Author Archives: Cora

Holding Back the Flood of Spam

Posted on August 10, 2013 by Cora

Comment spam has been increasingly problematic for WordPress blogs. In the past few weeks, I have been getting twenty to thirty spam comments per hour. Users mostly never see them, but scanning through and deleting the spam comments (important, because … Continue reading →

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Just a Test

Posted on August 10, 2013 by Cora

Just testing a new anti-spam plug-in over at my personal site. Send to Kindle

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An interview and other writerly links of interest

Posted on August 7, 2013 by Cora

First of all, I have been interviewed by Brianna Lee McKenzie at The Cozy Corner Reading Room, so come on over and say hello. WNR Media interviews Nathalie Hamidi about her website Find, Read, Love which helps readers to find … Continue reading →

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New title, new cover, new video

Posted on August 4, 2013 by Cora

Yes, it’s another promotional post. Regular blogging will resume shortly. Now I have acquired a YouTube channel, it needs more content than two old book trailers. So I made a general promotion video using Stupeflix, another of those online “Make … Continue reading →

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Booktrailers are back

Posted on August 3, 2013 by Cora

Okay, so this was quick. The Videos page is back, since I figured out how to upload my two surviving xtranormal trailers to YouTube. In the meantime, I also seem to have acquired a YouTube channel of my own. My … Continue reading →

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Booktrailers gone

Posted on August 3, 2013 by Cora

You may have noticed that the “Videos and Booktrailers” page is gone. I deleted the page, since xtranormal, the 3D animation service I used to make the trailers, has suspended operations as of July 31. I only noticed this because … Continue reading →

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A bestseller right out of the gate

Posted on August 2, 2013 by Cora

My brand-new story Love in the Times of the Macrobiotic Müsli has only been published for a few days and has already hit a bestseller list at Amazon Germany. Well, it was always clear to me that this story would … Continue reading →

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New short story: Love in the Times of the Macrobiotic Müsli

Posted on July 31, 2013 by Cora

Those of you who would like to see more German set stories will hopefully enjoy our latest offering. For Love in the Times of a Macrobiotic Müsli is set in Germany, West Germany to be exact, in 1982. Now the … Continue reading →

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Interview with Writer K.S. Augustin a.k.a. Cara d’Bastian

Posted on July 25, 2013 by Cora

Today, I continue our irregular series of interviews with international indie writers and welcome K.S. Augustin a.k.a. Cara d’Bastian to the Pegasus Pulp blog. K.S. Augustin’s indie publishing venture Sandal Press celebrates its second anniversary in August. 1. Tell us … Continue reading →

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The E-Book Revolution and the P-word

Posted on July 25, 2013 by Cora

At The Atlantic, Noah Berlatzky takes on the problem of erotica e-books being big moneymakers on the one hand, but something of an embarrassment for many retailers on the other. He also addresses the recent problem of Amazon randomly filtering … Continue reading →

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