Tag Archives: Humor

BVC’s Self Help Line: #1 With a Bullet

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

Work the internet. Blog.  Chase the cyber-papparazzi.  There’s a million ways to promote your writing. Forget them all. Now bestselling author Faux Muldaur (Guerilla Copyeditor; Escaping Publishing’s Dungeon) brings you a can’t-miss, can’t-fail system to getting your work before the public. … Continue reading →


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Let us not overlook the forgotten books

Posted on October 6, 2012 by

“Just as all American publishers hope that if they are good and lead upright lives, their books will be banned in Boston, so do all English publishers pray that theirs will be denounced from the pulpit by a bishop.” – … Continue reading →


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People I don’t want to hear any more about

Posted on February 20, 2012 by

by Ursula K. Le Guin •The family of eight who generate three–quarters of a cupful of trash to put in the garbage every week, use no plastic of any description for any purpose, grow all their own food in a … Continue reading →


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Book Publicity To Do List Item #366: Kidnap a Baby

Posted on December 31, 2011 by

By Sue Lange Maybe even two or three, as many as you can handle. Do this item about three weeks into the launch, just at the time when sales start to flag. It’s a real attention-getter. Feed and water your … Continue reading →


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There’s a Bimbo on the Cover Verse 7: What’s in a Name?

Posted on July 27, 2011 by

Verse 7: And my name is on the cover of my book. Yes, my name is on the cover of my book. Although I hate to tell it, the publisher misspelled it, but my name is on the cover of … Continue reading →


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A Taste of the Nightlife by Sarah Zettel in Stores Today!

Posted on July 5, 2011 by

A TASTE OF THE NIGHTLIFE Vampire Chef #1 by Sarah Zettel By the time I hailed a gypsy cab to get back to Nightlife, the sun was well up and the city was wearing her gaudy daytime face. I felt … Continue reading →


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Book Talk: Mixing Genres

Posted on June 8, 2011 by

by Sherwood Smith I was talking about mysteries the other night, while standing in line. I don’t actually read a lot of mysteries—when logic was being handed out, I was over in the line getting an extra helping of cluelessness. … Continue reading →


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Steampunk and Wodehouse = What Ho, Automaton!

Posted on May 4, 2011 by

I don’t want to try defining steampunk. I suspect it’s one of those things that people point to and say “That’s steampunk,” when it’s something they like that has cool gears, steam-power, zeppelins, and an alternate history fin-de-siècle feel. Steampunk … Continue reading →


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Slipping on the Banana-peel of Comedy

Posted on December 12, 2010 by

On my Netflix recently I finally watched a comedy that was hailed as the funniest thing of the eighties. Everyone loved it. I’d never seen it, I don’t remember why. Five minutes in, I’m thinking, I hate all these people. … Continue reading →


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Demonented Thoughts or, Don’t Give Me Ideas

Posted on October 5, 2010 by

Ever notice how when some literary power-that-be says something won’t work (or, even better, can’t be done), you experience an instant and insistent desire to prove him wrong?


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