For those of you who tuned into the site yesterday, you would have noticed a strange message. In it I appeared to be talking about NanoWriMo only to have a weird “hacker” type message appear. This was not a mistake. I had actually volunteered to participate in JC Hutchins’ promotional campaign for his “7th Son, Descent” book launch yesterday. The premise was as follows: one of JC’s characters in “7th Son” is a world-class computer hacker. Wouldn’t it be fun if several sites were “hacked” by the character for promotional purposes? The same idea was carried out on Twitter too. JC has always had innovative promotional ideas and I take notes every time he comes up with something new. Promotion […]
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Why Bother with Twitter?
I have been involved in several conversations lately where the topic of Twitter comes up. Sometimes I tell someone I’m on Twitter and sometimes that person asks me if I’ve heard of it. In both cases, the person I’m talking with sometimes says something like “I don’t bother with Twitter because it’s just for sharing inane information” (i.e. what the tweeter had for breakfast, tracking naps, having bowel movements, etc.). I always find these conversations to be an uphill battle because I have to first convince the party at hand that while there is something to what they are saying, that isn’t the end of it all. Note that I didn’t say those sorts of tweets don’t happen. In point […]
Read moreGet Published, Episode 8 – Interview with Phil Rossi
Hello Everyone. Well, we’re halfway through the year; I hope you are all doing well. Things are going well here and I’m increasingly hopeful that I will have an announcement in the near future. I do know that I have holidays coming up and I’m really looking forward to that. I’m very excited to have Phil Rossi as my guest on this episode. I had some minor audio problems (Phil kept losing volume) but I have managed to get it audible. Phil had a lot of interesting things to say and I must say, this was a very cool interview. Enjoy. Show Notes 00:00 — Opening – Get Published, Episode 8 Everything has to start somewhere and this is the […]
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