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Dropbox
Dropbox has become my cloud storage vendor of choice, replacing Office Live Workspace for those times when I need to synchronize files between multiple machines (think home vs. work; no more sneakernet...
View ArticleHow long should it take to write a novel?
How long would it take to write a novel if you wrote 1,000 words/day? 500? 100? How about three sentences per day? How long would that take? I'm going to figure out some answers here. I'll start with...
View ArticleLibraryThing's 50 Book Challenge: Where I'm At
As I've been spelling out at the top of each of my recent book reviews, I'm taking LibraryThing's 50 Book Challenge for 2010. The reason LibraryThing is doing this is to, of course, promote reading. I...
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Found Books at Half Price Books
My wife and I were out doing some clothes shopping this July 4th holiday weekend. Everything was going fine until my wife asked very nicely if I wouldn't mind if we stopped at just one more store. Now,...
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300!
This is my 300th post. Rather than turn it into a meta-post or carry on with business as usual, I thought I'd usher this 300th post in with a short list of some of my favorite quotes from the movie...
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Wordnik's Word of the Day
For the longest time I was receiving daily Word of the Day emails from Dictionary.com. Then they stopped. It's one of those things—I was getting it for so long, usually casually glancing at the word...
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The 10 Highest-Paid Authors
Forbes published an article that lists the top 10 highest-paid authors based on the time period from June 1, 2009, through June 1, 2010. Earnings are based on the sale of books, film rights,...
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Draculas ARC
Joe Konrath of A Newbie's Guide to Publishing fame posted an offer giving away free ARC's of an upcoming horror eBook of his in exchange for a review here and on Amazon.com. Of course I jumped at the...
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Page99test.com
There are many rules for quantifying when one should stop reading a book if one is finding said book not so appealing. There's the 100 page rule, the 150 page rule, the 33% rule, and, last but not...
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Favorite Reads of 2010
Although we're not quite done with 2010, I'm starting to wind down my attempt at reading 50 books. I'm about halfway through my current read, and then I might be able to finish one more book after...
View ArticleAdvertise Your Book on BubbleCow for free
Online site BubbleCow provides writing advice, tips, and professional copyediting services. As an end-of-year thank you to their readers, they're offering free advertising on their site for any book,...
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2010 50 Book Reading Challenge Wrap-up
Last year, I decided to take LibraryThing's challenge of reading 50 books. I got pretty close, but didn't quite make it all the way. I think I was mostly on track until about the last three months of...
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Classic Reread: Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles
I think everyone who loves books has an inaugural series in their background that opened their eyes to a wider world of reading possibilities. For me, that series was Lloyd Alexander'sChronicles of...
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Pricing: eBooks vs Paperbacks
Most of the time when I finish a book, I'm ready to buy the next one on my wish list right away. Since I own a Kindle, my preferred reading format is digital. The problem of late is that too many of...
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An introspective on Borders' liquidation
In what can only be seen as a sign of the times, Borders is closing its remaining 399 stores. Last ditch talks that would have brought in additional financing have failed, leaving the company with no...
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Favorite Reads of 2011
Something I’ve done the past few years is engage in a reading challenge. I documented 2010’s on this blog, but left it to GoodReads to handle the bookkeeping exclusively for me for 2011 (41 books read...
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An amazing quote to go in this space, or mistakes happen
I was out on Goodreads earlier today when an exceptionally done cover caught my eye. Here it is at the size I first saw it at: I don't know about you, but I want to click-through on this cover. I did,...
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On perfection
What is perfection? Dictionary.com defines it as this: the state or quality of being or becoming perfect It defines "perfect" as: excellent or complete beyond practical or theoretical improvement...
View ArticleWhere I'm at on the Web
Last post I talked about some of the marketing efforts I'm typically engaged in for my books and that I'd decided to take a step back. It wasn't until I dug into where I was spending my time that I...
View ArticleThe Effect of Negative Reviews, or Why I've Stopped Reading All Reviews
Someone out on KindleBoards asked the following question:Do negative reviews ever make you feel like giving up? The responses were varied but there's definitely a common theme: Don't let them get to...
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