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Star Borne
Earth’s Extraterrestrial History
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Po… po… po… Poor revelers on a Saturday night, gazing out the windows, Poring over the weatherman’s writing, doom and gloom, oh woe! Pouring rain over Georgia, with thunder and lightning aglow, Poe couldn’t have done better, nor Hitchcock’s creepy …
Posted in Nature, Poetry, Writing
Tagged 4th of July, Alfred Hitchcock, Edgar Allen Poe, poem, poetry, thunderstorm
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iWorks Pages, OSX Lion, and Baskerville Font PDF Glitch
It pays to post solutions to online forums where you can find them again, because you may very well need to go back and fix the same thing later. It’s been a booger of a computer year when one morning …
Posted in Books, Writing
Tagged apple pages, baskerville, baskerville font, corrupted baskerville font, corrupted font, corrupted pdf, iworks pages, osx, osx lion, pages 09
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Strong Female Characters in Science Fiction
I did not set out to write a science fiction series with strong female characters. Although I’ve always been an independent woman, I’ve never been a women’s libber. The only bra burning was for comfort, not to make a statement. …
Posted in Books, Entertainment, History, Mythology, Otherworldly, UFOs and Extraterrestrials, Writing
Tagged alternate history, celtic mythology, empowered women, female characters in sci fi, female characters in science fiction, female heroes, female leading roles in sci fi, female leading roles in science fiction, feminist sci fi, feminist science fiction, heroic women, heroine, heroines, picts, space opera, speculative science fiction, strong female characters, strong female characters in sci fi, strong female characters in science fiction, strong female leads, tattoo, tattoos
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Kindle Comic Creator Application
I decided to give the Kindle Comic Creator Application a try for a kid’s book entitled, “Do Turtles Eat Strawberries.” I’d already successfully published several coffee table photo books on Kindle which were written in straight HTML, then run through …
Posted in Animals, Books, Dogs, Entertainment, Kids, Nature, Writing
Tagged ages 3 to 5, ages 6 to 8, animals, baby book, baby books, back yard nature, backyard nature, beginning reader, book, children's book, children's books, comic creator, comic creator app, comic creator application, creator, do turtles eat strawberries, dog, dogs, first reader, kid's book, kid's books, kindle children's books, kindle comic creator, kindle comic creator app, kindle comic creator application, nature, nature book, nature books, nature photos, nature pics, nature pictures, nature series, picture book, picture books, story book, strawberries, strawberry, tool, turtle, turtles
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The Book That Got Me Banned From Photobucket
July 2010: I’d just published Bad Dog to Best Friend, and it’s the book that got me banned from Photobucket. One thing I’m good at is writing a blog and building a website, so of course I started with those, …
Posted in Bad Guys, Books, Dogs, Entertainment, Writing
Tagged account banned, advertising a book, advertising an indie book, bad dog, bad dog book, bad dog to best friend, bad dog to best friend book, banned, banned video, banning a book, banning a video, book ban, book banning, dog training book, how to sell a book, indie author, indie book, marketing a book, marketing an indie book, photobucket, selling a book, selling books, shelter dog book, video banned, video sharing, video sharing sites, violating terms of service, violating the terms of service, violating TOS
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The Dumbing of America
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Like many writers, I have a day job. The schools had closed for a holiday and the boss brought her daughter and friend to work, rather than leaving them unattended at home. These two girls were fourteenish, and I was …
Posted in Deep Thoughts, Entertainment, Government, Movies, Writing
Tagged dumb, dumb and dumber, dumbing down, dumbing down of america, dumbing of america, i before e, i before e rule, proofread, proofreader, proofreading, spellcheck, spellchecker, spelling, spelling error, spelling rule, spelling rules
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Should a book have a Table of Contents?
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Recently in a writer’s forum, there was a discussion about whether to put a Table of Contents in a novel. Writers fell on both sides of the fence with their opinions. The consensus was that we shouldn’t clutter the front …
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Tagged book marketing, book marketing techniques, how to sell a book, how to sell your book, marketing a book, marketing your book, on writing, selling your book, should a book have a table of contents, should a novel have a table of contents, should an ebook have a table of contents, table of contents, table of contents in ebooks, table of contents in novels, toc, writer, writer's blog, writing
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The Writer’s Blob
A simple typo is all it takes to send a writer’s imagination off on a tangent. For me it was a post by a fellow author who wondered if she should have a writer’s blob. Growing up in the 60s, …
Posted in Books, Deep Thoughts, Entertainment, Movies, Nature, Plants, Writing
Tagged 1960s, 60s, amoeba, author's blob, beware the blob, blob, blobfest, blobfests, blobs, j r ewing, larry hagman, meteor, meteorite, old sci-fi movies, old science fiction movies, orange tentacled blob, pennsylvania, pet blob, phoenixville, steve mcqueen, the blob, the movie that j.r. shot, the movie that jr shot, tree blob, tree blobs, writer's blob
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