Opinion

A bad business decision is not always a bad one. I have happily made a very bad business decision. Let me explain. A little over six months ago I made the decision to move all of my ebooks to Amazon KDP Select, which at the time made a lot of sense, as I explained in…

After writing a very silly blog post last week, I have decided to lift my game and write about something serious. So today’s topic is going to be hedgehogs. Well, more than just hedgehogs. I want to add porcupines and echidnas and inform you all of the Earth-shattering news that they are, in fact, not…

Are you making money from writing? Of course, authors should, by definition, be making money from writing books. But this can become a complete furphy when it comes to matters that concern the Internet, and especially when one looks at writing ebooks as against writing blog posts. I do both. Which means I publish ebooks and blog regularly,…

It’s satire. Go on, laugh! I don’t know how many comments, Tweets and Facebook comments I have received regarding a few of my blog posts, complaining about mistakes or errors I have made, when the commenters have completely missed my point. I hate to be pointed here, but there are those, who seem to have next to a…

I hate passwords with a passion. Hardly a day goes by when I do not get a message from a website, social media site or financial site, asking me to change my password. Usually, this is in response to a security failure from the particular website, as it probably was today when Facebook advised me…

It’s a perverted value system. The Internet is all about FREE STUFF! Free porn, free music, free movies, and sadly for me as a writer, free bloody ebooks. What a perverted value system we have today. Well, pardon my screaming in caps, but ever since the Internet came into our daily lives, that is what…