All Blog Posts Tagged 'internet' (11)

Live Chat and Dead Darlings

This seems to be a slow weekend here on the Internet. I can never figure out where people disappear to or why. What could possibly be more fascinating than roaming cyberspace? :) I realize in some places the weather is too nice to stay inside, in other places it's too nasty to do anything online. Many writers are involved in National Novel Writing Month. Many others are busy procrastinating. And me . . . well, here I am, still virtually book touring. Today's stops: Beth's Book Review Blog --… Continue

Added by Pat Bertram on November 9, 2009 at 7:45am — No Comments

The Helpful and the Not-So-Much

I got an email this morning from a woman who would like to review my book, which is nice ,at least one hopes it will turn out that way. I posted an "Available for Review" entry on a site that lets authors do that, and she responded. The Helpful People part is that she gave me three more book review sites I was unaware of, allowing me to expand my reach on the Net. On the other side of it, contact with another Internet outreach led to a rather embarrassing situation where my note to the site own… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on September 4, 2009 at 11:15pm — No Comments

Creativity and the hive mind

One of the great challenges to creativity is the Internet as a portal to seemingly unlimited information. Entering that portal turns many of us into yak shavers. We finish with one yak, then another comes along, and another and at the end of the day, the floor is covered with pretty much an indistinguishable amount of yak hair which we’ve done nothing to weave into the next magical garment of the mind. Piles and piles of that hair build day after day until we no longer remember why we came to sh… Continue

Added by ChristopherGMoore on June 11, 2009 at 4:30pm — 2 Comments

When Worlds Don't Collide, But Do Bump Into Each Other a Lot

I live in northern Lower Michigan, which is a beautiful place. What we call traffic, most people would snicker at. The only time there are more than ten cars in town is from 3:30 to 4:00 pm when the school day ends. There is one stoplight...in the whole county. Yesterday there were five elk in a small copse behind our house, so we went out to commune with them. (Actually we were hoping one would drop an antler where we could get to it before the little critters do, but it didn't happen.) Anyway… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on March 27, 2009 at 9:16pm — No Comments

Virtual Sit-Down Interview of Darden North by the Book Addict - Angela Wilson of Pop Syndicate

Book Addict with Angela Wilson Virtual Sitdown with Darden North 02/06/2009 by Angela Wilson Darden North takes his medical acumen into the writing realm, thrilling readers with medical mysteries guaranteed to keep them on edge. Today, North sits down for a chat with Book Addict Editor Angela Wilson. Find out more about his writing habits and his latest novel. Book Addict: Tell us ab… Continue

Added by Darden North, MD on March 2, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

How Did I Get So Dependent?

No Internet where I'm staying (but a great view of the ocean). And last night my cell phone called in sick. Now there I am, unable to communicate. How quickly I've become used to the things I had no inkling of a while back! So the question in my title is rhetorical. I think. Continue

Added by Peg Herring on February 24, 2009 at 12:55am — No Comments

CONVERSATIONS LIVE! RADIO Interviews Darden North

Please copy and past the link below to listen to the December 2008 interview by Cyrus Webb: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/conversationslive/2008/12/12/author-darden-north-talks-to-conversations-live Continue

Added by Darden North, MD on December 17, 2008 at 11:30am — 3 Comments

Christmas in November

It's kind of like that, anyway. After a month of dial-up and fruitless calls to my internet non-provider, I'm waiting for a new group of clever but non-communicative men to come and put in a better system. I haven't been this anxious since I was six and hoping for that cheap guitar. My husband is exhibiting Grinch-like qualities, predicting that they'll be unable to hook us up. It's probably because he won't do dial-up and therefore hasn't been online since September. That's enough to make anyo… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on November 3, 2008 at 10:33pm — No Comments

Missing in Action

We've been without the internet for several days, which is always traumatic. The good news upon coming back is that I've learned that MACBETH'S NIECE will be published in large print in April. That's a good thing because as a "sweet" romance, it appeals to people who might need a bit of help eyesight-wise. Still, being "isolated" from web friends and colleagues is nerve-wracking. What am I missing, what should I be doing, who's trying to contact me? I'm currently doing a tiny-tour of Wisconsin,… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on October 3, 2008 at 9:59pm — No Comments

Getting Noticed

All the advisers recommend it: find a way to get noticed. They're not wrong, but it isn't easy to do. They have suggestlons, of course, some that anybody could have come up with and others that nobody would want to. "Dress in an attention-getting way." With perfectly straight faces, I've heard people advise that you dress like your character for signings and appearances. With a not-so-perfect face, I try to be politely non-committal. Maybe some can do that, and maybe it's appropriate for some b… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on September 9, 2008 at 10:23pm — No Comments

All That Well-intentioned Advice

People are always starting sentences with, "You should ...." I'm amazed and sometimes amused at the advice I get. The other day someone told me that I should "ask around and see if any bookstores will let me do a booksigning." I never would have thought of that on my own! I get all kinds of advice about using the Internet to become famous. Some of it is in the form of emails that promise I'll get thousands of hits a day. Some is from people who have a friend of a friend who figured out how to m… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on August 5, 2008 at 10:49pm — No Comments