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ArmchairBEA grinds to a halt
Aside from the fact that no one wants to go home after a great party, the end of the week also brings an end to Book Expo America and ArmchairBEA. The week has absolutely flown by. Of course, that's partly due to attempting to work a couple of days at my job, write and edit a book, design and publish a book, and keep up with the requests for review ( Read more... ) -
Giveaways, Twitter Party, Publishing, and ArmchairBEA
I realized how fast life was going around me when I attended the ArmchairBEA Twitter Party last night. The flow of messages went past my eyes faster than I could read them. I'm still trying to sort through the contacts that I made last night ( Read more... ) -
Crazy Busy
Have three books to get out the door to print/KDP, etc. and still don't have my new Elder Road website live yet. ArmchairBEA starts Monday and I have to work all day tomorrow. Perhaps I'll get something done today! Oh. Wait. The day's almost over! -
Armchair BEA is coming soon!
Book Expo America kicks off June 4 at Javitts Center in New York City. The biggest book show in America, it includes the ancillary meetings of the IDPF Digital Book Conference and BEA Bloggers Conference.
But who can afford a trip to NYC from Seattle? Not me. So for the third year, I'll be participating remotely via ArmchairBEA. This is a great ( Read more... ) -
New Publishing Company Debuts
My new publishing arm is almost up and operating. Our first release is coming next week. The company name is Elder Road LLC and the imprint is Elder Road Books. Over the course of the next few months, titles that were formerly Long Tale Press titles will also begin to appear at Elder Road. Plus new titles ( Read more... ) -
Happy Aggressive New Year
I promised my annual New Year posting and have been tardy-okay, lazy-about getting it together. I guess I’ve been beaten down a bit by the past year so it’s hard to get motivated for the new one. Especially since I know what it is going to take. I need to be more aggressive.
That’s not a characteristic that anyone who knows me well would apply to ( Read more... ) -
Support Four Debut Authors and Snag $125
There are prizes to be awarded in a new promo for four authors new books, but that isn’t why I’m writing this post. For some time now, I’ve been expounding on the idea of authors getting together to promote each others writing. Yes, when we slap our names on something, we want to know it is as good as what we do ourselves, but sometimes you also ( Read more... ) -
Hold Enough-Part 1
Lay on, Macduff,
And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'
-Macbeth V. vii
As soon as I could confirm that Andi was okay with Cali, I headed to my apartment. I was on a mission. I knew now that Mel had been snatched from the street by someone who knew where she would be and when. I knew that there was more than one ( Read more... ) -
Hired
I cannot strike at wretched kerns, whose arms
Are hired to bear their staves:
-Macbeth V. vii
I sat in a food court a block away from the office drinking black coffee and setting up my plan of attack. Someone with access to the company security cameras had set me up by editing footage from security cameras to show me making a ( Read more... ) -
Clamorous Harbingers
Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath,
Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.
-Macbeth V.vi
About 11:30, Andi slipped out of bed and started feeling around for her clothes. I turned on a bedside light and just watched her beautiful body as she gathered her things together.
“Do you have to leave?”
“Curfew ( Read more... )