aristophanes

Been plugging my Amazon store lately, it's actually kind of a nice little shoppy thing at this point, unfortunately I suspect most people don't just buy the stuff, instead they mark the books on their wishlist and thus I fail to get my commission even when they do buy it. I even had one frustrating case on a forum recently, where some girl said she...
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Snuck back onto Yahoo Answer under an alias. Am back to doing what I like best -- translating horrible things into Latin for prospective tattoos! (Why in God's name would you want a tattoo in a language even you don't speak? And why would you think some free online translation software that left half the words in English was anything near accurate?)

No one ever...
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I think I shall declare Fanny Hill a failure. I'd be lucky to make back what's spent on it, at this point.

Had an absolutely ghastly dream!

At the start, it was kind of funny, I was (variously) living in or housesitting an old house, or maybe like an apartment building. It looked a lot like part of the house a childhood friend used to live in. Apparently, someone online (I think from the old Brunching Shuttlecocks site) had rented this room years before me, and wrote...
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Saw an Unidentified Flying Object this evening, at least until we identified it.




(it was a balloon.)

Hey, Pagan Bookworm reviewed my book, and liked it!

Nervous. Actually spent MONEY on an ad campaign for Fanny Hill. I only need to sell 7 copies to break even, which is why it seemed a reasonable move. It's supposed to get distributed to 300,000 semi-targeted people so it doesn't seem unlikely 7 of them would want to buy editions.

Incidentally, I have a suspicion the book Memoirs of a Geisha is a knockoff...
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Well, I have basically had to kill the functionality of the wholesale page I set up for selling books. I am not having an easy time at all selling them wholesale -- Createspace can't accept a 50% coupon for more than 1 book so I can't send people to buy directly from them, the publisher: and Paypal can't comprehend that only some items need to...
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I cannot stand Craigslist any longer. I never have successfully hired or sold anything through those guys; either no one pays any attention to my adverts at all, or only Nigerian scammers pay attention to them; or they get the attention of someone who seems to be just flagging whatever random crap they see. Recently I posted an ad looking to hire bloggers to post...
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Saw an ad for the Disney/Zemeckis "Christmas Carol" last night. The animation looks absolutely ghastly. It's like they modeled it on one of those cheap prints you find decorating a McDonalds, but added some 1996 level CGI.

it also showed how Hollywood just doesn't understand how to market movies anymore. It's "A Christmas Carol." Admittedly it's a well-known plot; but does that honestly mean loud...
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