Published on April 18, 2012
amazon

Jeff Bezos is a BILLIONAIRE!! He is worth 18.4 BILLION dollars. Instead of putting air conditioning in the ovens his company calls warehouses, he’s blowing his money trying to recover rockets from past space flights. Why?!
Published on April 18, 2012
This week’s issue is abbreviated. Letters will return next week.
Published on April 11, 2012
The house closing went off (almost) without a hitch and now we’re the proud new owners of…a house that looks MUCH worse without furniture in it. Ha ha. When we first saw the property (two times), it looked awesome.
After we closed on the house, we drove over to the now-empty home, walked in, and started poking around. It was FILTHY! Richard said, “Um, I think we paid too much.” 😉
Published on April 11, 2012
Letters will return next week.
Published on April 11, 2012
diversify your writing income

Any competent writer who puts himself or herself in the right place at the right time can achieve these essentially effortless results. Here are five ways you, too, can start making money at conferences instead of just spending it…
Published on April 11, 2012
Do you feel there is high risk in replying to a blind ad with a Craigslist address?
Published on April 11, 2012
When I was a young writer, I was impatient. Even the idea of immediate success took too long. Why should I have to wait? I had the passion. Words poured from me. What I did not have was the one thing time alone could give me: life experience. I wanted to be the next Great American Novelist, but I only had other people’s lives, ideas and words.
Published on April 4, 2012
Barring unforeseen circumstances, we’re scheduled to close on our new house this Friday. In the last 12 years, I’d forgotten what a pain in the you-know-what it is to buy a house and we’re not planning on doing this ever again…
Published on April 4, 2012
Thumbs up to your readers for saying something about Amazon’s policy of not letting authors reply to hecklers. We’re supposed to just put our work out there and let them take shots at us with no response at all.
I picked up one major heckler right away whom I feel is a member of one or two of the national writer’s groups and is ticked that I didn’t go the traditional literary agent route.
Well hello!!! I tried submitting to lit agents for (count them) 10-years and you, Angie, are the only person in the publishing biz who gave me a ray of hope. Just wait until they get a load of my second in series.
Kuddos lady!!
D.M. Simonds
ANGEL OF THE REALM
https://booklocker.com/books/5280.html
Published on April 4, 2012
Book Reviews
Some authors shoot themselves and their publishers in the wallet with naivete about the book-reviewing industry. The problem is two-fold…