The SLUSHPILE Blog

I’ve blogged sporadically before of the current rift of problems we’ve been experiencing with the Double Edge Press website and its counterpart website for Hummingbird World Media. To recap, I’ve been unable to upload any new images since before the beginning of this year. It was possible to place Skylar Hamilton Burris’ book on the [...]

First, because the emails are becoming more regular, and there’s been a phone call or two, here’s the official schedule for those writers that submitted via the Florida Writers Conference in late October: Expect a response the first week of January.
I know I hear groaning with that announcement, but allow me to, hopefully, beat back [...]

I was going to blog yesterday that the second book we had due out by Christmas was done and uploaded to the printers, or effectively in the can. Alas, the web-site was in the midst of a second major flicker, with part of the pages available, part of them not, including the blog.
Today, as I [...]

Double Edge Press web-site came up about 24 hours after going down.
One book scheduled for Christmas, Martha Dougherty’s If Only I Could Talk, Vol 2 is done and ready to go the printer.
Kindle editions are still selling well. I think I’m going to really, really like Kindle.
Back to work here, I’m smelling the finish line [...]

Just a quick post to say that, yes, I’m aware that the Double Edge Press site is down (thanks to a quick email sent me from someone trying to access it with no luck), and that after investigating I have found that it is a platform provider issue. Apparently, the entire Intuit platform (which services [...]

My second eye surgery was on Thursday of this week, three days ago. It went smashingly well, as I expected (having been through one eye surgery already) and I am recovering nicely (thank you for asking!)
The downside, of course, is that it also knocked me out of commission for several days, which anyone who reads [...]

Today, I noted our first sale of a book on Kindle. Considering only two titles are now active, and just went active within the last few days, I believe we can officially call: “We have lift-off!”
Of course, every new venture is not without its quirks: Amazon is seeking confirmation that I’m the publisher of said [...]