Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Juan Montealegre, partner to Chicago-based Yeast Radio producer Richard Bluestein passed away last weekend. I hadn’t listened in a while and missed the events and found out from Richard via IM. This may be the first ever podcast eulogy. Prayers and peace to Richard and Juan. Overseen by Ragan Fox and Rachel Kann. I know […]

Toot toot! The Blogwild train rolls into another stop on our virtual book tour. This time with ezine wizard Glenn Hopkins with ListOpt. I got Glenn turned on to blogs and now he’s a bloggin’ fool. Here’s the link to sign-up for this free call.

Another stop on the virtual book tour for the book! This time with Krissy Jackson and friends over at Kick Start Your Life.

Reminder: Dial 440-389-9715, extension 834 @ 10am Eastern/NYC Our ‘shut up and write day’ starts Valentine’s day at 10am Eastern Time.

Suzanne and I did our preview call last week for Blog Your Way to a Bestseller, ‘Top 10 Ways a Blog Can Market Your Book Cheaper, Easier and Faster’ and I spent the weekend prepping the transcript of the call. This time, I’ve integrated some of the sales page content into the transcript – I’ve […]

I love working. I admit it. I love the work that I do (well except for managing email). But I will often sit here for 6 hours before I realize the sun has gone down and I haven’t turned any lights on in the house and I’ve been sitting here in the dark and haven’t […]

I always raise red flags at any Google’s eating the world warnings. Plus, I’m a huge fan of the Google Desktop app that allows me to search my entire hard drive + external drives all in one interface. But Google is soon adding the capability for you to run Google Desktop on multiple machines across […]

I love Google Desktop. Use it at least 8 times a day. It is a local search engine for your hard drive that indexes everything: documents, appointments, email, Gmail, images, etc. I have a ton of old files in WordPerfect format from my pre-MS Office days. Luckily Larry put together a plugin to index those […]

I had a nightmare scenario this past weekend. I found a typo in my book – not in the galleys since those are 2 ‘verions of revisions’ old but I was comparing some stuff. Now, I am psychologically prepared to handle pretty much any mistake in the published text. Except this one. I rifled through […]

My cross-post from Biz Blog Consulting: VistaPrint Syndrome aka Stop Using Blogger