Going to Dragon*Con wasn’t just fun, it was a great idea!  I’ve made more sales this month alone than all of last year.  Currently most popular?  “I’d like to teach the world to THINK (singing can wait)“  AWESOME!

(I miss the LJ mood-kitty.  I need to see if I can find a WP plugin to do moodthemes.)

These people have chutzpah.  By the time someone is published twice by major publishers and has significant publishing industry contacts, I suspect they don’t go through Craigslist looking for unidentified companies to hire them.  I have to wonder how successful they are if they’re looking to exploit hire authors with existing contacts.

Pearl is broken.

I’m depressed.

I don’t want to talk about it.

I haven’t mentioned it, but some time back I joined a YahooGroup called FilmBudgeting. At the time, I was still trying to become a film producer on my own terms, so a group of active producers discussing the actual budgeting of films struck me as potentially educational. It’s more strictly moderated than any other group I’ve ever seen (sometimes I want to tell him to lighten up, but, well, it’s his group - he can do what he wants), but there is real discussion there. Of course, I’ve since determined that I’m more interested in the digital side of things, but I haven’t left the group because it’s still sometimes interesting.

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