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Well, I will be soon. This is just a quick note to say I’ve opened an account at Scribd, and I’ve been busily shoveling stuff in the hopper there. As of this writing, I have three novellas up for $1.99 each, seven short stories (free), and an excerpt of my third novel, Jillian’s Gold. So drop by Continue reading I’m all Scribd up, now! PLEASE NOTE: This is posted as part of a blog carnival. Please follow this link to Dun Scaith, the host blog for this carnival. I’ve said all of this before, but I’ll say it again. And again and again and again, no doubt. I’ll shout it from the rooftops until all the naysayers stop saying Continue reading Why I Chose Independent Publishing (all they have to do is ask me) Seems to me we already have the perfect system for writing ebooks – we simply do them the same ways, using all the same tools, that we do websites. Then, as a reader, all you have to do is sign up, get your username and password, and abracapoofie! Continue reading The Perfect eReader System There’s at least one thing more amusing than people ranting and railing against passive voice: …the fact that they can’t even identify it. [P]eople disagree with me when I point out such things (over and over again, like a CD that has gotten stuc- stuc- stuc- stuc- stuc- stuc- stuc- stuc- stuck), and ask rhetorically where on Continue reading Another Jab at the Passive Phantom I seem to be stuck at 52,000 words in my current WIP. I’ve begun to wonder if there’s a story there, or if I’ve begun to ramble. I’m not at all sure who’s ever going to want to turn pages in this one. My beta readers assure me it’s good, but what do they know? Continue reading The Ones With No Names — (a short story) I just saw this from a person who really should know better: “[When XXX happens], you’ve got to reign them in.” Unfortunately, it’s all too common a mistake. Sorry, no. You’ve go to rein them in. I suppose an argument could be made that you’ve got to rule them, and a rule is a reign, but it’s Continue reading Reign vs Rein Why are certain agents (and other minions of the old school) so fond of those lists? You know the ones. Rudyard Kipling was told by the San Francisco Examiner that he didn’t “know how to use the English language.” Someone said of Anne Frank’s Diary of Anne Frank that she didn’t “have a special perception or Continue reading Famous Novel Rejected Seven Million Times! …for unknown reasons, I’m going to post it here. My current novel and this blog are keeping me busy, but I’ve been inspired by this excellent shot by Jeremiah Tolbert to try to post more of my work here. So I decided to try to post some photos to my poor, neglected photo blog. Continue reading Since I can’t post this to my photo blog… test
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