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Email Subscriptions are Back
Subscribe to Newsletter (photo credit: Gerd Altmann ) In another case of Google killing off a service that a lot of people use, they killed off the RSS to email subscription feature of Feedburner, which is what this site (and many, many others) used to provide email subscriptions for updates. After a lot of hunting, I settled on follow.it to replace that functionality. It’s completely free for subscribers and has a lot more options than Feedburner offered. We’ve imported our previous subscribers who had previously confirmed their subscri…
Smashwords End of Year Sale
All D Lee Warren books are free for the rest of the year through Smashwords with coupon code SEY25 . Merry Christmas!
New Year Resolutions
Happy New Year (Photo credit: Public Domain Pictures ) Well, it’s about that time again, as one year is about to give over to a new. And what a shit year it’s been. May the next be better. I’m popping these out a little early, though, help offset all those years it was late. It’s been almost 6 years since I published anything under the D Lee brand. That’s depressing. I certainly have plenty of things in various stages of completion but nothing ready for publication (well, except for Bound , but you can read about why I’m not releasing …
The Importance of Beta Readers
As previously announced , Bound was sent out for beta reading. Feedback was received, and I am glad to have gotten it. Here is some of the feedback received: Rabin, is that the guy’s name? (I didn't mention it was Lt. Rabin until later) If they put tape over her mouth, how was she begging for her life? This ended too abruptly. That pisses me off. If I bought this, that would probably keep me from buying the next one, unless maybe it was already available. You should not release these separately. You need to finish the …
Tips for Your Jail Stay
Note: This is a repost of an earlier post from a few years ago on www.bdcrowell.com that I thought fit better here. As such, some of this information may have changed since that original post. I recently attended a training workshop entitled Polishing your Presentation Skills with Randall Whatley that I enjoyed. Near the end of the workshop, each attendee had a few minutes to come up with a topic to present and with what we were going to say. After racking my brain for a minute, I came up with tips to make your next stay in jail more …
