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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On Writing
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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 [...]
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September 21st 2009
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 of [...]
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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 you’re [...]
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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 [...]
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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 free books to [...]
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May 21st 2009
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 has [...]
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April 12th 2009
more animals
At first when I saw this, I decided it would be a great blog topic. Before you click on the link, here’s your heads up. (No, nothing naughty over there. Sorry.) This a link to an online calendar of your sexual activity.
Um. Yeah.
Really.
Now back in my day, we kept that stuff kind of [...]
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March 26th 2009
Ok. So about a week ago, I ranted about how bad a particular book I’m reading by a very popular publisher is. (There’s some faulty grammar in there somewhere. I just know it.) Anyway, this past weekend, while attending a business conference, I trudged through the story.
And I was wrong.
I wasn’t wrong about how bad [...]
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On Writing
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March 10th 2009
more animals
I’m writing a new urban fantasy – Cold Blooded – for a publisher’s contest. Normally, when I write a story, I send it to the publisher I deem appropriate for the book and hope it sticks. (And that my nosey friends explains why I have so many publishers. ) Anyway, I digress…
This [...]
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February 26th 2009