First I want to welcome my new followers. Thanks for connecting with me. I have enjoyed the new blogs I found via followers and love the way we are all finding each other was we crawl along the World Wide Web. Sometimes when I stop and think about the impact the Internet has had on […]
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The Supreme Court recently overturned a judgment by a district court that had been given to the Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas prohibiting them from demonstrating at the funerals of military men and women. This group, that calls itself a church, shows up at the funerals carrying signs that read: “Thank God for Dead Soldiers”
Even though most of us writers would much rather be writing than promoting, this is still something we need to do. What good does it do to write books if nobody knows they are available, right? So today I’m wearing my PR hat. First, I am excited to announce that I am a guest on
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This special celebration for the anniversary of the first e-book has created quite an interest on the Internet with authors and publishers offering great deals on e-books. I posted yesterday with some links to the official Read An eBook site where some authors are listed. You can also go directly to Smashwords and see which
E-books are celebrating a 40th anniversary. Wow, I did not know they had been in existence that long, as I first heard about them about 25 years ago. Some pioneering e-publishers predicted that e-books would have a huge surge in popularity within 5 years, but it took another 20 years for the surge to really
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Before we get to the regularly scheduled program, I have a guest piece on Elizabeth Spann Craig’s Mystery Writing is Murder blog. We are talking about jigsaw puzzles and writing and what they have in common. Stop on by if you have a minute. ~~~~~~~ Add caption Dennis Montgomery, who owns a California computer company,
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This is an exciting time for writers with all the new avenues of publication opening up with e-books and digital publishing, and I have enjoyed hearing of the success of writers like Joe Konrath, LJ Sellers, and others who have sold hundreds of books. (They also have great tips and advice on self-publishing.) I have
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Thank you, Carl, for sharing yet another book review with us….. The Cruel Ever Afterby Ellen HartA Minotar (St. Martin’s Press)2010 release. Hard cover, 320 pgs.ISBN: 9780312624768 This, Hart’s nineteenth Jane Lawless mystery, is probably the darkest and most shocking of the series. The book is full of painful, difficult relationships and actions. The extensive
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New iPhone app for Roman Catholics – confession via the telephone. A Vatican spokesman responds, “One cannot speak in any way of confession by iPhone.” Was that PR speak for “Are you nuts?” Senator Harry Reid criticized House Republican’s proposed spending cuts by saying, “After all, you can lose a lot of weight by cutting
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Thanks to Maryann for hosting today’s stop on Peg’s Blog Crawl. Yesterday’s post, “Idioms”, is at http://wwwgeraldineevanscom.blogspot.com ~~~~~~~~~ Eccentric Phrases If your toaster stopped working, you would probably go out and get a new one. When a phrase stops working, we’re stuck with it. We can’t send out a memo, “Stop using that one, folks.”
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