John Passarella Author Blog

• Hurt neck SAT w/ yardwork. Slow SUN. Waiting for Eagles/Dallas. Norton Internet Security install holding my PC hostage for the past 4+ hrs. #
• Bummed that Eagles sloppy play cost them chance for sole possession of 1st. Watched Dexter & Mad Men later, made up for the birds mess. #
• Been feeling under the weather lately, but you can't call in sick when you're self-employed. Slogging my way thru client web updates today. #
• @RayGarton Problem is, I can't think of anything I haven't heard before. in reply to RayGarton #
• The Dark Quest Books edition of SHIMMER is now listed on Amazon! #
• Wrapped up invoice preparation for multiple clients. Getting read for client web updates and client blogs, shopping cart, etc. #
• SAT I'll be signing my Wendy Ward story with a big group of authors at the Between Books 30th Anniversary Party for The Stories In Between. #
• Finished designing new postcard (front & back) for Dark Quest Books edition of SHIMMER #
• Free Amazon App Lets PC Users Read Kindle Books – Yahoo! News #
• Eagles lose 2 cornerbacks in one fell swoop: Ellis Hobbs to season-ending neck surgery, Joselio Hanson to 4 gm suspension. #
• PayPal users: How often does your biz come to a screeching halt because PP puts a transaction "under review" and locks it up? #
• @blindconfucius No text to speech at all? I hadn't heard anything. Was wondering about the "share" feature, which seems under fire. in reply to blindconfucius #
• Read my latest Passarella Author Newsletter. Book Signing Tomorrow & New SHIMMER edition: #
• Thanks to Shannon for the 5-star review of Bad-Ass Faeries 2, especially her high praise for my story #
• Special Deal for My Twitter Followers « Passarella Blog (FREE Wendy Ward eStory. Until Midnight ET) #
• At Between Books mega book signing today for The Stories In Between, 2-5pm, 2703 Phila Pike, Claymont DE 19703 302.798.3378 #
• Wow! There's a mob scene at the Between Books signing – in a good way. Stop on by before 5pm! http://myloc.me/1vkik #
• What a signing at Between Books today! We signed non-stop for 4 hrs. Think we had a 5-minute lull between 2-6pm. Biggest I've been part of. #

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• Eagles trounce NY Giants. Now we need the Phillies to follow suit and even the World Series w/ the Yanks. #
• Introduce Your Child to Lovecraft's Horrors with Lil Cthulhu – io9 #
• Have to balance Dexter, the season finale of Mad Men, and the Phillies tonight. DVR hummin' and ESPN play-by-play on the Blackberry. #
• C'mon, Phillies. Time running out. Madsen needs to end this inning, keep it to 1 run. #
• Thought the Phillies had a chance for a walkoff 9th, now it's looking darkest… #
• Less than 2 wks 'til The Stories (In) Between book signing @ Between Books Claymont DE. Wendy Ward BLOOD ALONE in this one! #
• Just realized NEXT week is the Mad Men season finale… Up against Eagles/Dallas. No rest for the DVR. #
• Coming up for air after a bunch of client web updates and blog posts. #
• C'mon Cliff Lee – keep the Phillies' hopes alive. #
• Yes! Phillies live to fight another day. 6 run lead turns into nail-biter. Deep sigh of relief… #
• Watched the SyFy channel movie Ghost Town… I don't know why I put myself through these things. Still not as bad as Alien vs Hunter. #
• V, on the other hand, was decent. Little Firefly reunion going on there. With a dab of Lost and a dash of Smallville. #
• @Dudley228 Must be a touch of masochism in us. That's the only explanation. in reply to Dudley228 #
• Mundania Press's edition of Bad-Ass Faeries 2 available at Amazon. Includes my story Twilight Crossing #
• Kids are home from school until next week. Just made a quick website for my 8-yr-old daughter, with her book reviews. #
• Good luck to Pedro & the Phillies in another elimination game. Would make for a powder keg of pressure on both teams in a game 7. #
• Things aren't looking good for the Phillies. Their old goat was better than ours. And our bats remain silent. Sigh… #
• Chase Utley missed a golden opportunity, would have been a record-setting one (with HR), and would have made it a 1 run game. #
• Sour grapes alert: Looks like the Phillies will succumb to the bottomless purse of NYY. Idealist in me wanted the "team" to win. #
• Note to Harry Kalas "upstairs": The Phillies had high hopes again, and came within 2 games. Maybe next year. #
• Phillies: Thanks for a great season! A few tweaks and we'll get it next year. #
• @thesadeianwoman Yep. Wanted a beer… after midnight. Resisted the urge. in reply to thesadeianwoman #
• Having a Phillies hangover. Trying to get some work done while waiting for the sprinkler people to close the lines for the winter. #
• Party Like it’s 1979: Support a 30 YR OLD Indie Bookstore « Passarella Blog #
• Supernatural cracked me up this evening. Loved the new "theme song." And the "Herpexia" commercial. #
• @VR4SmallBiz As web designer I refer clients to you. I dislike that you EXPIRE credits that have been BOUGHT, discourages sales & referrals. #
• @VR4SmallBiz Many of my clients are authors, who mail around book pub dates. Expiring BOUGHT (not free trial) credits diminishes your value. #
• @VR4SmallBiz You should wait at least a year since the LAST mailing before expiring PURCHASED credits. Not talking about free trial credits. #
• Haven't decided if I like Stargate: Universe. Still not sure if I know what the show is "about" yet. DO like the ongoing vs episodic nature. #
• Just completed a bunch of client web updates, a podcast listing and a mass mailing. Now on to client email responses. #
• @twignest Yes, it's a contining story. They've been short of air, water, food, etc. and each ep seems to deal w/ another crisis. in reply to twignest #
• Bad-Ass Faeries gets New York Times mention. My story appeared in 2nd antho, new edition from Mundania #

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• After a hectic SAT, trying to take it easy today, but still completed a few client updates while I wait for Dexter and Mad Men. #
• @DarkWoofer I doubt it makes 3rd season. Too many people made up their minds. Irony is, the early sampler-friendly eps probably doomed it. in reply to DarkWoofer #
• HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: Order signed SHIMMER trade p/back by OCT 31 and S&H is FREE! Details: #
• @DarkWoofer They only had 13 last year, right? That's starting to look like rule instead of exception for genre shows. in reply to DarkWoofer #
• Local ABC pre-empted Castle for Eagles game. They'll air the ep after Kimmel WED morning. Wonder if it will be available at ABC before then. #
• Facebook to keep profiles of the dead by AP: Yahoo! Tech #
• HALLOWEEN FRIGHT SPECIAL: Order a signed SHIMMER trade p/back by OCT 31 and S&H is FREE! Details: #
• Have been working a big chunk of today on converting a new client's MESSY layout to something approaching order. And it's a rush job. #
• Another day jam-packed with Web updates. Trying to get as much done during the day so I can watch the World Series with a clear conscience. #
• Great game 1 in World Series for the Phillies! Cliff Lee = amazing. Doubt they'll all be this stress-free. Pedro, you're up. Do what he did. #
• Chuck to get 19 episodes instead of 13! But we gotta wait until March: #
• Take a sneak peek at the cover of the Dark Quest Books edition of SHIMMER, coming soon: http://twitpic.com/nesj0 #
• @nilvento I taped it WED am & watched last night after the Phillies. Loved how his daughter said of his costume: you wore that 5 years ago. in reply to nilvento #
• @DarkWoofer Thanks. I'm excited about it. It was great having so much input into the design, too. in reply to DarkWoofer #
• Has anyone found any head-to-head reviews of and/or comparisons between B&N's Nook vs Amazon's Kindle? #
• Time running out for the Phillies tonight. Offense MIA today. #
• @DarkWoofer Negated how? in reply to DarkWoofer #
• At my daughter's school, waiting for the Halloween costume parade to begin. #
• LAST CALL: Halloween Fright Special. Order signed SHIMMER trade p/back by OCT 31 for FREE S&H! #
• Anyone have recommendations for small ecommerce shopping cart systems? Maybe one that lets you offer discounts, coupons, etc.? Any to avoid? #
• Work to do before the "witching hours" of Halloween but my PC is being recalcitrant at best. Warm boot, cold boot…wake up already! #
• Phillies: I hope Cole Hamels wears his best Cliff Lee disguise in tonight's World Series game. #
• Good luck to Cole Hamels and the Phillies tonight! #
• Did not think that replay was conclusive. Borderline, at best. Go Phillies! #

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• Going through editor's final notes on Blood Alone: A Wendy Ward Novelette. Hope to finish before Eagles game. If not, another late night! #
• Got thru 56 out of 65 pages in my Wendy Ward story's editor notes. 9 to go, later tonight, looks like. #
• I can actually believe the Eagles lost. They always lose a game they SHOULD win (they were 14pt favorites.) Hope this was it and the last 1! #
• Finally finished reviewing, revising Wendy Ward story "Blood Alone" per editor's notes. Ended up cutting 150 words. Total at 16,700. #
• Phillies are making up for the Eagles' miserable excuse of a football game. #
• Finished up some minor web work & some wrestling with Internet Explorer's um, "quirky" rendering engine. Needed an IE6 only style sheet. #
• I'm all for bargains. But, as author, don't think it's healthy for publishing to sell books at a loss #
• Watched the end of the Phillies game with jaw officially dropped. Had a bad feeling about the whole game, but I was (thankfully) wrong! #
• A market with 2.95 million TV homes beats one w/ nearly 2x as many: what Phila has been doing to LA. #
• Barnes & Noble expected to unveil e-reader. (I'm hearing color display; same price as Kindle.) News #
• Watched Transformers 2 with my boys. Dialogue often "seemed" to be in foreign language. Bad sound mix; explosions loud & clear though. #
• Helping my daughter record her story with music with Audacity. Hoping the Phillies can win tonight and clinch the NLCS at home. #
• Congratulations to the Phillies – back to the World Series for the second year in a row! #
• Eagles lose 2nd middle LB (Gaither) to season-ending (lisfranc) surgery. Black cloud over position #
• I'll be speaking to The Writing Force writers group in Mays Landing on SAT. This event is open to the public. #
• Need scary Halloween reading? Get a SiGneD SHIMMER trade p/b here – Kindle version: #
• In CASTLE, Nathan Fillion References Buffy, Firefly And Underworld In One Scene (upcoming ep) #
• ABA Asks for Government Investigation of Price Wars – Publishers Weekly #
• Going retro-zonbie: watching Night of the Comet (1984). Remember when it came out. 25 years ago! #
• Very strong and affecting Dollhouse tonight. #
• @nilvento Yeah! He actually got top billing, which surprised me. At least in the post-credits. in reply to nilvento #
• @DamnationBooks Yeah. It screams 80s (fashion, music, hairstyles) & the f/x are very subdued compared to the in-your-face stuff nowadays. in reply to DamnationBooks #
• Packing up for my speaking event at The Writing Force (Library, Mays Landing, NJ). Long drive. Hope rain isn't bad. #
• Thanks to Marge P. and the attendees of The Writing Force for having me as a guest speaker at their writers group meeting today! #
• @Theresa1985 Hi, Theresa! Good to meet you in person today. #
• Finally watching Drag Me To Hell – has some Evil Dead touches. Sam Raimi's "toolkit", I guess. #
• #oneletteroffmovies Finding Memo, The Green Mule, Taxi Drivel, Fight Clue, Tin City, Reservoir Digs, Chinatoon #
• @DarkWoofer It's a shame they really deliver on a great episode (Dollhouse) then have to go into hiding during November sweeps. in reply to DarkWoofer #

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• Watching the Phillies… not sure I'll see it all. Have an early appointment. Why is it always Mondays? #
• @jackiebrown20 Glad you enjoyed KINDRED SPIRIT… it will be harder to find w/ the mass market going out of print. Just trade & eBook now. in reply to jackiebrown20 #
• Tuned in late to Phillies. Not sure why Happ was pulled so early. Only 3 runs given up at the time. #
• Eyre goes down. Starting to feel as if the Phillies pitchers are snake-bit. #
• I'm not liking the Phillies chances in a close game and 5-5 qualifies. Can Madsen go 3 innings? #
• Recovering from Phillies hangover. Late night followed by early morning DR appt, & now domain problems. Ugh! Well, at least the Phils won. #
• Two-outs, two strikes in the 9th and the Phillies recover from 2 run deficit & take and keep a 1 run lead. Wow! Helped salvage a crappy MON. #
• Due to technical difficulties, my author store is down, but you can order SHIMMER trade p/b from Amazon #
• Amazon's Wishlist Celebrates10 Year Anniversary with Sweepstakes: #
• Last week too slow, this week too busy: Web work & writing work. Need to go thru editor's notes on my Wendy Ward story. Plus, client crunch. #
• My one son and I (and sometimes my wife) drink Wawa #chocolatemilk – I pass on other brands. #
• Got a peek at the preliminary cover for the small press version of Shimmer — and it's looking good! Not final yet. Requested minor change. #
• In my admittedly biased opinion, WITHER is a great Halloween read. But you'll have to get the Kindle or eBook version – p/b is out of print! #
• Working on client website design for most of the day for a Monday launch. #
• Turned in final SHIMMER ms to my Dark Quest Books editor. There will be a DQB edition of Shimmer later this yr. Stay tuned. #
• Still need to get to my Blood Alone revision notes (Wendy Ward), but I'm tied up in client website work, probably for most of the day. #
• I'm fairly sure watching the Phillies is not good for my blood pressure. #
• @kwakerjak My thoughts exactly. in reply to kwakerjak #
• @wdprescott Thanks for the SHIMMER shout out. Title is just SHIMMER, no "the" – because there is a "The Shimmer" out there. That's not mine. in reply to wdprescott #
• Just checked. Freak Angels ( ) is in a break week. End of Volume Three. Oh, well, back to work. #
• Helping daughter with Halloween diorama, and segueing into client's weekly podcast. Then some more Website design work. #
• Been working on client website for MON launch for the last 2.25HRS without budging from my office chair. Need a break! #

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• Lazy SUN, watched Phillies close on a win, late Dallas loss, got some client web work done, but not too much. Ton of stuff on tube tonight. #
• Waiting in DR office for my quarterly blood labs. Early in the AM for me to be up and about. #
• Using brain science to maximize scares in horror movies: #
• Lot of wheel spinning with no forward progress today. Felt like a Monday. Hoping for better things tomorrow. #
• Heard weather could affect both baseball playoff games today. Phillies at 2:30; wind gusts could be factor. Will watch in my home office. #
• Congrats to the Phillies on winning game 1 of the NLDS, 5-1. Complete game by Cliff Lee, despite some playoff jitters. #
• My 8-year-old daughter visited me at my booth during the Collingswood NJ Book Festival. http://twitpic.com/koedu #
• Mass market paperback editions s of WITHER, KINDRED SPIRIT & BUFFY: GHOUL TROUBLE are sold out! And out of print! #
• But you can still get Kindle & eBook versions of WITHER, KINDRED SPIRIT & BUFFY: GHOUL TROUBLE. #
• @sitepointdotcom Tried to check out your 5-for-1 sale, but email link generates error: This Connection is Untrusted. (Firefox) #
• @JennBerk Switch over to… TNT, I think they said. TBS sister station. #
• @ShayneT On its way! in reply to ShayneT #
• @JennBerk Cool. I had to watch the Phillies get oh-so-close, then lose. in reply to JennBerk #
• Will SHIMMER give you Halloween shivers? Order a signed copy and find out! Save on S&H: Only $0.99. #
• Now through November 15, I'm running a Fall Combo Sale (Website Design & Hosting) at AuthorPromo.com #
• Anybody getting this error in Twitter (w/ Firefox) "Error: Node was not found"? Happens on right-click, open in new tab. #
• @jessicamcminn I'm using Power Twitter TOO, so maybe that's the issue. in reply to jessicamcminn #
• Another Freak Angels cliff-hanger! #
• @jessicamcminn Let me know if that fixes it for you. Thanks. in reply to jessicamcminn #
• Got a copy of Darkly Dreaming Dexter and saw that Jeff Lindsay thanks Jason Kaufman – who was my WITHER editor! Also Dan Brown's editor. #
• Hoping to see Zombieland this weekend. Boys are gung-ho for it, just based on the previews. But it's gotten good press/reviews, so I'm a GO. #
• Zombieland was fun. Goriest parts were during the opening credits. Ready for the sequel already. 😉 #
• @twignest Only problem was the trailers were the same as for District 9! Nothing new/exciting. in reply to twignest #
• @jessicamcminn have you reinstalled to see if it goes away? I uninstalled as well. in reply to jessicamcminn #
• @bethany_k Thanks. Any spoilers in the review? I'm mainly interested in the sequels, which veer from the TV series, but want to start w/ #1. in reply to bethany_k #
• @jessicamcminn Good to know. I haven't reinstalled yet. in reply to jessicamcminn #

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• Trying for a relaxing day today, though our outdoor pump seems to be dead/dying. Eagles roll; Phillies squeak. New Dexter tonight! #
• RT @mashable Official BlackBerry Twitter App Coming? #
• I'll be attending Collingswood NJ Book Festival SAT, OCT 3 (booths 11-14 area). Find me before 2pm! #
• Looking into getting a new (probably used) car. Not because we want to, because the MPV is giving us fits. Ugh, car dealers! #
• Spent big chunk of the afternoon converting a client's old table-based home page to a CSS layout. To fix problem in MAC/Safari only. Weird. #
• Canceled Primeval to live again, for two more seasons – io9 #
• Working on major update to a client's home page, organizing a bunch of data for the past couple hours. #
• On our way home after watching Phillies win NL East Pennant. Very cool timing for our tix, which we bought last week! A 2-for-1 deal. #
• Not in love with the idea of the "vook" (video book), at least not for fiction. Non-fiction, okay #
• RT @sitepointdotcom Don't miss out on grabbing 5 books for the price of 1. 5-4-1 deal extended 7 days! #
• Will be at the Collingswood NJ Book Festival tomorrow, but only partial day. Leaving by 1PM or 2PM. Need to cram in car shopping after. #
• Read my latest author newsletter here: #
• Twitter Adds Lists to Help You Get Organized – PC World #
• At the Collingswood NJ Book Festival. Brief rain shower. Staying until 2PM. http://myloc.me/SyoE #
• Busy day today, finally got back home to launch client's weekly podcast & mass mailing. Saturdays seem to get longer every week. #

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• Trying for a relaxing day today, though our outdoor pump seems to be dead/dying. Eagles roll; Phillies squeak. New Dexter tonight! #
• RT @mashable Official BlackBerry Twitter App Coming? #
• I'll be attending Collingswood NJ Book Festival SAT, OCT 3 (booths 11-14 area). Find me before 2pm! #
• Looking into getting a new (probably used) car. Not because we want to, because the MPV is giving us fits. Ugh, car dealers! #
• Spent big chunk of the afternoon converting a client's old table-based home page to a CSS layout. To fix problem in MAC/Safari only. Weird. #
• Canceled Primeval to live again, for two more seasons – io9 #
• Working on major update to a client's home page, organizing a bunch of data for the past couple hours. #
• On our way home after watching Phillies win NL East Pennant. Very cool timing for our tix, which we bought last week! A 2-for-1 deal. #
• Not in love with the idea of the "vook" (video book), at least not for fiction. Non-fiction, okay #
• RT @sitepointdotcom Don't miss out on grabbing 5 books for the price of 1. 5-4-1 deal extended 7 days! #
• Will be at the Collingswood NJ Book Festival tomorrow, but only partial day. Leaving by 1PM or 2PM. Need to cram in car shopping after. #
• Read my latest author newsletter here: #
• Twitter Adds Lists to Help You Get Organized – PC World #
• At the Collingswood NJ Book Festival. Brief rain shower. Staying until 2PM. http://myloc.me/SyoE #
• Busy day today, finally got back home to launch client's weekly podcast & mass mailing. Saturdays seem to get longer every week. #

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