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Nathan Bransford's procrastination subforum has a popular thread just like this. It's a friendly place where your spam can be cherished and celebrated.

Today, I blogged about how to write a great author bio, and your favorite gay boys from In Living Color's 'Men on Film' made a guest appearance:

Let's Talk About Bios, Baby. Let's Talk About You and Me.

Okay, your turn.
 
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Making Money From Writing, Part Three: Sales Channels

For the last two days we looked at the various markets where you can sell your short stories and novels.

Yesterday we covered the reasons why you should be cautious before you self-publish your work.

Today we are going to look at the various sales channels where you can sell you self-published stories: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, Kobo, Apple, Diesel, and Xinxii.

Read the rest here: http://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/making-money-from-writing-part-3-sales-channels/
 
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Why I keep a hedgehog as my pet
http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/archives/1140

Couple of film reviews:

Featuring Jeff Bridges twice: "TRON, the legacy"
http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/archives/1125

Not even Venice can save "The Tourist"
http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/archives/1124

Emotional overload
http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/archives/1096

The mature perfection of a 13 year-old reviewer's work
http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/archives/1074

Invitation for intelligent readers and writers who miss the frisson of excitement
http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/archives/1062

Etc.
 
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I could use some help, dear Kindlings, even though it is only loosely connected to the Kindle, in that it concerns my soon-to-be released book. I'm also releasing a paperback version, via Createspace, and thought it looked good - until I got the proof. Could any of you spare the time to wander over to my blog and give me your opinion on whether I need to re-do the back cover?

http://gaylecarline.blogspot.com/2011/04/proof-that-im-not-yet-jedi-master.html

Thanks! I SO appreciate you!
 
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Do You Prefer Print Books? Enjoy Them While You Can

When people say - as a lot of my friends do - that they have no interest in e-books, and can't imagine ever using an e-reader, I get it. People have an emotional attachment to print books.

Books are beautiful things. I have a strong attachment to them myself. I don't want a future where there are no bookstores and where printed books are a rarity. Unfortunately, I have very little say in what the future is actually going to be like.

Read the rest at: http://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/do-you-prefer-print-books-enjoy-them-while-you-can/
 
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daringnovelist said:
A blog is a Web Log -- a specialized kind of website for publishing a journal on the web. It not only posts the new material, but keeps the old as a running column. You can install a package like WordPress on an existing website to add a blog to it, or you can use a service like Google's Blogspot to just let the site manage all the trouble. A regular website is designed to be static. You can change the contents, but it doesn't keep a running log of entries.
Camille
I do appreciate your response, Camille. I will download from wordpress, but need to figure out how to install on my web site. Thanks.
 
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*DrDln* (dr.s.dhillon) said:
I will download from wordpress, but need to figure out how to install on my web site. Thanks.
Go to the shell your netspace provider gives you, the control panel or whatever it is called. They're bound to give you a subshell to install services into the MySQL pigeonholes. Look in the first place for Fantastico de Luxe, which is the most common shell within a shell. Basically, it installs services for you, of which one is a blog. It already is connected to a copy of Wordpress which it will install for you, though if you choose any but the most common template (Twenty-Twenty), you might have to make a mini-installation (I chose the austere but flexible Pilcrow, as my blog is for readers, not soundbiters). Fantastico de Luxe worked fantastically (truly, not a pun) for me when I knew nil, zilch, nothing about blogs, an hour from being a blog-neddie to writing my first post, and most of that hour spent reading background information on Wordpress and writing to Kindleboards to ask opinions on the best blog.
 
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