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Recent entries july 4, 2018 - 2018-07-04 the triangle continues of courtney, boobear, & nyota - 2018-07-03 Cookie so cute telling, "Hello" to sparrows - 2018-07-01 lovebirb in love - 2018-06-30 wren with fluffffff - 2018-06-24 Read my new book, The 10 Best Things You Can Do For Your Bird at Amazon or at many other fine distributors like Barnes & Noble, iTunes, Kobo, and more. By public demand, and after a delay of an embarrassing number of years, I've finally put my notorious essay, Ender and Hitler: Sympathy for the Superman, free on the fabulous internets. A bibliography of my published books and stories. Here's a simple card-counting FAQ to get you up to speed on the basics. Here's the true story of the notorious DD' blackjack team, told for the first time on the fabulous internets. No other team went from a starting investor's bankroll of zero to winning millions of dollars. A Sadean take on Asimov's classic Three Laws of Robotics can be found in Roger Williams' NOW REVIEWED ON SLASHDOT!!! The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. Adult readers only please -- explicit sex and violence. For updates on the "Dead Tree Project" and other topics, you may visit the official fan site, Passages in the Void.. My Bird Lists -- My Louisiana State Life List, My Yard List and, tah dah, My World Life List. HEY! What happened to the Peachfront Conure Files? The world's only OFFICIAL Peachfront Conure site now features free peachfront conure coverage, including a magazine length Intro to Conures previously published in American Cage-Bird Magazine, now free on the web. I offer the best free Peachfront Conure information on the internet. If you have great Peachfront Conure info, stories, or photos to share, contact me so I can publicize your pet, your breeding success, your great photograph, etc. on my site. Thanks.

who benefits? seems like sometimes the answer is abso-effing-lutely nobody 2015-08-22 - 9:03 a.m. Really, Amazon? Really? Every time somebody changes the price of their Kindle ebook, then the product description loses all of the html and you can't change it from your bookshelf. Instead, the author has to go in and change it from their author's central. You do know that if the author has to do all the work, they're not going to split the moneys with a publisher, now are they? Who are you trying to screw with this? The indie/small press publisher, obviously, who is becoming more and more obsolete. But also the kind of author who doesn't need the money and so would be willing to split royalties with someone else willing to do the work of maintaining their Amazon page. Under the current system, nobody's happy. In the KU world, clearly there isn't enough money to support both a publisher and an author of an indie book. The pay rate has fallen to what? About half a cent a page read? So the average writer who once earned 1 to 2 cents a word from about 1900 through most of the 20th century and then maybe half a cent a word in the content mill era is now earning...in effect...nothing. Six-tenths of a cent A PAGE! And they're earning this nothing for a lot more work since there is coming to be less and less to entice a publisher. Vent, vent, vent. I know we've done well above average. And that my friends is a scary thought when I see all these smooth operators out there telling people to quit their jobs and buy expensive classes to learn to be a writer. Almost none of these people are going to succeed at doing anything other than getting deeper in debt. It's sad. Although the writing schools by unqualified, degree-free "teachers" are clearly still better than scamming people by requiring them to get an MFA degree in creative writing from any other than the very top schools. If someone ends up $2,000 in credit card debt taking a useless get-rich-in-the-Kindle-Gold-rush, then they always have the option of bankruptcy. But if someone ends up $20,000 in debt chasing a master's degree in creative writing from the kind of university that doesn't put you in touch with real working writers...then hey guess what. You're not allowed to declare bankruptcy on student loans. Seems like your life is over. Scary stuff going on out there... back - next All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2002-2017 by Elaine Radford