This is the third installment in a series of posts on writing a book (first post here, second post here).  It's not so much a "how to get published" but rather one author's experience of the entire writing process, starting with the idea and taking that to a finished book. 
Same disclaimers as last time [...]

I love it!  "Build the Ultimate Custom PC " has been out a couple of days and it's already getting great reviews - I love this one on Amazon !
If you buy the book then I'd love to hear from you what you think - either leave feedback at the place where you bought it or alternatively [...]

Penguin are making available a free unabridged podcast version (in MP3 format) of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens read by Geoffrey Palmer.  It's in five parts and part 1  is available today and continues on the 16, 19, 20 and 21 December.
Go get it!
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Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, makes an interesting point in his latest blog entry .  It concerns giving away free copies of an e-book (God’s Debris ) available free online with the hope that people would buy the sequel.
The conclusion that Scott has come to:

When something is free, that’s what people expect to pay for the next [...]

This is the second installment in a series of posts on writing a book (first post here).  It's not so much a "how to get published" but rather one author's experience of the entire writing process, starting with the idea and taking that to a finished book. 
Same disclaimers as last time - I'm writing [...]

Quite a number of you seem to be interested in the process behind extracting the words and pictures for a book from the author's brain and getting them down on sheets of paper that are then bound up and shipped to the bookstore. 
I have to say that I'm surprised that so many people are interested [...]