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[9 Apr 2010 | No Comment | 123 views]
Disappearances: stats on the first 48 hours

Here are the stats for the first 48 hours of my recent novel release. I pay attention to this information, even if it isn’t sales, because it interests me and I like to see how any work is doing when I release it.
The overall winner for generating hits is Scribd.com. They were gracious enough to feature my work once I put it up there. That front page bump really helps.
3,556 “Reads”
413 Downloads
8 5-Stars (including one by Scribd’s CEO)
9 Comments
1 Featured Award
1 Rising List Award
The next is Feedbooks, which is a …

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[12 Feb 2010 | One Comment | 149 views]
Coming Soon – Disappearances – A Novel

I’m excited to announce that I will soon launch a new novel on my site and out to the web at large. The book is called Disappearances and it has been long in coming, the product of years of work, and I’m nearly bursting at the seams to finish and get it out to readers.
Disappearances tells the story of a young man mentally disconnected. Early one morning he’s awoken from a restless sleep by a plane crash outside his apartment window. Rushing down to the scene, the young man …

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[21 Dec 2009 | 16 Comments | 390 views]

Merry Holidays and all that noise. I wanna talk about copyright today. Everyone and their Mom is talking about copyright and piracy recently, so I thought I’d join the fun. Keep in mind, these musings are long (as all my musings tend to be), so please bear with me.
We begin personally, as all my musings begin. I believe that the individual viewpoint is how we all see the world first, so it’s a comfortable and easy place to begin. So let’s start by talking about how I came to this …