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The Secrets Newsletter #107

The Secrets Newsletter #107

Issue #107 of The Secrets came out a week and a half ago. It covers the tricky subject of subplots. Really good subplots can take a dead-linear novel and provide a lot of kinks that dress it up. A lot of genres, like mysteries, tend to rely on subplots to provide depth to books; and […]

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21 Days To a Novel

21 Days To a Novel

I know it’s taken forever, but I finally finished 21 Days To a Novel. I’d promised to turn it out as a stand-alone book back when I was running that sequence of podcasts in The Secrets, and it’s just taken me a bit longer to get it done than it should have. Something about writing […]

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Office Hours, The Secrets and more…

Office Hours, The Secrets and more…

Issue 104 of The Secrets went out today. I’d hoped to have it out sooner but just as I was ready to send it, power went out here and my local DSL provider was not working well with computers. It was very odd that none of the machines I had in the house could get […]

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Office Hours in Second Life

This Wednesday night, July 16th, I’ll be holding my Office Hours informal chat in Second Life. We’ll be at Third Life Books starting at 6 game time/Pacific time. We run an hour to an hour and a half. (The software and participation are free; see below.) Tonight will be an open discussion about writing. We’ll […]

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Yet More E-books for the iPhone/iPod Touch

Yet More E-books for the iPhone/iPod Touch

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Cool thoughts about E-books on the iPod Touch/iPhone

Now that OS 2.0 for the iPhone/iPod Touch is available, I’ve gotten to see my books on the Touch. I love it. It’s really cool, the interface works great, and I’m looking forward to getting more stuff out there. Michael Zapp, who created the Legends interface, said he’s been getting a lot of mail about […]

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Another Sunday Night Reading in Second Life

Another Sunday Night Reading in Second Life

My soccer game is late on Sunday, and I want to celebrate being the first author ever selling fiction for the iPhone/iPod Touch. So, what I’m going to do is another reading. I’m going to be reading the story The Silver Knife. It’s one of the stories I have for sale in my store, in […]

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