Amazon, You Are Plucking My Last Nerve
Yes, I know Amazon is the place for selling books. This isn’t going to make me boycott them or anything, but… A few weeks ago I put “The Queen of Frost and Darkness” up for free on Smashwords, since what I really wanted was for it to be a free download on Amazon, and apparently the only way to make that happen is to offer it for free someplace else. So I did, even though I have serious issues with the whole Smashwords “meatgrinder” you have to use to convert...
Read MoreTime to Get Off the High Horse
So it’s National Novel Writing Month. All over the world, crazy people are hunkered over their computers (or maybe notepads if they’re particularly masochistic), trying to get out 50,000 words during the month of November. I’ve been doing it since 2005; I crashed and burned a couple of times, but I always try to participate, just because it’s a great way to keep yourself motivated when you know thousands of other people are doing the same thing. But I guess some people...
Read MoreThe Great Hailstorm of 2010
Now, I realize that this is probably small potatoes compared to what’s going on in the eastern part of the U.S., but you need to understand that we don’t get Weather (capitalization purely intended) here in Southern California. Especially not in early October — this time of year it’s almost always hot, dry, and dull as dead leaves. But we’ve had a weird weather system hanging around the area for the past few days, bringing it with it some spectacular sunrises and...
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