Category Archives: Miscellaneous

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I just had an unlikely but wonderful run-in with someone who I have known as a screen name for a couple of years, at a place where I [..]

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Erotica Book Banning Roundup – Part 2, and Smashwords Bows Under Pressure

NEWEST UPDATES (currently 4:45 p.m. March 13th) ARE HIGHLIGHTED IN ORANGE. For previous info on the erotica book banning imbroglio of this past week, please see my previous [..]

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Don’t Waste Your Career

Dean Wesley Smith has another great blog post up explaining the shifts in the role of agents over the past 100 years in the publishing industry. Go read [..]

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Words to Live By

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Almost everything — all external [..]

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R.I.P: Steve Jobs Dies at Age 56

This just in from MSNBC: Steve Jobs has died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 56. I’m saddened but not surprised. It seemed unlikely that he would [..]

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