ideatrash

One person's ideatrash is another person's inspiration. I write here about sociology, my life, writing, business, and politics. I also post a work of flash fiction about once a week. You can find more of my work at stevesaus.com

Often Referenced Links

These are the pages I tend to reference on a regular basis at conventions.

Dissection of A Contract
Self Promotion
eBook Conversion
A Practical Guide to Online Privacy
Pirates, Pirates, Everywhere
Making It and Giving It Away
Digital Publishing is Investing
And Open Letter to Pirates
Publishers Making Money From Author Copies is Bull
Pricing and Digital Books
Smashword's Conflict of Interest and Why I Don't Recommend Smashwords
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Steven Saus
Steven Saus injects people with radioactivity as his day job, but only to serve the forces of good.

He is an genre fiction author, sociologist and nonfiction author, virtual landlord in Second Life, professional eBook converter, publisher, and nuclear medicine technologist living in Dayton, Ohio. His first venture into writing and publishing was while in second grade using a mimeograph machine. He has been writing ever since.

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Blog Archive

  • ►  2012 (111)
    • ►  May (19)
      • Amazon Finally Steps on Page-Scraped eBooks
      • Progeny - by R.T. Kaelin
      • You should be using a VPN on public wifi: Here's ...
      • Who cares what kind of relationship anyone else is...
      • Analog CuvĂ©e: Your Ears Need This
      • Strike Team Alpha - A 100 Word Story
      • I'm done playing political games - and maybe you s...
      • A New Form of Spam
      • There's an app for that...
      • Time Traveled Tales - At Origins 2012
      • Finding the focus of your horror story
      • It isn't a game
      • (Bechdel) Testing Joss Whedon
      • I am closing my rental business in Second Life
      • Smoke - A 100 Word Story
      • Cult of Personality
      • Making eBook Conversion (and Store Independence) P...
      • Steps Toward Making eBook format conversion trivia...
      • Where DRM (or a lack of it) is relevant - even wit...
    • ►  April (21)
      • Hotel: A 100 Word Story
      • Starting a Dead-Simple Webserver Using Python
      • Review of "Hidden Collection" and "Inquest" from T...
      • Moon - A 100 Word Story
      • Some notes on selling anthologies for a year...
      • My story "Taste of Moonlight" appears in "Title Go...
      • Tastes Like Human: A Book Review
      • You Can't Rely on the Public Backlash by Dismissin...
      • So You Wanna Make an eBook? eBook errors In The W...
      • Embrace - A 100 Word Story
      • Podcasting My Drabbles
      • eBooks: Special characters in URLs not always sup...
      • The Smartest Thing Said About The Great eBook Kerf...
      • Why I Sold Out To the Man (or Amazon) - and how yo...
      • Why Amazon Lowering eBook Prices Is Shit For Autho...
      • How to sell your eBook directly to consumers, in p...
      • Sick - A 100 Word Story (NSFW language)
      • Volume Three of The Crimson Pact is available - an...
      • The Crucifixion was Assisted Suicide
      • Characterization, as taught by the Dresden Files (...
      • The Charge of the Steam Brigade - A 100 Word Story...
    • ►  March (20)
      • Choosing your professional organizations as an aut...
      • Status Update: Why It Sucks Getting Old
      • Reading at Ghostlight Coffee (Ghostlight Lit)
      • Parables In Overheard Conversations
      • Assuming Assumptions
      • The Parts of An Apology (or: stuff I forget often)...
      • I don't know what this is - A 100 Word Story
      • A little bit of humor helps... or hurts
      • Mind Reading in Business Relationships - Just Say ...
      • Authors - read this so you don't fall victim to br...
    • ►  February (28)
    • ►  January (23)
  • ▼  2011 (271)
    • ►  December (19)
    • ►  November (23)
    • ►  October (19)
    • ►  September (14)
    • ▼  August (20)
      • Bio From Hell : Sans Spam - Self Promotion For Aut...
      • Howdy folks!
      • Elevators Don't Just Pitch - Sans Spam (Self-Promo...
      • From Writers To Writers
      • Wild - A 100 Word Story
      • One Week Until CONTEXT
      • Radio - A 100 Word Story
      • Random Cool Stuff
      • Publishers Must Justify Their Existence
      • DRM is losing your (digital) cool
      • If Books Had Smithee Awards...
      • Where's Captain Jack When You Need Him?
      • Publisher VS Publishing Services
      • Review: Brother's Keeper, Stained With Nightmare J...
      • Clarification
      • Dear Scammers: Stay the hell out of my convention...
      • Best of...
      • Gencon, day 0
      • An Open Letter To Pirates (and Ourselves)
      • Profit Sharing Is Trust
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    • ►  May (32)
    • ►  April (27)
    • ►  March (22)
    • ►  February (27)
    • ►  January (25)
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    • ►  December (33)
    • ►  November (32)
    • ►  October (28)
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    • ►  June (14)
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    • ►  April (15)
    • ►  March (26)
    • ►  February (26)
    • ►  January (18)
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    • ►  December (20)
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    • ►  January (27)
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    • ►  December (23)
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Steve's Books

The Crimson Pact
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So You Want to Make An eBook?
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Pencils Made This Scar
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Memories of Light and Sound
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The Burning Servant
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Timeshares
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Hungry For Your Love
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Mages and Magic
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Stalking the Wild Hare
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