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The original ending of THE COMMANDING STONE
As promised, what follows is the original ending of The Commanding Stone, the third (and unfortunately, final) volume in the Osserian Saga. If you haven’t read the book, the following will make no sense to you at all, so you … Continue reading
The value of Amazon’s KDP Select Program
From The Corner, by David Kazzie: This is my guess as to how a book that couldn’t muster a sale a day became an Amazon bestseller, virtually overnight. Early Friday morning, the book continued to appear on the Free bestseller … Continue reading
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The fourth book in THE OSSERIAN SAGA
I’ve been getting more and more emails from people asking when the next book is coming out (from as far away as Norway), and they’ve been coming with greater frequency, so I figured it’s time I responded publicly rather than … Continue reading
More on Apple’s January 19th event in New York
From Ars Technica: Apple to announce tools, platform to “digitally destroy” textbook publishing Apple is slated to announce the fruits of its labor on improving the use of technology in education at its special media event on Thursday, January 19. While … Continue reading
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Apple’s education event to be held at the Guggenheim Museum on January 19
The Apple event I previously discussed (hoping it was related to Apple making it easier for indie writers to publish their works on the iBookstore), now seems to be an education/textbook event. That’s not to say that there won’t be … Continue reading
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Hold the presses on that Apple announcement
I just posted that Apple’s scheduled January press event in New York City would focus on competing head to head with Amazon by making it easier for self-published writers to get their works onto the iBookstore without having to go … Continue reading
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Apple diving into the self-publishing business
The mysterious event Apple is holding later this month just got a little less mysterious. They are apparently going to make it easier to self-publish books through their iBookstore application. Apple is going to be holding an exclusive event in … Continue reading
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This week’s NEW YORK TIMES bestsellers
The top of the crop for the final week of 2011. 1 11/22/63, by Stephen King. (Scribner.) An English teacher travels back to 1958 by way of a time portal in a Maine diner. His assignment is to stop Lee … Continue reading
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This week’s NEW YORK TIMES hardcover bestsellers
This week’s top o’ the heap. I just finished Michael Connelly’s The Drop and it was, as usual, fabulous. Connelly’s another one of those writers who can basically do no wrong. 1. THE DROP, by Michael Connelly. (Little, Brown & … Continue reading
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Children’s drawings turned into realistic paintings
This has been floating around the Internet for a couple of days now, but for those who haven’t seen it, here’s a brief description. Dave Devries takes sketches of monsters drawn by children purely from their imagination and renders them … Continue reading
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