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May.31.2010
I did it! I finally handed in my manuscript for Black Earth: The Broken Daisy to my editor at the end of last week. This freed me up to continue work on formatting Black Earth: End of the Innocence for ebook editions on Smashwords. I was having some major problems formatting my Word doc and thought...
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May.24.2010
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Seven 5-star Amazon reviews. Resource book "Premium Promotional Tips" is available as paperback and hardcover (http://bit.ly/8X3xtX ) plus eBooks-through Amazon's Kindle Store (http://amzn.to/aMzhdh ), Smashwords (http://bit.ly/aTMRih ) , B&N for the Nook,...
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May.12.2010
So the time has come to where I have to hand Black Earth: The Broken Daisy over to my editor. Next Friday morning is when I am giving her the manuscript and I am still a fair distance from being finished. I am already a month or so over the point in time I wanted to give her the book. The novel...
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May.03.2010
I was honored to teach at Gold Rush Writers this weekend. Antoinette May did a magnificent job of keeping seventy people continually challenged. We had more participants with higher evaluations than ever before. Some items that got buzzed up:
> Fiction is getting shorter, again. Forget...
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May.01.2010
I have been working on an extended commentary to the Bible for about a decade now. It is a project that I have become somewhat obsessive compulsive about. Originally it was motivated by a lack of satisfaction with the commentaries I consulted when I went to look up other people's answers to...
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Apr.27.2010
In the next couple weeks, the price of my paperback sci fi/fantasy novel, Black Earth: End of the Innocence, is going to go up. I made this decision based on a couple of different facts, the first being that the company that I go through to have the book printed, Createspace.com, has a fairly new...
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Apr.26.2010
When I first started writing Black Earth: End of the Innocence, the first book in my Black Earth series, I was really only aiming to tell the back story leading up to my other series, Expired Reality. I simply wanted to tell the story of how the Earth broke apart because of evil and how society...
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Apr.20.2010
It's been a few weeks (probably more) since I've really done much of anything besides write. I was hoping to go kamikaze on my draft of Black Earth: The Broken Daisy in the hopes of getting it finished so I could hand it off to my editor, but alas, no dice. This novel seems to be a greater...
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Apr.15.2010
Just over two years ago when I was teaching creative writing at USC in the Master of Professional Writing Program, I'd volunteered to head up a search for fellow faculty to write proposals for the next AWP Conference.
We were between program directors then, and the associate dean who was...
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Apr.07.2010
Simon Singh wins huge victory for libel reform in UK, but don’t get too excited. Stan Lee wins copyright suit – KAPOW! Plus, who’s threatening who over copyright? Who posted fake interviews? Who was fired for plagiarism? These and other stories for writers and publishers are in this week’s Write...
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