Xandra Gregory

The Passion of a Thousand Burning Suns

The Ereader That Wins Is…

Xandra | June 29, 2010

…the one that can render PDFs with annotation capability without making the eyes bleed. It seems we’ve been thinking about ereaders all wrong. Along with thinking about ebooks all wrong. Actually, I shouldn’t say “all wrong” since we’ve had a lot of “right” in there, collectively speaking (and any new ventures are built on the [...]

Baked Summer

Xandra | June 18, 2010

Yes. My posting has drastically and tragically plummeted. Sadly, it’s because I don’t really have much to say–I tend to keep my uninteresting bits offline so that I’m not actively boring people as I go along. My goal is to make the world a more interesting place, not fill it up with boring crap nobody [...]

Seven Different Kinds of Snow

Xandra | February 12, 2010

In the past seven days, we’ve had about eight inches of snow dumped on us.   No, we’re not nearly as bad as the eastern seaboard and their “Snowmageddon” (or is it “Snowpocalypse”?), but we’ve had our share.   And I’ve done my share in shoveling it, molding it, sliding around on it, and driving in it.  [...]

Vox Humana, Vox Scriptor

Xandra | January 22, 2010

Random pages on Wikipedia are dangerous things.  My latest random visit took me to the entry on the Vox Humana (I was actually trying to remember the latin quote “Vox populi, vox Dei” – the voice of the people is the voice of God, but I digress).  Turns out the Vox Humana is actually a [...]

Accumulation

Xandra | January 15, 2010

It snowed last week.  A wonderful, white blizzard of unique and precious snowflakes and a delicious kind of cold that only comes with snow.  And I didn’t write, because I have small children who like snowballs.   But I did think a lot about accumulation, especially as I was pushing it off the front porch. [...]

Honey, You Light Up My Life

Xandra | June 23, 2009

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Promo Musings

Xandra | May 27, 2009

Okay…I don’t want to alarm youall or anything, but one of these hats in my bag belongs to an author. Shh…I know, I could have fooled you with the way I update this place. Truth is, since I don’t have all that much stuff out, I’m a pretty small potato and you’d be hard-pressed to [...]

The Professional and Web 2.0

Xandra | April 16, 2009

There’s a very hot question making the rounds now, and not just in Romancelandia, or even Author Acres, that oddly-gated subdivision where no one’s really sure if the gates are there to keep others out…or to keep the authors in (hey, why are the bars on the insides of the windows? And why are these [...]

On Presence and Peppiness

Xandra | February 18, 2009

Valentine’s Day being what it is, it’s not surprising that Romancelandia rolls out the pink and red carpet for it. This year, having sick kids and a sick Mr. Xandra led me to be around for participation at least part of the day in the festivities. Now…I do try to participate in some things here [...]

Scurvy Doggerel

Xandra | January 17, 2009

So over at Dear Author’s Thread That Ate Cleveland (and walked away still hungry), the thread derailed jumped the track switched trains altogether found out it was actually a Transformer and could fly, too, and sooner or later the subject of ebook piracy came up.  I thought I’d compose my thoughts over here instead of [...]

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