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Green as a Bean

What a great post from an author I envy 🙂

Lindy Moone's avatarBelly-up!

Here I am, doing my best to review every one of the Konrath 8-hour Challenge books, and to ask dumb questions over on KindleBoards, and to be supportive to other writers, and having no time to work on my sequel to Hyperlink, which is all my own fault, really, and, golly, all these commas are starting to make me feel sick, so I can’t imagine how you feel about them, and–

Wham!

Did you know that there’s an indie writer over on KindleBoards who writes and publishes TEN BOOKS a year?

TEN! BOOKS! A YEAR!

And they aren’t crap books. She has millions of fans, and she’s earned them. And she’s helpful. Really helpful. Posts all the time about how she does it… and how we can, too.

*Deletes all the swearing and takes Deep Breath*

Time to ward off the evil, green-eyed monster, again. Luckily, months ago — before I’d heard…

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Cool site I need to look into

At first glance, lots of great marketing tips for authors.

http://www.trainingauthors.com/blog/

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“Kick” is now available for the Kindle!

KickIf you could return from death in someone else’s body, what would you do with your time? And if your host was a serial killer and you could do anything you wanted before getting kicked out, would you put a stop to his crimes?

In Kick, we catch up with Dan Jenkins fifteen years into his strange afterlife:

…as an enforcer for the Howlers Motorcycle Club, a violent criminal organization in Memphis spilling mayhem into the lives of innocent people.

…as a deranged killer in the desert racking up a body count one young woman at a time.

…as a twenty-something junkie in Florida, part of a three person team of sociopaths terrorizing a beach community.

Dan will handle each “ride” as he always has–by emptying their bank accounts, going to movies and eating out every night, and helping strangers in need. And before he’s kicked out, he’ll stop his ride from hurting anyone else.

For a dead guy, it’s a pretty good gig.  Or at least it had been, until someone changed the rules.

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Best editing tip EVAH’

Ever come up with something so amazing you want to knock on your neighbor’s door so they can look at how awesome you are?  So I’m sitting here editing something short that’s going to go out to a lot of people and I’m using every trick to find mistakes and typos and I’m not finding any.  Then, just before hitting “send,” it hits me: paste it into a text-to-speech translator.

I’m sure someone’s done this before.  I’m sure if I google it right now some amazing person’s already said, “Hey, if you’re editing, throw it in a text-to-speech translator.”  But I’d never thought to do it before, and maybe you hadn’t either.  Guess what?  It found a whopper of a mistake. 

Woo hoo me!

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Editing

Doing a lot of editing these days.  Ugh, I hate it.  First I mark it up, then I go through and put in the changes.  Only it isn’t that easy, is it?  I also have to evaluate the proposed changes and decide if they are good or if I was smoking crack or something that day.  Work work work.

Neat editing blog I found today:

http://deareditor.com/

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Excellent writing site for daily tips

I only subscribe to two twitter feeds:  Jim Butcher’s, though he doesn’t tweet much, and Daily Writing Tips.  But you can go to the website and see all the great tips.  Normally, it’s sort of like Grammer Girl with larger lung capacity. But occasionally you’ll see stuff related to crafting, like his article: Let the Words Do the Work.

 

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Funny blog I read today

Tooling around at “awriterstouch” (in my links), I found: http://beidealistic.wordpress.com/

Incredibly funny blog by a very good writer. No idea if the author is published, but will be if he/she wants to be, I’m sure of it.

Update:

The two posts I read are funny, but there’s some serious stuff here too.

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Neat writing blog I found

Amusing 🙂

http://tonycanehoneysett.wordpress.com/

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They call it ‘fiction’ for a reason

I was pouring through internet sites and calling up banks and travel agents and visiting locksmiths in the last two weeks, researching a book I’m writing.  At some point, it got too silly for my wife and she told me just to make up some of what I’m writing.  After all, she said, “You’re writing fiction.”

 

Huh.

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