I made some much needed but minor updates to the web site yesterday. Plus I did the recommend thing for Everybody Scream! on Amazon.com. If anyone wants to go and recommend the book themselves the ISBN is 0974503142. Choose a book you think matches Jeff Thomas’ style and put the ISBN in the blank next to the words “I recommend.”

I also spent probably way too much time creating a list on Amazon titled Travel to Other Worlds so I could include Everybody Scream! and Dirge along with a ton of other cool books. It’s kind of fun making those lists and I never thought about how many fascinating, totally fictional places there are in the world of books. If you’re interested here’s my list
Obviously it’s not exhaustive.

I found the discussion from yesterday on douglas_clegg’s journal about publishers and whether they do enough to support authors very interesting. I was thinking of adding my 2 cents but the topic is so much more complicated now that I’m on the publishing side. But I like Doug’s attitude that when you write you’ve got to get your satisfaction out of your art, there will be ups and downs in your publishing career but that’s life.

current mood: #$@!%

Philly

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Names

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Office Jobs

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setbacks

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