Month: June 2011

  • Visiting with Author Karen Cote

    I visited Karen Cote’s website—she’s made the visit something entertaining and remarkable. Take a look here—and then look around her website to see her work and what she’s created. Download as PDFPrint Page

  • Heads Up on the Book That Changes Publishing

    Last week, like a zillion other writers, I received notice of the publication of John Locke’s How I Sold 1 Million eBooks in Five Months. I bought it. It fits PERFECTLY with How To Think Sideways and How To Revise Your Novel. I’ve been focusing heavily on teaching the traditional path to publishing because I’m…

  • Why I’m Deleting My Facebook Account

    Today, nearly a week after a Lulzsec/Lulz Security hack resulted in my Facebook page being hacked by jackasses who sent awful spam to nearly a thousand of my students, friends, and family members before I could get the page blocked, Facebook finally got back to me on my account. Hi Holly, Your account was suspended…

  • Facebook Hacker Crime Update

    I reported the hacking of my Facebook account to the FBI. I ALSO received a notice from Facebook that my account was blocked because I’d posted porn. Considering I’m the person who requested my account be blocked because I was hacked, I’m very unhappy with Facebook’s clueless handling of this issue, and not sure I’ll…

  • My Facebook Page was hacked

    At around 6 AM today, someone changed my password, put up a pornographic picture as my user ID, and started using my account to spam and harass my friends. If you received from my via Facebook in the last 24 hours, it was not from me. (I didn’t use the account yesterday or today.) Nonetheless,…

  • Writing Projects Gone Weird: or, Saturday, I Knit A Cat

    The migraines and vertigo are back with a vengeance, and I’m stuck in horizontal mode (laptop propped on lap and lying down as I write this, in fact). So Saturday, I dragged out some cotton string (a very nice German variegated yarn), and needles, and did one of the few things that doesn’t make me…

  • Where I am right now

    I apologize for my absence. The last few weeks have been hard. I’ve been back to full-time vertigo and full-time migraines, and though I know this is nothing life-threatening, it is damned difficult to work through. I’m doing my best, I’m still producing the HTTS Walkthrough, and Margaret and I are worknig hard on the…