Posted: May 30th, 2010 | Author: Ginger Mayerson | Filed under: Dr. Hackenbush Gets a Job, News and reviews | 1 Comment »
Dr. Hackenbush Gets a Job review at I Spy With My Altered Eye on May 24, 2010
“Self-discovery is part of the journey in ‘Dr. Hackenbush Gets a Job: Sexual Harassment and Class Warfare’ (Wapshott Press, $12) by Ginger Mayerson. Set in the ’80s, the novel finds Mabel Hackenbush between gigs, her baritone ukulele in ruins and her car in the shop. She takes on a day job, working to get back to her real calling as a jazz vocalist. South Pasadena resident Mayerson wrote music before turning to books.”
Author highlights stair-filled walks in Southland, by Michelle J. Mills, Whittier Daily News, May 16, 2010
Wow, when did I move to South Pas? Not that I’d mind if I didn’t live in Lincoln Heights.
Posted: May 28th, 2010 | Author: Ginger Mayerson | Filed under: Dr. Hackenbush Gets a Job, News and reviews | No Comments »
“I was enthralled by this book. After hitting the bottom of the first page I never looked back. I was pulled into the world of Dr. Hackenbush and her endeavors to deal with life on her own terms. Forced by the untimely death of the transmission of her Karmann-Ghia and the destruction of her baritone ukulele to return to the world of industry, she takes a job with a temporary agency. Complications ensue.”
More of this review at Barnes and Noble and Amazon.
Posted: May 20th, 2010 | Author: Ginger Mayerson | Filed under: Dr. Hackenbush Gets a Job, News and reviews | No Comments »
Dr. Hackenbush Gets a Job review by Miss “Missy”.
She gave it 3 stars and loved it. Wonder what it takes to get 5 stars from her.
Posted: May 9th, 2010 | Author: Ginger Mayerson | Filed under: News and reviews | No Comments »
Yes, the xpost thingy I had originally hoped to use needs PHP 5.3.0 or higher. Alas, Dreamhost only provides PHP 5.2.6 and there is no way I can upgrade that myself. There are also HUGE warnings on the DH info wiki about how dangerous that is, and I’m cautious by nature. So, until there is PHP 5.3.0, I’m using FeedWordPress, which seems to be working nicely, to crosspost. Thank you for your patience during these tests.
Posted: May 9th, 2010 | Author: Ginger Mayerson | Filed under: Various | No Comments »
Just ignore it, sorry. Here’s the original post: Housekeeping and plugin test, if you’re curious.
Posted: May 9th, 2010 | Author: Ginger Mayerson | Filed under: News and reviews, Various | No Comments »
How boring, but necessary:
I finally got smart and figured out how to crosspost everything here to www.WapshottPress.com, the HQ of this wonderful mess known as Mayerson writes books (yay?). We’ll see how well that works with this posteroo.
Also, there is the Tumblr.com thingy that is all new and shiny (to me), so there’s a WapshottPress.tumblr.com for those of you who like such things. Everything that posts on the Wapshott Press website, will aggregate on the Tumblr account. There might be some independent Tumblr action, but not much as I can barely keep up as it is. And for those of you who’d just like to leave all this publishing behind and follow the incandescent posts at The Hackenblog on Tumblr, this is your lucky day: Hackenblog.tumblr.com. Will Tumblr replace Twitter? I can’t believe I’m wondering about this. I do like Tumblr more than Twitter, but that’s not saying much.
Thank you for your attention! And Happy Mother’s Day to everyone who has one. I’m agitating for a Divorcee’s Day, but it’s not getting much traction. Hallmark just isn’t returning my calls, dammit.
Posted: May 7th, 2010 | Author: Ginger Mayerson | Filed under: Dr. Hackenbush Gets a Job, Serialization, Various | No Comments »
For those of you who’d rather read without annotation and commentary, here’s a pdf of these pages more or less.
For those of you who’d like to buy the book, well, here’s where you can do that.
Otherwise, click on the “Continue Reading” link to continue reading.
Continue Reading
Posted: May 4th, 2010 | Author: Ginger Mayerson | Filed under: Various | No Comments »
“The Amazon Kindle, Kindle for iPhone and Kindle for iPad each provide a very simple mechanism for adding highlights. Every month, Kindle customers highlight millions of book passages that are meaningful to them.
“We combine the highlights of all Kindle customers and identify the passages with the most highlights. The resulting Popular Highlights help readers to focus on passages that are meaningful to the greatest number of people. We show only passages where the highlights of at least three distinct customers overlap, and we do not show which customers made those highlights.
“The Most Highlighted of All Time passages have been highlighted by the most distinct customers. The Most Highlighted of All Time books are ranked based on a combination of number of highlighting customers and number of highlights. For Heavily Highlighted Recently passages and books the ranking is done in a similar fashion, but with a much greater emphasis on highlighting that was done recently over highlighting that was done a longer time ago.”
Most Highlighted Passages of All Time, What’s This?, Amazon, Now, Always, especially when you’re sleeping
As regular readers of this blog, all six of you, know, “Dr. Hackenbush Gets a Job” is available on The Kindle machine.
As the author of this work, I do not completely approve of Amazon’s highlighting policy because it undermines the Kindle readers’ privacy. What I highlight is no one’s business but mine.
However, the Kindle is a fact of publishing, so all I can do is advise anyone who uses a Kindle to highlight responsibly.
Thank you. This has been a Mayerson Service Announcement.
