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Your Favorite Dark Fiction Author, Tagged on Secondact.com
Michelle Raftner, whom you may recognize as the brains behind WordCount’s Blogathon 2011, tossed a little light on yours truly in her secondact.com article Blogging Their Way to a Midlife Makeover. I...
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Awesome Books For Awesome Authors – 31 Days to Build A Better Blog by Darren...
Most authors have blogs, and most bloggers know about problogger.net. It’s a great resource to help you build a better blog. I’ve been following Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger.com for years now, and I...
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Book Review, Movie Review and Other Dark Fiction Review Policy for...
I suppose I should be flattered by the massive increase in requests for critiques and reviews of films, books and other dark fiction artwork. Looks like ten years of blogging is starting to pay off....
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The Next Big Thing
I’ve been tagged by the lovely and talented Dana Baird as well as by fictioneer Tyler Tork as part of The Next Big Thing Blog Hop! So in accordance with The Next Big Thing rules and regulations, I’m...
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Arts of Darkness – The Shadow of Approval Award
Since 2003 I’ve been writing blog-reviews here about dark and beautiful things. I’ve used the category Ubercool to reference arts, artists, events and things that I think are glorious. And I never...
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The Problem With Social Paywalls
What Is A “Social Paywall”? A new invention for social-media-ville is called a “social paywall.” You may have already seen its older brother (called a financial paywall) in posts and articles. A...
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5 Frustrations with Google HOA (Hangouts On Air)
From Audio Podcast to Video Bliss (Almost) For a few years, I recorded and edited the podcast for the Minnesota Speculative Fiction Writers’ Group. I would record our monthly writers’ discussions on a...
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Is That All? 2013 in review
2013 was an altogether odd year. Keep in mind that we weren’t even supposed to HAVE a 2013. The world was supposed to end on 21 Dec 2012, and… well, it didn’t. Kinda like that old roommate of yours...
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2014 Writing Process Blog Tour
Fellow Minnesota Author Michael Merriam asked if I’d participate in a virtual blog tour about writing process. Actually, he told me if I didn’t do it, “terrible misfortune was certain to come my way!...
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New Website Domain Name Extensions – What’s In It For Authors?
Most people are familiar with the domain name extension “.com” (dot com) that ends the majority of websites. “Com” was meant to be short for commerce, but it really gets used as a catch-all for things...
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While wandering the AWP Conference, I met Amy Quale from Wise Ink, a Minneapolis-based business offering creative and publishing services to independent authors. One of the tools Wise Ink is using to...
View ArticleHow to Piss Off Your Email Subscribers With This One Crazy Trick!
I don’t sign up for many email lists. Once I do, it takes a lot to get me to unsubscribe. But I wanted to share a recent experience of how one fellow author succeeded in upsetting me enough to make me...
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