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Jury's Greatest Hits is now available on Amazon!

Want to read about an ’80s English rock band that’s fantastically successful professionally and utter failures at everything else? Then this is the book for you. Jury’s Greatest Hits switches points of view between its four main characters—homesick and lovelorn Scott, brooding and closeted Trace, curious yet easily bored Ethan, and naively confident Jodie—to bring you a dramatic comedy about why earning fame isn’t the same as knowing what to do with it.

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Your Daily Dose of "Did Not Do the Research"

I just read an article that described Stan Lee as “the artist behind Spider-Man.”

What.

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Who knows this feeling?

Advice: Finding Readers on Tumblr

Advice: Finding Readers on Tumblr:

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clarissatriestoexplainitall asked: How do I get more people to read and re-blog my writing on tumblr?

1) Consider starting a side blog for your writing. Choose a theme for the blog and your blog name that relates to what you typically write. For example, if you write…

Another thing about publishing with Smashwords: right before you put your book up, you have the...

Another thing about publishing with Smashwords: right before you put your book up, you have the option to add descriptive tags to make it easier for people to find your stuff. Once you start typing,the site offerssuggestions that match tags other people have used.

Many of these lists are really long. Part of the reason is because people—yes, even authors—don’t know how to spell.

Earlier this week, when I put my novel Jury’s Greatest Hits up there, I wanted to add “historical...

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"I’m sick of how bisexuality is erased in LGBT spaces. I get really nervous before any LGBT event, especially Pride. I feel incredibly sad and hopeless when gay and lesbian people call me insulting names. If gay and lesbian people don’t understand me – Continue reading Prejudice at Pride at Empathize This

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thepeoplesrecord:10 intriguing female revolutionaries that you...

thepeoplesrecord:

10 intriguing female revolutionaries that you didn’t learn about in history class
August 24, 2014

We all know male revolutionaries like Che Guevara, but history often tends to gloss over the contributions of female revolutionaries that have sacrificed their time, efforts, and lives to work towards burgeoning systems and ideologies. Despite misconceptions, there are tons of women that have participated in revolutions throughout history, with many of them playing crucia...

"I did not ever see a bisexual character in a book when I was a teen. Ever. I didn’t know a single..."

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I did not ever see a bisexual character in a book when I was a teen. Ever. I didn’t know a single bisexual or lesbian or gay or transgender or queer person as a teen. At all. That’s at best just sad, and at worst soul-crushingly lonely. I was convinced that I was broken or defective or strange for years. I was a voracious reader and I firmly believe that if I had encountered bisexual characters in teen literature when I was a teen it would have made my coming out easier.

So yes, media repres...