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Backups

Guy Pace October 10, 2019 0 Comments

Many long years working with computers has taught me three very important rules. Backup.Backup.Backup. That's right. No matter what you have, phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop, you MUST have some kind of backup established. The alternative is disaster. The other day, I came up to my desktop computer and there on the screen I saw something called Mac OS Utility. It's also called Mac OS Recovery...

Formula Analysis

Guy Pace June 1, 2019 0 Comments

In 2013, I wrote down some notes on the formula for modern disaster movies. My wife loves these, so I made the notes as we watched way too many of them. This is what Hollywood does in developing a script from either a story or book they acquired. Often, the resulting script has little resemblance to the original work. A formula isn't necessarily a bad thing, especially if it works and draws the...

New Venues

Guy Pace April 3, 2019 0 Comments

I added the e-book versions of Sudden Mission, Nasty Leftovers, and Carolina Dawn to Kobo and Barnes & Noble (Nook). Check out the book pages to see the new links. Originally, the first two books were on those sites, as well as Apple's iBook (now Book) store. I'm still working on getting the books on Apple's store, but not sure things are going as I'd hoped. Since I had almost no sales on...

Book Clubs

Guy Pace March 18, 2019 0 Comments

I got a chance to talk to a book club composed of young ladies in California this week, via a conference video call. Yeah, we're living in the future. It was fun connecting with readers and folks interested in writing. They had a number of good questions and I did my best to provide good, interesting answers. Most of the members are the age of the main characters in my books, and some are...

Fraud

Guy Pace November 12, 2018 0 Comments

Fraud Fraud is a deceit, trickery, or con perpetrated for profit, according to Dictionary.Com. We hear about fraud all the time, maybe not with that particular term, but it all boils down to the same thing. It feeds on human greed. Greed, of course, is one of the Seven Deadly Sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth). Boy, are we going to have fun with these over the next few...