The potentially stomach-twisting story of an old man and his dog…
Patent on breast cancer upheld
Patent on breast cancer upheld
So… if you have breast cancer, do these dillholes now own your disease? Or just your boobs?
Can they claim you as a dependant, or sue you for copyright infringement?
Is there any possible way to make them responsible for your medical care?
Read more »igotonthelovetrain: I have two of them! WANT! Where can you get these?
I have two of them!
WANT!
Where can you get these?
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Balls!
Blather about my new chair to follow. I just thought I’d at least have an interesting title.
I do recall reading somewhere that sitting on a big ball was better for you than the typical office chair.
I can literally feel mine doing things to my back. And, having sprained my ankle, yesterday, I can attest that your back will tell you it objects to sitting improperly again.
Alas, one thing you can’t do with a ball is
Read more »Some things I've learned
You can learn a lot from going overseas. All you have to do is open your mind when you open your eyes.
Long-ass blather follows. Go fetch a cuppa if you’re going to read this.
Considering that I have the attention span of a slightly concussed kitten, I’ll try to keep things organised with some bold headers.
Our current economic woes are our own fault and the solution lies within.
Basically, we let the corporate giants get that
Read more »So riddle me this:
I’ve been checking both my Smashwords account and my Adventure Map download area like some kind of zealot.
Okay. More or less daily.
Anyway.
Why am I more excited about people downloading the map than people downloading my books?
Is it because the map has a larger total of downloaders than my books? Or is it because I’m sabotaging myself somehow?
Or is it because my best-beloved more or less forced me to publish or perish with my
Read more »Enough fartarsing around. Time for some *professional* fartarsing around!
Me, when I decide to quit fiddling around on the iPad and get back to work on my writing.Read more »Enough fartarsing around. Time for some professional fartarsing around!
Achievement unlocked: Exercise for the day
Some have noted that my life is boring. Heaven forfend I get excitement, because excitement usually involves someone’s life going pants and me doing some variant of the quirkafleg.
[The quirkafleg is a series of spasmodic paroxysms directly related to extreme disgust, a violent tantrum, or a combination of the twain. Use the word and confuse your friends and family]
Anyway.
Today I got my exercise by Culching.
Culch is a fancy word for “potentially useful junk” and
Read more »Words an author never wants to hear
“We think your novel will make an excellent kids’ series.”
“How about [Completely wrong actor] to play the part of [Your hero(ine)]?”
“We love it, but can we cut the [Entire point of the whole damn book]?”
Hey, Hollywood. How about you trust that we did our best to write a good book and at least try to be faithful to the actual content?
Not that I’ve got close to getting there,
Read more »Goldman-Sachs evil allowed to perpetuate
Goldman-Sachs evil allowed to perpetuate
The complete lack of surprise astonishes none.
Read more »Nor Gloom of Night is live!
Published and available for sale for a lousy $1.99 [coughbuymybookscough]
Previewable here.
Please buy my stuff. Writing is the only thing I can really do.
Read more »Freakin' Lurgi
The entire family - minus me and the the antisociallite Captain Useless - have been struck low with Lurgi this week.
Which, for me, means interrupted sleep, tired days, lots of coffee caramel mochachinos, and entire swathes of the Blah’s.
More ranting on the Blah’s after the cut.
There is nothing more draining than the Blah’s. Everything is just… blah. Even the thought of it turns you off.
Going out? Blah. Having a decent meal?
Read more »A call for volunteers
You’ve had some free samples of my writing [check the #story tag in my posts] and now I’m looking for Beta Readers because it’s just occurred to me that handing out stories for free before I try to sell them might just be a bad business plan.
So. Does anyone out there with sharp reading eyes wish to subject themselves to the alpha drafts of whatever the heck my warped mind concocts next?
Read more »not really a question, but wow! so exciting! you've self-published. actually i change my mind, i do have a question. how was the...
The self-publishing process is a bit of a wringer. The site I have decided on [economic benefit of epub: cheaper distribution equals potential for more sales] has some exacting document standards and I literally spent half a week tracking down the right software to get it done right.
Long story short, I was looking the wrong way and it only took half an hour to install and get flying. Yay.
The next pain in the arse is copy/pasting my works from
Read more »A small dilemma (and an ask)
Firstly, apologies to everyone who’s been expecting a thing a day. I’ve been busy with pestillence, family and (again) waiting for someone who could help me to get their finger out of the metaphorical divot.
All my loyal readers will know I’m on Smashwords now and have my first work allegedly up and multi-compatible.
C'mon. Buy the dang thing. It’s only two freaking dollars. I need the money.
Ahem.
Anyway. I have three other
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