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October 22, 2013
Scratch, Scratch, Who’s Got The Money?
I’ve done 22 posts here featuring or mentioning Jane Friedman. ( If you take that link you’ll see this post, #23, since I’m tagging it with her name :-) — just scroll down a bit for the others… ) Well, Jane has launched a new magazine that treats of writing and money… If you’re about […]
October 21, 2013
The #SocialEra Is Much More Than Just “Social Media” . . .
[ this post is directed to writers but it can help Anyone who needs to overhaul their ideas about "business"...] Regular readers have become aware of my difficulties with Social Media as a means of helping folks find my books… This blog is my main Author Platform and, as far as “doing social media”, I’m […]
October 18, 2013
An Alien Who Is More Like Us Than We Have Yet Learned To Be…
Yep, this is the Friday post with more Behind The Scenes of the short novel Notes from An Alien… But, first, I need to insert a short advertisement for this blog’s latest survey—do take that link and spend two minutes to share your choices for this blog’s content :-) So far, the survey has 76 […]
October 17, 2013
Technology & Language ~ Can They Get Along with Each Other?
I’m going to feature an interview in today’s post with Ben Zimmer—linguist, lexicographer, and language columnist—executive producer of the Visual Thesaurus and Vocabulary.com. I’ve featured the Visual Thesaurus six times on this blog ( seven times with this post :-)… And, to set the stage for excerpts from Ben’s interview, here come “word-trees” for Language […]
October 16, 2013
“What IS An Indie Author?”
Yesterday, I published the post, Why Would An Author Want To BeIndependent?, which had two videos exploring the benefits of “self-publishing”. Today, I’ll let you in on something that turned my interest strongly toward an organization mentioned yesterday—The Alliance of Independent Authors—better known as ALLi. As some of you know, I’ve focused my “social networking” […]
October 15, 2013
Why Would An Author Want To Be Independent?
O.K., about that title up there… Most authors have quite a bit of independence about them, except the poor souls who crank out formulaic genre bestsellers… Let me clarify—I’ve certainly read formulaic genre bestsellers—read them and found them wanting… But then, I’m an independent reader :-) So, as the publishing field has adopted digital, all […]
October 14, 2013
How To Find The Right Editor and Other Exciting Adventures
The other exciting adventures in the title refer mostly to my experiences with typos, in my books and others’. If you can’t conceive of that being exciting, you probably haven’t slaved away on a piece of writing, looked for typos, had others look for typos, published the piece, then found typos… I’ve related some of […]
October 11, 2013
The Corporation’s Reach ~~ The People’s Suffering . . .
Yet another of my continuing series of Special Friday posts—Behind The Scenes of Notes from An Alien. If you’re new to the blog, these posts often have “spoilers” of the short novel but you can grab a free copy and read it in a weekend :-) Today I have more scenes not in the published […]
October 10, 2013
Is Genre The Best Way To Pick A Book?
I’m going to feature an article from an intriguing publication in this post but, first, I’ll give you a few links to past posts on this blog that considered the Genre Question: What Is A Genre & Should You Try To Write In One? Genre, Genre, Who’s Got The Genre ? :-) Genre Reconsidered ~ […]
October 9, 2013
I Get Interviewed On BlogTalkRadio :-)
I’ve talked quite a bit here about the virtual world, Second Life—60 posts so far… And, one of the people I became friends with in that world, Angela Yuriko Smith, asked me to be on her show on BlogTalkRadio. We talked about my short novel, Notes from An Alien, for sale in print and ebook […]
