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If how a birthday goes is any indication of how the year will go, I am really looking forward to this next year. I got to spend time with my favorite people, got some work done, had a lot of fun, and escaped it all without bodily injury or an arrest record. If that’s how […]

A lot of people are just finishing up NaNoWriMo or are looking ahead to 2011 as the year when they get their novel in publishable shape, so they can take the plunge into the world of publishing. I really understand that dream, and I want to help people realize it. This is one of the […]

November is almost here and I have a novel to write. Of Limited Loyalty is the second book in the Crown Colonies series. It picks up roughly three years after At the Queen’s Command. As I did last year, I’ll be putting a lot of words on the project during November. I’ll also be blogging […]

Full Disclosure Note: I own ten (10) shares of Starbucks stock. On October 20th, 2010 Starbucks rolled out the Starbucks Digital Network. The link goes to their press release. The network was developed in conjunction with Yahoo. Via the free Wifi in company owned stores, Starbucks is providing premium content which one can only get […]

The only problem with working for yourself—aside from having a tyrant as a boss and a lazy workforce to tyrannize—is that everything which has to be done is something you have to do. Between traveling and working and all that living stuff—eating, sleeping, bathing and chores—a variety of other things fall by the wayside. So, […]

A Wall Street Journal article titled Authors Feel Pinch in Age of E-Books caught my eye. It covers the impact of the ebook revolution on the income and lifestyle of literary authors. The basic premise is that because ebooks sell for lower prices, publishers are offering literary writers lower advances. This, then, threatens the world […]

I just visited Project Gutenberg looking for books from the American Colonial period and just beyond. The other day I’d found and downloaded an encyclopedia of “useful information” published in 1889, which had fascinating stuff in it. One article, for example, reflected the scientific thought of the day about the origin of oil—and did so […]