Jun 13 2013
Stacked: Female Sexuality in YA Fiction: Exploring the Range of Experiences – Catagator discusses the need for YA books to have a more sexually empowering message. It should be noted that Catagator isn’t calling for all YA books to have sex in them or for all YA books to have one particular type of sex,(…)
Jun 3 2013
Apparently last week, the Science Fiction and Fantasy authors awoke to a disturbing news that women are writing Science Fiction Fantasy books and what is worse, there may be a huge influx of Science Fiction Romance. This agony over women writers in the SFF space likely arises over a sense of fear of marginalization. Women(…)
May 16 2013
Annoying song but fun music video using animated romance covers. Pretty interesting how they manipulated the photos to animate them. U.S. Now Paints Apple as ‘Ringmaster’ in Its Lawsuit on E-Book Price-Fixing – Apple is the only party left standing in the DOJ’s lawsuit over price fixing. Emails alluded to in filings from the DOJ(…)
Apr 19 2013
Given that news makes you depressed, I thought I would share two videos with you that I thought were particularly inspiring. The first was recorded last night, I believe, and is the beginning of the Boston Bruins game. The singer begins the national anthem but the crowd begins to sing along and when they do,(…)
Mar 25 2013
I’m interviewing author Julie James at the Lady Jane’s Salon in Naperville IL, in conjunction with her new release “Love Irresistibly” which I did love. I’m not sure what questions I’ll be asking her (so if you have any ideas, let me know). But we would love to have you attend. It is as Le(…)
Mar 8 2013
At Writer’s Unboxed yesterday (post has since been removed), the blog post was from an author (not a romance author) who was unhappy with the way in which readers interacted with her. She enumerated several questions she didn’t like including the impertinent ones about money (how much do you make) and manuscript review (will you(…)
Feb 22 2013
Germans can’t see meteorite YouTube videos due to copyright dispute – Last week a meteorite fell in Russia. Apparently there are hundreds of citizens who have dash cams and many recorded some amazing video of the meteor’s fall into our atmosphere. In one video, the radio is playing and a German rights group is demanding(…)
Jan 16 2013
CBS says it won’t interfere in CNET’s ‘actual news,’ just reviews – At the end of CES, the Hopper DVR by DISH was voted best of the conference until CBS forced its subsidiary CNET employees to overturn their votes. CBS is in litigation with DISH and didn’t want DISH to be receiving any award. While(…)
Dec 30 2012
Dropbox + Airfile (free) Despite the security concerns that exist around Dropbox, it is one of the easiest cloud storage programs on the market to use. You designate a folder on your harddrive as the Dropbox folder and anything you place in there is instantly synced with the cloud. On the road, you can access(…)
Dec 28 2012
Swoon Reads Introduces Crowdsourced Publishing Model – Macmillan is taking up where HarperCollins Inkpop left off. HarperCollins launched Inkpop in 2010 and invited writers to come and share their material with others. HarperCollins acquired at least one manuscript from the writers on Inkpop. HC sold Inkpop to Figment in 2012. For Macmillan, Swoon Reads invites(…)
Oct 26 2012
Apple’s 2012 Q4 earnings report – Apple’s stock decreased slightly with the news of decreased iPad sales against expectations which seemed pretty robust to me, but I’m not a Wall Street trader. Reuters – International sales accounted for 60 percent of quarter’s revenue – Forecasts Q1 2013 revenue about $52 billion; share about $11.75 Amazon(…)
Oct 25 2012
The iPad Mini is here, finally. The specs are a 7.9″ diagonal screen with the same resolution as an iPad 2 (which I still own and use. I think the iPad 2 is a great device and while the Retina screen is sharper and clearer, I’ve never felt the lack). The actual device size is(…)
Oct 22 2012
Johnny Depp Imprint – I don’t really get the idea behind this but apparently it is believed that if Johnny Depp’s name is on the imprint, then people will buy the books. The first book from the Johnny Depp imprint, a part of HarperCollins, is The Unraveled Tales of Bob Dylan by Douglas Brinkley. Associated(…)
Oct 15 2012
Exclusive: FTC moving closer to Google antitrust case – “Four of the FTC commissioners have become convinced after more than a year of investigation that Google illegally used its dominance of the search market to hurt its rivals, while one commissioner is skeptical, the sources said.” The charges are that Google is requiring companies to(…)
Sep 3 2012
Happy Labor Day to the U.S. folks. VoterRegistration – This is an open source web app that is designed to help any person, no matter party affiliation, to register to vote. November is just under 60 days away and a U.S. citizen’s most precious right is the right to have a say in how she(…)
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