Online Communities: Flame Wars

I've been online since the mid 90's – hanging out in chat rooms, message boards, forums. The dynamics of group interactions are intriguing, for someone who loves to watch people. Much of the psychology is universal among divergent communities, whether they are sports …

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Frayed Nerves

The ABNA forums turned into a den of snips, thinly veiled jabs and insults yesterday. I took the night off, taking my wife and sons out to dinner, so fortunately I missed the shenanigans. I went on the forums tonight to catch-up and decided it wasn't worth the effort.

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Interview

I gave an interview to author Jasmine Bale for her blog. Here it is...

JB: First, thank you for taking the time for this interview. I know you have a lot going on right now. Let's start with that. What are you working on currently?

Max: The Underground Press is moving …

2008

It's been a great year. In 2008 the underground press stepped into the literary world with the release of my first book, ArchAngelxx. We set up an ASP.net 2.0 website, an on-line version of the book, and published an eBook through MobiPocket Books and Amazon.com's …

CybrGrrl available on MobiPocket Books

Jasmine Bale's book CybrGrrl is out on MobiPocket Books. I don't have the Kindle Reader version edited yet, but you can read the Mobi version on the Kindle Reader. Check it out, it is hot. .

Cover art for CybrGrrl

I was searching for a cover image for the eBook Cybrgrrl and stumbled across Sexy Second Magazine which lead me to Stella Stapleton and her flickr site. She has some amazing in-world photography from Second Life. She has been kind enough to let us use one of her images …

Author: Jasmine Bale

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I just read an advance copy of CybrGrrl by Jasmine Bale. It is soon to be published by the underground press, who published my eBook: ArchAngelXX. The author weaves an intriguing, and highly erotic tale of an emerging Artificial Intelegence.

Marie is a sexy virtual …

Literate Machine

I just discovered a new website called Literate Machine . They have downloadable eBooks, Comics, Art, and more. It is a fresh new community for the distribution of electronic media. Members can upload there files and provide them free or for a fee to download. The cut …

Review: Host by Stephenie Meyer

I just finished reading Host by Stephenie Meyer. It adds a whole new dimension to the author of the Twilight Saga. There are elements of sci-fi, suspense, mystery, romance... Mrs. Meyer shows in Host that she is a master of any genre. The writing was excellent and the …

Query Letters

I continue to refine and improve my query letter for Ezekiel Strong : Haunted. I have been spending a lot of time on AgentQueryConnect. It is a community of of writers, publishers, and editors. I have been getting critiques on my manuscript and my query package before …

Get new eyes, lots of them

After you have perfected your manuscript, and it is as perfectly wonderful as you can make it, it is time for some new eyes. Yours are probably a bit blood shot by now. You have read your manuscript a hundred times. It gets to the point where you are really not reading …

Edit, Edit, Edit

The most tedious task, and the most important, is editing your manuscript. This is even more so for the self publishing author. Authors can be lazy. You finish writing a 75,ooo word ms and you think you are done. You have written, rewritten, and revised for months. The …

Future of Publishing

I've been looking into this a lot lately. eBooks are getting more popular, while it is getting harder to get published the traditional way. It is good that agents and publishers are picky on what manuscripts they take on. They are in the business to make money after …

Still looking for an agent

I'm still working on the arduous task of seeking an agent for my fiction manuscript. I had my first book published as an eBook on Mobipocket Books, with a special version for Amazon.com's Kindle Reader. I didn't use an agent, just worked directly with the publisher. The …

Best Seller

My e-book ArchAngelxx made the best seller list (coming in at number 5), in the suspense/thriller catagory, on the MobiPocket Books website. You better hurry and get your copy before they sell out. Actually that is one of the bonuses of e-books, they never sell out. But …

Promotion

I continue to promote my e-book, ArchAngelxx. Sales have begun to pick up a little. Mobipocket Books featured it last month on their site and in their newsletter. Awesome. I have also took the Google plunge and set up an ad account for my main website MaxwellCynn.com. …

The Accountant

I added a new short story at MaxwellCynn.com. It is the story of a young accountant who takes a job as the bookkeeper for a popular men's club and ends up falling for the owner. Comments are welcome ;)

I continue my search for a Literary Agent to handle my latest novel …

Ezekiel Strong

I am currently looking for a literary agent to handle my latest book Ezekiel Strong. This has to be the hardest part of writing... getting published. I published my first book, ArchAngelxx, as an e-book. That was so much simpler. The problem there is promotion. It …

New Blog

I started a new blog ArchAngelxx. It will eventually contain the entire text of the book in blog format. I hope this will make the book more accessable to online readers. The full version is still available at ArchAngelxx.net.

My second book, Ezekiel Strong, is coming along nicely. I am almost finished writing it and the first part has already gone to the editors. I hope to soon post some excerpts from it to my website. It is an epic story of romance and drama. The hero is a hardboiled …