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Fidelity to text: 3 guns The obvious change is removing Freddie Rice’s worthless husband and adding Miss Lemon. Inspector Japp and Hastings get their roles beefed up too. The concealed change is removing the evidence that Poirot used to solve the crime. Quality of movie on its own: 3 guns It’s gorgeous, fast-paced, beautifully acted, […]
20Booksto50K A Facebook group started in 2016 by Michael Anderle and run by Craig Martelle and a cadre of volunteers focusing on the business side of indie writing. Members (52,000 in July 2021) freely share information about revenues, ad campaigns, publishing advice, successes and failures. Known for its rigid enforcement of its no-self-promotion policy. The […]
The 4th of July weekend was the perfect time to hold Local Author Day at Cupboard Maker Books, even if it was part of an extraordinarily busy day for us. We wanted to participate in the Central Pennsylvania Romance Writers meeting (of which Michelle leads), so we got up earlier than usual. Since the LAD […]
Recently, we’ve been experimenting with post on Social Media. We have accounts on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, but we haven’t found the time to share our knowledge and somewhat skewed sense of humor until recently. We’re also experimenting with adding comments to our posts. Don’t know if we found the right buttons yet, but if […]
This was the scene at Hershey ArtsFest last Saturday. It was a cloudy, slightly chilly day, and the winds warned us to secure our canopy and prepare for inclement weather. At 3 p.m., the rains and high winds came and ended the event, but we sold a lot of books and met a lot of […]
Earlier this week I sat down with Burt Wolder of “I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere” and we talked for an hour about parodies and pastiches. We had a fine chat, and I was really impressed with his questions. We talked not only about Sherlock, but about movies and books in general. Turns out he’s a […]
Hello, Bill Peschel here and I have a special offer on one of my books. tl;dr: “The Casebook of Twain and Holmes” ebook — seven short stories in which Twain tangles with Sherlock (4 cases), Mycroft, Watson, and Irene Adler (1 each) — is on sale for 99 cents in the US and UK stores, […]
The Career Indie Author Quote Book has been in the works since the 1980s, even though I didn’t realize it. I’m a pack rat when it comes to news, stories, quotes, and images. Before the home computer, I squirreled them away in file folders, and now I use the electronic version as well. My first […]
Last night’s cheese plate with Agatha was “The Sittaford Mystery” (2006). Some lovely moments, but boy did they try to jam ten pounds of plot in a five-pound episode. Timothy Dalton aged well since his Bond days, and he played the villain so wonderfully in “Hot Fuzz” that I was looking forward to this. It […]