Urban Legend: Bad Book Ratings Are Good For Authors

Someone started a rumor that bad book ratings are good for authors, and whoever started it, went to a lot of trouble to spread the message far and wide. You can’t read a writer’s forum these days without finding this …

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Allie the Alien

If I’ve posted something really profound, such as the snake hanging out of the nose of the Old Man Face Birdhouse, I’ll usually check on my website analytics for about a week. Well, this week is the week, and it’s …

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The Problem With Editorial Book Reviews

Nielsen, a company noted for its analyses of consumer trends, reported that 70% of consumers trust online reviews when making the decision to purchase. What does this mean for you as an author? It means that unless you’ve got a …

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Let’s Email the Aliens!

Who believes that you can send an email off to the UFO aliens? Obviously somebody does, because I came across this keyword search in my analytics: “emailing aliens for abduction.” Why on Earth would they search for information on how …

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Snakes Dangling From the Trees

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One of the scariest pictures they paint of the Amazon rainforest is when they show images of snakes dangling from the trees, up over your head, looking down at you like they’re waiting to drop down on your head the …

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Dirty Little Secrets About Bad Book Reviews

Good books need your help. Seriously. The dirty little secret is that rivals manipulate book ratings to ensure that good ratings are questioned, but bad ratings are getting a free pass, and the authors getting hurt the most are the …

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Mean People Scare the Crap Out Of Me

People scare me. They seriously, totally scare the crap out of me. If the internet is any indicator of what really goes on in a person’s head, then wow. On the internet people don’t have to look you in the …

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Noah’s Ark — It Just Keeps Raining

Every day my husband asks, “Is it ever going to stop raining?” It just keeps on raining, day after day, with thunder and lightning and torrential rains. This is the type of weather that causes lakes and rivers to flood, …

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Government UFO Conspiracies

Last year I published my own personal UFO story of alien abduction, which included vivid UFO dreams that I believe are screen memories of UFO and extraterrestrial encounters. Now if you were to ask me who I’d compare myself to, …

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Update July 22, 2013 at 11:00 p.m.: Someone either gave me a bogus email address, or didn’t whitelist my email as suggested in the Official Rules. If you entered, and haven’t heard from me, please get my email addy from …

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