The paperback version of The Path Into Darkness is now available on Amazon.com, which is very exciting for me. It just started listing today, and it doesn’t have the typical discount that Amazon puts on books — I’m hoping that’s just due to it being a new listing. I wasn’t very happy with the list [...]
National Novel Writing Month starts in 5 days. I have my story idea, a general plot outline, and a month’s supply of coffee.
During November, updates to this blog will slow down slightly as they will drop in precedence behind the novel writing contest. Also, I’ll have less free time to surf aimlessly so there probably [...]
I forget where exactly I found this, but the other day I needed a quick Python method to send an HTML email — in my case, it was in response to a Web CGI request, but this example below is usable anywhere. The bits that need to be changed for different situations should be evident [...]
Agent Nathan Bransford blogged about making the leap from small press to larger publishing house. I’m starting to think that this isn’t going to be a very likely scenario for the short term — as the economy worsens, people will stop spending their money on “non-essentials” like books.
It’s a sad truth, but most people don’t [...]
You’ve taken the plunge into the world of self-publishing. Maybe through Amazon’s CreateSpace or Lulu — it doesn’t matter. What does matter now is that you need to spread word about your book so that people will look at it and, ultimately, buy it.
Most authors don’t know or understand how to market their writing. After [...]
The weekly roundup of web postings I’ve liked or videos I watched this week. The highlights only, of course, as I do a lot of surfing.
Have your book buying habits changed this year?
Books beginning with dialogue…does it work
Make custom signs (not real signs, but fake signs, like:)
I just created an account at National Novel Writing Month. I first heard about it last year at Thanksgiving. Since that was smack dab at the end of the month, I couldn’t very well enter into it, could I?
So, I’m prepping for it now, by doing some preliminary brainstorming for ideas. I [...]
Spiders skittered around the periphery of his vision. Everything was shrouded in deep shadow; all he could see and hear were the spiders. There were hundreds of them, maybe thousands–crawling over him, on his face, through his hair. He felt the prickling of their steps as they weaved their way over his [...]
This review of Web Juggernaut showed up when I was searching around for ways to get visitors to this blog. I’m not trying to do the whole “niche blogging” thing to make money or anything, I just want to get my ideas on software and writing shared with other people.
Which, of course, requires visitors. [...]
On Saturday, one of the hard drives in my near ancient Linux server failed. Even though I had back-ups of some of my data, I was lax and hadn’t backed up some of the information for a few of the web sites that reside there.
So, until I can rebuild those web sites, I have [...]
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