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Exposing "Free" Offers in Business

Of course they're going to try to sell you something! I'm going off to a Publishing seminar downtown Toronto, in a few hours and I'm curious to see what I can glean from it. As a newly-published Children's book author , I'm hoping to find subscribers for my list to show off my snazzy audiobook digital  flyer  to! Well, getting some good, honest  reviews  for my new puppy cartoon Prissy Little Chloe: Time of the Year, would be sweet of course! Networking is one thing. A lot of these "free" seminars that happen at hotels, aren't free. The hotel has to pay the speakers, really mostly out of the attendees pockets - as a lot of them decide to stay for the duration of the conference. Brilliant. I won't be one. Not because I don't love a weekend getaway, but because hotels for me, are a last resort - unless, I'm staying you know, at a resort. I can sleep better in those beds, anyway. With any sort of training, especially a pa...

Gaming Platform Exclusivity - Who Wins That Game?

A Daring Expedition - no. A Dangerous Endeavour. Tired of my drama? In layman's terms, it's a risk. Why can't we play God of War or Uncharted on Xbox; and of course, what about Halo? How about Heavy Rain? The most recent example is Rise of the Tomb Raider's for the Xbox One - released on the same day as Fallout 4 actually. Hmm. Choosing game release dates. I could write a whole post about that, but the gist of it is do not have two games scheduled for the same release date! It did not do Tomb Raider justice; we've been waiting for some 5 years for Fallout 4. I'm not sure if they thought people would happily bundle the two when they line up outside Gamestop at 12 midnight, to sort of ride off Bethesda. In short, it apparently didn't work. Now they have to bundle it with an Xbox to make up for it. Which brings back to the topic at hand. 2013's Tomb Raider is hands-down my favourite game reboot, ever. Where would games...

The Easiest Way EVER to Publish Your Own Book!

Done in days! The decision made I've always loved to create children's books. When I was in primary school, I never spoke to anyone. I had just changed schools in first grade and was super bored with the idea of learning to speak French. So I would sit at my desk, take out a manilla paper notebook that I got from the whole stack on my teacher's desk - they were for the kids anyway, she just hadn't given them out yet - and draw Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog comics. They were advanced, witty humour; not the gross-out kind, most six year old kids find funny. The kind of humour that was ... book material. I wish I could still find them. When I wouldn't talk in school, I would come home and start running while screaming down the place. Yep, problems from early on. My mom couldn't believe why the school board thought I was mute. Art was my outlet. The year was 2003 and my mom told me I need to get a children's book out there.  Fast-forward 13 odd yea...