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Meme: Blog of DOOOOOOMMMM!!!!
Ted Cross (of Ted Cross fame) passed along a blog award called the BLOG OF DOOM!!!! While normally I shy away from blog awards, this one is full of DOOM! How could I pass that up? The Rules: 1. When you receive the Blog Award of DOOM your task is to post a short selection…
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Visual Aid
Yesterday’s comments inspired a visual aid that I think best communicates one’s goal of publishing and the routes available to you via traditional publishers and self-publishing. Traditional Publishing Self-Publishing
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Splitting the Hairs
Previously I had posted about reconsidering self-publishing as a viable strategy. This was not, as is so often the case, a response to a query rejection. It was prompted by a strategic decision made by my company (a publisher). This was hard to accept for a couple of reasons. 1) Traditional publishing had been my…
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PATV
My friend Luke introduced me to Penny Arcade many years ago and it didn’t click. I didn’t have an X-Box and my Playstation 1 was gathering dust. I didn’t get any of their jokes. But one day in 2005 we’re hanging out in his room and his screensaver is a composite of his favorite PA…
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SEO What
It’s never too early to start. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. You may see a lot of ads around the internets for SEO companies that will help you game the system. They understand the value of links to and from your content to work your way through Google’s algorithm. Once upon a time it…
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Witness Protection is Always Funny
Necessary backstory: Every Monday in Nashua is a board-game Meet Up. This is how I met most of my friends when I moved to New England. I showed up thinking it would be three nerds playing Ticket to Ride and it turned out to be twenty awesome people (many of them nerds–like me) playing Ticket…
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iFrames coming around
My website/blog merger is now 95% complete. I ended up keeping (but rephrasing and restructuring) the various lists of work because I find those lists help me choose what to work on next. I got rid of the book covers and blurbs and decided to save those for when I have an actual published book…
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The Bill of Rights c.1791
The general rule is that no sign exists until after someone does what the sign instructs not to do (thus my favorite sign is “Do not lick the C-4”). You should consider the Bill of Rights to the American Constitution much like a sign. The reason why those 10 items were enumerated? Because they happened.…