::rolls up metaphorical sleeves:: The preview episodes of Clean Sweep will be available on Tapas tomorrow, 08/19. They will be putting a couple of episodes up for you to take a look. Then on 08/23 they will drop 10 episodes at once, so you can get the story started. Tapas staff wrote a guide especially
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Publishing Partners, Ebooks, DOJ Hearings, and All That Jazz
Penguin Random House and Simon and Schuster are trying to merge. The government is blocking it due to concerns of the new enormous publisher monopolizing the marketplace. We’ve received several questions about the particulars of the testimony, but the ones about this quote stand out: Is this a lie? Yes and no. Yes, a publisher
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The Every Day Mysteries
It’s Monday. How did this happen? Most of the renovation is over. We have some shelves that need to be put up, and the front of the house needs stucco repaired and a new coat of paint, but mostly we are done. I’m waiting for it to sink in, so I can exit the crisis
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Covers and Genre
A while ago we’ve done a Genre by Cover Quiz, where we showed you covers and had you guess the genre. I was looking on Amazon for unrelated reasons, trying to find something for Mod R, and stumbled on this. To be clear: THIS IS NOT A BOOK RECOMMENDATION. I have not read any of
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Self-publishing, HEB, and Rrrrromance
Mod R left me with a list of questions. But first, a funny. I was looking at a house for sale on Redfin the other day and saw this. How can you tell that a Texan is selling their house? Hehehehe. I tell you what, I missed HEB in Florida. The first time we went
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More Love, Less Sleeping With The Fishes
Dear BDH, We love you thiiiiiiis much. Please stop offering to hire mafia hitmen. Also, please do not perform rituals cursing the unnamed paint contractors. That is not good for you. We had to lock the comments. Love, Your Hosts. In the end, it’s paint. Yes, it sucks, but it’s only paint. It can be
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I Wish We Hadn’t Done This
A month ago we decided to renovate the house. We needed to resurface 25 years old pool, which was leaking, we needed to replace an upstairs rail, which was not to code, and we needed to put texture and new paint on the walls. Our house started out as a builder house, constructed as the
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The Secret Formula
I asked in the last book (and I will keep asking till I get an swer) House Andrews or the mod. Please please what do I need to research on to get good understanding on how to develop such complex unique worlds and beings? I have narrowed it down to Xenobiology, Evolution and anthropology. Am
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Quiz: Name that thing
Things I was supposed to do today: get up early, work out, write like the wind. Things I accomplished today so far: I made a cup of tea. RUBY FEVER is going into proofread, and I need to handle that too, but I do not have the energy. I think all of my stress decided
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On Follow Up Questions, Unexpected Nature Of
“We both want to work at our own pace and take our time. We don’t want the stress of not meeting a deadline. If we don’t meet one, nobody has to know. When things are ready to be published, they will be up on the Release Schedule. We will announce them on the blog and
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On Being Difficult
When you start out in traditional publishing, you are very eager. You’ve heard rumors about this other Big Name Author who is “difficult” and is “a bitch” and you don’t want to be difficult. Then you gain experience and realize that bringing a story from the manuscript to the book isn’t the smooth road you
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The Problem of Publishing
Didn’t get a lot of sleep last night, so let’s hope I will make sense. Can you explain how the publishing industry has changed in the past two years? I keep hearing about problems and issues and I don’t understand what’s going on (except the obvious toll on authors, but that doesn’t seem to be
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