Hi everyone. I decided to join the 21st century. Yes, after one thousand posts and ten years of blogging, I decided it was time to get my own domain name. Maybe I’m jumping the gun here, but I’ve always been an early adopter. Old risk-taking Eric, that’s me. http://ericjuneaubooks.com So no more mooching off of blogger/blogspot or whatever you want to call it. Now I’ll have my own domain, my own promotional material, with blackjack and hookers. Now the transition isn’t totally made yet. I think I found a way to import my good good blogger stuff here so it’s not lost to time when I abandon this site, but…
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Top Posts of 2014
Yeah, I know this isn’t exactly timely. I got sidetracked by vacation and then super-sidetracked by trying to figure out how to cull the damn data I needed. Once again, Morgan Smith Goodwin is the winner. People love that red-headed burger-slinger. After that, it’s the “Analyzing the Disney Villains” intro, and then “Milk & Honey”. After that are newcomers Mother Gothel and Maleficent round the Top Five. Nothing from this year even cracked the Top Twenty Most Visited. Dr. Facilier’s analysis clocks in at twenty-three and the next doesn’t occur until 73 (Ursula). Others from this year include favorite Disney animated moments (#112), analyzing Rourke (#116) and Snow White’s Evil Queen…
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New Comment Moderation Policy
So yesterday I went for some new supplies hammer. It wasn’t easy — you need to find one that fits your personality. John Scalzi has the “Mallet of Loving Correction”, so I clearly can’t duplicate that. The store I went to has a pretty nice collection, but most of them didn’t fit me. Too small Too big The salesman told me this one was used by a little, old Outworld emperor who only used it on weekends. Too cheap Too expensive Too springy What the hell is that? Okay, now really… Come on, what kind of salesman is this? I thought he’d know his hammers at least… He chased me…
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My 500th Post
If you can tell by the modest graphic, this makes post 500. To be honest, I’ve really got nothing special to say, except to give a look back at the progress of the blog from its inception in 2/12/2007, before my first kid was even born. I started it as a way to “keep honest” when writing my first novel (the first meant for mainstream publishing). And mostly, I wrote about being depressed about how poorly the writing was going. I never wrote about when the writing was going good. I’m not sure if it ever was. I complained about slumps, I complained about time, I complained about everything. It…
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My First Spam Comment!
Yay! I got my first spam comment in my Roger Ebert post. It comes from an anonymous person who said today was his lucky day, because their giving away 100 free iPads at some tinyURL. They must have some time travel machine, because I didn’t think the iPad was out yet. I hope this guy wins one of them. You never forget your first spam comment. God bless the Internet. BTW, all further spam comments will be deleted without mercy.
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I Am An Idiot, And You May Comment On That
Okay, it has been brought to my attention that the reason I have written 325 posts and not received a single comment is because the comments are turned off. I guess all those toolbars at the bottom I see fooled me. So now they’re turned back on. Comment away–I know nothing about moderation to flood me with you spam links. Go on, I dare you.
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The Final Word on The Shine Journal
I sent my last blog entry to said editor of The Shine Journal. As you could read, it wasn’t an apology, it wasn’t a redaction. It was a re-evaluation. I don’t know what I was expecting for a response, if I was expecting one at all, but I would have liked it to be a bit more magnanimous than it was. Her tone was extremely defensive and proud. Maybe it’s all the Lamebook I’ve been reading, but it feels like adolescent behavior–can’t leave an issue alone, attacks all forms of disparagement, always has to have the last word, uses too many exclamation points The first thing she said was that…
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Aftermath With The Shine Journal
I may have made a mistake. A big one. Maybe. This refers to the last post I made where I compared “The Shine Journal” and “Sorcerous Signals”. First, I want to say why I said what I said. To me, the name of the name game is to get published. To get published you have to get noticed. You get noticed by getting into the big magazines. To get into the big magazines, you get into the small ones first. At least that’s my battle plan. The purpose of this blog is to track my progress and leave an account of what I did or how I did it. However,…
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My Token Update and a Rant on Scalzi
I haven’t posted here for a while, but something really got my goat today. But first, an update. As you’ve no doubt guess, I’ve been trying to focus on my fiction, meaning back-burner blog for breakfast. It lost my interest for the moment, as everything else I’ve been doing has been going well. I feel like I’m in a rhythm on my writing where there are fewer blocks. To date, I’ve finished the first draft of my short stories, gotten up to version 2 on Black Hole Son, sent Avatar in for a second critique, finished cataloguing possible places to send my short stories. Right now I’m working the final…
