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Update to Piracy on the Internet Post

05.16.2012
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Within a few hours of my notification, the entire site had been suspended. Today, when I went back to the offending post, it’s gone.

Someone did something wrong. And I stood up for myself. And it worked out.

Is it sad, because that happens so rarely, I’m actually shocked?

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Tagged as: ventastic, web presence

You Did Not Just Do That: Piracy on the Internet

05.12.2012
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A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post. I’m not going to tell you which one because… okay, let me tell the story first. So, a post. I publish it and it’s not even about anything (as usual). It’s not even one of my posts that people occasionally find useful (like the one on [...]

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Tagged as: the internet and you, ventastic

What’s In Your Wallet?

11.16.2011
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As mentioned on many occasions, I have become a full on convert to the digital reading experience. However, I still enjoy the occasional magazine (I got suckered into a year’s subscription when my kid was fundraising so she could have a fifty cent toy).

So, I’m scanning through the magazine, and I see this ad.

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Tagged as: because we all need a way to waste an hour, inappropriately amusing, ventastic

Friday Mashup 09.09.2011

09.09.2011

A really awesome Paranormal TV show hosted by an even awesomer Landra Graf; a dollhouse that would make Stephen King cry; and badness. Just… movie remake badness.

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Tagged as: because we all need a way to waste an hour, ventastic

When Did I Become the Zombie Queen?

03.21.2011

This blog is about reading and writing and finding things inappropriately amusing.  (I suffer from inappropriate laughter–it’s a real thing, don’t laugh.  Or do.  If you suffer from it, too.  I won’t judge you.  I’ll probably laugh at you, though.) The Z-word, which I’m not even going to write anymore because it’s taking over my [...]

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Tagged as: inappropriately amusing, ventastic

Ruth Fowler: You Want My Opinion? Never. Write. Again.

02.22.2010

Writing is an affliction, a disease of the soul, a rewiring in the head, like Asperger’s or some other form of autism. Like masturbation, it’s an uncontrollable and compulsive urge. It’s an obsession, a need, a drive. It’s not fun, and rewarding, and entertaining. It’s like having a bad movie play in loop in your [...]

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Tagged as: quotes, the care and feeding of your muse, ventastic

Romance Novels – No More Rapage, Yay!

02.12.2010
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On changes in the romance genre: The relationships had also modernized: by the 1990s, it was rare to see a book which featured a man raping his future wife. via Romance novel – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Yeah, thank goodness those crazy men finally came to their senses.  In the NINETIES.  What the? I get [...]

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Tagged as: all writers are readers, cliches, inappropriately amusing, romance novels, ventastic

Reinventing the Old Stuff

12.26.2009
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I wrote a novel and finished it well over a year-and-a-half ago.  I submitted it to Carina Press (cross your fingers for me–still haven’t heard anything*).  It was a stand-alone book, but I knew when I wrote it there were two related books to be written.  I jotted down notes as they came to me [...]

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Tagged as: craft, process, querying, stupid synopsis, ventastic

First Agent Query

10.14.2009

Found the first agent I’m going to send the new and improved, dedicated query to.  FYI: I found a list of agents here. Here’s my first quandry: I planned to submit to a publisher who requested a query, a 10 page synopsis, and 3 chapters.  I buckled down and got my synopsis finished.   This agent [...]

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Tagged as: agents, querying, stupid synopsis, the business side, ventastic

Zombies? Really, scientists?

08.20.2009

This is not an amusing joke, like Zombie Harmony. This is real, serious research, people. What if zombies were real? What would we have to do to stop the spreading of this “infectious disease?” Some nuggets of wisdom.  You know, just in case. Professor Robert Smith? (the question mark is part of his surname and [...]

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Tagged as: because we all need a way to waste an hour, inappropriately amusing, ventastic

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