Nail-biting Time

Over the last couple days, I’ve been working on swapping Help Wanted from the old distributor over to the new. Availability will be weird, and site links will be even weirder. I’m sorry for the inconvenience. Links will update as soon as everything’s sorted. Until then, the best bet is to search your favorite retailers directly.

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34 Words To Kill

Moderation in all things… especially these 34 words. Clusters of these words are the chief cause of the dreaded “wordy” syndrome. They’re also symptomatic of stage directions vs. meaningful characterization. Take control of what’s on your page. Do an editing pass to seek and destroy this list. That So Well Just Really Little Then As While Which About Very All But Was Were Had And The Her His He She It They To By For In From Into Of Out Because Two words in particular go beyond “moderation” into “should never appear in commercial fiction” territory: It Because “Because” is like the silica gel pack of fiction, drying everything out.… Read More

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Cover Changes

You’ll notice some Season One cover changes coming through over the next little while. This is happening for two reasons: To accommodate the addition of audio versions with SQUARE covers Joy’s eternal hate for the covers from episodes 4, 5, and 9 The official Season One episode covers are changing to these:

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The Binary Bindery

My formatting service, The Binary Bindery, is now up and running, and eagerly awaiting the chance to quote projects. I take: Fiction; all genres, including erotica Non Fiction Author/Brand promotion files Bulk, back-list, rush and publisher quotes available. Some proofreading service available. No developmental or copy-editing service available at this time. No cover-art services. (Both Emma and Joy love me, but not enough to moonlight for The Bindery. Yet. Especially not during tax season. Have I mentioned that poor Emma’s day job is accounting?) Custom CSS and graphics packages available. Send .doc, .docx or .pdf for quotes to On a more personal note, yes, I know I said I would… Read More

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