25
Apr
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Well, they stole my Jeep. My 1996 Forrest Green Jeep Cherokee. They did it. You know, them. Those Guys.
And, it turns out, auto theft is pretty much a free crime – if you are the criminal. You can jack a car, ride it around till it runs out of [...]

21
Apr

Well, I missed two days… but I am writing on saturday, so that should make up for one of them. And, It’s my birthday so that should make up for the other?
Anyway, so what I am thinking about this morning, is something that came up during the online chat the other day. And [...]

19
Apr
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AuthorsBookshop.com hosted its first open chat session in the members chat area tonight. The subject, which was moderately adhered to, was “Using the built-in tools and features of AuthorsBookshop.com,” and I also left the floor open for general comments, questions and discussions about the site in general.
I was a little curious to see how [...]

18
Apr
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Well, I finally got the final version of the new logo. I have had a semi-final version of it in use on the sight for about a month now. But I now have the final files from the designers.
I usually do pretty much everything myself. Layout and programming of the site, designing [...]

17
Apr
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I have decided that I don’t have to post on the weekends. I mean, come on. I spend most of it programming the site, or marketing the site, or doing whatever I can for the site anyway. I think I can take the weekend off of this blog.
I just finished getting March’s [...]

13
Apr
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I spent the first half of this week at the AuthorsBookshop.com distribution center in Chesapeak VA. As our members know, the books are received, warehoused, and shipped out of a print shop, Print and Ship, in Chesapeake. We also have retail space in the front of the shop where our books are displayed [...]

12
Apr
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A friend of mine just posted an RIP to Vonnegut on his AuthorsBookshop.com blog, here.
I hadn’t heard that he had passed. It’s really too bad. I guess the upside, on a personal level, is that now I will probably read more of his work. I always feel guilty pursuing someones body of [...]

07
Apr
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A couple of AuthorsBookshop.com authors have gotten some good press recently.
Guy Jacobs was interviewed on CNBC. See it here starting at about 1 minute in.
And Tyler Tichelaar was interviewd by the Author Access website. You can listen to it here

06
Apr
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Ok, the title of this post an intentional entendre. Obviously, everyone blogs about their personal business. Thats what it is all about. And I intend to do that some – My wife and I have a 3 year old and a puppy, I manage an after-school program for inner-city kids, etc [...]