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December 14, 2008
- I wrote of stories once, back when the internet was young, and used a fishing metaphor. The sea is wide, I wrote, full of mysteries below, and worked by desperate fleets. This crew fishes for romance, that for suspense. and that fleet over there, why, they have cast their nets for adventure, and hope to drag in a big one. That's all, in fact, they fish for: they want the big one, today's best ...
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November 29, 2008
- For Thanksgiving, Stephanie and I went to The Cracker Barrel. It was just us, and I didn’t want to cook for two, but more than that- my mom was a waitress for thirty-five years. There were many Thanksgivings that my sisters and I huddled in the back booth while mom worked. The cooks would bring us great treats throughout the day so it wasn’t so bad. Going to a restaurant on turkey day is ...
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November 25, 2008
- When I was growing up in Canada in the early 1940s, we always turned on the radio to keep us company during breakfast, but instead of the doom and gloom headlines with which we currently begin every day in 2008 (whether we tune in to radio, television, or the Internet), my family of origin listened to "The Happy Gang." The cheery program began with a triple knock on the door. ...
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August 29, 2008
- In Steve Weber's Plug Your Book!, he includes a relevant quote from bestselling author Seth Godin who says, "The best time to start promoting your book is three years before it comes out. Three years to build a reputation, build a permission asset, build a blog, build a following, build credibility, and build the connections you'll need later." Although my books have now sold over ...
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August 6, 2008
- Today I got up the nerve to call small bookstores and pitch my book. Well, can I tell you I was so nervous. I must have fumbled over my own name. I forgot how to speak Spanish. Seriously, I couldn't even take down a telephone number. It was pathetic to say the least. I have to say small bookstore owners were very friendly and not judgemental at all. I even asked one how I did and he was honest. ...
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June 7, 2008
- Marketing a book in an increasingly visually driven society is a tough role. Not to mention the ever decreasing number of people who actually read (books that is, not this stupid blog). According to statistics from sources that sound legit* 80% of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year [2002]. I'm hoping this figure can be taken literally to mean that these families did not physically ...
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January 29, 2008
- This morning I sent out a mailing to the 4 or 500 people who read my political rants and forwards, only this morning, I urged them to buy Patry's novel as a way of helping themselves and of helping her. I felt particularly good doing this, because I've been cranky of late about how a 'virtual' community is not really a community at all, and how much of the blather about the Internet is really ...
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