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Do Positive Reviews Hurt Indies?
THE BLIMPRIDER CHRONICLES A week or so back, before I left the group, I was engaged in a conversation by Elaine at the Goodreads "Fringe Fiction" group. Her position was that if you read a bad...
View ArticleHas Publishing Made Me Snobbish?
I must quickly add that no one has gotten up in my face about this, but I've just been getting a vibe, and you know what those vibes are like. Like an itch you can't scratch until you just...
View ArticleStorm Clouds Gathering
The e-mail read: Today we are excited to introduce Kindle Unlimited--a new subscription service for readers in the U.S. and a new revenue opportunity for authors enrolled in KDP Select. With...
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Attitudes
This week, I'm going to speak primarily to my fellow self-published authors, and those who are contemplating this step, but the rest of you are invited to follow along to gain some insight into...
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Coming Attractions
Greetings, my friends, and welcome to another thrill-packed episode . . . Oh, who am I kidding? All ten of my regular readers know what to expect here, and casual visitors; well, you're on...
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Surfer Beware!
Usually I open with the main discussion and add on the tidbits I've picked up during the week at the end, but this week I'm going to experiment with something a little different, as I want to...
View ArticleWhy Do Readers Buy What We Write?
Good Wednesday morning, my cats and kittens, and welcome to another writer's rant. I have it on good authority that a number of my readers at this humble soapbox are independent authors like...
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Try a Little Diesel with Your Punk!
Readers familiar with my work will be well aware that when I don't have anything profound to say, rather than just put up a post consisting of mindless drivel, I highlight the work of a...
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Change is in the Air
Indeed it is, and not just with fall approaching, either. The first order of business is to mark a milestone. This weekend marked six months since I returned home from rehab. I feel...
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Up the Establishment, Man!
Over the course of my writing life, I have completed five novels that no one has ever seen. Well, not exactly true; the hundreds of industry professionals who rejected them have seen them,...
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Time and the Art of Planning
I've been looking back this past week at some of the things I had planned, and the events that come out of nowhere to modify those plans. The killer event in my case was my bout with pneumonia...
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Something Old, Something New . . .
First, the New. The Steampunk Empire finally approved the group I mentioned last week. Since I first began to consider self-publishing as a strategy, I have searched for this group, and...
View ArticleMinimizing Operations
I have, as many of you probably have as well, collected memberships in a number of websites with overlapping focus, and subsequently found myself duplicating and triplicating efforts, wasting...
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Getting Old and Playing
Today is my 66th birthday, so to those on the outside, I am well into senior citizen territory. To those who know me best, close friends and family, I'm a 10-year old, always have been, always...
View ArticleEXTRA! Scribblers' Den consumed by conflagration!
Greetings. What was it, two weeks ago that I was on here raving about this wonderful new group that was going to revolutionize internet communications? Amazing. Some times I just have to...
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Back on the Horse
Time to move on. For my own well-being and continued success, I need to put last week's unpleasantries behind me and try to pick up where I left off, so let's get this pony dancing, shall we?...
View ArticleAre your characters out of time?
This discussion is for the writers, but anyone with an opinion can feel free to jump in. Yesterday I was plugging along on a scene from Episode 12 in which my protagonist has a conversation...
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October 27th, 2014
Top o' the morning to ya! Today will see some changes to the use of the blog here. I'm still lucky to receive one visitor a week, so I'm shifting my main operation to Scribblers' Den, a very...
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Full Steam Ahead With A Story To Tell: The Jupiter Chronicles' Creator...
Leonardo is my friend from Scribblers' Den, a wonderful gathering of fabulously talented people whose mission is to promote steampunk projects that are innovative, forward thinking, far...
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Changes, Friends, and Milestones
I have a lot of stuff to get out this week, and there's no particular order to it, so I'm going to start with news of some of my friends. First and most important, I have another friend from...
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