I wonder if all this activity — new website design, my first on-line novel, and the associated webstore — is part of my coping mechanism for events in real life. Debra, my daughter, is getting married on Thursday. As father of the bride, I have the easiest job of any of them, but it’s still… Continue reading It’s Gonna be a Busy Week
Author: hmelton
Artwork for a Book
Emperor Dad isn’t the first story I’ve published, or had published. The bulk of my fiction has been short stories in the magazines. It isn’t even my first book. That honor goes to Clean Slate Word Processing for the TRS-80 back in 1983. This was my big push as an independent software developer. I wrote… Continue reading Artwork for a Book
Mailing List Woes
Okay, I set up a sales presence on the web. Now, how do I get people to notice it? One of the great tools of the modern era is email. But, mass mailing is not the simple thing it was ten years ago. I’ve got 854 entries in my address book, but many of those… Continue reading Mailing List Woes