Great Beginnings

Baaaaaarf. “Not in here mister, this is a Mercedes!” Sorry for the hack title. Hey, you get what you pay for! This week’s topic is about that ever so important start of your novel or story. When I was with my mentor ~9 years ago, she kept reworking my beginnings. With her vorpal pen of redness (+5, [...]

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Help Nathan Buy Firefly

Tonight, I have to give a 30 minute presentation on Internet Privacy in class for my final. I’ll be discussing all of the evil things that take place on the Internet, and theories about government control gone mad and dictators with a kill-switch that can turn off the Internet easier than your mom can access [...]

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Borders closing 30% of stores, cannot compete, run for the hills! -pushes old lady to the ground- me first!

There have already been countless blog and news posts about this already, but I think it’s fitting for “self publishing” Tuesdays to at least mention it. Some bloggers are also signaling the book apocalypse. Run for the hills! Kindle owners and writers first! Are we doomed? Nah, but it’s kind of a big deal. Here’s a pic I [...]

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Chronological Writing

My wife and I got some time alone yesterday for the first time in forever, and our conversation started like this: Wife: “Why the fuck are we in Delaware?” Me: “Kids, remember?” You see, the kids are on vaca so we met my parents halfway to North Carolina yesterday to make the drop. Kids head for [...]

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Friday Coupons!

What a crazy week – lots of stuff going on at both work and home. Busy busy! Unfortunately, still no updates on the iBooks version of the Antaran Legacy nor the launch party. Hopefully some stuff will materialize over the weekend. I have no idea what happened between Lulu and iBooks, but it sure is [...]

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On Behalf of The Human Race,

I officially surrender, Watson, O Great Liberator! There. It is done. I just surrendered the Human Race to Watson, the Jeopardy Winning Super Computer. You may now go about the rest of your lives knowing that this sentinel, this champion silently… and sometimes snarkily watches over us. Now I know that some of you may [...]

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Antaran Legacy: For Duty Officially Released

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! It’s official, now, Antaran Legacy: For Duty has been released! Below is the press release we distributed to the media earlier today. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Connecticut Author Launches First Book in Second Series Matthew Plourde begins new book series Antaran Legacy with For Duty Southington, Conn., February 14, 2011 – Torn [...]

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Antaran Legacy: Launch Day is Here!

Here we go again! My publicist will have a more “fluffy” announcement tomorrow, but I wanted to get the links & info out to y’all today (Feb. 13, as promised). Without further ado… Links: Kindle Amazon Paperback Hardcover Nook iBooks, Kobo, Sony Reader (coming soon!) Video Trailer (in case you missed it) —————————————————————————— Notes: I updated [...]

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Not a bad idea: Get a mentor.

About a decade ago, fresh from my war against cancer, I knew what I wanted to do. What I needed to do. And I took steps to achieve my goal to become a writer. I began a few manuscripts (including Eden) and I got myself a writing mentor. At the time, I didn’t know anybody, so [...]

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Antaran Legacy Update!

Fridays are “update” days. Since I broke the law earlier this week, I figured we could get back on track here. The paperback proof arrived 2 days ago but I’m in Michigan. So, my wonderful wife gave it a cursory glance. All seems well on that front. The paperback may not have a valid link by Sunday, [...]

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