January 2012

I started on my next fiction book set in Thailand and I’m about 11,000 words into it after 2 days. This will not be a sequel to Thailand’s Sickest, but it does relate to the story quite a bit. In fact, if you haven’t yet read that first fiction novel, you should get it so [...]

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“Selling” a Couple Thousand Books per Day

by MikeFook on January 19, 2012

It’s possible, even probable if you have a bunch of fiction books at Amazon, to sell a couple thousand books each day for free. Amazon counts free books downloaded as sold. Why you would want to do that is to get your sales rank to climb. How you can do that – is enroll in [...]

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I’ve mentioned my brother and sister on this blog occasionally. My sis has a degree in English lit from Penn State, and my brother – I don’t know what in fuck’s name he graduated with – a bachelor’s in bible maybe? Whatever it was. They are both going about their lives in the wrong way. [...]

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I Can’t Ignore the Ringing in My Ear

by MikeFook on January 16, 2012

It’s with the regularity of a goddamned metronome. The ringing has a name. It’s Joe Konrath, and if he opens his mouth one more time about how much cash Amazon is trucking to his house – I’m going to call him up on the phone from 10,000 miles away – and scream my lungs and [...]

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This Can’t Be ANYTHING, But Good News…

by MikeFook on January 15, 2012

Blast Kills Dozens of Shiite Worshipers in Southern Iraq New York Times – ‎2 hours ago‎ BAGHDAD – Insurgents mounted another attack against Iraq’s Shiites on Saturday, as an explosion in the southern city of Basra ripped through a group of pilgrims headed to a mosque to commemorate one of the holiest Shiite holidays… I [...]

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