Tales from FAR Manor

About a month ago, I dropped my Kindle going into work. It was in a case, but those eInk screens are fragile at the top: Where’s the tit...

Back in July, I wrote about the new (at the time) Kindle Unlimited (KU) program. I said in part: The per-borrow payout has been a [littl...

Save a tree, buy an eBook: it’s Green Tuesday! My co-op, Green Envy Press, is running the show. I’m happy to be one of ten authors (not ...

All aboard! When I first ran across Angela Kulig a few years ago, she had posted an excerpt to her novel in progress on her blog. A girl...

I appreciate all who came by to offer well-wishes, or even just to enter the raffle! So who won?! You really want to know? OK… Kindle ...

J.A. Konrath is back from vacation, and brought home an interesting insight. He shares it in One More Nail in the Coffin . The heart of it i...

While Amazon is the primary source of eBooks for most Kindle owners, there are other sources out there: Smashwords  and Project Gutenberg , ...

I didn’t think they’d do it, but I was wrong. Apple is putting the screws to Amazon and other companies, who have used former loopholes to ...

It’s Virtual Monday at FAR Manor, having come off a 3-day weekend. Mrs. Fetched has been working on a video (for a — wait for it — poultry c...

Bottom line up top: Amazon rocks, State Farm sucks. As I wrote earlier, my Kindle screen went Tango Uniform early this month, a couple we...

The forecast has Winter #3 bringing us 4–6 inches of snow tomorrow night and Monday. This forecast triggered a much easier prediction: wides...

Audioboo and its five-minute limit is a godsend for me… I can find the time it takes to record and edit a five-minute podcast without too mu...

… of the year, anyway. As I type, we’re getting the classic wintry mix: rain, sleet, rain, and (at the moment) sleet and snow. I've been...

We had a holiday party at work yesterday afternoon — good excuse to knock off for a couple of hours and nosh on some horsey-doovers. In the ...