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Danger... Romance... Magic... "Eighteen-year-old Lady Sharilyn Dawson yearns to sample the sophistication of the royal court. She recognizes an opportunity to leave her country home when she meets Lord Jonathan Redley, a widower who needs help caring for his young son. Life at the castle...

I subscribed to the premium version of Grammarly for a month, to help me self-edit my novel. I found it helpful, but it's no substitute for hiring an editor. The browser-plugin is nice because it flags common mistakes anywhere that I'm writing online. (Including this post, for example!) The...

In Fantasy, I think you should be allowed to do whatever feels true to your world and your characters (unless you also have an editor to please). The danger is if the reader finds the "yeah" jarring enough to disrupt his or her immersion in the narrative. You have to weigh the risks of that and...

I recently started selling on Smashwords, and I am impressed with them. So far, so good!

I recommend Guilded Age. It's a beautiful, well-written comic. Strong language, though, so not for kids. The comment threads on the pages tend to be hilarious because of the community of people who post zingers. You could also maybe read my completed webcomic if you're so inclined...

It's not just Amazon. The 2009 revisions to the FTC’s Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising said that, basically, non-professional reviewers must disclose any compensation (including receiving products for free). I think it was supposed to reduce paid...

Sorry, I didn't try to summarize the whole article I was referencing. The alleged illegal activity is posting reviews of books that she received for free without disclosing that she received them for free. The alleged unethical behavior is posting review for books that she has not read, with the...

First, I want to emphasize that providing this link would be completely optional. Second, as a software professional, I feel I need to emphasize that you can't rely on link obscurity for online privacy. If you have things posted to Facebook that you want to keep private, you need to manage your...

A character from my stories.

A character from my stories.

A) Because the Forum Guidelines say we should only include one link in our signature. B) Because what I want most is being able to tell if other people are on Twitter or Facebook. C) Because having them in the profile would put them in the same place for everyone, i.e. improved usability.

I see Instant Messaging on the Profile options but I don't see Facebook, Twitter or our personal websites. Am I missing these or are they not there? If they're not there, is there any chance we could add them?

That is wonderful and, sadly, all too rare on the Internet.

The actual incident that made me think of this idea was that a blogger said that a particular reviewer had sent him a "a snotty letter back" in response to a review request, and that it was "a REALLY nasty response that ended with the line, '…and never email me again.'” I had received a polite...

Here's an interesting bit of investigative work on Harriet Klausner. It provides reasonable evidence that she (or, at least, her son) is making a tidy profit selling review books. It seems like illegal (as well as unethical) behavior. I wonder if Amazon will do anything in response.