Promospam – How and Why NOT TO

Promospam – How and Why NOT TO

Along with the digital revolution and the advent of social networking came spam. If people figure out a way to communicate, some of those people will want tomake money from it. Being self-employed, I too have to look at finding ways to market my books. But I really don’t use Facebook and Twitter to sell my books for quite a few reasons, but the biggest of which is this: Promospam is bloody...

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Fictional Pet Peeves

Fictional Pet Peeves

The other day I was over at a book blog, Loving Books, and the blog author was having a conversation about literary pet peeves. Her biggest gripe, as it turns out, is footnotes in fiction. I have to admit that while reading the comments, it soon became evident that I’m a much more peevish reader then she or her blog visitors. There are buckets of things that can drive me bat-shit-crazy when...

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Dumb Shit To Worry About

Dumb Shit To Worry About

The dumbest stuff I see on the Internet and TV is obviously created by people with too much time on their hands and no real problems (or in the case of TV, people who think you have too much time on your hands). For example, who wants to watch shows about “The Boy With A Tumor For A Face” (real show, btw) or people whose houses are dirtier than one would have thought possible. (Okay,...

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Bias? Really?

Bias? Really?

I was clicking through some news links a friend on Twitter sent me a couple of days back, and I came upon a headline that read: “I thought I died’: Vic of savage gay-bias attack speaks out.” That link led me to the article (one the same NY Daily News) which was more sensibly titled: ‘I thought I died’: Gay man Jack Price, beaten in Queens, talks about...

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Trashy Romance

Trashy Romance

You know, I was raised by a particularly intelligent woman.  And I’m not just saying that because she sometimes reads this blog either.  She already knows it, and false modesty isn’t a sin in which she partakes.  This, by the way, is the disclaimer part of the post.  I do it often.  You’d think that being bitter for so long I’d have ceased to care who I offend, but it...

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Spontaneity Gets Tougher

Remember how when you were 19 you could hop in a car and drive for 16 hours and arrive at your destination feeling maybe slightly tired and jazzed from too many soft drinks and fast food, but generally okay? 20 years later and hopping on a plane for a quick visit to ailing parents (it used to be a desperate need to be on a beach, or shopping that would make me drop everything and go, but no more)...

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