Free is a strategy talked about by indie authors all the time. There are some who hate it, and some who love it. Some are opposed to free, suggesting it devalues the author’s work. Having come from a journalism background and having been offered free stuff on multiple occasions, I’m not a believer in that. […]
Self-Publishing Sunday: Early Impressions of My Free Run Read More »
Second Life has a book trailer. My daughter made it for me. This is the story of how it happened: Over the weekend, my darling daughter told me she wanted to set up a lemonade stand to earn some money. I told her that I’d read an article about the county cracking down on non-permitted
A trailer for Second Life Read More »
I was thinking that I hadn’t posted to the blog in a while, so I thought I’d swing by and write a short post. Only, when I looked at the last blog post, it was Feb. 8. And now it’s the 29th (a bonus day; normally it’d be March). I thought I’d pop in and
Where did February Go? Read More »
I saw an article the other day that referenced a study showing when readers quit reading a book. The point of the article was to tell authors they needed to hook readers early, otherwise readers quit. While that’s certainly important info, I was fascinated by another part of the article: the chart that showed what percentage
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Happy February to you. It’s a good year because you’ve got one extra day in the month this year. Leap Year’s are awesome. February is also Black History Month. Last year, my friend Rebecca posted on Facebook that she was reading a different book to her kids each night for Black History Month. I thought it
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I live in the DC metro area. We are under a blizzard warning until Sunday at 6 am. Our government officials have essentially told us they’ve given up on performing their jobs and we’re pretty much house-bound, needing to “shelter-in-place” because the snow on the ground will make it impossible to go out. As I
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