As of 9:13 PM, I would like to welcome the 1st Official Nephew of the blog, Cole Jameson Hawkins, into the world. (That link currently goes to Cole’s mom’s MySpace page. I’m sure Christy will have some pictures up there soon.) Mom (Christy), Dad (my brother James), sister (Emma) and Cole are all doing well. [...]
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Reuters is reporting that Random House is getting into the ebook business with a pilot program offering downloadable books at $2.99 per chapter. No, that isn’t a typo. $2.99 per chapter. Not per book. Per chapter. WTF? For a model that requires almost zero distribution costs and no printing costs. That would be $60 for [...]
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It’s once again time for me to shamelessly pimp some of the pop culture media that have grabbed my attention lately. (Because I am a sucker of the pop culture.) Plus, it’s hard to attract groupies if they don’t know the sorts of things they should be glomming upon. The last thing I need is [...]
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This is going to be one of those potpourri updates because I’m going about a million different directions right now. So strap in, put on your crash helmets and dive in. First off, I’m absolutely stunned at the traffic I’m seeing since Matt put my work up on manybooks.net. Lots and lots of new visitors [...]
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