Starting April 1st Author Interrupted is going to be taking part in the 2015 Blogging from A-Z challenge. We've taken part the last few years and to be honest, it's A LOT of fun. Monday through Saturday ( Sunday's off for good behaviour catching up on new blogs) I'll...
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IRC commands for the chatrooms
Every November, I dust off my IRC server and set up some rooms for the various projects that need them - all of the Nanowrimo projects that I run get their own chatroom, plus a shared room, #coffeehouse Windows We recommend ICEchat for Windows, simply because...

A word from our sponsor – daily writing support with Writer’s Almanac
One of the major things I've been working on setting up, since before the new dream job (which I'm going to blog about at some point soon!) was a daily marketing support project for those that don't know where to start with writing, and need guidance that involves...

S is for stupidly busy #AtoZchallenge
Yeah, yesterday was 'really knackered'. Today, the word of the day is stupidly-busy (all one word, conjoined, dragging me along behind it!). I wish I could say why, but it's all coming together now so I'll get to say something soon(ish). Until then. What to do when...

o is for ooooh #atozchallenge
I love getting excited about stuff. I love being a geek. I'm pretty lucky actually. I get to do some really fun stuff, all in the name of research. I get to look at the coolest movies, the best RPGs and MMORPGs and better yet, my beloved and children hold much the...

The three pillars of Marketing #atozchallenge
Cheating slightly today, but it says it far better than anything I've tried to write today. This is a reprint of an article available on the marketing company I co-own, The Finishing Fairies. The three pillars of basic indie promotion I explain it a bit more in one of...

K is for Kindle – #AtoZchallenge
No way I could have completed a blog challenge and not use K to talk about Kindle and Kindle Direct Publishing. But I'm not going to talk about it's merits. What I'm going to talk about instead are a couple of hacks people seem to be missing when using it....

J is for Jetpack #AtoZchallenge
I did H for Heartbleed a few days ago, and now I'm doing J for Jetpack. If you haven't already had the email, Jetpack is vulnerable, until upgraded. The problem is, with so many people updating, if your WordPress self-hosted server times out for any reason, or...