Julie Kenner's Blog, page 119

Great conference weekend…and some awesome writing tips (and an opportunity) to share!

I spent much of the weekend at events, first as the keynote speaker at the annual Irving Club Tea in Lockhart, and then as the keynote speaker at the Tarrant County College's Writing's A Snap Conference.

Both were great fun, and I couldn't have felt more welcome (as in, people were incredibly nice, laughed at my talk–at appropriate moments–and bought books.  Can't beat that!).

Between the two events, I listened to some classes on CD from screenwriter William Martell, and folks, let me tell...

Have you met Simon's Cat?

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Reviewing the Purrfect Pitch iPhone app over at my J.K. Beck blog!

Glenn/Mercury anniversary

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Today in 1962, John Glenn, Jr. became the first American to orbit the earth.

read more at J.K. Beck.

Bragging on Jessica Scott…

…over at J.K. Beck.  Go check it out and see what Jess is up to.  It's cool!

via J.K. Beck.

No bikini, but I'm a cover girl!

Thanks to Affaire de Coeur for making me the January/February author of the month, and for putting together such an awesome issue. (And you can subscribe online and download the issue!)

The article talks about the Blood Lily Chronicles (TAINTED, TORN & TURNED) and me in general. Check it out!

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iPhone Blogpress App

I'm lazing here on the couch watching the kids play Battleship with their dad, and I thought-"hey, great opp for a review–on the run blogging!"

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I like this app. It's handy and easy. You're not going to be doing an HTML heavy entry from it, but would you really want to?

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Upsides- ease of use-you just start typing, and photos embed where you tell them to. It lets you set up lots and lots of blogs, which is cool, and you can post simultaneously to multiple blogs. I'm doing that now with...

Confessions of an App-oholic

My name is J.K., and I'm an iPhone App-oholic.

Seriously. It's rather scary, though less expensive than being a Desktop App-oholic. (So many apps are free, free, free!)

But rather than let some of my fun, productive, useful and, yes, crappy-ass Apps simply sit on my phone doing their little app things, I thought I should review them. And so the All About Apps category is going to be a regular feature of the blog (you gotta love regular features–it takes away that "what the HECK should I write...

Lego Ergo Sum

LEGO building blocks are, truly, some of the coolest toys out there. Now, I don't qualify as a major geek I can't write machine code, and I don't own a Wii, but I definitely appreciate the several stories tall Lego creations that you can find in cool places like the Times Square Toys R Us and the LEGO store at Disneyland.

via J.K. Beck.

Piracy–Just Say No

I recently signed up for Google Alerts, and let me tell you…talk about an education.  I knew my books were appearing on Torrent sites (because I send a never ending stream of "you're violating my copyright, please take this down" emails), but I had no idea how MANY torrent sites until I signed up (which is weird because, like 99.9% of authors out there, late at night when the manuscript is going slowly, I'll Google my name, just to see what's out there, and I would only rarely find these...

Come meet J.K. Beck!

[image error]Hey! My alter ego website is live! There's information about my upcoming Shadow Keeper series–including awesome advance quotes and the back cover copy of the first two books, a link to join the mailing list, a link to enter a contest to win a Kindle and an ARC, and lots more. Plus a blog with fun features like The (mostly) Daily Factoid, The Cocktail Hour, and other fun stuff.

I hope you check it out!