#8:  Look for my short story “The Bridge” in the October edition of eFiction magazine.  I highly recommend this eZine to every reader…something for everyone!  It is available online for free and as an inexpensive Kindle subscription on Amazon (the latter has a free trial offer).

#9:  The Perseus Books Group has announced a new eBook formatting service.  As I understand it, this service will primarily be offered through agents to authors they are representing, but MAYBE to some indie authors.  Duh!  I’m sure indie authors will rush to use this service.  Whoops!  They still have to find an agent.  Since every agent is wondering what to do in this digital revolution when authors really don’t need them, I suppose this is a bow to that disappearing profession.  Don’t get me wrong—all that agent expertise is very valuable.  However, this is not the place for it!

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To my readers,

This will appear as an occasional feature as part of my blog.  In lieu of a newsletter, I will post things here that are newsworthy, little bulletins about fellow authors or yours truly.  Some of these will be repeated on my Facebook Fan Page, but the FB programmers are really starting to get on my nerves, so this is the first place to check.

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