Goods News!

Yesterday I pointed out that the domain registration was running out on Wordsformwindows.com and that it would have to revert to danposwriting.wordpress.com (how boring aha).

Step up Monica Pierce! Monica, who runs a brilliant blog called Stalking Fiction, just so happened to read my post from yesterday and she sent me a quick email saying she would donate the money to host the blog to me.

So a round of applause for Monica! Wordsformwindows.com can carry on as it always has.

Monica told me that every year on her birthday she tries to do something nice for someone else, and not have the whole day be about her (it just so happens that she has the same birthday as me too! (25th June)). I thought this was very inspiring and selfless acts always leave a mark on me, because as humans we are selfish normally.

And I don’t mean selfish in a horrible way, but everything we do we usually do for ourselves, whether if it is eating food so we carry on living, or do something we love to make ourselves happy. I try to help people where I can and I think I do a pretty good job, but doing something for someone else for YOUR birthday, is unprecedented in my experience. I was just very moved and it has helped me want to be even MORE selfless, and take a leaf out of Monica’s book!

Check out her blog and if you like what you read follow her and keep up to date with her writing. You can also keep up to date with her books, her first novel “Girl Under Glass” will be available in July 2012

Lucky Writer

Rich because of the muppets.

You may have already heard about this but an author called Amanda Hocking (click to go to her blog) needed some money (She needed $300 or £195) so she could travel down to a Muppet’s Exhibition in Chicago. After numerous times of being beat back by agents and publishers, she decided to take control and self publish her own novels, through the likes of Amazon on their Kindle platform and through iTunes etc.

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Book Reviews

Autograph session with Raymond Elias Feist at ...

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I failed. I said I would do them every time I finished a book, I have read three books since I said that and haven’t reviewed a single one. Oops.

I am currently reading “The Husband” by Dean Koontz and I love it so much that I think I will definitely do a review about it.

I am also going to try (keyword try) to do one about the book Magician by Raymond E. Feist because it is A) My favourite book and B) One of the reasons I love fantasy books.

Twitter is a strange place as well by the way, I’ve just casually been talking to one of my favourite authors (Raymond E. Feist) about the pro’s and con’s of turning his universe into an MMO game because currently it is only a text based MMO and I dunno, I just can’t cope with text based games. It seems to defeat the point, I read words and I write words, the last thing I want to do is play words. Part of the reason I don’t read the quests on WoW when I play it…also the reason I get bored of WoW so easily probably aha.

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