For many years I was the database expert in our department at Motorola. I fell in love with SQL (Structured Query Language), and although I never had the home budget for my own copy of Oracle, I made do, first with shql which made a valiant effort at making an SQL compatible database out of… Continue reading Why Can’t I Be An Ordinary Consumer: Bento Review
Author: hmelton
Corporate Bookscanners
If you’ve been following my blogs, you know that I’ve been sending my novels to Google Books and Amazon’s Search Inside system. Yesterday I finished adding the latest one, Extreme Makeover, to the system. Anything for more exposure. Google Books takes some time before they put it on line, so I keep checking. Certainly Emperor… Continue reading Corporate Bookscanners
Release Date?
When you set up a book for publication, one of the mandatory fields you enter is the release date of the book. This is an important date, for all your PR efforts and for the pre-release reviewers like Publisher’s Weekly. You have to get a copy of the book to them months before that magic… Continue reading Release Date?