Strange new world
Barney Frank said that according to to the ultraconservatives life begins at conception and ends at birth. This twisted mindset is being acted out daily throughout state legislatures. The growing...
View ArticleAwesome Indies the next wave
Coming soon to a computer in your house is the website Awesome Indies. This site is dedicated to offering well-written books by authors of the indie persuasion. Mainstream publishing is no longer where...
View ArticleAwesome Indies Grand Opening Party
www.awesomeindies.net go there now!!! And keep going there. Here is the site you have been waiting for. Indie books as good as, OR BETTER THAN, what you would find from mainstream publishing. All...
View ArticlePop culture junk
Yes, our society keeps sinking to new lows. First, there are the horrible reality shows but now series are like so much dog doo. I am outraged by an article praising a new show titled, Mistresses....
View ArticleI’m on a roll–but not in a good way
So that the last few reviews of SUNSPOTS were awful. Horrible. Cringeworthy. Bad reviews are supposed to teach us. Or so they say. Me? I’m not buying that idea because the good reviews have been REALLY...
View ArticleThe review racket
I read a post on Facebook that got me thinking. When is a review a real review and a reviewer a real reviewer? It seems to me that a book reviewer who is professional will read anything and assess its...
View ArticleReview racket, continued
So now I am faced with another situation that I basically hate. To get a gold seal of excellence from a website I respect, I needed another 5-star review. My first book Walking with Elephants, got one...
View ArticleFrom the heart, indie also means alone
Sometimes an indie author has to take stock. Sure there are support groups, like-minded websites, promo sites that push the indie author. But when all is said and done, a writer has to have an inner...
View ArticleThe war on women may be coming to an end
I am very excited about the governor’s race in VA. Another man with medieval ideas was trying to become governor. He had already done damage as Lt. Governor. Well, sanity returns to VA. I’m so sick of...
View ArticleAmazon reviewer susanmx abuses the process
This happened to me yesterday and I hope it doesn’t happen to you. A one-star review for Sunspots showed up, bad enough, and then I read it. The title of the review is BAD and then she writes, “I...
View ArticleWhy I write revisited
Lately, I’ve discovered some downright mean people in the indie author world and readers in general. Pompous, self-righteous reviewers, and disloyalty abounds among members of this said community....
View ArticleThe holiday season is upon us
Facebook is the adhesive that keeps us all in touch. We used to send cards or call. A more personal approach but one that too often fell prey to busy lives. The phone call was not made, the card not...
View ArticleReflections
So this year is drawing to an end. What have I accomplished? What have I learned? What is left to do in my twilight years? Taking stock, I have accomplished quite a lot. I published my second novel...
View ArticleLooking ahead, dreams and hopes
Before we are ready, yet another year has passed. As you advance in age, each year, each day, each breath is precious. Your childhood memories seem like events that happened to someone else. Indeed,...
View ArticleChilly day at the lake
The lake is like a mirror in some sections with ripples from a light breeze in others. A peaceful scene that brings inner peace. I hear birds chirping and watch my kitties sleeping. There’s a nip in...
View ArticleCreating an Audible book.
I got the idea to create an Audible book after seeing ads and suggestions from other authors. I perused the Web site and thought, this could work easily for me, because my son and his wife are VO...
View ArticleMusings on the state of things for indies
So it looks like the Nook has succumbed to overwhelming competition from the Kindle. Most readers buy for the Kindle, as I have learned from personal experience. I think Apple ibooks has a chance...
View ArticleAuthors are uniting
So there is a petition going around to have Amazon get on the ball and stop the snarky trolls from attacking authors by making all reviewers use their real names. Seems these nasties use sock puppet...
View ArticleThe disillusionment and education of being an Indie Author
As an Indie Author, I am at the mercy of tour companies, reviewers, and ad response at websites and newsletters. Some of these experiences have been great, most not so great. Some ads at first were...
View ArticleTribute to Mickey Rooney and other musings
I met Mickey Rooney. More than just met him, I actually interviewed him for a column I wrote for a tabloid in Jacksonville, Fla. It was a long time ago and as I think about it, he probably was about...
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