Category: Lloyd Lofthouse

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    In Defense of Authors Perceived as Behaving Badly – Part 2/3

    “If the conversation is going on and you are not part of it, it is more than likely that you will be painted inaccurately.”

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    In Defense of Authors Perceived as Behaving Badly – Part 1/3

    It may be the duty of an author to defend his or her work against negative reviews.

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    How to Rate the Reliability-Odds of an Amazon Book Reviewer

    How reliable are Amazon book reviewers, and how can you discover the answer?

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    John Carter film named one of worst flops of 2012 – but is that wrong?

    Why does the ‘John Carter’ film keep getting so much coverage in the media as the box office loser of 2012 when it wasn’t?

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    Originally posted on The Blogging Goth: The Mail on Sunday’s front page from 16th December 2012 There are three factors which define my response this story. I am a human being, a Goth, and a Journalist. As a human being, I abhor and reject the horrific violence committed in Newton, Connecticut. As a Goth, I abhor and reject any association…

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    The birth of a child called Prose

    For an author, the job of being the parent of Prose means a never ending job.

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    Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: Under President George W. Bush, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA) increased the Department of Education’s (DOE) budget from $46 Billion to $60 Billion (In 2012, the budget reached $68.1 Billion). For a comparison, under Bush, the Department of Defense (DOD) budget went from $308.9 Billion in 2001 to $729.6…

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    The Next Best Thing, an authors’ Blog Hop

    Authors usually have to promote his or her work to find readers, and all I knew about authors Blog Hopping is that it’s sort of like a chain letter where participants answer questions and/or write posts on his or her Blog linked to other authors taking part …

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    Is it better to have disposable cities or disposable armies fighting one war after another as in the United States? What do I mean? I mean to say that if we are going to spend money so people have jobs, rebuilding cities may be a better choice than waging wars as the United States has done in Vietnam, Iraq and…