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Late August Update

Hello everyone in the blogosphere. If you haven’t had an opportunity to meet me, I’m Frank F. Domovoi, assistant to the author. If you’ve written the author chances are you’ve gotten a response from me first. Since Ms. Connolly doesn’t have time to give an update on the blog, I thought I would give everyone a heads-up as to what is going on.

Keys of Ocat

Keys of Ocat was sent to the publisher at Nephilim Press at the beginning of the month. Since then the publisher has announced that there will...

If A Certain Writer Had Been Infertile….(Maybe she wouldn’t have written such drivel.)

I was recently directed toward an editorial from a friend’s post on FB. An author named Amanda Craig decided to criticize famous women writers who were childless. This criticism included the late Maeve Binchy merely days after Binchy’s death.

Evidently, according to Craig, women authors who don’t have children have the emotional intelligence of, well, a man. She contends their writing lacks the emotional depth compared to that of a mother. It seems, in her opinion, that mothers are the only on...

The Myth of Perfection (The Pedantic Writer)

When I met Kaylyn* I had no idea she was a writer.

She was one of those people who had a precise, perhaps overly anal retentive vocabulary, and who used so many three to four syllable words in a sentence that the meaning was almost lost in how pretentious she sounded.

However, I tend to be forgiving of faults and I figured she was just trying to impress me. I also tend toward tolerance for highlyintellectualpeople, even when their smug superiority annoys the piss out of everyone else. We’re all...

All of the Beautiful Horses

I was four-years-old when I fell in love with books. I have fond memories of my parents reading to me and me reading to them. I was sitting on the couch with a book the day my older brother and his friend started the field across the street on fire. When I had to change schools in third grade, it was books that were my constant companions and friends. By age eight I was reading the likes of Piers Anthony and Walter Farley. By age nine I had already penned a series of stories about horses. At...

S. Connolly on Deeper Down The Rabbit Hole

Tune in on Tuesday, July 24 at 8PM EST to Deeper Down the Rabbit Hole and listen to S. Connolly talk about Daemons and Magick with Andrieh Vitimus and Jason Colwell. This is a rare opportunity. Ms. Connolly rarely does shows like this. If you can’t make it for the live airing, you can listen to the show from the website above, or check it out on iTunes within a week (or thereabouts) of it being aired.

Don’t Feed the Trolls

I wrote this post after finding out my troll was posting shit about Kasdeya all over the web within a lovely review of Mark Allen Smith’s Queen of Hell. It’s sad such a lovely review was marred by a troll’s useless and fabricated “critical discourse”. Mr. Smith basically asked me not to post comments refuting my troll on his blog (since I wasn’t refuting the review itself), which I respected. Instead – I refuted the troll over on demonolatry.org.

So today I want to talk about feeding trolls.

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New Assistant!

I’d like to make an announcement since it does apply to this blog. I have gotten myself a personal assistant. His name is Frank Domovoi. Those of you who know of demonolatry.org will recognize the name because Frank Domovoi is the guy who usually runs things over there. Now that he’s back from his hiatus, he has offered to help me out with the overwhelming amount of email, instant messages, and general distractions that I face day to day as an author. I have accepted Frank’s help for many rea...

The Art of iEverything…

So I decided to take the plunge and put my books on iTunes. After all, my friend Bernadette Marie has had wonderful sales numbers on iTunes. It can never hurt a writer to get more exposure and have their books available from all of the popular distribution outlets.

With high hopes I signed up to become a publisher on iTunes. All was going well until I signed up only to discover that in order to directly upload anything to iTunes, all books needed ISBNs and you needed a Mac. As an independent p...

Things Worth Doing

Things worth doing are worth doing right.

This is something a lot of us probably remember our parents or grandparents telling us when we were growing up. Becoming good at something takes time. It takes practice.

Skills for seeing (i.e. divination) are no different. Earlier this week I was approached by a client who was very impressed with my talents. She told me she wanted to learn to speak with the Daemonic Divine like I did. I told her to calm her mind and listen. I also suggested she practic...

Thoughts on Forty

Today is June 26, 2012. Forty years ago, at around 7:22 am, I came into this world.

You know, back when I turned thirty I hoped that I would be respected by others and treated like an intelligent adult. When I was thirty-five I expected the same thing. Now I’ve just realized that no matter how old you are – respect is still earned and someone out there is always going to call you “kid” or talk down to you as if you’re some fucked-up teenager who doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground....