTunes. Read More »