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Time Suck: The Sequel
This post goes under the category of Just For Fun, or alternately, Time Suck. I came across the website for Book: The Sequel which was a project to create a book comprised of readers’ ideas for first lines of (unwritten) sequels to famous books. This may have been big in 2009 when it was being…
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Because I Said So: Wool by Hugh Howey
This week’s post is a recommendation of a series of science-fiction short stories called Wool, by Hugh Howey. There’s an interesting backstory here. Howey, an Indie author, wrote the first of the Wool stories and offered it on Amazon one year ago. There was such a clamoring for the tale to continue that he wrote…
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Because I Said So: Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
Many weeks ago I promised a recommendation of Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier, the book that kept me up until 4 am and besmirched my boundaries. Refer to this post for more info about the dangers of besmirched boundaries. Daughter of the Forest, the first of the Sevenwaters Trilogy, was published way back…
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Boundary issues
I have a confession to make. I have a boundary problem. Boundaries are important to psychologists. Good boundaries allow us to have healthy relationships, to be able to say “no” to new responsibilities when our plates are full (or to say “no” to seconds when our plates are empty for that matter), and to be…
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Shock-puppet: Is it ethical for friends and family to post reviews without disclosing they know the author?
I’ve been following a perplexing thread on Amazon’s Kindle boards. Some of the posters in this thread believe authors degrade the utility and integrity of the Amazon review system by asking their family and friends (AKA sock-puppets) to post reviews (AKA shills) of their novels without disclosing that they are a friend or fam somewhere in…
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Because I Said So: Angelfall by Susan Ee
Being an Indie author myself, I’m working on finding and reading other Indie novels that I can wholeheartedly recommend. This is one of those novels. Angelfall is the first in Indie author Susan Ee’s Penryn and the End of Days YA series. And wow, it packs an angelic punch. Ee borrowed her angel lore from…