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It's the best blog post ever, and it's not even my blog post!
It's from Joe Konrath (JA Konrath as he is known on Amazon.com).
I took John Locke's advice on how to become a successful eBook author and Locke's advice set me back about two months. Maybe more. In a nutshell, John Locke's advice is Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter. But what worked for Locke has no chance of working for anyone else and Locke knows this, but he's trying to make more money by selling something that's worthless for $5. Locke sold more than a million eBooks in 5 months by peddling his writing on Twitter and using hashtags to do it. Maybe Locke was the first to use hashtags properly -- I don't really know -- but now every Twitter post has hashtags and links and no one is selling anything. You could post a link in which you were giving money away and no one would visit it. Locke's advice is worse than worthless -- it's damaging. Follow his advice and prepare for disappointment.
If one wishes to know how to succeed as a writer, read Konrath's blog post. Live it, breathe it, experience it, and never stop writing:
http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/09/how-to-succeed.html
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Rick Perry's Latest Commercial
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I hate to give a Republican credit, but I have to give credit where credit is due.
GOP presidential contender Rick Perry produced a great ad, which is on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EL5Atp_vF0
There's really just one small problem with the way this ad was produced, and you don't have to watch it all the way to see what I saw. Maybe it's just me, but when I look at the Perry for President logo, I see a nuclear explosion (without the mushroom cloud):
That looks like an nuke exploding on the horizon.
Rick Perry is solidly Tea Party, and those whackos honestly believe that when Armageddon happens, they will be raptured up to Heaven while the rest of us will be left to experience hell on Earth. This is one reason why the Republican philosophy is to incite unrest in the Middle East, because it has been prophesied in the Bible that Armageddon will occur in the Mideast.
I think Obama is unfit to lead a parade much less America, but do we really want the Tea Party in charge?
I Love the Smell of Fascism in the Morning, just $0.99.
I hate to give a Republican credit, but I have to give credit where credit is due.
GOP presidential contender Rick Perry produced a great ad, which is on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EL5Atp_vF0
There's really just one small problem with the way this ad was produced, and you don't have to watch it all the way to see what I saw. Maybe it's just me, but when I look at the Perry for President logo, I see a nuclear explosion (without the mushroom cloud):
That looks like an nuke exploding on the horizon.
Rick Perry is solidly Tea Party, and those whackos honestly believe that when Armageddon happens, they will be raptured up to Heaven while the rest of us will be left to experience hell on Earth. This is one reason why the Republican philosophy is to incite unrest in the Middle East, because it has been prophesied in the Bible that Armageddon will occur in the Mideast.
I think Obama is unfit to lead a parade much less America, but do we really want the Tea Party in charge?
I Love the Smell of Fascism in the Morning, just $0.99.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
It Really is a Bizarro World
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I noticed something back in 2004, when I attempted to publish my second satire book, which focused on political humor: Liberals do not support other liberals.
Watch any liberal TV program, which is pretty much limited to MSNBC these days, or listen to any liberal radio program, none of which I can name off the top of my head. There are plenty of liberal channels on YouTube, and liberal blogs aplenty. What is the reaction of those places and sites when contacted by a new and upcoming liberal author? Silence. I offer to send my books to them for free, just to see if they like the writing, and by and large there is no interest.
The message really couldn't be any clearer to an author attempting to write liberal and fact-based humor: We don't care about you, and we're not going to lift a finger to help you spread your message.
The liberal media have circled their collective wagons against the 24/7 assault by the conservative media establishment, yet when a new liberal wishes to join the fight against disinformation, he or she is told that he or she does not matter and we're on our own.
As much as I dislike the conservative media establishment, I do admire one thing about them: They stick together. Whether it's someone who creates a video and posts it to YouTube, creates a new website bashing Obama and his administration, writes a book slamming liberals, or maybe broadcasts a pirate radio station, conservatives rally around that individual to make certain he or she receives as much exposure as possible. While conservatives may throw someone into the deep end to sink or swim, liberals won't even allow someone in the pool for a chance to compete.
Sticking together is an admirable trait. And that's how conservatives have been able to all but assume control of the American media, while liberals huddle in a corner trying to figure out what happened to their media dominance.
I am an equal opportunity humorist. I do not care who I offend when I write, because humor is going to offend some person or some class of people. It's the nature of the beast. And while I love writing humor that ridicules conservatives, the Tea Party and others who are biased, intolerant and racist, I can just as easily switch sides and ridicule liberals, Democrats and Independents.
I'll give the liberal base about six months to support a new writer and at least take a look at what I have to say, but if they continue to betray their base of support with total indifference, get ready to read about Obama's Treehouse in Kenya, where he was born, and his early days of swinging through the trees with all the other monkeys. Unfortunately, that type of racist hatred does have a base of support, and if that's the base I have to write to in order to keep a roof over my head and food on the table, so be it.
I noticed something back in 2004, when I attempted to publish my second satire book, which focused on political humor: Liberals do not support other liberals.
Watch any liberal TV program, which is pretty much limited to MSNBC these days, or listen to any liberal radio program, none of which I can name off the top of my head. There are plenty of liberal channels on YouTube, and liberal blogs aplenty. What is the reaction of those places and sites when contacted by a new and upcoming liberal author? Silence. I offer to send my books to them for free, just to see if they like the writing, and by and large there is no interest.
The message really couldn't be any clearer to an author attempting to write liberal and fact-based humor: We don't care about you, and we're not going to lift a finger to help you spread your message.
The liberal media have circled their collective wagons against the 24/7 assault by the conservative media establishment, yet when a new liberal wishes to join the fight against disinformation, he or she is told that he or she does not matter and we're on our own.
As much as I dislike the conservative media establishment, I do admire one thing about them: They stick together. Whether it's someone who creates a video and posts it to YouTube, creates a new website bashing Obama and his administration, writes a book slamming liberals, or maybe broadcasts a pirate radio station, conservatives rally around that individual to make certain he or she receives as much exposure as possible. While conservatives may throw someone into the deep end to sink or swim, liberals won't even allow someone in the pool for a chance to compete.
Sticking together is an admirable trait. And that's how conservatives have been able to all but assume control of the American media, while liberals huddle in a corner trying to figure out what happened to their media dominance.
I am an equal opportunity humorist. I do not care who I offend when I write, because humor is going to offend some person or some class of people. It's the nature of the beast. And while I love writing humor that ridicules conservatives, the Tea Party and others who are biased, intolerant and racist, I can just as easily switch sides and ridicule liberals, Democrats and Independents.
I'll give the liberal base about six months to support a new writer and at least take a look at what I have to say, but if they continue to betray their base of support with total indifference, get ready to read about Obama's Treehouse in Kenya, where he was born, and his early days of swinging through the trees with all the other monkeys. Unfortunately, that type of racist hatred does have a base of support, and if that's the base I have to write to in order to keep a roof over my head and food on the table, so be it.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
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