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Posted on August 26, 2012 by xtine in Frontpage Blog | Leave a comment

  Readers! Eight award winners in the 2012 eFestival of Words “Best of the Independent eBook Awards” have grouped together to offer you an amazing opportunity. They’ve reduced the prices of their award-winning novels to 99 cents for August 27 and 28th! Whether you like to read mysteries, romance, horror, young adult, women’s fiction, or fantasy, this group has it. Are you a writer yourself? Do you want to learn all about digitally publishing your next masterpiece? They’ve got you covered there too. Get all eight … →

Tag, I’m It!

Posted on June 29, 2012 by xtine in Frontpage Blog | Leave a comment

I am so not a good blogger. Actually, I am profoundly bad at it. I have lots of things I care about that I’d like to blog about but the fact is, a 400 word blog post could be 400 words of my next novel. But lots of my writer friends have blogs and sometimes they do something nice like tag your ass in their post, and you want to keep the nice stuff happening. So, parody genius PJ Jones … →

What Fashion Manufacturing and Book Manufacturing Have in Common. Or Not.

Posted on April 12, 2012 by xtine in Frontpage Blog | Leave a comment

I’m not a journalist, and this is an opinion piece. You’ll find some non-journalistic wording and non-absolutely-accurate stuff in here. Like I used “collusion” below and that may not be the same as “anti-trust.” I may have to correct stuff as I go. Mea culpa in advance. Watching the media report on the DoJ investigation into price collusion between publishers is fascinating stuff. The hue and cry over where people get their books from, and the government intervention over what … →

How To Maintain a 50 Hour Workweek – Part III

Posted on April 10, 2012 by xtine in Frontpage Blog | Leave a comment

Last night, I got a call from a lovely lady heading the tech design department at a big big company. She needs someone with my skills, and I’d love to cut my commute. But I told her, look, I work from 9 to 4, four days a week. “Temping?” she asked. “Permanent part-time.” (pause) “It’s not temping, I just work fewer hours. I get a lot of work done in that time. I’m really efficient. But no one believes me … →

How to Maintain a 50 Hour Workweek – Part 2

Posted on March 30, 2012 by xtine in Frontpage Blog | Leave a comment

Today, I had to do a sketch to show how to fix the armhole on a halter top. In most companies, you have to use Adobe Illustrator. In my company, you use Excel drawing tools, which are really fast, except for the Mac, where Microsoft shit the bed entirely and made it so you can’t see what you’re doing when you draw. So I did it the fastest way known to man. The way that has been rendered so obsolete … →

What to Wear to the Oscars

Posted on March 26, 2012 by xtine in Literary Outfits | Leave a comment

Night Widow by bloghop featuring white jewelry NIGHT WIDOW: Sybil Squire’s Oscar ensemble. Sibyl Squire in her heyday. Before murder and madness closed the door on her rising star. “Luce’s portrayal of a psychopathic mountain man is chilling…” [Night Game] “The villain is evil personified.” In addition to five published novels, Carol’s short story “Shattered Crystal” appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Magazine and Treadmill Tales (audio). E-reads Publications reprinted Night Passage in e-book format and POD. Nonfiction publications include two articles for Writer’s … →

What to Do To Maintain a 50 Hour Work Week

Posted on March 26, 2012 by xtine in Frontpage Blog | Leave a comment

No pictures here, and a quick post. My assistant wants to take a single tech pack that services like, five different artworks, across two deliveries into five separate tech packs. A request I denied, because it would create make work, when there is actual work to be done. But I do enjoy her persistence so. I actually like people who argue with me. (and I especially like her. No you cannot hire her away from me. Stop sniffing around.) But … →

What to Wear to an Indie Book Blowout

Posted on March 16, 2012 by xtine in Frontpage Blog | Leave a comment

St Patricks Day Book Blowout by bloghop featuring sterling silver post earrings Of all the sets I have ever made, this is undoubtedly the most hideous. But it’s midnight, and I’m tired. The ugly set is in honor of the blowout holiday sale I’m involved in with 25 other authors. They deserve better, but there are so many genres available. Zombie fic, medieval epics, historical tales, witchcrafty supernaturals, that it was hard to find an overriding theme. It’s a cornucopia. … →

Handmade in USA

Posted on March 12, 2012 by xtine in Frontpage Blog | Leave a comment

The other day, I was minding my own business, walking up Vermont when I came upon a new store. Very cool. Like hipster central. Check out this little owl. It’s 28 dollars.   Now, when you read that it was 28 dollars did you have a mental flipout? Did you say something like “What does it do for 28 dollars? Cook me eggs? Slice and dice? Provide nourishment? Give me a hug? Make my life easier?” Well, no. Of course … →

What To Wear When You Need to be Street Legal

Posted on March 6, 2012 by xtine in Frontpage Blog, Literary Outfits | 2 Comments

  The Secret Diary of Alice in Wonderland by bloghop featuring a tie neck blouse   Barbara Silkstone has done something amazing, and given us the very scene in which this outfit is worn. It’s from her mega hit “The Secret Diary of Alice in Wonderland” which you can read about below….and in this scene, our Alice is forced to represent herself in court. Hijinks ensue. As I slipped into position at our table my straight skirt rose up my legs. … →

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