[Writer Post] JANUARY is FIRED and Writer Stuff
Wow. It’s been a hard month when it comes to losses. After all of last week’s deaths, we started out this week hearing about Glenn Frey from The Eagles. Though I wasn’t a die-hard fan, I enjoyed the music and his acting talent. He was an iconic musician and his passing leaves a major hole […]
[Writing Post] Squirrel Brain, Epub, and Me
Welcome to Texas, we’re in frantic preparations for the possible “Icemeggedon” that could occur on Friday. The Dallas/Fort Worth area of Texas isn’t quite as bad as Birmingham was when I lived there. Here there’s just a run on water, milk, bread, firewood – you know the essentials. In Birmingham, that threat induced grocery frenzy […]
[Writer Post] Amazon vs. Apple vs. Publishers vs. DOJ
I love writing and publishing. I really do. It’s one of those “calling” things that I have to do or I’m miserable. That’s why a lot of us write-because there’s something in us that says we have to-it’s certainly not the money. The Current Big Issue is the DOJ Anti-Trust Lawsuit against Apple and five […]
[Writer Post] Godin, Coppola, and Not Getting Paid (again)
I’ve been trying to get this post going for well over an hour now. It’s a gray, gloomy day. There are chores ahead of me – typing up long-hand work, housecleaning, praying for a miracle that the lawn guys come before it rains this weekend and we have people over. Though I wouldn’t say I […]
[From the Archive] Ebooks, Piracy, and the Writer’s Life
This was from early 2010 — but are still issues today… —- I had a whole post written up about the “glamorous” life of being a writer, and then I read – with interest – a long, ongoing discussion on ebooks, piracy, and copyright on one of my mailing lists. They all seemed to tie […]
[From the Archive] The Amazon Kerfuffle
This was my post in early 2010 about one of the first Amazon ebook pricing kerfuffles. In the past month, they’ve had *3* different kerfuffles pop up. Amazon is a major player in publishing. I do not like their current tactics to strong arm the industry and devalue content. If anyone wishes to defend Amazon’s […]
[Writer Post] Holiday Randomness – the 2011 Version
The Holidays are once more upon us. In the US, Thanksgiving is done. We move on to Christmas (or Hanukkah) and all the bustle that entails. Many writers are scrambling today to complete their NANOMO project on this last day of November. For those who participated – congratulations. It seems this time of year, I […]