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Publishing – a Reporter’s Capital Mistake

A couple of weeks ago, I gave my take of the AMP nightmare in The Seamier Side of Publishing. So have other authors with their respective blogs. Since then, rights reversal letters started to trickle through. I was one of the lucky recipients. A lot of people are still waiting, and the trickle seems to [...]

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CreateSpace versus Lulu

My mother once told me that when you leave your old street for a new street, you know what you’re leaving, but you don’t know what you’re going to find. I kind of felt that way when some of my fellow small press publishers encouraged me to do my NTD printing through CreateSpace. The royalties [...]

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A Word with Word, authors, people, Publishing, serious, religion, science, surgery, deformity,, Writing

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The Call of the Wild

I never thought I would blog about my balloon collection, but as the cliché goes, never say never. Today was an unusual day for grocery trips. I went to a different supermarket, one that didn’t tempt me to buy balloons. More bad weather is coming our way, so I concentrated on buying supplies. I decided [...]

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authors, balloons, people, science fiction / fantasy

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To Lie or not to Lie – that is the question.

I’m referring to one of the verbs that give me and other writers a lot of grief – the difference between lie, lay, and laid. That and certain words that mean one thing when used as a compound, and something else when used separately, can mess up an otherwise well-written tale. And so therein “lies” [...]

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A Word with Word, Artists, authors, balloons, people, poetry, Writing

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The Making of a Website

Somewhere down the pike, after the publication of Twilight Healer, I hired company ABC to build a website. Someone suggested I do my own website, but most hosted websites require HTML coding. Up until a few years ago, I thought HTML was an abbreviation for Hotmail. Enough said on the HTML skills department. ABC built [...]

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Fifty Ways to Ditch Your Website

Well, I guess there must be fifty ways, but I can only pick one. And what I’m doing is moving www.bloodredshadows.com material to the WordPress site. In particular, the NTD books. Several caring readers and friends informed me that they had a hard time finding books on www.bloodredshadows.com because of the layout. Why and when [...]

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A Word with Word, authors, people, romance, science fiction / fantasy, vampires, Writing

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Interview with Author Sharon Maria Bidwell of Aonia, Where the Muses Live

Tonight, I am honored to talk with prolific author Sharon Maria Bidwell, who hails from Britain. Her latest, Nights in Pink Satin, has just been released as of June 19. She writes in slipstream, romance, horror, gothic, cross-genre, and other genres. Though she is best known for her longer works, her short stories have appeared [...]

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