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rob: Good point, Amelia. The hours people spend reading are the greatest cost involved. Given that we sometimes get fooled and buy books we don't enjoy, it's nice to have a low cover price, too--if not for the successes, at least for the rejects.Rob
amelia: You may buy books because they are cheep (so you can fill a bookcase) or because you may or may not want it. But I hope people do not read books because they are cheap. time is to valuable
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Rob: Thanks, Amelia. Still, lots of people seem to think that stupid people doing stupid (embarassing) things is the ultimate in humor.Rob
amelia: I am with you. I do not find people doing stupid things funny. I find that people think I am funniest when I say the truth. Odd.
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Rob: Hi Amelia,Yep, you're right. Paper is okay although I think it's faster to look up words on the computer.--Rob
amelia: I thought Reboubt was some type of fort. So I was close. I looked it up in the dictionnary. Yes paper
Operation: World Wide: Just surfing through to spread a little peace and joy. Have a wonderful week.
Rob: Thanks, Clare. And what a fun site you have.--Rob
Clare: Wonderful work you are doing!! Keep it up! You have my support!
amelia: mom got here safe and sound. She said that I have a lot of food in the frig and was looking forward to stilton cheese. On the way home I will try to get some fig pine nut bread to go with it.
sparkle: Hi I am visiting the neighbourhood today and stopping in to say you have a lovely day
Rob: Hi Amelia,Sorry to hear about Da Vinci. It's possible your reading habits are a bit more sophisticated than the average. Since I get paid for sitting in basements, it's not all bad.rob
amelia: P.S. I got DaVinci code on tape. Listened to it but got annoyed. felt manipulated so stoped also felt like I knew the end already. Finally I think goddess worshipers can be just as bad as any other religion.
amelia: good luck on your classes. What a bad Idea sit in a basement in Hawaii while Karen plays outside.
amelia: Looks like you have a Texas walaby on the cover of your latest book,
Rob: From the spam I get, Lea is probably the only one not e-mailing me. My address is in my tag.--Rob
Lea: Hello Rob, I can't get any of your e-mail addresses to work... I would like to send you new submissions from Spotlight authors. Please let me know where we can reach you with review opportunities. Thanks!
Rob: Hi Amelia,Yes, that thought had crossed my mind as well. The slowest reader controls the remote. --Rob
amelia: group reading. No everyone reads at a different pace. who will be the one that changes the page?
Rob: Hi Amelia,The spammers must have figured out a way to overcome the safeguards. Hope this doens't mean I have to take it down again.Rob
amelia: what is with these odd tags? If we have a nuculr war and any one survives I dont mind if they take all the paper books I leave.
julai: hi,good day!I'm blog hopping to gani more friends since I'm just a newbie in the world of blogging. I like this site, I love to read novels.
Kris: Hello - I really enjoy reading your blog!
Rev. Handy: Just wanted to say hello and God Bless...
Lutchi : nice blog you got here...Visit me at my blog when u have time. TC
amelia: nothing is indistructable and when it wears out you want it to be recycleable. Also I am hearing about electronics being a trash problem.
Rob: Hi Amelia,But why recycleable? Why not just keep using it?Rob
amelia: priced so it will not be stolen, easily adapeted for large print, very light weight, very simple to use, hard to break, recycleable,
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amelia: be carefull of what you wish for.
Rob : Hi Amelia--Thanks for the feedback. Hope all is well with you. Want to hear about Africa.--Rob
amelia: great write up on you site.
amelia: Rob sorry about the horid flight. give my love to Pennie.
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rob: Thanks, Kristina. I appreciate the wishes--and hope that 2007 will be a great year for all of us. Steve, thanks as well. Momi--back at you. And Gentlesnob, I really do understand the appeal of paper. I understand the appeal of vellum, too, but I don't think we're going to see a comeback in that technology. Paper has had its day and its day isn't quite over, but it's on the way out. Hybrid technologies like print on demand machines are cool--but are like adding air conditioning to mulecarts.--Ro
Kristina O'D: Happy New Year, Rob, Karen, and all the BookForABuckers! May peace and goodwill rule forever!
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Tuesday, October 2nd 2007

9:01 PM

Does your story take twists when you write away from home?

Tuesday is pretty much a lost day for me. I leave the house at 9:00 AM and get back around 9:20 PM, with four hours of bridge and 2.5 hours of tae kwon do (as well as an hour or so of driving, and some setup (dressing) for my classes. This leaves me something like 2.5 hours of work time and I head to the Richardson (TX) public library with my Jornada to write. Sometime between when I left my bridge teaching and when I headed out for Tae Kwon Do, I realized I'd given away too much in the previous scene and had missed out on a wonderful opportunity to have Sophia discover that the coffins were made of uranium. So, I started hacking away. I didn't actually get to the point I was writing new pages, and I have no idea how many pages I added (if any) but I truly believe this will make the story stronger. I'm right around the halfway point, so it's certainly time for a major plot point and I'm working on that--but I'd missed some of the suspense angle.

The first rule of writing is not to make things to easy on your characters. The second is probably not to make things to easy on yourself. If something seems obvious, it just might be a cliche.

Last night I managed to get my video software installed on the laptop. Perhaps tomorrow I'll actually get to the first (of many?) video review. I gave up on QUEEN OF WOLVES. It's not that it was bad, it just didn't grab me. Now I'm reading THE REINCARNATIONIST by M. J. Rose.

I'm going to make DALLAS VICE by Amy Eastlake the www.BooksForABuck.com book of the day. A Texas Ranger is investigating police corruption in Dallas (always a good idea) and his lead suspect is a sexy vice sergeant. But the more he investigates, the more his libido wants to change her from suspect to lover. This is definitely no way to run an investigation. Or is it? This one is on sale for only $1 so grab it quick. (I really am going to raise it to $3.99). Learn more, read the excerpt, or buy the entire eNovel here: www.booksforabuck.com/rompages/rom_2004/dallas_vice.html. Available in Adobe PDF, HTML, Palm Reader and zipped Microsoft Reader formats. Here's the cover (cover design by Karen Leabo):

 

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