The Chronicles of Charlie: The Assassin Who’s Not Very Good At His Job
I’m a writer, sometime software consultant, and gadabout living in the dead-center of San Francisco. I’m currently trying to sell a novel; read the introduction if you’re interested. If you want to read something else, click one of the stories to the left. And, of course, there’s a blog. Thanks for stopping by!
Posted By Dan on August 29, 2010
1) Php well enough to be able to troubleshoot an odd php problem.
2) How to really poach an egg
3) Web promotion. Well, enough about it to do a real promotional campaign for the Perplexing Problem
Posted By Dan on August 16, 2010
Hey, are you reading The Perplexing Problem yet? Because you should be…
Posted By Dan on August 1, 2010
I’ve spent the last six (!) hours doing various document editing and things for the Perplexing Problem, and I’m pretty wiped. That said, I’m fairly excited; I was going to do all of the ebook formatting myself, but I’ve changed my mind and am going to use Smashwords, which seems like less work on my side for a superior end result. I’m willing to give them 15% of what I sell, especially given their ability to get into the larger ebook stores.
Physical book will probably be through Amazon at CreateSpace, which will be fine. I think that will take another week or so to get completely together. So, that’s the whole publishing thing. Honestly? If I’d had my act more together I would have had this done six months ago. Ah well.
Posted By Dan on July 19, 2010
And counting. Yes, this is a tease. But the Perplexing Problem is seven days away!
Posted By Dan on May 31, 2010
It’s hard, it’s hard…
And I don’t even like Dylan that much. But, that’s one of his better songs. It’s hard to accomplish things - and somehow it’s hard to do so when you get older. I mean, it’s Memorial Day, I worked for three hours after being in a car for nearly four, made dinner, did some other work, and now it’s ten o’clock and I’m wondering if it’s possible to do more stuff. Well, it’s possible, but…I probably actually won’t.
This is what we call a Navel Gazing Nothing Blog Post, and I suppose I could point out that stereotypes, when broken, are kinda fun. I was sitting by the pool yesterday at the Inn at Paso Robles, and my friend was chatting away with a big, burly, goateed guy. He (my friend) mentioned that the bearded fellow and his wife were just coming off of an 80 mile ride. I assumed, based on the guy’s looks, that they (he and his wife) had been doing a motorcycle rally thing.
Nope - they were doing a metric century on bicycles, and had gotten a bit lost. 80 miles on bikes on a 92 degree day. I felt a bit guilty, especially when we started talking about the relative merits of several different farm-to-table restaurants in Paso.
But they looked like bikers. I swear.
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