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October 3, 2012
October 2, 2012
Wattpad Wednesday: TheOrangutan
Basic Info Gavin Wilson (real name) 39 Years old UK Author of 24 works on Wattpad, including Merlin’s Gold and A Gift in the Dark. Visit his Wattpad profile here: TheOrangutan Show us your workspace. Don’t clean it up first! Well I’m afraid that’s it. That is a picture of my air cooled bald head (advertising space for hire). That is [...]
BTS: A Peek at Purple, Inspiration for Siren, and Politics
A Peek at Purple If you’ve been looking forward to my upcoming sci-fi novel, you need to check this out! As part of my blog tour, I included the brand new prologue to The Day I Wore Purple. If you want to compare it to the original (and see how far I’ve come as a writer [...]
October 1, 2012
Novel News: New Website!
Eighteen cans of Diet Coke, two sleepless nights, a seamless marathon of Community and Deadwood… and The Accidental Siren website is finally (kinda) done. I’d love it if you could check it out and let me know what you think! This whole HTML5 thing is a little frustrating, and I’m not sure if every feature is [...]
September 28, 2012
Rant: Yes… I’m Mad At Kindle Formatting Again
So I was thinking this morning… have I complained about Kindle formatting enough? Last week I read this blog post about how companies like Smashwords, Apple, Lulu, and Amazon actually read forum/blog feedback from users, so authors should never badmouth these companies if they want to be featured on their sites. Well… Smashwords, Lulu, and [...]
September 25, 2012
Wattpad Wednesday: AnnealiseWengel
Basic Info Annealise Wengel (real name) 16 Years old Canada Author of Seven Minutes to Regret and Evil is Innocence. Visit her Wattpad profile here: AnnealiseWengel Show us your workspace. Don’t clean it up first! Other than high school English class, how did you learn to write? I started writing in elementary school, and that young we weren’t [...]
September 24, 2012
Novel News: Commence Blog Tour!
For the next twenty-two days, The Accidental Siren will be featured on thirty-one blogs thanks to an amazing service called Promotional Book Tours. Every day, a different website will promote a review, excerpt, interview, or guest post related to the first book in my Blank Canvas Series. (If you pledged to my Kickstarter project, $100 of your [...]
September 22, 2012
Wattpad Wednesday: JakeVanderArk
(Yes, I know it’s not Wednesday.) I’ve been looking for a creative way to feature my favorite Wattpad friends on my blog, and I think I figured it out. Every Wednesday, I’ll talk to a popular Wattpadder and ask them a consistent list of questions. Hopefully, the bravest will give me some multi-media snippets so [...]
September 9, 2012
Entertaining Politics: No Drug Laws, No Drama
I made this for Gary Johnson and all the other libertarian film buffs out there!
