Charles Allen Gramlich's Blog, page 81
August 10, 2010
A Novel Spaces Day
August 9, 2010
Winners and Losers
True to my intentions, I've taken a few days largely off writing and tried to just relax and do some reading. I've even engaged in a little TV/Movie action. I caught a few more episodes of The Office, watched some Frasier and Star Trek: The Next Generation reruns, and watched Hell's Kitchen. Last night I rented the movie The Losers, and I have to say I enjoyed it quite a lot. I've never read the comic book series it is based on, and it looked at first glance very much like an A-Team kind ...
August 6, 2010
What I Learned from The Office
Any "Office" fans out there? I am, although I definitely did not start out that way. The first time I tried to watch it I thought it was lame. I'd never have given it a second glance if not for Lana. She watched it regularly, so I watched a few episodes with her, often criticizing it at the same time, and suddenly at about 7 or 8 episodes in I found that I was enjoying it, that I was "getting" it. Now I even watch it when Lana is not around, and it's the only TV comedy besides Frasier th...
August 4, 2010
Interview Part II
The second half of Richard Prosch's interview with me is up over at Meridian Bridge. T'would appear I'm fairly long winded. But you all knew that.
I just finished reading Crossroad Blues by our own Steve Malley and, let me say, I enjoyed it immensely. I highly recommend it. Here's what I had to say on Amazon and Goodreads:
In Crossroad Blues we have wonderful characters full of heart and emotion, one of the nastiest villains I've ever come across in fiction, and a setting that is both exot...
August 2, 2010
Interview
The first part of a two part interview with me is up over at Richard Prosch's Meridian Bridge. Thanks, Rich. I always like getting a chance to yak about writing. These were great questions and I had fun with them.
Heading into New Orleans today to check on some things at work. I have about two weeks of summer left before school starts. I love my job, don't get me wrong, but I sure have been enjoying my time away as well. Once school starts everyone will see me online and on the blogs qui...
July 30, 2010
Updates on the Updates
I keep learning more about the Kindle experience. I thought at first that kindle formatted stuff I downloaded from Smashwords couldn't be read on the Kindle device, only on Kindle PC. I was wrong. If you 'open' a file bought from Smashwords it will open only in Kindle PC and then you can't copy it from there to your desktop or Kindle device. However, if you 'save' that file to your desktop, then you can open it on Kindle PC or copy it to your Kindle device just fine.
The general consensus ...
The general consensus ...
July 28, 2010
The Skinny
I know everyone is simply hanging on the edge of their seats for updates on Gramlich's life so I won't keep you in suspense any longer. Here's what I've been up to.
1. Thanks so much to everyone who has visited and commented over at Novel Spaces when I've blogged there. I much appreciate that. You folks are the best.
2. I now have an author page on Amazon. Nothing much to see except images of my books and a short bio that everyone has seen before. But I may add stuff to it over time and ...
July 26, 2010
July 25, 2010
Rough Edges and Killing Trail
Killing Trail got a nice review over on Rough Edges, which is the blog of James Reasoner. That means a lot to me because James makes his living as a professional writer, and much of what he writes is western themed. James is the author of over 200 books, many under his own name and others under various pen-names. He writes or has written for a number of series, some very long-running.
I've got several dozen of James's books around here, not all of them read yet. But it's always nice to hav...
July 23, 2010
Some Notes on Publishing Killing Trail: Part 3
This should be the final post on publishing Killing Trail via Amazon's Kindle ebook program. This one is mostly about the text itself, and about my results so far.
Text Issues: I purposefully decided not to make the first line of the stories flush left. Printed books do this but it always bothers me. Perhaps I've read too much stuff in manuscript form. Anyway, since it was my book I'd, as Cartman says: "Do what I want!" I indented the first line of all paragraphs, which looks better to m...
