When I became serious about writing five years ago, I did Google search on my name before I started submitting my short stories. Lo and behold, there was another person with my name who claimed to be a writer; he hadn’t published much—if anything at all—from what I can tell. I decided to combine the [...]
Archive for the ‘General’ Category
March 24, 2011 by C.D. Reimer · Comments Off
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Social Tagging: dead trees • ebooks • email • office supplies • snail mail
Filed under: General
Social Tagging: dead trees • ebooks • email • office supplies • snail mail
The writing blogosphere is alit this with the news of Amanda Hocking, a 26-year-old writer from Minnesota who had written nine ebooks and sold 900,000 copies, was looking for a traditional publisher and signed a four-book deal with St. Martin’s Press. That’s like winning the lottery. For those of us tolling away in relative obscurity [...]
March 11, 2011 by C.D. Reimer · Comments Off
Filed under: Ebooks, General, Writing
Social Tagging: interviews • novella • short story
Filed under: Ebooks, General, Writing
Social Tagging: interviews • novella • short story
My Eight is Enough Q&A interview is up on Sarah-Jane Lehoux’s blog, where I answer eight questions about writing and what ebooks I got coming out in the near future. Please take a moment to read and leave a comment. The last question was fun: “This is the most important question you ever answer. Your life [...]
February 17, 2011 by C.D. Reimer · Comments Off
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Social Tagging: bookstores • short story
Filed under: General
Social Tagging: bookstores • short story
After Borders made the announcement that they were filing for bankruptcy and closing 200 stores, my father asked me if I was going to give up writing. This was a rare conversation. I come from a non-reading family where the daily newspaper and the occasional New York Times bestseller was considered to be too much [...]
January 30, 2011 by C.D. Reimer · Comments Off
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Social Tagging: furniture • office supplies
Filed under: General
Social Tagging: furniture • office supplies
For six months I’ve been wanting to get a new writing desk. The nearby OfficeMax had a computer desk that was more like a narrow table for $55. (Other local OfficeMax stores carried the same desk for $80.) Since I’m a member of the OfficeMax MaxPerks award program, I get coupons from time to time. [...]
If you haven’t noticed yet, it’s back to school season. This is the perfect time for struggling writers to pick up some office supplies on the cheap. Last week OfficeMax sent me a grocery bag with a 20% off for everything inside. I braved the horde of back to school zombies roaming the aisles to [...]
July 4, 2010 by C.D. Reimer · Comments Off
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Social Tagging: legacy posts • screenwriting
Filed under: General
Social Tagging: legacy posts • screenwriting
Note: This blog post originally appeared on 16 July 2008 for my personal website, and updated here with notes. When I went to Borders this past weekend, I was specifically looking for any magazines with info on The X-Files: I Want To Believe that’s coming out on 25 July 2008. Amazingly, the pre-release publicity was [...]
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