Is Ebook Publishing the Answer for Everyone?

June 14, 2013

Nope. That’s the short answer. I know writers that I’ve pleaded with to release ebooks through Amazon that just didn’t feel confident enough to do it on their own, and they went with traditional paperback publishers. I know writers that did go straight to Amazon and have nothing good to show for it. A couple [...]

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Laura Lovic – Writer – Sister

June 5, 2013

She’s my sister, and I love her writing. Not all of it, she’s a little off-kilter, to tell you the truth. But, occasionally she’ll pull it together to write something that even I can grasp. When she does, it’s one of the best days of my life because I love her writing style. I love [...]

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Writing Niche Vs. Writing for the World

May 28, 2013

Lee Child writes for the world. His stories about main character, Reacher, are set in the USA. Many people across the globe like to read stories set in the states, they can relate to a good guy roaming around straightening perceived wrongs. My “Thailand’s Sickest” series is an example of writing in a niche. My [...]

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‘Ball Lightning’ In My Hotel Room!

April 16, 2013

I’ve been doing pretty well about not writing here, it is one of my New Year’s Resolutions, but when I have something to say – I gotta say it. BALL LIGHTNING came into my hotel room in Thailand yesterday as I was relaxing on the bed working on the computer! It was one of the [...]

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Sony EBook Store – JUNK…

April 1, 2013

Here’s my chat with Sony about pulling my frickin books off their virtual shelves like they should have done 3 weeks ago when I yanked them from Smashwords: 8:07 PM Toni – (C4VL): Hi. Welcome to Sony Online Support. I’m Toni. 8:07 PM Customer: ok 8:08 PM Toni – (C4VL): Are you referring to Sony Reader? 8:09 PM Customer: [...]

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Thailand’s Sickest – Hell To Pay – DONE!

March 3, 2013

Finally finished the second book in the Thailand’s Sickest series. I sent it off to friends for feedback and if you joined the list on the right hand column there, you will receive a message on Monday morning with directions for getting my next fiction book, Thailand’s Sickest – Hell To Pay. Thanks for your [...]

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Is the World Going to Hell This Year?

February 21, 2013

If you believe the fear-mongers, the world is overdue for a catastrophic event – not just earthquakes and natural disasters, but for something of man’s own doing. For the last dozen years it seems, the world’s people have not been thriving economically. Well, unless you had an internet business. This year, the prognosis looks pretty [...]

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Every Day I Tell Myself I Have Terminal Cancer

February 20, 2013

Everyday I’m lucky enough to wake up, I tell myself I have terminal cancer. That way I don’t waste any time screwing around, I just go straight to work writing whatever book(s) I’m working on. When I’m done and my daughter wakes up from her afternoon nap, we go spend a couple hours at the [...]

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Write a Big Book in 3 Weeks

January 24, 2013

If you have a big book inside you, it need not take a year or even five, to write. Anthony Burgess wrote A Clockwork Orange in 3 weeks! While  I don’t have any illusions of being able to duplicate that feat, it does give me something to think about. When I think about writing an [...]

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Amazon KDP Down for Maintenance

January 18, 2013

This is a GOOD THING. It’s good because a number of us – thousands, I imagine, have been seeing sales just disappear from our tally sheets in Amazon KDP over the last couple days, and I think some people, weeks. Here’s the message I just got upon trying to see my reports… “Reports are currently [...]

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Amazing Comment on Thailand’s Sickest

January 4, 2013

I can’t tell you what it felt like to read this woman’s review of Thailand’s Sickest. A writer that actually finishes a fiction book and publishes it – has an idea that what he/she wrote is of some entertainment value. I really thought Thailand’s Sickest was one of those books that a lot of people [...]

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2013 Motivational Message

January 2, 2013

I couldn’t have said it better. The guy is right on…

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The Best Books to Write in 2013?

January 2, 2013

If you haven’t already found a genre you’re comfortable and successful writing in, you should strive to write at least nine books this year. Why nine? Write the following this year and you will be throwing a lot of things up on the wall. The goal as a new writer, I believe, is to see [...]

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2012 – End of the Party

December 24, 2012

I am going to disappear in 2013. Though I feel like I have so much to say through websites, social media, comments… As I reflect on 2012 – these things got me absolutely nowhere. Actually, no, there was an effect. I went backward, away from my goals. I must have spent 500 hours on Facebook [...]

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What I Need in 2013

December 22, 2012

Reading Paul Garrigan’s latest blog post reminded me to start doing some thinking of my own here as the year winds down. These are things I need in 2013. These are things that are going to cause me to make some incredibly tough decisions over the year, but I feel like I am not living [...]

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