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Why I read so many blogs and what I’ve learned so far

It all started because I couldn’t get a broad enough view from inside Australia, either by reading what was available from the Australian industry or talking to those in it. I grew frustrated because all I heard was the same views again and again, but I was working for e-pubs based in the U.S. I was freelancing as an editor, admin i strator and writer; selling novellas (six before I stopped submitting them); and reading the mainly U.S.-based e-pub market news, as well as blogs and articles by traditionally published and e-published authors based world-wide. I started having trouble believing what I had heard over fifteen years of listening to advice at every Australian workshop, bookshop, convention or book launch I attended, which was: To get novels published, you first have to have short stories published; To be considered by an Australian publisher, you had to have a recommendation from a reader, whose opinion the publisher recognized; this from at least two editors I had

Blogs that made me stop: 8 October 2012—Part 2:

Writing books, indie publishing, spoof on Fifty Shades, roleplaying aspects, alternative markets for writers, the second twenty blogs that made me stop on my catch-up day have their own merits. Maybe some will appeal to you. Publishing Perspectives on a Fifty Shades spoof to do with chicken by Dennis Abrams: http://publishingperspectives.com/2012/10/your-fifty-shades-of-grey-story-for-the-week/ Publishing your own E-Books on how to sell e-books by Toni Tesori: http://www.publishyourownebooks.com/5-ebook-selling-secrets-every-author-should-know/ Publishing your own E-Books on indie publishing in September by Gary McLaren: http://www.publishyourownebooks.com/indie-publishing-roundup-for-28-september/ Playing D&D with Pornstars on an entertaining scenario and stuff by Zak S.: http://dndwithpornstars.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/handling-clothes-moving-zoo-sociology.html Playing D&D with Pornstars on the International Festival of Independent Games: http://dndwithpornstars.bl

First Lines: In a Cyber-World

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In a Cyber-World is a a social comment on interpersonal relationships in the cyber age of communication. It starts like this: In a cyberworld we all wear a cyber face.   can be found in   An Anthology of Worlds  was released mid-September 2012 and can be found on Amazon (in e-book and print) and Smashwords .

Blogs that made me stop 10 October 2012

Now that the blog reader is under control, I’m trying to keep it there, so, here are the ones that have made me stop since the clean-up: Write it Forward on selling an Australian best-seller when mainstream U.S. rejected it by Colin Falconer with Bob Mayer: http://writeitforward.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/what-is-wrong-with-us-publishers-and-are-us-women-really-different/ Jim C. Hines Fantasy Author on video game writing by Patrick Weekes: http://www.jimchines.com/2012/10/patrick-weekes-on-video-game-writing/ Jim C. Hines with an update on Ann Crispin’s situation: http://www.jimchines.com/2012/10/ann-crispin-update/ J.W. Manus on the art of pricing e-books: http://jwmanus.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/pricing-ebooks-art-or-science/ Digital Book World on publishers and e-book pricing by Richard Curtis: http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2012/are-publishers-making-a-killing-on-e-books-part-2/ GalleyCat on publishers producing e-books by Dianna Dilworth: http://www.mediabistro.com/