Friday, April 28, 2006

I seem to have run out of things to say...

I haven't done any writing this week; but I have a nice bit of reading matter to review

...and speaking of reviews, I hereby nominate Autiotalo for Reviewer of the Year, even though we have yet to reach summer - if you've been paying any recent visits to www.enchantedramblings.net - and most importantly, the enchanted rambling's messageboard, you'll know why hehe

I had reason to love my funky review generator thingummy today, since the turnaround for creating the review pages (now under 10 minutes, even when I have to go and retreive the images from the publisher's site) is apparently so fast, people... (yes yes, auti again,but I didn't want this to sound like a rabid fan post hehe) are checking the review pages daily - how cool is that!

I'm toying with the idea of making it open source... but I need to think about how the rest of the gang would feel if another review site started doing really well, by using my creation... hmmm

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Where was I?


Ah yes,
Kim's book is out!
Yay!
Buy it now!!
Triskelion Publishing

Also...

Issue 4 of Enchanted Ramblings is out!
http://www.enchantedramblings.net

Loads of good stuff in there! - and a story from me. hehe


Also...

The Teaser Special is out!
Here!

Lots of snippets and tasters from books that are hitting your screens about now... :-)


Also...

Ok, not much more news LOL
Genie: 195 / 44 / 4 / ?
Abacus: 125 / 2 / 4 / 23,542

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

I'm allowed to start fretting...


...and I'm allowed to start panicking...

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

www.blackmask.com

Cool site, needs money. Visit now!

'nuff said :-)

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

To do: buy stuff

Kim and Merris both have release dates *very soon*
Of course, show-off Kim has three, just to make we mortals appreciate our inadequacy hehe

Merris's "Truth or Dare" will be out this Saturday, April 8th
Excerpt here: http://merrishawk.batcave.net/

Kim's "The Billionaire's Seduction" (Triskelion Publishing) will be available from 15 April, "Buying Mackenzie's Baby" (Samhain Publishing) from 6 June 2006, and finally "Nimue's Price" (Samhain Publishing) will be out on 22 August 2006.
Excerpts here: http://www.romancefiction.co.uk/

Overall: COOL BANANAS!

On a more sombre note, Stanislaw Lem, author of "Solaris" died on Monday. I mention this because during my art student stint, under the recommendation of the lovely Gary Stevens, I watched Solaris (pre-Clooney-version) in college and was blown away. A few years have gone by since then, so I'm going to put Lem on my to-do list, too.

On Writing & Publishing by Robin D. Owens

I just happened across Robin's blog the other day, having found it a while ago (before I had a blog on which to comment about it hehe) and I'm playing catchup; not only is Robin wonderfully talented and a *real life successful author type* hehe, she has also blogged some pretty brilliant snippets of usefulness, right about.... here:
On Writing & Publishing by Robin D. Owens

Tuesday, April 04, 2006

WTG Piper!! :-D

Piper has a brand new shiny contract in her inbox!
Cooooooooooooool... :-D

...and... relax...

Nice to see some people are even more obsessive than me. I know, it's a miracle, really...
http://fuckmcdonalds.co.uk/pages/global/whatsonmonopoly06.html

Saturday, April 01, 2006

Next question

I'm shortsighted. I can see in focus when things are no further than about 30 cm from my face.

Question. I have a mirror, no more than 30 cm from my face. Why is the reflection of my room not in focus? Huh?

Swapping

A fellow UK Luluer asked if anyone had a 'Mayfair' from mcdonald's current monopoly promotion.

As it happens, I don't, but it prompted me to go looking for swap-sites, figuring *someone* must have set up a site where people could trade collectables. A swap shop, type thing.
Answer: yes, they have. Some examples are:
http://www.swopex.com/
and
http://www.exchangeyourgames.co.uk/

...they weren't entirely what I had in mind, but still.

My question is: if people can swap DVD's, Video games etc, how can it NOT be okay for people to swap ebooks/MP3s? And it isn't- not if you get a DRM protected one.

I guess the issue is that concept of 'an original'... which happened to be the subject of my degree dissertation... damn it, I'm sure I can solve this major issue, if only my evil genius would work harder....

Mercantile Dreams...

Sales of Genie reached FORTY yesterday -whoooo hoo!!

This is remarkable because I'm fairly certain that they are *not* people I know, since people I know will have been able to read it at www.enchantedramblings.net/ezine/issue1/
...although I suppose the lulu one does have the advantage of being prettily formatted... http://www.lulu.com/content/192296

This is not remarkable, because I still suspect the 'free' tag has something to do with it... If it *does* have something to do with it, I wonder how much is the allure of the word, and how much is to do with the fact that it is a *lot simpler* to pay nothing, that fill out paypal details etc etc... after all, you still have to register with Lulu, in order to read a free ebook, and abacus is only $1, which is nothing, really... hmmmmmmm


Meanwhile, Abacus had another sale *squeee* bringing my total income from Lulu to $1.60 hehe I've also had a cool review from Steve Robinson... http://www.lulu.com/stevirobbo

.... in case you missed it, here's the blurb for Abacus....

For Darcy Edwards, time is running out. He has ten days to find True Love, and the latest mystic tip says that she is waiting in a gallery, somewhere in London. All he has to do now is find her, fall in love and convince her to marry him before Day 100 comes rolling in...

"This extremely witty story will have you laughing out loud at its irrepressible good humour and charming, crazy, and colourful characters ... Darcy and Sophie are not your average romance couple, but then, this is not your average romance" Review by Autiotalo

http://www.lulu.com/content/223225

Summary:

Genie: 156 / 4 / 40 / ?

Abacus Dreams: 103 / 4 / 2 / 22,731

:-)