Xanapus` Lair

I love Tuesdays because that means that Rainbow eBooks has a sale on all of their new releases, which mine happens to be, new that is and on sale at 15% off. It’s regularly $6.99, but you can buy it today for only $5.94. Diary of a Gay Nerd by Michel McDonald – Totally Tuesdays at Rainbow eBooks If you have a Nook just download the epub file, if you have a Kindle, download the mobi file. If you don’t have an ebook reader then you can download any file, mobi, epub or pdf. They all work with PC...

I have finally published my book. It will take anywhere from 24 to 72 hours for it to be reviewed before it will be ready for sale so I would count on January 6th as my official publish date. Keep your eyes crossed for that one. I had a hard time getting an author picture because we just couldn’t find a good location to take it, so I recycled a picture from 2005 lol. I know it’s cheating but it’s a really good picture. Of course it will be in black and white in the paper book and on all e-ink...

I have tried my best not to post anything about anti-gay groups because there was a time when I was always posting articles with my opinions and it was raising my blood pressure. For my own safety, I thought it was best to ignore those articles out of fear of having a heart attack. Tonight I cannot hold back because what I read was just so awful that I cannot keep my opinion to myself. I was browsing the home page of Facebook and came across this one post from Wipeout Homophobia on Facebook....

Want to read my new book “ Diary of a Gay Nerd: Life After Child Abuse, It Gets Better! ” but don’t have a Nook or a Kindle but have an iPhone or an iPod? Not to worry, that is why I published my book with RainboweBooks.com. You actually don’t have to have a Kindle to be able to buy Amazon ebooks, or a Nook to buy Barnes & Noble ebooks. You can download the app for your phone and create an account and start buying ebooks. That way if you decide later that you want to buy a Nook or a Kindle,...

Every home needs an address sign in front. If your address is not seen at the front of your apartment or house then how are your visitors supposed to find you? Numbers aren’t enough because you want your address sign to pop out, you want people to really notice it. If you have a bland sign or numbers on the door, you are showing them how bland you are. You can go to JustAddressPlaques.com where you can buy personalized address plaques for very reasonable prices. They have residential address...

My book files came back to me a couple of days ago (two beta readers as I like to call them) with highlights of things for me to fix. I have read my book at least 30 times and I was just getting so sick of reading it and they wanted to read it so I figured they could read it early, but I’d love to have bug reports. So I went through the highlights which weren’t all that major. I missed a few capitalizations and punctuation issues. There were also a few words where I forgot to add a letter,...

I mentioned yesterday that I had a few issues with my book on the Kindle. There was a lot of strange code in the.epub file that was making it look funny. I spent countless hours over the last couple of days trying to fix the issue and unfortunately those fixes removed 200 words from the book. I found out last night that all I have to do is convert the book to.mobi format to publish to the Kindle, which I did and it is now perfect. I have learned so much from writing this book, it’s amazing...