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Dis/inhibition paperback gets Ingram distribution

I found these this morning while Googling: http://www.adlibris.com/se/product.as... http://www.libri.de/shop/action/produ... There is still an issue with getting the book cover on some of U.S. sites, but I am told that’s being worked on. “Inhibition is nature’s way of keeping you from doing something really stupid…” Valerie Running Deer is a brash, brilliant neuroscience graduate student. Elizabeth [...]

If this doesn’t geek you (or make you sh!t in your pants)…

Mega-cool video depicting what was supposed to happen last night above Mars (and did!) step by step… http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videog... Filed under: cool stuff

I, Robot

Yeah, so I have an author website launching soon and a website designer who wants that launch ASAP and I am floundering pulling my content together. I mean, talk about your writer’s block suddenly hitting, your word-smithing skills crapping out, and your total lack of Photoshop-fu being your undoing. That. Me. So I remind myself, [...]

Dis/inhibition now in paperback!

Amazon: “http://www.amazon.com/Dis-inhibition-...″ Barnes and Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dis-i... I also discovered today my eBook is on IndieBound, so readers can order it through their local independent bookstore. Filed under: books, disinhibition, lesbian fiction, writing and social media

Writing and fun

Writing is not always fun. Sometimes, it’s all you can do just to plunk yourself into your chair and force out the words. It really sort of depends on where you are in the process, and what ideas you have brewing in your mind. A blank page can be hard if you don’t have good [...]

Adventures in Indie Publishing, pt IIa: formatting for print

I think the most difficult, grief-inducing part of self-publishing is formatting. I say that because I am still getting into the marketing part, but stay tuned, because I might change my tune later. But I spent a good two months getting my manuscript into a form–no, I take that back–THREE forms–that would deem it acceptable [...]

Character rising

This is an interesting blog entry on what the writer calls “Self-rising characters”–characters who weren’t in the original outline or conception of a story, or who were but were minor at best, who become (spontaneously) fully realized as you are writing because the story needed them, or at the very least, they were a voice [...]

Adventures in Indie* Publishing

Most folks in the writing/publishing bag probably use the term “Indie publishing” to mean small, independent presses that are, for all their smallness, still publishers in the traditional sense: they accept submissions, chose what works they will put out into the world, and then produce and promote them for the author, either in print or [...]

Adventures in the power of social media

Ganked from ABE blog Filed under: books, cool stuff

And the nerddom continues…

I am now on LibraryThing as well: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/n... Another book nerd site like Good Reads, FYI. Filed under: books, cool stuff, disinhibition