Now that we are all reading ebooks on our Kindles, iPad and Nooks, why would anyone bother to produce a book cover? After all, there’s no book to put it on. An ebook doesn’t come in the old standard 5″ x 8 1/4″, so why do we still believe a book needs to have a …
Allen’s Pledge By Brent Frysinger “Gram you’re lazy,” Amber said. “You’re a procrastinator, you have no motivation to do anything,” as she rolled over. Gram quickly thought to himself, “I have plenty of motivation to to screw you,” gesturing the middle finger with her back turned. “Yes I know I need to drop off this …
A very long, long time ago when times were different there existed people who called themselves writers. They were a pleasant bunch of daydreamers, incessant travelers and occasionally, scallywags. Being a writer or even better, an author, meant lazing on desert islands sipping cocktails or being a bar philosopher or perhaps traveling to exotic places …
The White Lady By Michael C. Boxall Freighted with tapas and Concha y Toro and trailing ghosts in her glittering wake, the White Lady glides toward the quay, where a sparse crowd — ten? a dozen at most — raises a long yellow banner with black writing. From Peter’s daysailer Luca hears faint shouts across …
What happens to your social media presence when you drop dead? With so much interlinking, sharing, auto-posting and re-tweeting I’m really wondering if I might just live on (socially speaking) for a few years without anyone noticing. Perhaps I can plan for this eventuality by setting up some horribly clever automation that will have me …
Runner’s Gauntlet By Jack Eason Albert Johnstone and his pal Dick Madison had both enlisted at the same time, barely twelve weeks after war had been declared in 1914. At the time, Dick was nineteen and Albert was barely eighteen. Since then three long and bitterly hard fought years had passed in the ‘war to …
Amazon’s KDP Select program is changing the rules for self publishers. It wants exclusivity, which means you cannot offer your book for sale anywhere else. Judging by the number of comments and on my recent post about Smashwords vs Exclusivity, it is clearly an issue that has a long way to run before the dust …
Alex Russell’s iTest By Alex Russell The day for my eye test with Doctor Gerbil has arrived – I’ve only had to wait five weeks. It’s early May but Vichy, the spa town, feels like a sauna. We find the ophthalmologist’s surgery not at number four, as we had been told, but at number eleven. …
Some you may know that I’m an Aussie. Albeit dropped head first into living in Switzerland over ten years ago. While life is just bliss, the one thing I miss is speaking (and writing) in my mother language. Ocker! Just in case you get lost once I change language into Ocker, or ‘Strine’ as it …
Get High By David Moon Every year when the weather turns a bit warmer, I think of that hot night in 1975. I had a summer job in the Purchasing Department of the American National Bank on North Main Street in Jacksonville, Florida. One of my co-workers there was a former high school basketball teammate, …
There is not a lot of use slaving away on your blog if no one reads it. Every blogger would like to increase their readership, but where do you begin? While attracting subscriptions to a blog’s RSS feeds is still considered one of the best ways to keep your readers, times are changing. More and …
A Personal Tempest in Cape Coral by Dayna Reid The moist, warm, air carries hints of the sea, sand, and palm leaves in a single breath. A twenty-minute drive from town takes you to the ocean. Surrounded by canals, this is not Italy’s Venice … but an American Venice—Cape Coral, Florida. There are no quaint cobblestone streets and …
