Day trip: Nagging voices, wordplay, and e-reader advice

I’ve packed up and moved to the blog Self Publish or Die today. Does it feel like I’m always traveling? It feels that way to me sometimes. Soon we’ll all need a vacation from vacations.

This time around, I’m sharing my seething resentment toward popsicles, my love for terrible jokes, why I watch Hoarders, and how a short story turned into a multiple-book series.

And I’m begging — begging, I say — for someone to tell me which e-reader or tablet to buy so I can stop reading books on my laptop.

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