Since I totally spaced out yesterday, there's a post there and a post here this morning. (Although, the post there isn't nearly as interesting.)
First off, the genie sale started this morning. Now through the 27th, Wish in One Hand is free and all the other genie books are 99c each. If you were looking for some fun reads to load your or someone else's Kindle with, there ya go. Get the whole four-book series for less than $3. It doesn't get much better than that.
In other news, I saw a post on FB this morning wherein a popular author I know was talking about a review wherein she go tagged for using curse words in her book. She explained, quite rightly, that she can't take those curse words out because that's how her character talks. If she took them out, she'd have to change the character which would change the book. Bingo. And exactly. Would Jeni be Jeni without her dropping the f-bomb? Probably not.
Also, when writing my marketing post for FB, I started out with Merry Christmas. Yeah, some people don't appreciate the phrase. Well, all holiday feelings aside, screw them. I celebrate Christmas. I wouldn't get all up in anyone's grill for wishing readers a Happy Hannukah or Kwanzaa or whatever. So I left it. But I also added a bit for everyone to have the happiest of holidays, covering my bases, so to speak. Whatever holiday you celebrate, make it a happy one, okay? And don't get all down on people for wishing you a happy whatever holiday they celebrate. Take the wishes in the spirit they were given. Happiness and joy, people. That's all that matters. :hugs:
Eat good food, hang out with the ones you love, and read awesome books. Enjoy yourself in whatever manner you choose. Personally, I'll be over here trying to have a Merry Christmas.
Note: Since this blog usually posts on Fridays and this Friday is Christmas, this will be my last post here this week. See ya over at The Writing Spectacle until next week. :HUGS:
MERRY EFFING CHRISTMAS! 🎄🎄🎄🎄 (Those are Christmas tree emojis--just in case Blogger won't read the html.)
ReplyDeleteAnd what you said. LOL See ya on the other side. 😉
Merry Christmas to you and yours!
ReplyDeleteIf there's toooo much swearing (as in 6 times a page; that's boring and word-padding), I don't finish the book, but a little doesn't bother me. I'd never leave a bad review for it -- it was my own fault for not checking out the book enough. If the character calls for it, that's what the writer should write. They can't force me to read it. :-)