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March 16, 2012
Do you love Victor Bayne?
If Vic has a place in your heart, don't let the poor guy get knocked out of DABWAHA in the very first round! Voting is easy, I promise! Just hit the GhosTV button and click "enter."
Voting closes at noon CST.
Voting closes at noon CST.
March 15, 2012
Dreams...weird...
This is the second time today my dream has popped back into my consciousness...
I was fighting off zombies with broken off pool-cues, jamming them through the skulls. And I was about 12 years old, thinking, shouldn't the grownups be dealing with this? How has it come down to me?
And the zombies could walk/talk like normal so it was like a split-second decision: person, or zombie.
I was fighting off zombies with broken off pool-cues, jamming them through the skulls. And I was about 12 years old, thinking, shouldn't the grownups be dealing with this? How has it come down to me?
And the zombies could walk/talk like normal so it was like a split-second decision: person, or zombie.
Hopping the Pond - JCP News issue 51
It's a new issue, and a new look. This layout should read more cleanly in a variety of email programs. So what about the important part...the content?
-Hopping the Pond
-The Starving Years in Ebook
-PsyCop goes to school
-A Victor Bayne puzzle freebie
-Ebook Winners
Read the newsletter at my website if you prefer not to subscribe!
-Hopping the Pond
-The Starving Years in Ebook
-PsyCop goes to school
-A Victor Bayne puzzle freebie
-Ebook Winners
Read the newsletter at my website if you prefer not to subscribe!
Wholesale vs. Agency
Here's an interesting article about ebook pricing that explains the wholesale model vs. the agency model very well.
Personally, I went "woo hoo!" back when Amazon went agency a couple years ago, because it meant I received more royalty for each book sold. I'm not sure how potential changes on the horizon will affect little fish in the publishing ocean like JCP Books.
http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2012/03/why-dojs-potential-lawsuit-over-agency.html
Personally, I went "woo hoo!" back when Amazon went agency a couple years ago, because it meant I received more royalty for each book sold. I'm not sure how potential changes on the horizon will affect little fish in the publishing ocean like JCP Books.
http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2012/03/why-dojs-potential-lawsuit-over-agency.html
March 14, 2012
Catproof
Here's Puff Man posing with the proof copy of The Starving Years paperback that just came in the mail. I'm unhappy with the way the red color-shifted between RGB and CMYK colorspaces so I'll need to play with that. There is no red ink in 4-color process printing, it's made up of magenta and yellow. So that shift is to be expected.
Here I thought my big issue would be with the blacks. You need to be careful with oversaturating your cover with ink, so I broke up big fields of black by ghosting in another image that wraps around the back.
I love that one-eye-open thing Puffy does :D
Also, this is a honking big book.
Here I thought my big issue would be with the blacks. You need to be careful with oversaturating your cover with ink, so I broke up big fields of black by ghosting in another image that wraps around the back.
I love that one-eye-open thing Puffy does :D
Also, this is a honking big book.
March 12, 2012
PsyCop fans, GhosTV needs your vote
The DABWAHA is on. PsyCop fans, please consider voting for GhosTV! http://dabwaha.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/dabwaha-bracket-is-ready/(this isn't the actual voting round, it's the picking round...I guess I'll figure out what the difference is as the month wears on!)
March 10, 2012
Better Inbox Than Usual
Once upon a time I used to recommend trolling your spam folder for good character names. Nowadays my "froms" are all dumb things, like Loan Manager and Work at Home and Sex Machine. (Okay, Sex Machine is kind of funny.)
However, an online vendor where I buy vitamins just sent out a mailing with a subject line I can't stop looking at.
Someone's been taking her pretty pills.
Tell me that's not a creepy, dark fairy tale waiting to be told!!!
However, an online vendor where I buy vitamins just sent out a mailing with a subject line I can't stop looking at.
Someone's been taking her pretty pills.
Tell me that's not a creepy, dark fairy tale waiting to be told!!!
March 7, 2012
That dumb hobby
I bottled my sixth batch of homebrew beer tonight...as hobbies go, homebrewing isn't really as much fun as I imagined it would be. Everything I made from kits tasted kind of the same, so I ordered some non-kit ingredients and started tinkering. First I substituted a yeast I'd purchased for the kit-yeast, figuring the kit-yeasts were lending some weird and distinctive flavor to everything I made. Then I substituted some malt for a kit that came with this sugary stuff that's really not very good.
The batch I bottled tonight took the actual plunge. No kit, all ingredients I bought separately and plugged in to a recipe program to determine how much of whatever to put in. (It's still considered newbie level because I used malt instead of grains...but I still hopped it myself.)
I take a little taste before I bottle (it's raw and flat, but you're supposed to determine it does taste remotely like beer before you continue.) It did taste remotely like beer. It was a lot paler than I thought it would be. I guess we'll see what I've got in a few weeks.
Honestly, homebrewing seems like 95% sterilizing things, 4% watching things boil and 1% fun at this point. I think the thing I liked most is reading about ingredients.
The batch I bottled tonight took the actual plunge. No kit, all ingredients I bought separately and plugged in to a recipe program to determine how much of whatever to put in. (It's still considered newbie level because I used malt instead of grains...but I still hopped it myself.)
I take a little taste before I bottle (it's raw and flat, but you're supposed to determine it does taste remotely like beer before you continue.) It did taste remotely like beer. It was a lot paler than I thought it would be. I guess we'll see what I've got in a few weeks.
Honestly, homebrewing seems like 95% sterilizing things, 4% watching things boil and 1% fun at this point. I think the thing I liked most is reading about ingredients.
Topic Suggestions?
I need to write some blog posts for various sites in conjunction with the release of The Starving Years. What sorts of topics would you find interesting?
