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Hosting Storyblogging 52

jelewis8 — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:26:38 +0000

I’ll be hosting the next Storybloging Carnival here next Monday. It’s been a while since I even participated in the Storyblogging Carnival, much less hosted, but I do plan on having a story ready, so if one story is a carnival, then you’re about to have a great night out getting sick on funnel cake and riding the Ferris wheel. If you blog and you write stories, and you post those stories on your blog, and you like attention, then send me your entry (email jeremiah.lewis@gmail.com) by Saturday, August 26, or no later than Sunday at noon with the following information:
* title
* story URL
* author name (optional)
* blog name
* blog URL
* word count
* content rating (like G, PG, R, etc.)
* a short blurb describing the story
Seriously, summer’s almost over, so you have no excuse not to post even a little tiny, tiny story. Then again, I should talk, right?
I look forward to reading all the good stuff.

I’m a Published Author (Technically)

jelewis8 — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 04:55:02 +0000

The book is done, incidentally. I spent the day editing and fixing up the file and making it ready for PDF-ifying, which is not as easy as it sounds. Because the PDF file has to be a specific size, with bleed margins and all sorts of embedded font nonsense that eventually makes you realize that maybe the reason it’s so hard to get published these days isn’t the competitive market, it’s the fixing of all those bleed margins.
There’s something very satisfying about creating your own cover art, writing a blurb for the back, and putting it all together in a neat little package, complete with shopping cart goodness for the masses to discover via a random Google search. Oh, sorry, I forgot to link it!
Please purchase The Cold Goodbye!
There’s even a one chapter preview, which should entice you and send small electrical shocks to your cerebellum if you click on the link and then decline to purchase. The second part may not work properly, but it is enticing, like a nice hunk of mutton turning on a spit over an open flame, juices spitting and popping like corkers and fireworks. Why mutton? Because it seems like it’s a Christmas-ey kind of meat, and I’m feeling very seasonal right now.
By the way, this is only the “evaluation” version of the novel. Here’s the breakdown. Readers of this version will tell me if I should write Book 2, because honestly, I don’t know if the story’s any good. I suspect it might be, but the real litmus test is unvarnished responses from interested readers. I expect honesty. Should I write Book 2? Should I condemn the whole thing to the dung heap? And if so, where would I find such a dung heap?
So, once again, please, go check out The Cold Goodbye and if you’re feeling extra charitable, drop me a line and tell me what you thought of it.

Stop the RIAA

jelewis8 — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 22:33:14 +0000

The Stop RIAA Coalition website is beginning a week-long boycott of RIAA products. Here’s a blurb:

A coalition of websites is coming together to create www.stopRIAAlawsuits.com, which will call for a one week boycott of RIAA music coinciding with the next round of lawsuits against music fans. We would like to invite your site to join the coalition. When the RIAA files its next round of suits, we will launch the website which will include a link to every endorsing site– the more we have on board, the stronger a statement we can send. The record industry trying to use these suits to scare people into buying their products. To end the lawsuits, we need to show them that lawsuits will hurt their bottom line. To endorse, send an email from your domain to stopRIAAlawsuits@downhillbattle.org.

Sounds good to me. If you have a website and would like to endorse the boycott, feel free to email them.