HOOK. ME. WITH. CHAPTER. ONE! I’ve done this post once before, but thought the message bears repeating again. I read 100K books in about a day. Rarely more than two. That’s not a brag, just a statement of fact. If, however, it takes me two weeks to read the first 19 pages of a book, [...]
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On Writing
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August 11th 2010
Twitter peeps, take note! If you’re going to tweet, for the love of God, don’t do the following! Use every hastag under the sun to follow everything you say. #hashtag #sun #tweet #opinion #IsOnlyGoingToAnnoyMeAndMakeMeStopFollowingYou Retweet horrific news from CNN or other news media. Seriously, if I wanted to read about children and puppies being tortured, [...]
Filed under Gripes Posted on July 22nd 2010
For every good review I receive, it seems the very next day I receive a not-so-good one for the very same book. I’m not at all confused by this because face it, reviews are subjective. What works for one person doesn’t work for another. I had one reviewer say a secondary character was a caricature [...]
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Makes you go hmmm...
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June 2nd 2010
the first review to land is almost as bad as waiting for a submission reply. Cold Blooded has been out for a couple of weeks and by now somebody has to have read it. (Right?) This release is a little different for me because I did something I normally don’t do and that is re-read [...]
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March 4th 2010
I sent Nocturne Bites a pitch with the hopes of winning a (quick(er)) read of my story? This one. I didn’t win. They even had a hard time picking and instead of five people, went with seven. Still didn’t make it into the picks. There were, IIRC, over 70 entries. So what did I do? [...]
I wrote a pirate yesterday to ask why he felt the need to offer my book for free to the public. I really was curious. His answer was asinine at best. Tell me if you can spot the many, many, MANY flaws in his logic: “What illegal books, they have been paid for, its kind [...]
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Makes you go hmmm...
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September 1st 2009
I tried to be all cheap and changed my domain name provider only to end up FUBARing morgansierra(dot)com. Now it doesn’t work! Anyway, sorry for the inconvenience to those who tried to get to those pages that way. For a day or two more, it’ll just take a little persistence in getting to them. But [...]
Filed under Gripes Posted on July 31st 2009
I fixed their little red wagons… You’ve gotta love when you fool around with your web site and notice a little box that prevents people from commenting on posts over a certain number of days old. What y’all might not know is that I’ve been getting over 1,000 (one thousand!) DAILY spams and they all [...]
Filed under Gripes Posted on June 13th 2009
I don’t know what else to say. Look at the state of things… 1) I haven’t blogged in what – a year? 2) I came home to over 1,200 spam posts on my blog today. WTF? 3) I didn’t send out my newsletter like I promised last weekend. And I have around five or six [...]
If you twitter, by now you’ve seen the Internet explode with news about Amazon. Even if you don’t twitter, follow #amazonfail and catch up on the craziness that Amazon has instituted. Basically, they are removing/unranking all “adult content” items, particularly GLBTQ books, erotica and romance novels. I’m joining in the protest by what Smart Bitches [...]
Filed under Gripes Posted on April 12th 2009
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