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Something like an update

Okay, so there’s not a lot going on. Shan’s on final edit of a short story (or maybe it’s long enough to call a novella, I forget) and it should be up, really, in a matter of days. So keep an eye on...

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Note to self:

Damnit, when I said I shouldn’t have deadlines anymore I should’ve listened to myself. Well, I didn’t. It’s not far off, it’s just that I didn’t account for a few things. For those uninterested in...

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I fucking hate Smashwords

Smashwords is a very good concept, but the site itself fucking blows. Its style guide is obtuse, confusing and useless; their idiot “meatgrinder” is a piece of shit which rejects things for idiot...

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Thoughts so far

Well, so far I’ve found two nuisances with Amazon. First was the TOC method that Kindle uses. It’s odd, and while the system seems to read and support the NCX from things like EPUB it doesn’t USE it....

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And it’s all there

Well, it’s finally happened. Stolen Time is now available for the Kindle, the Nook, and the Kobo. I want very much to be in the iBookstore, but that’s still going to be a little while. Sorry. Still,...

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What’s going on and other rambling

I’m writing, but mostly on my Other Project, but I’ve been getting some material up on The Universal Nexus Guide to Everything.  There’ve also been some short stories written. One was intended for a...

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How to self-publish

There’re a few thousand bloggers out there who’ve done this one.  Now I’m one of them.  In my own defence I’m one of the more recent (my last search for this yielded results a bit out of date), it...

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Where’re the stories?

So it’s been awhile since any new content went up. Not exactly true, since there is the Universal Nexus Guide to Everything which has gotten updates, but no new short stories or vignettes.  No new...

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Publication woes

Smashwords is a bust. Massive arguments with things and, all-in-all too much headache for not enough benefit, especially when something failed to work as advertised while carefully following the...

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Half off coupon!

Added Smashwords to the list of places you can buy Stolen Time. And, for the bloody hell of it, you can get 50% off the title there (only there. Try to use this coupon at the Nook store or Kobo and I...

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