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Apr.28.2013
Never one to shun electronic advancements or tiny new gadgets and toys, I tend however to wait a bit before jumping in. I cannot claim to be the first to own a personal computer, the first to use a cellphone, or the first to make home movies for the old VCR. I do tend to know about...
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Dec.25.2012
It’s the night after Christmas and all through the house. Not a creature was stirring not even your spouse. So when you crawl into bed all toasty and warm, open that ereader, it’s like a new born.
Okay, so I’m not a poet. But it is a great time to pick up some fantastic bargains on ebooks. Some...
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Nov.28.2012
I live in a palace. I say that in all seriousness. It doesn't matter that my modest, three-bedroom brick ranch in Detroit's northern suburbs is surrounded by McMansions so big that in the winter, their snow-covered roofs resemble mountains; I'm acutely aware that for a large percentage of the world...
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Oct.17.2012
Writers, you think landing an agent or a pub contract is hard? We're learning a bit of why that's so in the article linked below. The actual nature of books is changing, and we book buyers and readers are changing our habits, too.
How will this end? Everyone has an opinion these days, but no one...
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Sep.10.2012
This is more about the new Kindle Fire than the iPad, but it's a decent review and brings up a few points of interest I hadn't previously considered.
Amazon has fired a shot at Apple’s with two new Kindle products: the Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD. This first-look review pits what we know of both...
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Jun.20.2012
Advertising efforts by me, for my books, has taken an uptick over the past week. I confess, I'm publishing some through Amazon's CreateSpace, and I get some inkling of the sales distribution from them.The odd part? Very few of my sales are coming directly from Amazon. Virtually all print sales are...
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Jun.20.2012
Have you read Gary Shteyngart’s novel Super Sad True Love Story? It is a good book, certainly very smart, but I was mad reading it. Really. So mad, in fact, I contemplated not finishing it. But because I have a thing where I like to finish a book no matter what and yes, I know life’s too short and...
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Jun.17.2012
image via phillyflash.wordpress.com
It's become popular recently to give one's readers a little something free for their loyalty. So I've published a booklet to promote my first three novels. You can access it at the bottom of this linked page.
Download it to your desktop, and it...
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Apr.22.2012
I spent yesterday afternoon hanging out with the reference librarian at Haverford Township Free Library in Pennsylvania. Although spending time at a library is not a new experience, this was a special event.
As a member of Sisters in Crime, an organization that promotes writers and...
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Apr.22.2012
With the holiday sales war over and all new devices already out on the market, much of January consisted of tallying up the sales numbers and looking to new developments in the new year. There have already been some big announcements: Apple’s digital textbook publishing, a possible spinoff of the...
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