Jaye Em Edgecliff's Blog, page 19
January 10, 2014
Do Amazon and Createspace rip us off? The update.
Reblogged from jeanettevaughan:
It's has been several months since first publishing and republishing the story about Amazon and Createspace failing to report accurate sales. It's absolutely evil. Here is what has been learned.
Hundreds of authors contacted me regarding the inability to see their sales, especially from expanded distribution channels. The story has been blogged and tweeted. One author, on the grounds she stay anonymous, as her book was just picked up by one of the "Big Six" an...
January 6, 2014
December 31, 2013
Happy New Year
New Year Sunrise (Photo credit: joka2000)
2014 is nearly here.
With it comes Ready or Not, not right away (sadly), but it’s coming.
The holiday sale on Love or Lust will come to an end – last chance to get it for 99¢ before sometime after Ready or Not comes out.
Obamacare takes full effect … I’ll refrain from comment on that.
I will become a NYT Bestselling author with better numbers than J K Rowling (yeah, I wish).
Bigotry and hatred for and toward our fellow beings will end and world peace and ha...
December 29, 2013
Neil Gaiman’s Personal Library.
Jaye:
Want!!!
Not the books, have that. The place to put them, oh God! The SHELVES! They must be mine!!! And chair. Cushy nice chair would rock, too.
Originally posted on R.G. Summers: Stories Spun, Tales Told:
HE’S EVEN GOT BOOKS STACKED ON THE CHAIR.
I want. I want with a burning, passionate, delirious desire. Right now, I’ve only got about 20 feet of books…so maybe I could possibly fill up half of one of his rows. Plus I haven’t even read all of mine. Neil Gaiman is so well-read it’s baffling....
Neil Gaiman's Personal Library.
Reblogged from R.G. Summers: Stories Spun, Tales Told:
HE'S EVEN GOT BOOKS STACKED ON THE CHAIR.
I want. I want with a burning, passionate, delirious desire. Right now, I've only got about 20 feet of books...so maybe I could possibly fill up half of one of his rows. Plus I haven't even read all of mine. Neil Gaiman is so well-read it's baffling. I read the First Book of the Faerie Queen this year, and it blew my mind to finally realize all the allusions to it in Stardust.
Social networking … what a headache
Warning: Venting below. Read at your own risk.
I hate social networking. I do.
I really can’t comprehend the appeal. I have friends. I keep in touch with my friends. I like email and IM.
I mean, I have a Facebook Pageand my Twitter. But those are strictly for purposes of expectation — people come to my blog from them, and from my blog discover my book. I’m not stupid or oblivious; you don’t have to understand a thing to know you need to use it. Hell, if I could afford it, I’d probably buy ad spa...
Bed of Roses
Cover of Bed of Roses
I’m not even sure this post will count as a review, really, but sometimes you watch something and you just feel like sharing the experience.
So let’s go with that: Sharing.
I’ve said before that I don’t read much, if any, romance. Strange, I know, given that I write it. But I do watch it. I just … I like the fairy tale of it all; even in real life, there can be fairy tales and in that regard I do read romances — I love to read about real true love and love at first sight ta...
December 28, 2013
“The door irised open”
Today I’m going to talk, more as a reader than a writer — though I’ll probably be unable to resist putting my author voice in here somewhere.
I love to read speculative fiction. Fantastic genre. I’ve said this again and again. Princess of Mars,Triplanetary,Stranger in a Strange Land,Time Enough for Love,2001: A SpaceOdyssey, Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon,The Hobbit, Dragondoom, A Song of Ice and Fire, Black Trillium,Forgotten Realms, and so very many more! To stretch things further: the adventur...
December 25, 2013
Maybe today is a good time to remember some things …
I can think of few religions that don’t highly value kindness, compassion, hospitality, and other words that boil down to: be a decent person.
Oh, true, the ancient religions didn’t always preclude the ideas of raping and pillaging those you conquered, but theywere generally supposed to be nice to each other, which is not a great start, but it’s a start.
Today is, ostensibly, the birthday of Jesus, a man who legend tells us was nailed to a cross for saying “Why don’t we try being nice to each o...
December 22, 2013
We could do worse than Phil Robertson
Duck Dynasty (Photo credit: Rick Payette)
So, apparently there’s a show called Duck Dynastyabout some backwoods Louisiana family that makes duck calls (and people wonder why I don’t watch Television?!). One of the people on it, an older man named Phil Robertson, said some things to GQ that have made people uncomfortable.
You can read that interview here: What the Duck?
Some particulars he said are as follow:
“It seems like, to me, a vagina—as a man—would be more desirable than a man’s anus. That’...
