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This weekend I told Kara that I really need an office — a place where I can close the door every now and then, and dig in. I need a place where, when I'm sitting there at a desk, face lit by my MacBook, cats shooed away, it's time to work by God! That's the place. That sweet spot. When I sit down at that desk, it's work time. It's like a mental trigger, telling me it's time to get going and get more words on the page.
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I've considered putting together a podcast, and my first instinct was to run it the way I produced Tom King's CompuTalk back in the late 90s. Not bad, format-wise. But as things have changed quite a bit since those wee early hours of the Internet, I'm doing some research to find tips, tricks, and tools for pulling this together. Enter Cliff J. Ravenscraft, the "Podcast Answer Man.
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Steven Gould (author of Jumper and current President of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America) just posted a link to handful of great science fiction that you can purchase to support a couple of worthy charities.
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This is kind of fun.
Again, I'm going through my back catalog of books and short fiction, polishing some things up, putting nifty covers on them, and releasing them as ebooks. This is a great way to put some of my older work out there for people to see, even some of the stories that have been published previously in various magazines and anthologies.
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Today, I'm thrilled to announce a new Happy Pants Books "Short Pants" (synonyms such as Kindle Single and Novella may apply) has hit digital bookshelves. Teresa's Monster is packaged and ready for you to download and enjoy!
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Yesterday I had about three minutes of conversation with a friend about the idea of "writer's block." I have pat answers for this kind of thing, canned responses I've used before, and will use again. "I don't believe in writer's block," I say, as if somehow believing in it is all that empowers it. But that's kind of a dodge, because I know that writer's block is very real, it's just not something I experience.
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Over-complicating things is a pretty sure way to make yourself crazy and cranky. Boil down everything you do to it's most basic elements. What's the simplest way to describe your work, your marriage, your friendship, your goals? That's your focus. See how easy that was? You don't even have to read the rest of this post now.
I may not have thought this through.
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Get updates on new books, new posts, and new podcasts, plus be the first to hear about special offers and giveways. And pants jokes. Lots and lots of pants jokes.One of the challenges of being an indie author (or an indie anything) is building a platform. Best estimate, from some very knowledgable industry know-bobs, is that it takes 12 months to build just the stubbled foundation of a platform. That's 12 months of posting to social media sites, writing blog posts (yours and guest posts for others), making YouTube videos (if that's your thing) and generally trying to very gently convince people to hang on your every word.
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This hardly ever happens, but you're getting totally robbed by this post. It's scant and tiny compared to what was here just minutes ago. It lacks the energy of what it would have been. Why? Fate. Damnable fate.
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Yesterday I had my annual cardiology appointment — a general "pacemaker tuneup" kind of thing. This can be a little grueling, with people stabbing me, stealing my blood, forcing me to run on a treadmill, and making me wait around without my beloved technology to keep me company.
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I don't get Google+.
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Every morning I write an affirmation 15 times. It's focused on being a famous and wealthy author — something I've worked for my whole life. I write it because it's a good way to start the day, a good way to get my mind on the something I want, and a good way to ensure that, no matter what else happens each day, I've accomplished something positive.
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No one can guilt trip me to being more productive like you. That's why I'm enlisting your help to keep me on track and working! You hereby have my permission to bug the living crap out of me about my books.
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Guess what book has some progress? If you said "Harry Potter and the Drunken Monkey," you'd be very close. But so very wrong. Close though. Read more to find out!
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News & updates! Citadel and non-Citadel alike. Also, we have bullet lists. Fav!
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Get updates on new books, new posts, and new podcasts, plus be the first to hear about special offers and giveways. And pants jokes. Lots and lots of pants jokes.I'm am omnivorous reader, but I'll admit I've slanted my reading toward science fiction for most of my life. When I've branched out, I've discovered amazing works by incredible authors, and I want to keep finding 'em! Since I'm not as tuned in to non-scifi, I was hoping I could ping you folks for some suggestions.
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Get updates on new books, new posts, and new podcasts, plus be the first to hear about special offers and giveways. And pants jokes. Lots and lots of pants jokes.Now that production has started for the audiobook version of "Citadel: First Colony," I thought you'd get a kick out of hearing a sneak preview!
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Get updates on new books, new posts, and new podcasts, plus be the first to hear about special offers and giveways. And pants jokes. Lots and lots of pants jokes.I use a handful of tools in my daily trade, whether that's Marketing Smartypantsness, Creative Direction, or Wordslinger novel noodling. There are tons of apps and software packages out there to help with just about anything you can think of, but here are a few fall-backs I use, and how I use them.
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The most profound thing about being paid to write is suddenly seeing your work appear in a public place.
For years I wrote ad copy and support copy for clients such as HP, ExxonMobil, Baker Hughes, Aggreko ... all of whom have national and international campaigns. And as I travelled, even in other countries, I would occasionally spot something I wrote — on the palm rest of a laptop or in a product brochure or on a billboard — and I'd have that sudden spark of recognition followed by an odd sense of vertigo. Seeing words I labored over to get just right, now on display in this strange place instead of on the screen of my laptop, was a little disorienting.
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