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Readers Wanted

I will finish my edits of Hard as Roxx tomorrow, after spending a week integrating editor’s and beta readers’ comments. I still like the book, though I wonder if it starts quickly enough for some. As is true in most

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Books 1 & 2 of The Stream – Now Cheaper!

I reduced the price of the paperback version of Discovery to $11.95 and Awakening to $12.95. You can buy them for the reduced price from Createspace by clicking on the “My Books” link above (http://thisblogblank.wordpress.com/my-books/). The price reductions should show

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Cheers!

As a thank you for helping me choose the cover art, I am offering the Kindle version of The Juice and Other Stories for free on Monday, 1 April 2013. It will be free from 12:00 a.m. PDT until midnight

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Help Me Choose Cover Art!

While I was putting together my last post (as I indicated) I came up with an idea of how to do the cover art for the paperback version of my short story collection. I liked the idea enough that it

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Recognition

As I feared, I’ve discovered that I have heretofore been invisible. Fortunately, by some twist of nature, I have recently become detectable to humans. I’m not certain as to the mechanism, but I’m thinking it’s related to the CERN supercollider.

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Background Work

I decided that the main character of the new book, Jeanne “Dark” D’Arc, owns a 1972 Renault Alpine. She is proudly, almost stubbornly French, and the year is special to her. Her personal symbol is the Ibis, which she had painted

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Review: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain My rating: 2 of 5 stars Summary: Nineteen-year-old Billy Lynn as his Bravo squad are at Cowboy stadium, at the end of a two-week tour celebrating their heroic defeat of an Al

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The Dea(r)th of Marketing

I’m not directly marketing my books anymore. Sure, I sell some, and I’d love to sell more, but I no longer try. In my opinion, the Great Internet experiment is over. Twitter marketing does nothing but fill up other authors’

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Review: The Fault in Our Stars

 – 5 out of 5 Stars “My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations.” — from The Fault in Our Stars The plot of the book is quite simple: Hazel is a girl with terminal cancer. She has been

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I Rite Buks

As a reminder, I do have books for sale on Amazon. I don’t really care about the money, to be honest. Rather, I use the sales to judge whether my work is liked enough to continue developing new characters and

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