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Traveling this week

I'm in Washington, DC all day Wednesday and Thursday, so probably won't post much new. There's is an interesting discussion about whether or not people pay attention to book reviews over at Nathan Bransford's blog. Nathan is a literary agent with Curtis Brown, and is rapidly becoming one of my daily reads. The same topic has been hot on one of the mailing lists I'm on as well, due to the decision by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution to discontinue their book review section.

Speaking of book reviews, interesting stuff from Steve Weber and Aaron Shephard this week. Steve, who wrote "Plug Your Book", write about authors spamming both potential customers as well as Amazon, and Aaron has put together a short "Amazon Etiquette" guide--the bottom line being the Golden Rule.

If you are a writer or small publisher or both, it couldn't hurt to read all three of the guys on a regular basis.

Finally a quick note -- now that they've resolved their server difficulties, Prayer at Rumayla: A Novel of the Gulf War is now available on Podiobooks.com.

While you're there, I would highly recommend checking out Scott Sigler's Earthcore and Ancestor. Sigler is one hell of a storyteller. I listened to Earthcore while on a long drive back and forth to Atlanta a few weeks ago, and caught the first half of Ancestor last night on the drive up to DC. Excellent stuff, and I can't wait to get back in the car for the drive home tomorrow. Don't forget--even though the podcast novels are free, consider making a donation or ordering the book. Writers have to eat too.

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