Apr 4, 2014 | My friends' Guest Posts
I met Author Sylvia Hubbard through Fabulosity Reads, and she has kindly offered to share a guest post here, regarding her writing. So, here it is: “When I teach how to write stories, I see a look in people’s eyes who haven’t started their story of confusion...
Apr 4, 2014 | My friends' Guest Posts
Sylvia Hubbard, whom I met through Fabulosity Reads, has written this week’s guest post, Someone is Telling me a Story. She has also agreed to an interview: Hi Sylvia, please tell us about yourself. I am first and foremost a person deeply and devoted to words –...
Apr 3, 2014 | Entertainment
I’ve come to realize lately that things happen in their own time. No matter how much I want something, if it’s meant to happen, it will, no effort needed on my part. Other times, I might want something very much, but no matter how much effort I put into it, it...
Apr 3, 2014 | Entertainment
This is funny and I think that we all have wondered at the wonders (repetition intended) of the English language! It took me quite a while to understand why enough is spelt as it is (never quite understood why ‘gh’ is spelt as ‘f’, and I used...
Apr 1, 2014 | Entertainment, Writing
I found this fantastic comic in designtaxi and I had to share!
Apr 1, 2014 | Blog hops tours & reblogs, Random Musings
I am always amazed at how many interesting and unique books are published. Right before Christmas I read about Letters of Note, which started as a blog and then the blog owner decided to have a book published with all those lovely, interesting and diverse letters he...
Mar 30, 2014 | Publishing
When I started sending my drafts to agents and publishers, I could not fathom how someone would not want to steal my incredibly rich and amazing stories of dark epic fantasy/sci-fi. If I could stamp every single page of my masterpiece with my copyright notice, my...
Mar 29, 2014 | Marketing, Publishing
When I used Amazon to publish Year 18: The Schism, the first book in my dark epic fantasy series, Pearseus, I was asked whether I wanted to use DRM for the book or not. I was also warned that I would be unable to change the setting in the future. So, just what is...
Mar 29, 2014 | Marketing, Publishing
A few days ago I came across a fascinating report regarding the future of e-Books and e-Readers by PriceWaterhouseCoopers. The analysis itself is somewhat dated (2010) but the survey gave some interesting pointers for us, self-published authors. So I will be posting...
