Sound advice for writers

13 don’ts I learned while writing, editing, marketing, and promoting my book, by Daniel Nester, May 3, 2010

Testing the crosspost thing again

Just ignore it, sorry. Here’s the original post: Housekeeping and plugin test, if you’re curious.

Housekeeping and plugin test

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.

Dr. Hackenbush Gets a Job sample serialization, part 6 of 6

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.
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As close as I’m probably going to get to a book trailer

Most Highlighted Passages on Kindles

“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.

Faulkner on Twain action

“25. Mark Twain, according to William Faulkner (1922)

“A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tricked out a few of the old proven sure fire literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.”
The 50 best author vs. author put-downs of all time, by Michelle Kerns, Examiner.com, April 16, 2010

Oh that wacky Faulkner. But just look at the size of that sentence.

Dr. Hackenbush Gets a Job sample Serialization, part 5 of 6

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

Dr. Hackenbush Gets a Job sample Serialization, part 4 of 6

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

Review copies

If anyone wants a review copy to, y’know, review, please contact me here and I’ll be in touch.

If you don’t know if you want to review this thing, here’s the sample serialization, scroll down.