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Almost Three Good Things!

I have a guest blog post today on the Backspace Newsletter on the Four Stages of Chasing Markets. How much do you — and should you — shape your writing to fit what’s trendy and popular?

I love reviews, especially glowing ones, and there’s a new one up. You can read the short, professional version available on Amazon, but the really funny bits are only found in the longer version up on the blog Unlikely Explanations. (Which has the caveat posted: “Formerly “Laura’s Bad Ideas”. Please don’t take anything you read here seriously.”) Except of course, you should take her ideas seriously, because she liked my book. And yes, I do know her, and I can tell you that she’s very smart, with excellent taste in literature, and her opinion means a lot to me.

That’s two good things. I haven’t complained about anything yet, though and I’m going to remedy that right away. Has anyone noticed that the new Blogger interface, while wonderful in so many ways, tends to add a lot of unneeded, unwanted html fluff to posts? I was noticing a lot of weird spacing issues and when I check the html, I see 14 lines instructing italics or something.   

Hm. That’s not a completely bad thing, because I mostly like the new Blogger. Let’s call it 2.7 good things. Yay!

Martha Stewart and Jeff Bezos on the Kindle

I’m going to blog more lightly here over the next few months, as I have two other blogs to tend, and some guest blog posts I still owe. Maybe I’ll post every Monday, I’m still trying to decide. 
Meanwhile, here’s Martha Stewart talking to Jeff Bezos about the kindle. I was going to put this on 500 Words, but I decided it made more sense here, since this blog is about writing and publishing and the other is really more aimed at connecting to readers.

UPDATE:

Might be nice if I actually included the video. Sheesh.

What’s funny to me is how “well, duh” this already sounds to me, when it was “Wow, really?” such a short while ago.