Downtown Train
It’s been an interesting couple of months living downtown in the city. There are some truly great things like music festivals (two in August alone) and fa...
Category: Good Idea
Support the arts and culture because art and culture support you
BEFORE YOU CLICK THE VIDEO: I see these things a lot in my feed: dancers or painters or singers or musicians – artists – doing something that ‘...
Three letter word
I know that “running” on an elliptical isn’t really running, but I just did about 10k over an hour on the the thing and the last time I did an...
Jargon is the death knell of business planning
Allow me this one small dalliance into negativity. It won’t take long, and it’s about jargon. In this case, it’s specifically about business/f...
Money for Nothing
Copyright is, at its simplest form, the method by which creators are paid for their work. It is a registration of an intellectual property (IP). It says “...
Design is not my strong suit
Here’s the thing. I want a writing studio. I want a space that I can come to where creativity is the THING. I may even do sewing here. When we bought this...
Competition?
Hi cenobyte, How have you been? I understand you only wanted to communicate to your previous consultant but I am emailing you now check on the update for your b...
Cherie from the vanity press called today
I received correspondence today from the vanity press that keeps contacting me. You remember this from such escapades as Nathan’s going to publish my mani...
NATHAN, WHERE ARE YOU?
In January, I was contacted by Ex Libris, a vanity press that uses extremely aggressive marketing techniques to bilk writers out of their hard-earned income. I ...
Dear Nathan – IMPORTANT INFORMATION
I got a phone message from Nathan! (The ‘consultant’ Ex Libris has assigned to my book.) It was the same voice mail that he’s left the past th...