Wanted to pop in today to mention that, for my July article at SFWA.org, I opted to provide the results of my 100 day social media blackout and give readers additional insights I didn’t write about here. Remember, too, that online marketing and e-commerce both have high learning curves. What you see/read online is often […]
Month: July 2011
Few Service Types of Announcements
Hey everyone, Just wanted to mention that I have been switching servers and wibbily-wobbily time-y whime-y (Yes, that is a Doctor Who reference…) on the back end. So the website has been up-and-down and comments made from this week mysteriously vanished into the wilds of the internet. Kind of like where your lost socks go, […]
The Idea of Limited Words
I have a few mentors that I touch base with from time to time. One of them recently said to me that I was smart to balance my workload based on free vs. paid and original vs. tie-in, because we only have so many words we will write. The idea that a writer has a […]
[Recommended Reading] The Blogfather Speaks Out
This interview with MetaFilter founder Matt Haughey has some extremely grounded viewpoints on the future of blogging, it’s value and all about the community that Metafilter has fostered. I think this is a good viewpoint to read — especially for writers. The site still basically looks like it did in 1999, but in the meantime, […]
[New Release] Instant Antagonists: The Creepy Cottontail
I have a strange relationship with Lovecraft, because even though he’s all about “your mind can’t handle the horrible truth” I often obsess over think of all the things that could go wrong. What if the cultists were preventing Cthulhu from rising? What happens if the Necronomicon is read backward? Or, as in this latest […]