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May 16, 2013
Man plans and then mice laugh at him
Two quotes come to mind when I’m managing a complicated project like a new Stephen King Limited Edition.To paraphrase:
“Man plans and the Gods laugh.”
“The best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry.”
Of course, at the end of the project, all of the stress and averted disasters and new gray hairs are almost alwaysworth it.
May 15, 2013
Amazing Stories reviews Blue November Storms
I was very pleased to hear about Keith West’s review of Blue November Storms over at Amazing Stories.
I’ve pulled out a few of my favorite lines, of course, but you can read the entire review here.
Blue November Stormsfalls into the category of You-Think-Know-Where-This-is-Headed-but-You-Really-Have-no-Clue-What’s-Going-on…
Freeman brings the five men to life, each a distinct individual, each coping in his own way with what occurred on that summer day when they were eighteen. So when the story v...
May 10, 2013
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King — Color Artwork by Vincent Chong
As many of you know, this fall Cemetery Dance Publications will be publishing a special edition of Stephen King’s new novel, Doctor Sleep, which is a follow-up to The Shining. Here is a preview of the color artwork Vincent Chong has created for the Cemetery Dance edition of this very special book:
May 7, 2013
W. Somerset Maugham On Writing
W. Somerset Maughamon writing: “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
April 19, 2013
The Painted Darkness Featured On IndieReader’s “Alike But Indie”
Some fun, unexpected news hit my inbox:
IndieReader has a regular feature called “Alike But Indie” where they select a bestselling traditionally published book and then list indies in the same (or similar) genre.
Yesterday, they posted “If You Liked Six Years, You’ll LOVE…”
The traditionally published book is Harlan Coben’s latest thriller, Six Years.
The independently published books they selected are:
Blood Money by Doug Richardson
Depth of Deception by Alexander Gallant
To Die For — a collection...
April 18, 2013
Blue November Storms eBook Edition Available Now!
If you’ve ordered the unsigned trade paperback of Blue November Storms, your copy will be on the way very soon. The Cemetery Dance warehouse has just been slammed with a 35 title project that will probably end up devouring all of April, but they are shipping regular orders every day. (For those who ordered the signed and remarqued copies, those are already making their way around the country and will hopefully be ready to ship by the end of next month.)
In today’s news, the new eBook edition o...
Blue November Storms eBook On Sale For Just 99 Cents!
If you’ve ordered the unsigned trade paperback of Blue November Storms, your copy will be on the way very soon. The Cemetery Dance warehouse has just been slammed with a 35 title project that will probably end up devouring all of April, but they are shipping regular orders every day. (For those who ordered the signed and remarqued copies, those are already making their way around the country and will hopefully be ready to ship by the end of next month.)
In today’s news, to celebrate the public...
April 17, 2013
Restoring A Mac From A Time Capsule Back-Up Via the Ethernet Port
This is not publishing related at all, but since I can never remember how to do this on the rare occasions I’ve needed to, I thought maybe I’d post it here so I can actually find the steps in the future.
Whenever we’ve had to completely restore one of the office Macs from the Apple Time Capsule back-up (love that software, by the way, because I never have to worry if the staff is properly backing up), I always want to do the restore via the Ethernet ports instead of Wi-Fi since Wi-Fi could tak...
April 16, 2013
Brian James Freeman versus Kealan Patrick Burke and THE SEVEN!
I hope you’ll check outTHE SEVEN: Brian JamesFreeman on Kealan Patrick Burke’s blog today.
If you’d like some updates on what I’m up to these days at Cemetery Dance Publications, Lonely Road Books, eBookBargainNews.com, or even with my own writing, that’s the link to click on. Or this link.(It’s really the same link.)
My thanks goes out to Kealan for including me in his series!
April 15, 2013
eBookBargainNews.com Has Launched: Your Home For FREE and Heavily Discounted eBooks!
eHorrorBargains.comhas proven so popular with readers that I’m bringing in a few friends to launch a whole network of sites dedicated to highlighting the very best FREE and heavily discounted eBooks available in a variety of genres.
My number one goal is spreading the word about HIGH QUALITY eBooks at the lowest possible prices, which seems to have really connected with a lot of readers who were tired of eBook newsletters full of 50 or more titles every day with no quality control.
The main hom...
