I signed up for two challenges this year: Cannonball Read and Get Your Words Out. I planned originally to log them over at another unused domain I have, but I’ve since decided to centralize things more and post my word counts (lots of those) and my book reviews (not so many of those) here instead. [...]

This makes me squeal in a most undignified manner. Yay for the people who organized it, yay for the RWA for approving it.
I’m generally of the opinion I don’t want to belong to any organization that would have me as a member, but I think I could handle this one.

All multiformat books are 50% off at Fictionwise, including mine!

Always makes me happy, reviews.
Ley at Joyfully Reviewed says,
Great story! In the beginning of The Best Man Zack was not an endearing person and he did not deserve Quaid. In fact, he was lucky to have someone as caring and unselfish as Quaid love him for so long, but ironically he thought Quaid was [...]

I’ve been slacking. I’ve been preoccupied with a few things: the amazonfail fiasco, finishing a big project (a fandom thing that will be posted some time in June), editing Apples & Gin (also out sometime in June, I’ll post the release date once I know what it is)—so the exercises for 31dbbb haven’t been a [...]

It only took four months, but ladies and gentlemen, I have read. a. novel.
I decided to start with something familiar. I read this book first when I was twelve or so, and Bronte’s style—her long, luxurious sentences, her dense grammar, her rich and evocative adjectives—influenced my writing for years. I even have a pen name [...]

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Just type in ‘rainmen’ in the coupon box when you check out and you’ll get 15% off on the price of your purchase!
The sale is good for April 15 and 16.
So go to www.torquerebooks.com and get your April Showers Men today!

Amazon has decided to drop all “adult” titles from their sales rankings. The interesting part is how they’re defining “adult”: John Barrowman’s autobiography Anything Goes, Mark Probst’s The Filly (a YA novel), and Alex Beecroft’s False Colors are all now stripped of their ranks, among several dozen/hundred of novels, nonfiction, biography and even the Advocate’s [...]

Today’s assignment is another toughie: analyze another top blog in your niche and figure out what you can emulate in order to improve your own blog.
Top blogs in my niche . . . my first thought is Neil Gaiman, who talks about life and writing, and posts pictures of his dogs and kids and [...]

Promotion.
You know, there’s a reason why I belong to a group on Facebook called “How to Promote Your Book If You’re Introverted, Socially Inept, Badly Organized or Simply Modest.”
This is the most useful method I have available, I think: the RSS feed: have notifications of new entries automatically delivered to your RSS reader or email.
I’m [...]