The SLUSHPILE Blog

Wednesday I cancelled my old store-front through Yahoo. I had no idea how nearly traumatized I would feel when next logging into Yahoo and seeing the ‘flagship’ of the various web domains missing. There was no longer a Double Edge Press.
Of course, Double Edge Press still continues to exist in it’s new home, on Intuit [...]

I live in Washington County, Pennsylvania, about an hour south of Pittsburgh. We had the distinction of being the hardest hit county in PA for this past weekend’s “stormageddon’.
We did not escape. But in a way, we did.
Our electric went out at a quarter to eleven Friday night (February 5th). We are fortunate in that [...]

January is fast coming to a close, but I’m feeling a immense sense of satisfaction and relief. It appears as though I will finish out the month nearly caught up and back on schedule (darn that internal mental image I have of where I should be versus where I am. Rarely do the two correspond, [...]

Last year, in looking back at it from the vantage of 2010, was every bit as awful as it seemed while enduring it. Not from a business pov, thank heavens, but from a personal one. No one was more relieved than myself to ring out the old and ring in the new.
And the new year, [...]

Anyone who has followed my blog knows that I have chased the elusive ‘Silver Bullet’ of marketing for years, ever since the inception of our business in 2005. That doesn’t mean that I didn’t have a realistic expectation of ‘real’ marketing, which is an ongoing effort with little measurable results in the short term but [...]

Gail MacMillan emailed me this morning that her latest title, “Yuletide Yarns” is now printing and available for pre-order on Amazon. I had the distinct pleasure of being asked to write a review for the book to be included on the back page blurbage, and although I don’t recall my review word for word, I [...]

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 [...]