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Making It Easy – We’re Moving 27 Aug 2012 | 12:26 am
OK, I am not changing where I live or work, but I am in the process of moving all the publishing related posts on this blog to a new Making It Easy blog on our Five Rainbows Services for Authors & Pub...
Fair Use a la Google 31 Jul 2012 | 12:09 am
Today, Publishers Weekly posted their analysis of Google’s recently issued statement defending its ongoing book scanning program. Google’s hired guns (aka lawyers) have aggressively attacked those who...
What It Takes to Start a Business 28 Jul 2012 | 01:04 am
Since Obama has never tried to start his own business, he doesn’t understand what truly separates the entrepreneur from those who only dream of starting a business. I think that is at the root of his ...
‘Reflections’ Short Story Collection Available 12 Jul 2012 | 04:29 am
My latest short story collection is now available in the Amazon Kindle Store, B&N Nook Books, and Apple iBookstore for $2.99, with comparable prices in the overseas outlets. It should soon be availabl...
Knight Errant – First Pages 8 Jul 2012 | 07:57 pm
I am well into my new historical novel titled Knight Errant, a sequel to my World War I aviation historical novel Once A Knight. We’re still working on a cover concept, but here are the opening few pa...
Would ET Be Nasty or Nice? 7 Jul 2012 | 08:30 pm
It’s an interesting question. If we were to encounter representatives of an extraterrestrial race, are they more likely to act like malicious predators (Independence Day or “To Serve Mankind”) or beni...
Independence Day 4 Jul 2012 | 08:39 pm
Today is the Fourth of July, in the year of our Lord 2012. However, it is important in the United States of America to call this day, a day on which a new country was formally launched at incredible c...
The Future of Print 2 Jul 2012 | 09:49 pm
At Jacobsville Books, we have seen a noticeable surge in the sales of print books over the past two months. In the same period, sales of eBooks have been relatively flat. As I’ve said before, I don’t...
Writing as Discovery 30 May 2012 | 12:03 am
I believe that writing should be a path to discovery, for both the writer and the reader. Sometimes, we set out to write a story with a firm concept of what’s going to happen, who’s going to do what,...
Weekly Freebie 29 May 2012 | 08:01 am
This week, my weekly Freebie is a short story from Rather Shorts: Six Short Tales of Crime in a Small Texas Town, published in 2011, titled “Just a Quiet Sunday.” To read it now, just click on the Fr...
