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May.16.2013
A very nice --if blush-inducing-- way to wake up: thank you, Elisabeth Zguta!
For (I hasten to add, with another double entendre blush at the wording above) her very kind review of my to-be-released-on-Tuesday FIRE OF THE PROPHET on Goodreads.com.
Ms. Elisabeth, you are officially my "first...
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Apr.20.2013
Finally got around to posting a new tale, "The 1001st Night", on my Scribd page.
It's been awhile since I've added a story to the site and that's negligent of me. In the time I've been on Scribd, my tales and excerpts have drawn over 15,000 "reads", and for a guy weened in the small press...
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Apr.08.2013
So I posted last week on my personal site that I've made the whole of "The History of the Mayan Ball League" available to read from Goodreads.com.
I did it in an attempt simply to get more people to read the story. I enjoyed writing it (except for the fact that it was partially inspired by the...
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Apr.07.2013
Photo: The Rose Main Reading Room of the New York Public Library, Manhattan
I realized recently that I have a book-hoarding problem. You know, like those people on the show Hoarders, who have psychotic breaks when a professional therapist, visiting the squalid house, tells them that...
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Apr.02.2013
As much as AMAZON seems a bully in the book market in some ways, they're not complacent, as the article linked below shows. Grabbing Goodreads will give them a window into readership habits and trends.
Good for both readers and writers doing business with AMAZON to know.
The Atlantic
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Mar.29.2013
Amazon is buying the popular book-focused social networking site Goodreads, which was founded in 2007 and now has more than 16 million members. The move is in line with Amazon’s record of acqquiring much of the book world. In the last 15 years, the company has bought AbeBooks.com, Audible.com...
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Mar.29.2013
I see in the NYT business section today, which I get to read with my morning coffee, which is in fact tea, because my husband gets up first, fetches the paper from the porch, pitched there before daybreak by the delivery woman who will also clean our condo if we wish, though hopefully not before...
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Feb.15.2013
Come on down and take a look around. It never harms to make an impression (preferably, er, good) on the Internet.
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What Writers Need to Know About Goodreads
By Jason Boog
The New York Times has profiled Goodreads, undoubtedly sending hundreds of writers...
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Dec.20.2012
If you're a member over on Goodreads, then you may already know they have a giveaway section.
There are currently two giveaways for anthologies in which I have stories. The first is for Mortis Operandi, which is a collection of paranormal crime stories.
The second giveaway is for Tricks of the...
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Dec.03.2012
by J. R. Wagner
I've been blessed to have developed a relationship with Cheryl Rainfield during my short writing career. Cheryl is an incredibly hard worker -but that doesn't make her special, all writers who have any desire to 'make it' in this industry work their tails...
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