Comments for Crossroads

Comment on The blog stops here by Camille

Camille — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:35:32 +0000

I think we’ve reached the mature state of the curve. It’s not a bad thing that not everyone is blogging, or that people are choosier about reading blogs.

Also, all that junk flooding the internet did some good in helping us all develop better filtering techniques. Google’s algorithms have become finely tuned to ignore spammers or those who use blackhat techniques to cheat themselves to the top. And we’ve all developed ways of scanning through and finding what we do and don’t want among all the choices.

Comment on There’s a Little Bit of Doug in All of Us or The Book I Never Wrote by Alissa

Alissa — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:27:22 +0000

Thanks, Angie, and thank you, Jeff, for hosting me.

Comment on There’s a Little Bit of Doug in All of Us or The Book I Never Wrote by Angie

Angie — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:27:48 +0000

Nice post, Alissa.

Comment on Space shuttle America: last ride to final frontier by Rich

Rich — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:50:30 +0000

Jeff, I love this article. Back in the early eighties, I went on a tour of Cape Canaveral with my grandparents. The shuttle was sitting on the platform and our initial schedule was set so we could watch the launch, but as those things go it was not to be. I was awed, then (as a pre-teen) by the scale of the operation… something I hadn’t considered only watching coverage on TV. I was around my son’s age when the shuttle program started. It’s a very different world now, and I wonder how much farther the next 30 years will take us. Thanks for sharing. -Rich

Comment on Rules of engagement: author Laurie King on marketing, Twitter and the power of social media by John

John — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:40:53 +0000

I just wrote about this subject on my blog and a friend mentioned King as a great example. Your post came up in my first search for her platform. What an incredible example for other authors to follow.
Here is my post: http://bit.ly/c3rlHy
Cheers

Comment on Zig Ziglar will see you at the top by siimon

siimon — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:29:23 +0000

Fascinating.
Thanks so much for sharing that interview with Zig.
Powerful stuff.

Comment on Learning from success by Erika Liodice

Erika Liodice — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:58:26 +0000

Sure, learning from your successes makes a lot of sense, but Bogusky’s never learned anything from his mistakes? Sounds bogus-ky to me.

Comment on Rules of engagement: author Laurie King on marketing, Twitter and the power of social media by Alice

Alice — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:32:32 +0000

Jeff, thank you for the mention of the fan fiction contest along with the link to the site. The voting has started on the eleven entries and the winner will be announced on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Letters_Of_Mary and on Ms King’s Mutterings on April 29th.

The Letters of Mary Yahoo group is the premier location for Russell/Holmes fan fiction based on the novels by Laurie R King.

Alice

Comment on The Craft of writing by Kathryn Craft

Kathryn Craft — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:05:51 +0000

Thanks Jeff, that was delightful! And FYI: Breaking down my big sentences has been the stuff of much of my re-writing life!

Comment on Sarasota Noir: the laughing gull by Jeff_Widmer

Jeff_Widmer — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:49:05 +0000

I used to be a big fan of John D. MacDonald. While at the Florida shore I read that while the mystery novelist set his Travis McGee novels in Lauderdale, he lived west of Sarasota on Siesta Key. During the visit I saw what most people see near the coast–sea gulls. I imagined I kept seeing the same gull, and that he was up to no good.