If you’ve been following my blog posts for a while, it is probably not a big shock to you if I tell you that I am subscribed to several productivity blogs. One of them, Zen Habits, recently put up a post about deliberately scheduling reading time into your day. If you’ve never deliberately schedule something […]
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♦ new release alert! see below! ♦ Boxed sets. Love ’em? Hate ’em? Readers tend to fall into either camp, I’ve found. I’m a contrarian, myself. I don’t like series boxed sets, because they mess up the organization and archiving of my ebooks. And I like seeing all the covers for each book in the
A *Very* Big Space Opera Read! And even more news. Read More »
Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as “empty,” “meaningless,” or “dishonest,” and scorn to use them. No matter how “pure” their motives, they thereby throw sand into
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Boxed sets seem to be an either/or thing for readers. Either you love ’em or hate ’em. I tend to lean toward the “pass, thank you” side of the fence, because I’m so nerdy, I prefer to have each individual book listed in my ebook reader, than a thick single file. And usually, the cover
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I get a lot of mail from readers asking for technical help, usually for very simple things like uploading books to their readers. A lot of these same readers add something along the lines of “I’m not very computer savvy…” Surprisingly, it’s not just my romance readers who say this. I’m probably typecasting/profile wildly when
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I’ve been reading all the social network posts about the Covid19 lockdowns and social distancing, and the many ways people have discovered or invented to keep themselves occupied. Singing opera on balconies, building Lego cities…there’s been some amazing ideas (here and here for some of them). My own response has been very cliched: When I
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When I was still “just” a reader, (I’m still a reader, it’s just not all I do anymore), I used to marvel at what I thought were the complexities of the publishing world. I mean, how did they figure out what stories to publish? How did they set up the type in books so
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Did you roll your eyes at that one? It’s okay if you did, because sometimes, I roll my eyes at that, too. There’s too much hard work, mental sweat and sheer discipline involved in getting a book written for it to ever just ‘fall out’ of a writer, yet there are an awful lot of
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I’ve received emails from readers who trip over the numbering system in my series. I admit that if you’ve never seen that sort of series numbering before — I call it digital numbering — it can look a little strange, but there are very good reasons for numbering the series the way I do,
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Fellow author Terry Mixon just bought out the first book in a brand new military SF series so I thought I’d give you a heads up. They thought they could force her to conform. They were wrong. Inside a dystopian school in the Singularity, the twelve-year-old girl known as One Twenty-Four struggles to survive. Failure
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