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Fat Mogul vs. Amazon vs. Hachette

About a week ago, many authors around the world (I’m guessing those of whom have chosen to publish their titles through one of Amazon’s many services which allow it) received this e-mail from Amazon itself regarding its current dispute with Hachette. You don’t really have to do much hunting to …

Fat Mogul vs. Suicide and Robin Williams

I’m not going to pretend I ever shared a special moment with the man.  I’m not going to go on and on about how his films and television series made such a huge impact on my life.  I’m not even going to state unnecessary statements about how I longed to …

Help me Reach my Goal (or Fat Mogul vs. Sales Goals)

I’m on the verge of meeting my first ever sales goal, people! That’s right.  Back when I started putting out books, I made a sales goal for myself, one that I knew would take a while to make, 30 books over the course of a thirty day period.  In other words, …

Fat Mogul vs. Bad Books

I loved reading from the moment I finally figured all that crap out.  You know, once I learned how to actually put those letters together and understand them to be words and then sentences and all that… Yeah, once that happened, me and books were best friends.  And I read …

Fat Mogul vs. The Word Count Goal

If you do much of reading what successful authors say about what they believe made them successful, one of the recurring messages you’ll find is that they set for themselves a daily word count goal, meaning, they have to sit down and write X number of words each day before …

Fat Mogul vs. Writing (yet another rehashing of old thoughts about marketing)

Before I begin this post that could quite easily appear to be a rather whiny/complainy thing about how writers don’t get enough attention or whatever else, I want to state fully and confidently, and in full opposition to however it may appear below, I love writing.  No matter how many …

Fat Mogul vs #LASIK

I just realized this morning that it’s been exactly 8 months since I went in and had lasers shot at my eyes…well, 8 months yesterday anyways.  The thing is…it’s not like I actually sat around and thought, “Hmm…wonder how long it’s been since my eyes got lasered” or anything.  No, …

Fat Mogul vs. Superman Returns (the re-watch)

Superman’s my man.  Been that way for as long as I can remember.  I don’t actually recall the first time I became aware of the idea of Superman, but I definitely remember having something of an infatuation with him as early as the age of five. Something about the entire …

Fat Mogul vs. The Book Release (Take 4)

Hold on a second, I’ve got to hit F5 on a different tab real quick. … … Sorry about that.  Oh, wait…hold on. … … K, I’m back. Wait… … Okay, for real this time. Sheesh…I might be exaggerating a bit here, but that’s honestly what a release day feels …

Book Review: A Life in the Day of Utter Nonsense by Faye Kename

I’ve been conflicted about this book since the moment I started reading it.  As an independent author, I really like to try and push up other author’s works as much as possible.  I’m not generally as concerned about telling everyone that I didn’t like a book by someone whose name …