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Happy Birthday Edgar Allan Poe

Here’s a box My Daughter Jamie did for a school project. I posted on an earlier site, and it was noticed by the Library of Richmond who wanted to use it for the Poe Centennial. Unfortunately, they decided they couldn’t use it, so we ended up not gifting it to them. Instead, I’m eventually going to use it for a novel cover:

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Three Indie Author Success Stories in One Day

Image via Wikipedia Synchronicity: J.A.Konrath profiles a paranormal romance writer who’s sold 10,00 copies of her books in a week. Now, Konrath is an Indie Author preacher and evangelical. So maybe he’s just cherry picking a few successful anecdotes, right? Then, Smashwords Blog has an interview with a fantasy author who’s on track to make $200,000 this year with his series fiction. Of course, Smashwords is trying to promote their platform, so they’ll only brag about the runaway successes, right?( …

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Rules for Writing from Masters

In Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Kurt Vonnegut gave eight Short Rules for Crafting good fiction that have been copied all over the Web: Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water. Every sentence must do one of …

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Cthulhu Wallpapers

I’ll Be posting a few wallpapers from Photobucket over the next few days. I had been using them to drive traffic to a horror site I was trying to launch. They were popular, the site wasn’t. Enjoy. Cthulhu Wallpapers Here’s a nice collection to freak out the other patrons at the Starbucks: First, A full Color, well drawn, detailed pic with fantasy elements ( As opposed to the traditional horror look): Next, A Demotivator: Or Even Two: The Ever Popular …

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