How to respond to internet harassmentThis is a good little article ( Read more... )

Right now I am mainly ebook and small press. I squandered a lot of great opportunities when I was younger ( Read more... )

I just got another taste of professional jealousy. When I brought up what had happened, a friend suggested I read this post by Kathryn RuschMy situation with Lawrence Dagstine has been going on with periodic fury since just before Strikethrough 07. He launched several alt attacks on me that left worn out for a long time. It took getting some ( Read more... )

I got that email this morning telling me it would be 48 hours....

Well, that was wrong. The books are out now.

The kindle version of Serpent's Quest, all spiffied up and expanded, is out RIGHT NOW. It's 125k words for $1.

Yup, just ONE dollar.

And Fireborn Law is out also. Although it somehow got referred to as part of the Dark Brothers ( Read more... )

I finally got satisfaction from Amazon's kindle program. On January 26th, Tim Willard uploaded Serpent's Quest and Fireborn Law to the kindle publishing program. The next day, I went on and approved the books. By the next Monday the books were still not released and no explanation was offered to me by Amazon. Their info is that the books are ( Read more... )

It seems that David Byron who ripped off several authors is now having a spot of trouble and wants authors and others to give him nearly $2k to rescue him ( Read more... )

Child sacrifice in Uganda is an intense article.

What I find very interesting is that this same country recently passed a law requiring that active homosexuals be executed.

I'm not known for my political correctness. It was pointing out things like this that got me banned from a fair number of feminist groups, blogs, and website et al.

I started looking at the situation with Cornwell's lawsuit against her stalker, Leslie Raymond Sachs. I had stopped following it for a few years. Then I got curious a few weeks ago. She won her lawsuit. Yet, Sachs has (in violation of court order) continued putting up other websites about it, still making the same claims ( Read more... )

After all these years I can't put all of the pieces right in my head. I have only an image that hit me so hard at seven years old, a month shy of eight, that it haunted my dreams as a child ( Read more... )

Brian Keene speaks on a subject dear to my heart and one I have been talking about in bits and pieces for months now.

There is a wide chasm of quality and direction between an established author bringing out their own backlist and an inexperienced first time writer self-publishing.