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Monday, February 08, 2010

Random Thoughts

1. Why Mondays? Seriously. Why?

2. I don't get why authors beg other authors to go vote for them in a reader poll. This is different, by the way, from alerting your readers about such a poll. I'm talking about appealing directly to groups of other authors. Let's say that works and all your author friends vote for you in droves and YAY! You win. Well, so what? You didn't win because readers loved your book. You won because you begged. How good will you feel afterward? All right, so I get why authors do that, because then you can brag about the win and maybe you'll get some increased sales. But inside, you'll know it's a lie. Am I crazy for feeling that way?

3. I kind of feel the same way about my mailing list, which is quite small. Trust, me the numbers are nothing to brag about. But if I make people sign up for my mailing list in order to enter a contest or what have you, don't I end up with a bunch of people who are on my newsletter list to win stuff? I want people on the list because they want to know about my books. Is that dumb of me? I suspect it is. But I can't help feeling that way.

4. I'm serious about the Monday question.

5. I recently did an interesting track down search for a funny post that I originally saw on Twitter that said, basically, something about editor humor. Well, I'm all about finding out if editors really do have a sense of humor. (Kidding!! I know you do!! Editors are some of the funniest people I know.)

Anyway, I clicked through and landed at the always wonderful SciFi Guy Blog. This post was headed Why Werewolves Teach Their Kids Grammar which gave credit to the blog Only The Best SciFi/Fantasy with their post titled, A touching Story of How Grammar saved A Life. That post credited Boing Boing but without a link back. But I found that post which is titled Fun with Punctuation and it credits Dweebist. The Dweebist post is titled merely Commas, and it seems to be the source.

It's like Internet Telephone. From commas to saving lives, to werewolf humor to editor humor.
But it's still funny.


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Friday, January 16, 2009

A cornucopia of goodness!

Books in my Future


From Publisher's Marketplace (If you're a writer, you should be subscribing. It's worth the money.


NON-FICTION: COOKING

CEO of Ciao Bella Gelato F.W. Pearce's book on gelato, featuring 100 recipes for classic and exotic flavors, advice from Ciao Bella's master chef on creating your own new flavors, as well as information about ingredients, methodology and tools, and using gelato to make creative concoctions, to Aliza Fogelson at Clarkson Potter (World).



I'm hungry all ready!



NON-FICTION: MEMOIR

Keith Desseric and Brooke Desseric's originally self-published NOTES LEFT BEHIND, said to have sold almost 8,000 copies after being featured on GMA recently, a journal created by the family of five year-old Elena Desseric, during her battle with an inoperable kind of cancer that took her life in 2007, including Elena's "bucket list" and accompanying artwork, to Lisa Sharkey for William Morrow, for publication in fall 2009, by Sharlene Martin at Martin Literary Management, with the authors' proceeds going to a foundation to raise money to find a cure for pediatric brain cancer.



In case you didn't hear, this terminally ill 6 year old hid notes around the house, to be found after her death. I cried just reading about it. I'll totally buy this book.

A new Author Talk!!!


Merline Lovelace rocks:

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Sunday, December 14, 2008

The Post-Sinful Giddiness



I couldn't stop laughing.

I heart xkcd

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Monday, November 10, 2008

Three Funny things!!

But you have to read about them over at the The Grand Central Cafe

You will laugh. I swear.

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Wednesday, October 01, 2008

On writing well

Fiction Rule of Thumb from xkcd

I heart xkcd.com. Check out the one from a couple of days ago. (a couple posts ago).


Also, I declared a winner in the LOL cat contest. Read previous post to see if you're the one!

Also, also, I'm still waiting for the additional entrants for the Wicked Cool Contest. Soon, soon...

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Sunday, March 02, 2008

Run For your Lives!!

I forgot to mention that a few days ago I read the funniest newspaper article ever.
New Threat To our Way Of life: Giant Pythons. You HAVE to read this.

First off, it's by Steve Rubenstein, who's been writing for the San Francisco Chronicle for ages. I missed the byline when I started reading about pythons on the loose and pretty soon I was just laughing so hard I hurt. Steve Rubenstein is sneaky funny. Everything is straight and then wham!

On the off chance that some editor reads this, can't you call up Steve and find out if he's got a novel or something? I'd line up to read a novel by him. Or just a collection of his stories.

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Thursday, March 29, 2007

Here's the funny stuff

Water bill which I found out about via zeFrank. If you visit ze, spend some time watching the videos. Oh my gosh! I almost died laughing. The links on the first site are to jpgs so you might have to resize them. Worth the trouble.

Then there's this one on How to choose an archnemesis from Cosmic Variance, one of my favorite blogs.

Now I'm back to writing.

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Thursday, December 14, 2006

Used Abused and misunderstood (but check out those abs!)

Now this is really funny. From The Onion. How Did I End up On the Cover of This Romance Novel?

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