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A few things here and there

05 Friday Apr 2013

Posted by D.A Lascelles in Musings

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23rd April, blogging, books, Ed Fortune, Interviews, Joy Phillips, Michael Brookes, Ninfa Hayes, R.A Smith, Starburst Magazine, Transitions, World Book Night, writing


Well, Vampire Month is finally over and I have just got back from a brief holiday during which I had my birthday. It’s been a rather successful month with some great vampire writers contributing some really good articles on a range of subjects. In this first week of april, however, there have been a few things cropping up here and there which need to be shared.bookmarks

First of all, I was interviewed by Michael Brookes over at The Cult of Me blog. The interview went live yesterday and in it you can find out all sorts of things about me. Go over there and check it out. I talk about the first book I ever wrote which, thankfully, no longer exists save as a bad memory and a few other things.

Secondly, I have signed up for Authorgraph. This is a system which allows signatures to be added to ebooks. You can find Transitions on there by following this link: http://www.authorgraph.com/authors/areteus. Basically, you can click the ‘request authorgraph’ button and I will get a notification telling me you are wanting a signature. I can then choose to do this freehand (using a touchscreen or mousepad but be warned my ‘handwriting’ is terrible using a mouse…) or using a font. I can also add an inscription. You basically get a pdf of this with a picture of the book cover sent to you. This app seems to be a good way to fill a niche caused by the ebook revolution. I have heard many say that one thing you cannot do with an ebook is sign it. Now, I will not say that this is going to replace ‘signed copies’ in any way (I am not convinced, for example, that you will be able to sell the signed ebook copies for a greater value) but it is a step in that direction. It will be interesting to see how it works out over the next few years.

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Finally, preparations for World Book Night are progressing. Myself, Ninfa Hayes (author of Bites), R.A Smith (author of Oblivion Storm), Ed Fortune (columnist for Starburst magazine) and Joy Phillips (upcoming debut novelist and organiser of innovative new LRP Fall of Vusoria) are getting together to give away free books to anyone in the Manchester area who wants to come and get them. We will be announcing a venue sometime soon (hopefully). It should be a good night and we have around 60 books between us to giveaway. As part of this I have decided to have some bookmarks made up and I have also sorted out a couple of QR tags so that people with mobile phones can scan them and quickly and easily buy a copy of my books in any ebook format. I am rather proud of the bookmarks, which I designed myself using elements of the cover for Transitions.

So, if you fancy meeting any one of us, getting any of our work signed or just want a free book, feel free to pop along on the 23rd of April and all of this will be possible…

Playing the SEO game…

13 Sunday Jan 2013

Posted by D.A Lascelles in Publicity

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Aloha from Hawaii, blogging, GQ, Hawaii, SEO


Today I posted an article about Hawaii Five O and this afternoon I check my WordPress stats and see this  in my referrers… http://paper.li/HawaiiAloha/1293482139#

Baffled by this, I checked out the page and looked for where the link could be. They had a Twitter feed so I wondered if somoene had spotted my Twitter post about this blog and retweeted it but this did not seem to be the case. Then I scrolled down to their ‘Arts and Entertainment’ section and saw my blog RSS’d there.

It seems that someone out there has been trawling for keywords and decided to reblog me on a webpage linked to news and other things about Hawaii.

Just to say to whoever it was that did that: Thanks a lot, I really appreciate it and hope that some of your readers do enjoy the article.

In other news, if anyone has any ideas of another show they would like to see recieve the GQ treatment, feel free to post a comment or contact me to let me know…

2012 in review

31 Monday Dec 2012

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blogging, Happy New Year, Review of the year, social-media


I spent all that time compiling stats from my blog into a post yesterday and then I find that there’s an automatic system that does it all for you… next year I will remember this…

So, for your delectation and delight, here is the same information I presented to you yesterday in a better format with pictures done by people who understand this internet thing and with some extra stuff but lacking something of the personal touch of my own post…

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 6,400 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 11 years to get that many views.

Click here to see the complete report.

Exciting new changes and a gratuitous dog photo

25 Tuesday Sep 2012

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#amwriting, blogging, dog photos, gratuitous dog photo, guest blogging, guest posts, productivity, websitte changes, writing


As some of you regular readers out there may already be aware, my rantings occasionally manage to escape out into the world via other blogsites. One of the sites I have been a regular contributor to in the past year or so has been the Amwriting.org website.

Gratuitous Dog Photo

Given that it seems a link on this blog to a post I did on Amwriting in August has only just appeared on some people’s RSS feeds (odd situation, I have no idea why that has happened…) I think I need to break some news in order to explain what is occuring because if you click the link to the ‘Mighty Red Pen of Justice’ article you will currently get a dead link.

Amwriting.org is currently on hiatus pending a pheonix like rebirth on the 1st of October, 2012. Today I have been sent various links and information to prepare me for this date when the site will reopen with some changes to how things are managed but essentially, as far as I can tell, still the same site. The archives, including all my old posts, will still be available on there. Currently, they are locked down so only a few of the bloggers from the old site like myself can access them but once the site goes live they will be made available to all and sundry.

I do not at present know if the links provided in my blog here will still work to link you to these archives or if you will need a new link. I will find that out when it goes live and will post new links if appropriate.

If anyone is really desperate to read The Mighty Red Pen of Justice, I suppose I can post a copy of it here for you to read. Look out for that later today if I can manage it.

In the meantime, enjoy the gratuitous dog picture provided above…

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