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Lightsword Slop

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I still keep getting unwanted emails from Jennifer Crowder at Lightsword Publishing, even after I ridiculed her company’s inept promotional efforts and ugly covers here… and after I asked her to please take me off their mailing list. Today, I got not one, but two spam emails from them, one with the headline "You Don’t … Read more

Behind the Cover of Beneaththecover.com

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Book marketer/publicist Michael R. Drew has put together a site called beneaththecover.com under the guise of helping aspiring writers with expert advice…except all the "advice" is coming from publicists and self-publishers looking to sell their services to the unwary. In an apparent bid to legitimize their effort, they have been reaching out to "hundreds" of … Read more

Socializing and stuff

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I’ve run into a lot of old friends on the picket line and it has been great catching up with them. It’s made me wonder why it took a strike for me to finally see them again. So one of my new year’s resolutions is to stay in better touch with my friends. The day … Read more

This is Bound to Send Idiots Flocking to iUniverse

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The Boston Globe reports that Brunonia Barry has sold her self-published novel THE LACE READER , and another to-be-written book, to Morrow for $2 million. This news will become the rallying cry for vanity presses everywhere…and the example gullible aspiring authors will use to justify throwing away their money. What the hordes of desperate aspiring … Read more

World’s Ugliest Book Covers

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I keep getting emails from J. Crowder at Lightsword Publishing. The emails have no message, just a link to their site. Brilliant marketing, huh? I finally gave in and clicked it. The link takes you to an astonishingly amatuerish website. But if you think the site looks bad, you should see their book covers. They … Read more

Heaps of Ideas

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I got an email today from someone with lots ideas that she wants to sell: I have heaps of story ideas, but I am not good at creating characters. Is there a place out there for people like me? Somebody who buys the basis of a story. So far I have written shorts of a … Read more

BookWise is BookStupid

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Edgar Award-winning author Burl Barer, who also happens to be my Uncle, sent me this note about his encounter with a book biz get-rich-quick huckster: I received the following email on MYSPACE…no doubt well intentioned, but it irked me. Here  it is. "While reading your wonderful profile I could not help but notice that you … Read more

The Best of Lori Prokop

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I love Lori Prokop. My favorite online huckster never quits. She has re-invented herself yet again and is offering you the benefit of her enlightenment…and another chance to get rich! But before I share her amazing new self and her astonishing new business venture with you later today, I thought we should celebrate all the … Read more

Hollywood, Berlin

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We wrapped our fifth day of shooting at about 1:30 Monday morning and it was  past 3 am by the time I got back to my hotel. I woke up at about 11 am and spent a couple of hours doing laundry in the basement of my hotel, where I also ran into one of … Read more