He’s Just Not That Into You
What a depressing book. …
What a depressing book. …
When you’re about to self-publish, as I am, you’re also about to self-promote, self-represent and self-distribute your work. So I’ve been reading up on ways to improve the chances of my little book getting seen – keep in mind this is something I already know a thing or two about.  So I’m only going after tips from the masters. …
So not everybody has an ereader.  This I knew.  However I did not know how many people without ereaders would be interested in reading my little book. Quite a few it seems. …
It’s time for an update on my upcoming tome about the summer I spent working at a nudist resort.  Its title is The Naked Truth and it will be an ebook for Kindle (Amazon) and Kobo.  I want to put it through iBooks but I don’t have a Mac – a requirement to upload an ebook.  If I can find a good samaritan with a Mac, I’ll have access to the seller who owns the biggest market share. …
Here’s where my little book currently stands: Â It is about to be professionally edited. Â This is a step that a lot of people skip and boy, does it show. Â You simply cannot edit your own work with the same critical eye that someone else can give it. Â It is not possible. I’ve been writing professionally for much more than a decade now and I don’t submit a thing without having another set of eyes look it over. Â And when they find something and point it out, the piece always ends up better for it. Â Â …
I have a bit of a philosophy that’s not written in stone or even fully formed but it goes something like this: If it’s going to work out, it usually comes together pretty easily. Â Or something like that. Â In my experience, pushing and struggling and sweating and wallowing in anxiety doesn’t get me anywhere. Â …
This is how a memoir should be done. Â It’s raw, brutally honest and goes deep into the reasons why anyone would buy it in the first place – the band and the man who started it. Â …
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Someone in my high school class got the idea that since so many of us are turning 50 this year, we should all get together and share our misery! Â Haha. …
Much has been written about soul-less Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff and his ravenous greed. Â However, a new book aims to give us an inside look at Bernie’s entire family and how disgusting, sad, mean and gluttonous they all were, as a unit. Â …