Happy Spring!

Surviving in the Modern Technological World We live in a world in the midst of a war. No, this isn’t a religious post. No, it isn’t political, either. The war is one of technology, fed by companies desperate for survival. The only thing keeping them alive is you: your attention, your willingness to buy…
This was a hot topic at the convention. I won’t say I learned anything earth-shatteringly new, but it was nice to see it laid out simply. Selling books takes 3 things: 1) distribution — the books have to be available widely so that people can find them 2) convertibility — people have to be able…
Continuing on with some generic advice on how to use Liquid Story Binder — what if you’re a writer who has existing bits of manuscript that you want to import into LSB? I like to have a different “binder” for each major project. If I’m working on a trilogy, I try to keep all of…
I won’t say that marketing techniques are getting worse…because I already sound like a broken record. For years I’ve fought the fraudulent yellow pages bills sent to companies hoping that the treasurer will pay the ‘bill" without realizing it isn’t a real bill. Since I’m both the treasurer and the person who buys phone service…
I admit it: I dearly want to climb under my desk, put my hands over my ears, and chant “la la la” until I can ignore the changes in my digital world. I want to go back to the glory days of the internet when everything was shiny and new and I felt like I…
I can’t believe how many problem reports I’ve seen about Blogger just this week. Since I don’t usually tech Blogger, I did some reading up on the current problems and found a nice variety. Perhaps it was just that I was more alert to the issue, but now I seem to be seeing people having trouble with it…