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April 29, 2012
Vintage Photos of Men and Links
Can the "Sticky Sweet Deal" Damage an Author's Career?
We hear all the time about how important it is for authors not to rant and rave on social media. And I agree. If you are labeled as trouble all the time it's hard to shake the image. Life is hard enough as it is without having to listen to an author rant and complain. But I'm kind of curious about something else...which I guess would the direct opposite of being a snarky, ranting blowhard online.
I tend to keep it real here on the blog and on social media. I've never been a confrontational per...
April 28, 2012
Free Apps to Read Kindle E-Books on Any Device
Understanding how to read e-books can be frustrating at best in the beginning. I know it was for me. So when I see things like this I pass them on hoping they might help someone. The biggest misconception I see all the time is that people think they need an e-reader or e-reading device to read e-books. All you need is a computer.
Last week a friend who also has an indie pubbed novel on Amazon through the KDP program posted a link on facebook and twitter about free apps for all e-reading device...
April 27, 2012
What's Coming Up Soon...Jonah Sweet of Delancey Street
I haven't posted much about my own work on the blog recently because I wrote so much about "Chase of a Lifetime" for a while I didn't want people to get bored. That's why I tried to keep the posts about COAL mainly limited to technical things, like editing the book for publication and working on the actual Kindle publishing process. I know a lot of authors are curious about this and I wanted to explain my experience step by step.
Writing and publishing COAL has been a great experience for me....
Writing and publishing COAL has been a great experience for me....
April 26, 2012
This Thing Called Fiverr Where You Can Pay For Book Reviews
I read about Fiverr in a few places and decided to check it out. It's a web site where people advertise services, and are willing to do anything from take off their shirts and do video messages, to write book reviews for authors. And they are willing to do this for five bucks. Hence the name Fiverr. It's even mentioned now at Urban Dictionary.
This guy will review your web site and offer his design opinions for five bucks. This young woman will dance around in a hula hoop and tell you whatever...
April 25, 2012
Marine Pays Steep Price for Criticizing Obama on Facebook
In an incident that seems to have created an interesting controversy about freedom of speech on social media, in a time when so many feel so passionate about politics, Sgt. Gary Stein will not only lose all his military benefits, but will also receive an "other-than-honorary-discharge" from the service for posting something negative about the President on social media.
According to Huff Post politics, this is what Sgt. Stein posted on facebook:
The Marines acted after saying Stein stated M...
Fred Karger's LGBT Presidential Ad Pulled From Youtube
Late last night I read that Fred Karger's promotional video on youtube had been taken down. You can read more about it here. For those who don't know, Mr. Karger is the first openly gay man running for President of the United States. I've posted about him here many times. I don't know the reasons why the video was removed. In this post, I'm only writing the facts posted from Mr. Karger's facebook page.
This is interesting. The Karger video is posted here, with this statement: "Parental Advisor...
April 24, 2012
Calls for Submission: Gay Erotica
I'm posting this because it's a public call for submissions over at Erotica Writers and Readers Association. I just submitted a short story and I've always liked working this this particular editor at Cleis Press, Shane Allison. I've been in his anthologies before and I've always been thrilled with the end results. One in particular was titled, "Backdraft."
These anthologies are good places to build publishing credits for those who are starting out. And unless you're going the self-publishing...
These anthologies are good places to build publishing credits for those who are starting out. And unless you're going the self-publishing...
The Story Siren's Second Apology
I've been following the conundrum of Kristi Diehm who publishes a small YA publishing blog called The Story Siren. In the midst of strong allegations with regard to plagiarism, Ms. Diehm issued an apology/explanation on her blog, here. And I just read what appears to be a clarification of that apology, here.
No comment from me. The "clarification"...or second apology...sounds sincere. If you notice, when I write blog posts I try not to begin a sentence with "I think," or "I feel." I try to sta...
No comment from me. The "clarification"...or second apology...sounds sincere. If you notice, when I write blog posts I try not to begin a sentence with "I think," or "I feel." I try to sta...
April 23, 2012
Author Interview with Long and Short Reviews
Not long ago, I did an interview with Long and Short Reviews. You can find it here, at this link. And please check out the rest of their web site. It's easy to navigate and I've learned a lot from reading other interviews and reviews.
What's interesting is at the time we talked about my ninth book in the Virgin Billionaire series, The Virgin Billionaire Reversal of Fortune. Looking back, which wasn't that long ago, I think this was my favorite book to write in the series. I loved writing the...
