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August 10, 2012
The Origin of Polar Twilight (aka Where did I get the idea for my newest play?)
Writing (Photo credit: jjpacres)
After Three Oranges was published in the spring of last year, I started brainstorming ideas for other plays. Don’t get me wrong, I had three other plays in progress before the Playscripts version of Three Oranges went to print but none of them would appeal to that same high school demographic Oranges seems to be such a perpetual hit with. Two of the plays are adult dramas and the third, while it could well end up being teen friendly, is very experimental in nat...
August 5, 2012
Meanwhile, on my other blogs… August 5, 2012
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E-Commerce & Social Networking Week in Review August 4, 2012
Straight from the source, here’s what happened in the world of e-commerce, social networking and selling online in the past week: How November Will Be Won: By the Numbers Did you know that 1/3 of people who see a campaign ad on YouTube have not seen it on TV? We recently shared this on our [...]
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August 4, 2012
A quote from The Love of Three Oranges has gone somewhat viral and I feel weird about it
There’s this weird spam-bot like Twitter account called AdvisorIsIn that just tweets the same messages over and over again (it seems like about once every two days or so it repeats its cycle). I’ve tried writing to “Eve” multiple times but it seems that there is no human behind the account.
What does anyone gain from the account? I sure as heck don’t know. I guess it was set up as some kind of auto-promotion for the website it links to.
That said, the reason I care at all is that one of the twe...
July 29, 2012
Meanwhile, on my other blogs… July 29, 2012
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E-Commerce & Social Networking Week in Review July 28, 2012
Straight from the source, here’s what happened in the world of e-commerce, social networking and selling online in the past week: Top Web Resources for Writers (Part 1) There’s a reason why the Internet was called the “information superhighway” in the 1990s. Although the term itself is somewhat out of date, the significance is no...
July 23, 2012
My new play, Polar Twilight, available now through Playscripts, Inc
Polar Twilight is now officially published through Playscripts, Inc! You can now read a preview, purchase scripts, teaching/directing binders, and rights to perform it all on the show page here. You can grab a copy and start setting up a production of the show right now if you want. It was officially published on July 17th which is fun because that’s my parent’s wedding anniversary.
And, frankly, I’m astonished at how fast this all happened. To give you a little insight to what happened behind...
July 22, 2012
Meanwhile, on my other blogs… July 22, 2012
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E-Commerce & Social Networking Week in Review July 21, 2012
Straight from the source, here’s what happened in the world of e-commerce, social networking and selling online in the past week: Help Desk Hangouts: SEO Webmaster Academy Editor’s note: Each week on the Google+ Your Business page, we’re putting you in touch with Googlers and users who can help you as a business owner get [...]
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July 21, 2012
Polar Twilight now listed on Goodreads
Just a quick note to let you know that the listing for my newest play, Polar Twilight, recently went live on Goodreads. The page isn’t very exciting at the moment but if you’d be willing to add it to your shelves, I would greatly appreciate it. The more shelves the book is on, the greater its “footprint” when people search for it and the more it helps to get it out there.
I’d love to be able to do a giveaway through First Reads but, frustratingly, they only allow books with ISBNs in that progr...
July 15, 2012
Meanwhile, on my other blogs… July 15, 2012
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E-Commerce & Social Networking Week in Review July 14, 2012
Straight from the source, here’s what happened in the world of e-commerce, social networking and selling online in the past week: Multi-Channel Selling – Is It For You? Multichannel selling has become a popular “buzzword” around the internet – so let’s start by defining our term. When you ell product on a website, that is [...]
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July 9, 2012
Everyone can read my new play, Polar Twilight, in its entirety, for free for a limited time
Since it will likely be a long time before Polar Twilight is available in print through Playscripts, I wanted to at least be able to give you a chance to read it in the meantime.
See, I’m in a strange position with Polar Twilight. The rights have alreadytransferredto Playscripts and they control all performance permissions (which you can secure here). But, until their official acting edition is available, I still need to be able to fill any orders for printed scripts myself. Rather than sketch...
July 8, 2012
Meanwhile, on my other blogs… July 8, 2012
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Fifty Shades of Grey: Let’s talk about the S&M elephant in the room…
I want to talk about Fifty Shades of Grey, the originally self-published romance novel that started as Twilight fan fiction with elements of S&M and bondage that has been ruling the bestseller lists for weeks. I don’t feel like anything that can sell that many copies without those of us that sell for a living [...]
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