Michelle Sagara has written some very fine posts about promoting oneself online as a writer: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three. In a nutshell, don’t be an ass and don’t expect to develop a Scalzi-like following without a decade of hard work put into it. Only she says it better, so you should go read what she said while I investigate my navel. I freely admit to envy over Scalzi’s followers. I also clearly haven’t got a *clue* how to get that kind of following, since I’ve been keeping…
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…”Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight” is actually rather good, isn’t it. Huh.
never could get the hang of…
Terrible week for mileage. Young Indiana got the snuffles from vaccination shots, then I caught a cold, so really not much sleep or indeed leaving the house. Still, 12 miles is better than 0. And the astute amongst you will notice I’ve missed a couple days of the reading meme, so I’ll probably make up for it over the weekend. Young Indiana and I finally met the 4 month old baby boy next door! And his daddy, whose name I didn’t get, of course. :) But we had a nice…
web host provider?
Anybody got a web host they’re especially fond of? Mine’s just irritated me for the last time, after I sent them a huge flipping list of spammer IPs and was told “Gosh, you can block these yourself, there’s not much we can do about them since spammers are a dime a dozen.” I’m afraid I got snotty in return. Anyway, open to suggestions.
reading meme: day seven
Day 07 – A writer you don’t like They probably weren’t thinking of “on a personal level” when they asked this, although I know so many writers that my warped sense of humor decided to take it that way. :) The vast majority of the writers of my acquaintance, however, are really splendid people, so despite my interpretation, I think I shall answer the question in the vein it was intended. Except I already did, on day five, didn’t I? Chalker really is the end game answer to that question.…