http://www.jackiebarbosa.com History Made Hot Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:44:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en First of all, I have some unfinished business to transact: The winner of Erica Ridley's Too Wicked to Kiss, selected at random, is Jane, the thread's first poster. Jane, please email your address to me at jackie at jackiebarbosa.com and I'll get the book into the mail to you ASAP. ... http://www.jackiebarbosa.com/2010/03/01/musing-on-monday-judging-the-golden-heart/ Before I launch into my post, just a quite note: I'll be picking a winner from Monday's contest for a copy of Erica Ridley's Too Wicked To Kiss tomorrow, so if you haven't already commented to enter, be sure to do so today :). Okay, onto the topic at hand. My latest ... http://www.jackiebarbosa.com/2010/02/25/thursday-throwdown-what-authors-really-really-want/ After sending my latest proposal to my agent (it'll be going out to some editors in the next week or so...commence nail-biting), I decided it would probably be a good time to open up a erotic short I started writing at the end of the summer then set aside in ... http://www.jackiebarbosa.com/2010/02/22/musing-on-monday-opening-paragraphs-and-a-giveaway/ In case you missed the MacMillan/Amazon ebook price crisis over the weekend, you can catch up on the details (along with a very cogent analysis) at agent Nathan Bransford's blog. There are several posts over at Dear Author as well. Hidden in the midst of all this controversy, however, is the ... http://www.jackiebarbosa.com/2010/02/01/musing-on-monday-how-much-are-books-worth/ So, since the announcement of the new Apple ereader-plus-the-kitchen-sink device, Twitter has been awash with jokes about the name Apple chose for it. They chose not the much-anticipated iSlate or even the iTablet, but the iPad. Seriously? Okay, so I kind of get it--it's a riff on iPod, and Apple's hoping ... http://www.jackiebarbosa.com/2010/01/27/wtf-wednesday-the-ipad-really/ I've gotten embroiled today in another Twitter conversation about piracy and one on Dear Author about authors airing their grievances with their publishers in a public forum. The two might seem totally unconnected, and in most ways, they are, but one thing that strikes me is this--when these discussions come ... http://www.jackiebarbosa.com/2010/01/26/trash-talking-tuesday-publishers-arent-always-wrong/ Last week, a series of huge storms blew through Southern California. And when I say blew, I do mean "blew." On Tuesday, the rain was accompanied by particularly large gusts of wind. One of these tore through the neighborhood just as my mom was outside the school waiting to pick ... http://www.jackiebarbosa.com/2010/01/25/musing-on-monday-my-brush-with-the-19th-century/ This article in today's Publisher's Weekly, Attributor Study Finds Pervasive Book Piracy is garnering lots of attention in the Twittersphere author community, receiving lots of retweets from many different sources, most of them citing the story's claim that ebook piracy is "costing" the publishing industry "as much as $3 billion." ... http://www.jackiebarbosa.com/2010/01/14/thursday-throwdown-why-piracy-lost-sales/ I've often said I don't make New Year's Resolutions because I figure if there's anything I should stop or start doing, I should start doing it/not doing it when I think of it instead of waiting until January 1st. Something's either virtuous and a good idea or it's not, right? That ... http://www.jackiebarbosa.com/2010/01/07/goal-setting-time/ So, today is officially the last day of Christmas. Epiphany is the day on which the wise men supposedly reached Bethlehem to give the baby Jesus his gold, frankincense, and myrrh (and, according to the Colbert Christmas special, his weed, lol). I have no gold, frankincense or myrrh to present to ... http://www.jackiebarbosa.com/2010/01/06/happy-epiphany/