There’s nothing quite like writing an article for a client, then looking up to see this on your wall:
The celebration at the end of the movie when everyone waves streamers and cheers your name is excellent, however unlikely. Rather, life is all about those little moments of accomplishment.
I love to write. It’s [...]
I’m a tinkerer. An experimenter. An investigator. If I see something interesting I want to know how it works. So when I saw Google search results complete with a picture of the article’s author, I had to figure out how to accomplished this.
It’s called Google Authorship, which is an extension of [...]
Sure. Why not?
Writers may not trade business cards the way others do to show off their C-suites, but if someone asks where they can read your work, shouldn’t you have an answer for them? And shouldn’t that answer be professional, stylish, and memorable?
Yes — on all accounts.
In the past I’ve [...]
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With only eight days until the publication of my first novel, THE LAST NIGHT, I’m finally coding the Kindle version. And you know what? [...]
2012 is the year.
2012 IS the year.
2012 is THE year.
2012 is the YEAR.
2012 is the year I found new readers.
As part of the marketing for THE LOOKOUT AND OTHER STORIES, I started a Google AdWords campaign to give the book further exposure. When people search specific keywords, my ad may appear in their browser’s sidebar. This has occurred almost 20,000 times in the past 10 days, according [...]
Throw some money in the garbage.
Go ahead. Do it.
You’re probably thinking I’m crazy, right? Good. That means you’re still relatively sane. If you would never in a million years throw away cold, hard cash, then why are you wasting something just as valuable?
For writers starting their careers, there can be a disconnect between [...]
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