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An even greater mystery to most people than Female Orgasm is female ejaculation. Although we may have heard stories about friends who can ejaculate, or who have been with women who can ejaculate, many of us have never actually experienced it first hand. When asked to describe the ejaculations, responses are often quite similar, "It's liquid, it's clear, it's wet, and it squirts". Beyond this, the details have always been quite sketchy.
Let's begin by understanding what the elements of the ejaculate are. The four main ingredients are Glucose, prostatic acid phosphatase (an enzyme which is characteristic of the prostatic component of semen), urea and creatinine. The last two ingredients are commonly found in urine, but are in lower levels than in urine. So there is some urine in the ejaculate. Some studies conclude that in some women the ejaculate is more like urine, and in other women it more like a prostate fluid. Until this question is answered fully, its safest to assume that it is a bit of both. The quantity of ejaculate can range from a few drops, to a shower of it.
Where does the ejaculate come from? There are several theories on this, but remaining constant amongst all of them is that female ejaculation comes from G-spot Stimulation. When the G-spot is stimulated over a period of time, the spongy tissue that creates this area fills with fluid. Women who can ejaculate often hold back, thinking that it is urine. The exact source of the ejaculate is still debated by researchers, but it does appear to come out of the urethra (like urine) and/or nearby Skene's Gland, so that is where the confusion takes place.
So what's left? You might want to learn how to get someone to ejaculate, or how to do it yourself. Like exploring everything else new in your experience of sex, you should work towards it, but not put unnecessary stresses on yourself by making it your goal. Also, it is not known whether all women are able to ejaculate, so if you or your partner is unable to - don't worry, but perhaps keep trying once in a while. As you already know, the ejaculate comes from the urethra or Skene's Gland, so it feels a lot like urine.
Apart from those who love 'golden showers' (the fetish of urinating on, or being urinated on), many people do not feel comfortable enough to risk urinating on or around their partner. It may be a good idea to allow yourself or your partner some privacy to understand this function of their body; at the very least let your partner now that you are excited about it, not grossed out. That being said, great places to try this out include the shower or bathtub, in or near water, or on top of some old blankets that you don't mind getting wet.
If you have any comments about this article, or would like to share your personal experiences, please post below!
Hi I was just wondering what's the difference between getting wet and squirting? Does it have to be literally squirting when it happens? I've realized that i produce some clear liquid when my bf goes down on me but I used to think that was just me getting really wet.
It might be you just getting wet..normally you can tell when you cum..for me I get the feeling that im gonna pee..if you finger yourself and hit your gspot you'll probably know what I mean..just try it!
Seeing a new guy for the last two months and have made fun in the bedroom. The other night we had a few beers and we both always use the bathroom before hand. We were having quite the foreplay and then I got on top of him cowboy style and leaned back and warm fluid came out of me. I was like, "what was that"? and he thought I pee'd, and I said no I didn't pee. I don't think I pee'd. He told me to go to the bathroom and joked, oh you already did. I did go to the bathroom and pee'd a lot had a full bladder. The color was clear and no smell.
So I want to know really what it was? I don't think I pee'd but it didn't appear to be cum. But I from time to time have had an issue with sneezing and leaking urine when that happens so now I am weirded out.
Any thoughts?
To me it sounds like you squirted. I've been doing it for many years so I know exactly how you feel. The first time for me was also a little weird. I thought it was pee too, but when it started happening more and more I realized it wasnt. Its always involuntary, unlike urinating(unless you've reached the point where you can't hold it anymore). And unlike pee which is a steady stream, when I squirt it's always a sudden rush that lasts like 2 seconds. It all just comes out at once like someone opended up a flood gate. So yeah, you're definitely squirting sooo....CONGRATS! Not too many of us exist ;)
I have a new boyfriend and we have been having sex now for about 2 months. I have had many partners in the past so this was really crazy to me. One day about 3 weeks ago, we were mid session and we switched up with me on top. I had see squirting before on porn but never thought that it would ever happen to me. Well, the only thing I can think is that his penis was rubbing me the right way because I starting getting so wet and secreting a thin fluid that didn't smell of anything. So much that it ran down my thighs and was spraying all over us every time I bounced up and down on him. I knew it couldn't be urine, I pee every time before we have sex and after. Unfortunately, no real orgasm. But my boyfriend LOVED it and now every time we have sex he immediately puts a towel down and picks me up and puts me on top of him. LOL
I was with my boyfriend one time and we were feeling kinda horny and we didn't want to risk sex, but we ended up masturbating together. He fingered me too, it felt great~ x3
I think what made me squirt for the very first time was that since he has three vibrating tongue piercings and he was licking my clit made me squirt. I thought I pee-ed on his face and it was really embarrassing for me D: He didn't seem to mind at all. But after a week or two we decided to do 69 (Yes we're taking steps till the actual thing ^//^;)he couldn't get me to squirt that time, his piercings were even vibrating Dx
Do you think we should stick to just him licking me or find something new? D: Neither of us don't get why I can't squirt again...
you have to keep practicing to do it again. you guys found the spot to make you squirt but the only way to reproduce the experience is to keep at it until you find it and control it. it's a trial and error process which i am sure you will not mind doing. have fun and enjoy your orgasms in the process!
is that whats its called then? lol i always thought i was just having a regular orgasm when i do this. i cant get my bf to make me do it, but when i masterbate i can. :P
I am a virgin and i am 15 and i finger my self when i feel a bit horny and i dont know if i am having an orgasm or just an ejaculation i do have like a white thing come out and my stomach feels a bit funny. Is there anybody that cam help me find out if i am having an orgasm or just an ejaculation please??:)
Ejaculation is having an orgasm don't confuse them. But, having an orgasm is not ejaculating there is a difference.
You can only ejaculate when you have an orgasm and you can have an orgasm without ejaculating
my fiancé always tries to get me too, but I get so nervous because I'm afraid I'm going to pee myself. Anyone pm me with ways that I can learn to do it myself to get more comfortable with the idea. Thanks
Practice it on your own like in the shower and if you pee then you pee but practice makes perfect keep trying don't give up.
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So, ive squirted before but it was with a female, and i told my boyfriend and he said it waz "hott" and he wants to make me squirt but every time we have sex he trys and he just doesnt get it. I feel as if im about to pee but it just wont come out. Hes really self concious about sex and he thinks hes not good.. what can he do to get me to squirt? Aslo i think i might be scared because of the feeling of peeing. what can i do to just let it come out? please help me.. any advice is helpfull! please and thank you.
well theres your problem. if you are tired, scared or tense at all you wont squirt. you have to be completly relaxed in order to squirt and if your scared and he doesnt think he is any good, then it wont happen. what you need to do is when you can tell he is beginning to shut down bec its not working keep supporting him and urging him forward and you just relax and allow your body to build up and then squirt. hope this helps
he fingers me right now and i feel all the fuild building up inside me i think i did once but ever since then i can't im kind of scared and i just wish i could but i think im thinking about it to much. is there a mood i should set or something my boyfriend can do to make me less scared. he says he wants to give me the feeling every women should feel.
just relax and trust your bf. once you relax then ewverything will be fine. enjoy the feeling. there is nothing in the world then for a girl to experience multiple orgasms but you have to relax to do so.
hi im 18 ive been with my girlfriend for 3 years and weve done it 100's of times well ive always seen girls squirting on porn or what ever but i want my girlfriend to squirt all over my dick and all over my face i think it would be hot but how would i teach her to squirt or at least help her learn? any help would be amazing pm me plz
every time my boyfriend fingers me, i keep feeling like i need to pee. at first it really scared me, because if i peed on him, it would be utterly mortifying. now i what it is. the thing is, i've never had an orgasm, is it a one or the other deal?
My girlfriend just recently taught herself to squirt after I showed her where her G-spot was. Such as big turn on to see someone being able to get themselves off like this.
Well just to update the actual information here we know exactly what the female g-spot is. This was proven by Doctor Haffman who work with Dr. Kegal.
The g-spot is the equivelant of the male prostate glad period.. no theory no mystry FACT.
The logic to this is easy.. woman have breats, well so do men, we just don't get them until later... A little humour there. The head of a clitoris is the undeveloped head of a penis, we could go on with lips extra but you get the picture. A woman has as much erectile tissue as a man just distributed differently. The testical started in the up position just like the overies but then dropped down. A man has a prostate glad, so what do a woman have?? Well she has one too and we refer to it as her g-spot. The knowledge is actually 6,000 years old, yes you got it 6,000 year ago. It comes from tantric India knowledge, the oldist civialed people in the world. it came out long before kumasutra.
If you want great sex life learn trantric sex.
There is also a spot in a owman that is more than twice the intensity of a g-spot or clitoral orgasm.
Some refer to as the uterine orgasm. it is what casues the totally body orgasm in a woman. It is amazing. I discovery that knowledge while working with a woman with a t12 complete spinal injury. She wanted to know if she could ever experience an orgasm again.. Well I did so research and found it was indeed possible. There is a nerve call teh vegas nerve, itis the largest nerve in your body and it does not travel throught the spine. It start at the brain and wraps around every glad and organ in your body right down to the cervix. So if you know how to stimulated it....OH Baby it will be the most amazing orgasm your partner will ever expereince.. well not quite. You see the clitoris is attached to a different nerve, the g-spot a different nerve again and now you have the vegas nerve so if you can master stimulating them all so that your partner could voer over the edge with all of the 3... then oh baby. Again this knowledge comes from Tantric sex.. Amazing!!
well where do we find the info on how to do it?
Me and my boyfriend wer fooling about n we started to have sex but then he was starting to finger me, the more he was doing it the more I was squirting it felt good but then when we wer finished the bed was like a swimming pool what could I put down so it doesn't soak the bed? I'm sick of using plenty of towels to try and dry it up. Now that he knows that I can do it and I no how to just let it go, he only needs to touch my g-spot and I'm squirting, is this normal?
Its normal this means your just sensitive and the only way for you to get used to it is to practice these techniques so u can last longer.
My husband and I want to make me squirt so bad. I can't wait till it happens. Any good suggestions ?
i think i do this when i masterbate.interesting
Today my girlfriend and I were in the bedroom, we started fooling around and i started fingering her. I was using a technique that is suggested for a G-spot orgasm, but this time to both of our surprise she squirted a little bit at first and i kept going and she did it again with greater volume... My question lies in the fact that even though she squirted she didn't show signs of orgasm. Is it possible for a female to squirt and not orgasm? I know that it wasn't pee because neither of us would do that but it confused me thats all. Any input? preferably female input...
Yes it's posable it happens to me when my boyfriend makes me squirt sometimes. You should try to get her really Horney and try it the more practise you get doing it on her the more shel feel relaxed and will orgasm swell Don't forget when she squirts she can feel it up to 30mins after. Goodluck.
I was masturbating a bit the other day and rubbing my g-spot when i felt like it had to pee. I kept rubbing and a few drops of clearish liquid came out. The more i pressed and rubbed, the more came out. It smelled slightly of urine but wasnt that yellow.. was i cum?
Yes I do that as well. Its female ejaculation, but sometimes mine differs. It smells of urine and is liquidy sometimes but other times it's clear and sticky.
there are plenty of places to learn how to make a woman squirt. porn star axel braun actually has perfected the art of female ejaculation. i would say visit his site for the best tips. http://www.axelbraun.net/
hope this helps
It isn't just G-spot stimulation that brings on ejaculations in females.
I myself am keeping myself 'bodily pure' so to say until I'm married, meaning that I am not doing any kind of insertion just yet. I want my husband to be the first to do that for me. However I do masterbate because
A. I have high hormones all the time (even on my period for some reason)
B. I want to know how I like being touched or kissed when we do get to that time and so far it's proven interesting.
Well at one point when I was like 14ish (I'm 18 now), I was pleasuring myself I felt something building up with the orgasm (Hormones were very high and I had a small 'helper' to help with the stimulation) and all of a sudden I started 'peeing' on my bed. I freaked out and thought that I just pissed my bed on the white sheets, but I noticed that it wasn't yellow like urine and didn't smell like it. It smelled a little like urine, but not enough to be called pee. So I washed the sheets and found out soon after that sometimes women can ejaculate as well.
So now sometimes because I don't want to ruin my bed again and my little helper is gone, I rub myself till orgasm, get up, go into the bathroom next door, and finish rubbing till I cum in the toilet. Problem solved, and double orgasm to boot.
So,that's what is called...I've been having female ejaculation all athis time...
So I ejacualate when I get an orgasm, it kinda feels like I'm peeing myself. But what happens is my body try to hold it in but then I explode. Is that normal???
Yes completely
Need help? Ask questions?
I definitely come alot and I can get really wet. I don't even feel it. i just feel like I want more or whatever he's doing to me. It's not like I'm squirting out/peeing but I just get really wet in between my legs and he says it's all me not him. And, I can def come without actually having an orgasm.
SO like if it feels like your about to pee then you arent or.. you are? This is so confusing.
I'm still unsure what my "cum" looks like. I'm a virgin and I'm seriously unsure about what it looks like or if I've ever ejaculated. I've pressed hard on my g-spot masturbating before and could feel something hit the back of my fingers, but there was also I time I felt extremely embarrassed from accidentally flashing people at school and there was a sticky, wet, goop-like substance sticking to my panties and stretching from my vagina when I went to the bathroom.
But there was a huge difference between the two times I thought I had ejaculated. One was just a little bit and white while the other was a lot and almost clear. How am I supposed to know what's what?
From my experiences with being with women who have ejaculated and not ejaculated(just plain had orgasms without ejaculating.The women who I have been with that has just only had orgasms(cum)without ejaculating,their cum was somewhat alittle milky like,like in if you had a glass of water and just put a drop of milk in it and The women who I have been with who have ejaculated(squirted)the fluid was clear and watery like and it was ALOT!that came out of them.
The wet sticky wet goop like substance that you mention that was stickingto your panties was your lubrant(wetness)that a girl or woman gets when they are sexual aroused.Some girls and women have less and some have more or lots more of it when they get that way.
Hope that helps you.
cum and ejaculation is 2 different things, cum si clear, ejactulation is white, just like male ejaculation is white, I've done a SERIOUS amount of research and experience!
The white substance is most likely discharge honey or con-gelled female lubricants. You'll know when you "cum" it's mind blowing! Just continue to explore yourself since it seems you don't know your body too well (congrats on finding your g-spot though, many women can't). Just find out what sends you over the top and work on it. I'd try some more clitoral stimulation and keep on your g-spot, never fails for me.
from my experiance lady jizz is clear (or at least looks clear) i remember reading something about the white stuff your talking about but i dont quite remember what it is.... something to do with the menstral cycle. i know this isnt much but it might help :)
Hmm it seems you know where your g- spot is if you want to know what cum looks like it varies. My gf just cummed the other night and it was liquid white and clear. Hope this helped
Isnt this the same as having a woman cum? (ejaculate)?
Well anyways, i gotta learn how to make my GF do it!
our last sex session lasted a goos 2hour and i held her in Doggystyle for a good 30 mins! making sure I hit that G-Spot to get her feeling real good!
But i think she's holding it back! I see her when she gets spasm's and seems like she wants to explode!! And then she runs outta the bed away from me :(
Talk to her then! Definitely tell her you'd want her to (However I find myself hold back a lot since it can be pretty messy and I tighten a ton before I cum so my boyfriend loves when I'll hold it but loves it more when it squirts). However it could mean she has a bladder problem when aroused but that's usually after children so if she'd had kids that could be it. Sex builds your pressure up in your bladder if your wall is too weak. Kegels could help this.
tell her u want it..or just hold her until she can't take it anymore
The few orgasms I have, mainly because of discharge I think preoblems, I ejaculate and it it much more full filling as in sexual release compared to simply contracting. Though it tires me and leaves a pulsing on the good days I don't think I've never urinated though, but I do it quiet often ,if I get an orgasm at all, is that normal? And it only happens if I use my electric tooth brush on just the right spot on my clit.
O.O So...I totally had NO clue that we females could do this until my b/f told me about it. And I still didn't believe HIM, so I came to this site...which has taught me quite a lot in the week that I've been on here.
Just tried about an hour ago...and did it...kinda freaked out at first, but awesome. Had an orgasm a little later...but still...i'm pretty amazed...I mean...holy shit, who the hell knew?
Now I just gotta tell the boyfriend >.<
is there a cretin technique or something, coz i really want to do it with my girlfriend but dont know how, any tips?
well, you need to know where your g/fs g-spot is first. there are tons of positions you can try that would help. they are all around this site. just go to the side bar thing and to where it says Orgasm, it'll re-direct you to another page where there is a list of ejaculation types: Female, Male, Female Orgasm etc. etc. Click the Female Ejaculation link and it should help a little.


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Last night I emailed the final draft of PANDEMIC to my publisher at Random House. The fiction-makin' phase of this book is officially over. After this, the next thing that comes back are the line edits; an editor does a line-by-line grammar and continuity check. I go through these marks and approve or decline them (mostly approve), then send the manuscript back. After that, I get the "page galleys," or 8.5x11 printouts that look exactly like what the hardcover page will look like. That's the last chance to fix things, then it's off to the printer. PANDEMIC is due out January 21, 2014. This is the final book in the INFECTED trilogy. A pre-order link is at right (of course there is, my job is to sell books, and that's an affiliate link so I can squeeze a few more cents out of each book, btw). Junkies, I am pooped! This was passing a major literary kidney stone. Trying a globe-spanning plot into the events of INFECTED and CONTAGIOUS took a ton of work. As usual, trying to use real biology for a tale like this was a major challenge that quickly spiraled well beyond my knowledge. Special thanks to Jeremy Ellis, Joe Albietz and Tom Merritt for help with all of that. But don't order yet, there's also the military consultants! The usual vets who double as Sigler Secret Agents: Chris Grall (ground forces), J.P. Harvey (aircraft) and Joe Root (submarines) put in a ton of time and helped more than I can express. This time we also had two new military consultants, Ted Arthur (Navy SEAL) and our own Scott Pond (surface ships). As always, I thank these fine gents for their service and sharing their time and knowledge with me. And don't forget Big John Vizcarra and ARealGirl herself, my biz partner A Kovacs. John put in a major effort to make PANDEMIC fit into the Siglerverse continuity. ARealGirl read the entire manuscript three times, I think, seeing it at many different phases. P.C. Haring, author extrordinaire, was our Chicago consultant. His read helped make the story's use of the Windy City as accurate as it could be. Another new member of the editing team was Joel Palmer, who shared with us his expertise on FEMA and how the United States reacts to disaster. Did I mention there was a disaster in PANDEMIC? There is. Surprise! And finally (I hope I'm not missing anyone), I thank Chris Otto, a guy I've known since high school. Chris spent his early adult years as a commercial diver. He gave me invaluable knowledge on how underwater demolition crews work and handle their day-to-day biz. Wow, look at that: nine people who took the time to read this book cover to cover (several more than once), and give me detailed notes on how to make the book better. Oh, wait, it's ten. Of course, my editor at Crown, Tha Shiv, read the entire thing four times. He's a trooper, that one. This was a hard book to do. Not as hard as NOCTURNAL, but the science evaded me. Trying to find "real" biology that would work with this heavily layered thriller plot was one of the trickiest jobs of my career. I can't thank Dr. Ellis and Dr. Albietz enough for tolerating the endless emails that usually started with "Now I've got it, would this work?" I'm pretty sure these guys came to dread looking at their in-box to see if I was pestering them yet again. So, if you enjoy PANDEMIC, you should be appreciative of the people listed above. I am humbled by the amount of work that people put in to help make this book as good as it can me. In other words, it's good to be the FDØ. And if you don't like PANDEMIC? That's on me. I've had more support for this book than any other I've written. From ARealGirl's management of my time and management of my "I suck as an author" funks to Tha Shiv's efforts to make this book commercial and not a science lecture to all of the consultants and readers, if this novel sucks it's no one's fault but mine. Eight months to go until y'all get to finish the epic trilogy of doom. |
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Ray Harryhausen passed away today. If you don't know that name, he was a filmmaker who pioneered the use of stop-action animation and made some of the greatest monster flicks ever seen. His SINBAD movies and JASON & THE ARGONAUTS inspired me to build Lego monsters and create my own stories at a very early age. And, of course, his CLASH OF THE TITANS from 1981 stands alone as a classic piece of special effects awesomeness.
I watched his movies over and over. As a kid who loved creatures and monsters, there was none higher than Harryhausen. Without a doubt, you wouldn't have seen the creatures of the INFECTED series without him, nor would you have probably seen the well-developed and truly alien species of the GFL series. He set my imagination aflame.
The first story I ever wrote, "Tentacles, Tentacles and More Tentacles," was, in my young mind, a Harryhausen monster begging to be brought to life.
It hits hard when heroes die. I raise a glass to one of the greatest entertainers of all time.
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Back in March, Scott visited Google in New York City to be part of the "Talks @ Google" series of author interviews.
Google NYC is awesome. Our host Jeffrey Kohl is awesome. It was a grand 'ol time, as Sigler would say.
The teaser for the talk:
"As traditional publishing models began to shift and change, Scott leveraged some new techniques and new technologies to successfully navigate the traditional system. As the whole system changes again with advancing tech and more direct-to-consumer outreach thanks to social media, the successful content creator (like Scott) must embrace new technologies and still understand the successes of the traditional methods, and use both."
It's a little less than an hour long, and Scott and Jeffrey talk all over the Siglerverse map, including the Junkies, the NOCTURNAL television show, the future of Dark Øverlord Media, and more! Enjoy!
Way back in the long-ago time of 2009, I did a keynote presentation at Balticon titled "The Future of Content Delivery." I covered a lot of ground in the burgeoning eBook/podcast/self-pub/freemium areas, including a breakdown of the pre-order system ARealGirl and I used to sell over 1,000 hardcover copies of THE ROOKIE in the first week, sans any help from publishers, media coverage, PR or advertising.
If you want to listen to the presentation, click here. You can skip past my bombastic intro and listen to just the presentation by forwarding to the 5:00 mark. It's got some naughty language, so be warned. It covers a lot of ground, some of which is still useful to aspring authors contemplating if they should pursue a traditional book deal or strike off on their own. I get to the eReader and eBook analysis at about 35:00.
A focus of that speech, however, was how eBooks offered a way for aspiring authors to reach the masses, and how cell phones were going to become the dominant consumption device for reading digital content. This was in the heyday of the Kindle 2 launch, when Amazon was really ramping up efforts to change the game. Change the game it did, sure, but at that time I was convinced that consumption on eBook-only devices would soon be dwarfed by people reading on smart phones and other smart devices. I predicted that while Kindle sales were huge, the numbers sold were statistically insignificant to the sales of smart phones, and that the day of the dedicated eBook readers would soon pass.
So let it be written, so let it be done! At least that's what app maker Flurry states in a recent study. I found this info through Junkie Gmork (Carmen Wellman), who saw it in this Activity Press article.
According to mobile app researcher Flurry, almost 90% of time spent reading eBooks, globally, is done using smartphones, not tablets, and not dedicated eReaders. Flurry's study beaks it down to small phones, large phones, "phablets" (my new favorite word), small tablets and large tablets.
So, Kindles, Nooks and Kobos are great. Tablets? Also great. Kindle Fire and Nook tablets? Even greater. But, still, the amount of eBooks read on all of the above pales in comparison to the amount read on smart phones.
People carry smart phones around with them 24/7. More and more of these people are discovering they can read eBooks on the devices they already use for dozens of other purposes, that they constantly have at their fingertips. Right this very moment, there are over 1 billion smart devices out there (phones and tablets). It means there is a huge, as-yet-untapped market for eBooks, where the reader doesn't need to buy anything new other than the book itself.
In other words: there are millions of potential customers who can enter the market at a price of "free" to about five bucks. People buy smart phones for many reasons, then later understand their fancy device gives them this cool eBook thing.
This is for a market segment (eBooks) where some experts say a 41% increase in annual eBook sales is a "growth slowdown."
But, does this massive increase in "digital consumption real estate" (I'll coin that phrase, thank you very much) mean anything for the indie writer? Absolutely. Blogger David Gaughran's analysis states that indie publishers have 30% of the top-selling Amazon eBooks. That is staggering to me. Sure, you can expect a few home-run hitters like Hugh Howey or Amanda Hocking, but for 30% of the top eBooks sold to be indie titles? Gaughran goes on to estimate that indie writers have captured 25% of all of Amazon's ebook sales. And Amazon? That's a big-ass store right there. A quarter of that is lot of sales.
This is just one study. I haven't done serious legwork to see if other studies support or contradict these findings, nor have I looked into the methodology (not that I am an expert in such matters, to say the least). This Publishers Weekly article only talks about dedicated eReaders and multi-use tablets: it doesn't mention phones at all. Which is weird.
A bummer, was kind of nice to see these stats and the fancy pictures I put together. But hell, this preso is four years old, which is equal to eight lifetimes in the tech world.
Are we going to see more indie eBook successes, or will Big Publishing catch up to what's going on and commandeer the market? Are you frightened that eBook sales improved "only" 41% from 2012? Will we get a second season of FIREFLY?
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Click here to download FridayFix New GFL T-shirts!There was voting, and ballot stuffing, and lots of awesome design suggestions, and some fine tuning tweaks, all leading up to the t-shirts now available for sale! First things first: last week when I posted the two "Keep Calm and Run the Plays that I Call" options, I neglected to credit Belladonna420 with the cool idea. An oversight on my part I'm correcting now — THANKS BELLA! As for the "Keep Calm" version voting, the black T won hands-down. We're going to stock that version in our store. However, I'm making the orange version available for special order for the next three weeks only, until May 17th. You want an orange one? Don't delay, order today! And the end result of all this work? New T-shirt designs now available in the store! We decided on four new teams: Isis Ice Storm, Buddha City Elite, Sheb Stalkers and Yall Criminals. (That's in addition to the Keep Calm Hokor tribute tee, because that's how we roll.) Here they are, all designed by Scott "Big Fish" Pond. Click on any image to order: |
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You may have heard that some peeps are trying to turn my novel NOCTURNAL into a series. Yesterday I finished the "series bible." From Wikipeida, a series bible is "a reference document used for information on a series' characters, settings, and other elements."
This bible outlines the first season, which is projected at twelve episodes. It contains a one-page write-up on each episode, character write-ups and other information that a showrunner would use to make the series a reality. It also contains the pilot script (which I consulted on but did not write, and is awesome), and hopefully some new art.
This is just the first complete draft of the document. The series writers and the producer are reviewing it now; there will be substantial edits in the future. So, while it's "finished," it will probably never be "done."
In effect, the bible for NOCTURNAL is primarily a sales tool. When the producer pitches networks, he can use the bible to show there is a clear vision for the show: characters, plot arcs, settings, background, etc. And not just for the first season, mind you, as we've mapped out the plots of seasons two through five. The bible is a way of saying to the potential buyers: "You're not just buying a log-line and a partial script, we've done the work to make sure you're going to have a cohesive, consistent product that has a logical and satisfying season finale." Considering how expensive it will be to shoot this series, network execs are going to want to see that there is a clear vision.
In that way, a NOCTURNAL series is much closer to DEXTER than, say, LOST. Meaning, we know exactly how the last episode will tie up all the plot threads before a single frame of the first episode is ever shot. At this point, at least, we know exactly where the story is going and the main points that will be in each episode. There are significant differences from the book; those differences are also mapped out in the bible.
Hoo-boy, this was a lot of work. It's 47 pages long. It happened to hit right when I was writing PANDEMIC, was doing a short story for a Charlaine Harris-edited anthology (she wrote the Sookie Stackhouse novels upon which TRUE BLOOD is based), another short story for an anthology edited by Daniel H. Wilson (author of ROBOPOCALYPSE), audiobook recording for BONES ARE WHITE, moving to a new office, and a bunch of other cats that ARealGirl is trying to keep in a tidy herd.
This is my second series bible. I wrote my first back in 2005 for EARTHCORE. Yes, that's right, I wrote a full single-season bible for a 22-episodes adaptation of my first book. I called it up just now to look at it for the purposes of writing this post. Last modified date: 12-21-05. Holy shit. It's been a decade since I wrote it. Looking at it now, I think it's pretty bad-ass. It's probably a good thing to have in the back pocket on the off chance that NOCTURNAL gets made, and on the off-er chance the series does well.
I gave the EARTHCORE series bible to my last three film agents. They all said they wanted it, I don't think a single one of them read it. That's a good lesson to learn: get your content to the movers and shakers that ask for it, absolutely, but temper your expectations: 99.9% of the time, not a damn thing is going to actually happen. But, you keep firing away for that .1% of the time when something might happen.
Will something happen with NOCTURNAL? There's no way of knowing. The series bible brings us one step closer. We've got a great team, I think we've got a great product, and it seems that we're pitching it at an appropriate time in the entertainment world. There is a lot of scifi and paranormal fantasy out there right now, and a lot of it is doing well. So, that part helps. Only "helps," though, because this all comes down to the basics: will it be a compelling drama on television, and will a network look at it and think "hey, people will love this and we will turn a profit."
It's a business, folks. Let's hope NOCTURNAL makes business sense to the people who can write checks.
All right, Junkies, it's time to vote! After the debacle that was the last T-shirt contest, we've decided that all future votes (this one included) must be done in the comments, and by people that have a user profile. So if you haven't signed in already, do so (or create a profile), and put in your vote.
In your comment, put "I vote black!" or "I vote orange!"
There are no options but these, so while we appreciate comments like "how about crushed-velvet tie-dye with silver sprinkles," we will be ignoring any such suggestions. These shirt designs were created by in-house artist Scott "BigFish" Pond.
EDITED TO ADD: I feel terrible that I didn't mention this originally, but the idea for these shirts came from our own Belladonna420. She made a cool graphic for her Facebook page, and we totally stole it. And then I *really* stole it by not mentioning her in this post! Anyhow, I'm sorry for the oversight. THANKS BELLA!
Also based on our last experience, we reserve the right to choose ourselves if this thing goes off the rails. I don't know how it would, or could, with voting in the comments, but you clever people always surprise me.
Have at it Junkies!
UPDATE on April 20th:
Okay, it looks like black wins the day here. But, since I love you people, here's what we're going to do: If you mustmustmust have an orange tee, I'll be doing a pre-order-only run on those. That means that next week I'll put up the item for sale, leave it up for a few weeks, then order whatever tees have been purchased after the few weeks are up.
You'll have to wait longer than normal to get your tee (the few weeks of the pre-order, then the two weeks to get them delivered plus a few days for me to send them to you) but you'll have a limited edition orange KEEP CALM and RUN THE PLAYS THAT I CALL tee of your very own.
Keep your eyes on this site, pre-order will open next week when we put up the new tees up for sale.
This April, ARealGirl and I have been doing a lot of back-end (awww yeah) work that y'all don't see. We've called this "Get Shit Done Month." We're cleaning up delayed projects and getting squared away for creating brand-new fiction (and if you ask about MT. FITZROY, I will fart in your general direction).
One of the projects has been addressing the overwhelming demands of our website and social media. We've revised our social media activities over the past eight years, but as time marches on and things change you have to be flexible and adjust. Since many of you are creators, authors, or just curious about how such things work, I thought I'd share what we're doing on the social tubes.
This website is its own social media presence: we've got registered users and an active community. The site has gone through many changes since 2005. We started out with a simple site with five static pages, then a Drupal site created by Pulsar and Robbie Trencheny, then moved to a custom site created by BackMyBook.com. We've grown beyond what BackMyBook can do for the front-end part, so we're moving to a custom WordPress site. We're still using BackMyBook's eCommerce suite, though, because it's a great solution for us.
One of the biggest issues is spam. We're getting hammered. We hope the open-source community of WordPress and the community spam-killing tools will help reduce the amount of hours we put into manually controlling that digital cancer.
So, in the next few months look for more changes here. We're going to improve the layout and, hopefully, make all of our functionality work like a charm.
When I started using Facebook in 2005-ish, it was primarily to promote my books and interact with the Junkies. Yes, I had a bunch of personal friends on there, but I do not have 5,000+ personal friends. A few years back, I reached Facebook's 5k friend limit and couldn't add anymore friends. So, we made a "fan page." That worked well for years, but it always annoyed me that I had to post the same content in two places: first to my personal page to share with the fans who had followed me there, then on the fan page to share with everyone else.
The second problem was the URL. I made my personal page facebook.com/scottsigler years ago, as soon as that option came available. But, I wanted the fan page to have that address, and I could not because it was already used. So the fan page was /scottsiglerpage, which I hated. I wanted facebook.com/scottsigler so I'd have one easy place to send new fans, where they could follow (which they could not on the maxed-out 5k+ personal page).
Earlier this year, peeps at my publisher, Crown, were able to chat directly with Facebook and ask them to combine the two pages. Presto-change-o, we merged the two pages and I got to put the /scottsigler on the fan page. Problem solved, suckas!
There's still an issue that my personal page has 5k+ followers. The duplicates were supposed to be purged out in the merge, but that part didn't work and Facebook couldn't fix it. I'll work on that later in the month, possibly even shut down my personal page and make a brand new one. I don't want to miss what Junkies are saying to me because I don't use the personal page.
So, can do you, author or creator, learn from my experience with Facebook?
Make a fan page. Make that page's URL end in your brand. DO NOT MAKE IT THE NAME OF YOUR BOOK OR ALBUM OR PRODUCT! You are going to make more stuff after that product. Make your Facebook page end in /yourname, where "your name" is the name that will go on the cover of future products.
Twitter is a great tool for creatives. It's a solid way to stay in front of some of your core fans, or to disseminate info about new product releases, news coverage, etc. The most important function, however, is the same function it serves for most users: a way to share your thoughts and what's going on in your life.
There are hundreds of "Top Ten Secrets to Using Twitter To Make Bank" posts out there, so I'm not going to get into any of that. I'll tell you what I'm doing with it lately.
Once upon a time, circa 2005-2008 or so, if someone followed me on Twitter, I followed them back. I tried the "auto-follow" approach, with a canned message that would say "Nice to Tweet you!" It was fun for awhile, but around 2008 or so I realized I was following a lot of spam accounts. I turned off the auto-follow and have been purging ever since. When I started this purge, I was following about 12,000 accounts, many of which were inactive and/or spam. Ugh. That's a freakin' mess and it's taken awhile to clean it up.
The Great Unfollow of 2013
Right now I'm using justunfollow.com's free service to manage this. You can purge about 25 users a day from your lists for free, or upgrade to a paid service and nuke 'em all from orbit (just to be sure).
• Unfollow those that aren't following me: I'm doing quite a bit of this. I still follow 6,000+ people, so there's a ton of action in my Twitter feed. But, if someone has soured on my constant tweets about poop, pee, Twinkies and the Detroit Lions, and has unfollowed me, I'm probably going to unfollow them. Twiter is about finding like-minded people, and/or following persons of interest. If we're not like-minded, I have enough going in without seeing your tweets.
• Inactive accounts: Because I am still following so many people, this is another way to reduce the number of people I am following. If you've been inactive for three months, I probably already unfollowed you. It's nothing personal, it's just business ...
• People with political views I do not agree with: That does not get you unfollowed. I'm an atheist, but if people I follow like to tweet about their love for God and Christianity that's not a reason for me to unfollow. I'm also pretty moderate, which means the one-sided myopic views of the ultra-left or ultra-right often rub me the wrong way. Still, I usually don't unfollow unless the user (from either side) is spewing illogical hatred on a regular basis. I encourage and embrace differeing opinions, but life is too short for people who are too far gone to consider the other's sides viewpoint.
• BUT: Douchebags, assholes and fuck-tards: Yes, if you are an unmitigated ass-hat, I aint got time for that. Straight-up hatred, mysoginy, racism or wishes/promises of violence make for an easy unfollow.
As an author, I used to get caught up in the "higher Twitter numbers are good I MUST GET MORE!" mentality. As a rule of thumb, the higher your numbers, the better, but if you don't have hundreds of thousands of followers it's not a problem. It won't hurt your sales. And having 100,000+ probably won't increase your sales all that much: people get hundreds of thousands of followers because they sell hundreds of thousands of books ... people don't sell hundreds of thousands of books because they have hundreds of thousands of followers. Get me? Below are a few guidelines on how to not get angsty about your "poor" Twitter showing:
How to spot the fakers, and use them to learn that big numbers don't result in big sales:
• Are they adding a consistent number of people every day? Go to twittercounter.com and check it out. If they add, say, 36 followers every day for two weeks straight, that means they probably paid for a service that added followers for them. There's nothing wrong with that practice, but it's good to know so you don't get angsty that you're doing something "wrong" because you're comparing your following to theirs.
• They have 200,000 followers, and are following 199,500: If the following/follower numbers are very close, and very high, it's probably because they are auto-soliciting other Twitter users that have the primary goal of just growing numbers. You follow me, I follow you. That doesn't help sell books. It's a fun game, sure, but if you see people with these kind of numbers don't spend a lot of time worrying about how they market their products.
• Sometimes that author you've never heard of has a huge following because they are legit. It's true! There are a lot of authors who are kicking ass, and they don't require your awareness to be successful. They sell a ton of books and have a ton of followers. These are good people to follow and watch. How do they interact on Twitter? How are they marketing? There are people out there who did it naturally from whom you can learn a great deal.
• I've never heard of this woman: how can she have 250,000 followers? If an author you've never heard of has 200,000+ followers, odds are they are using a service for that (or they've been tapped as "recommended" by the Twitter staff), and also that they are very much full of shit. That's not everyone with big numbers, mind you, but Twitter is easy to game and if you want to shell out some bucks and/or auto-follow people whose only goal is to get more followers. So if you see an unknown author (at least unknown to you) with giant-ass numbers, and you want to know if you're missing out on someone who could have great business practices to emulate, check out http://fakers.statuspeople.com/. Sometimes it's easy to see that that user is implementing a "bot follower" service.
Here's an example. I often look up authors with high numbers of Twitter followers and follow them, looking to see what I'm missing, what kind of different things I can do to find new fans, etc. I found the user in the image below who has 386,000+ followers. Wow, right? Then I checked on StatusPeople to see if those followers were legit. The image below shows that I probably don't need to be watching this person at all:
I love G+. I think it's an excellent way to interact and share. We're not doing much here other than just sharing the same things I share on Facebook and Twitter; we just don't have time to exploit any unique features.
If you're a creator, you need to be on G+. It reminds me very much of Facebook back in Facebook's early days: it didn't do all that much, but there was this feeling that it was going to topple the 800-pound gorilla known as MySpace. G+ isn't going anywhere. It will continue to develop, so get your page up and get in the habbit of using it to share with people who prefer that service.
There's a few more things we're doing, but those are the primary areas with which we spend time. And come May, Junkies, I could give a crap about all of that stuff, because it will be time to write new stuff! If you're a creator, your real fan base comes from creating things, so don't get too caught up in the Social Webs.
Click here to download THE MVP Episode #27With Quentin at quarterback, the Krakens have never beat the Coranadillan Cloud Killers, led by their dominant defensive end Jesper Schultz. Will this be the year for Ionath? It's a must-win game if the Krakens are to stay in the playoff hunt. Off the field, a game-changing personal event forces Quentin to re-evaluate his life decisions. PROMO IN THIS EPISODE: Levithan Chronicles, Season II Director's Cut SPONSOR OF THIS EPISODE: Our GoDaddy coupon code page |
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PANDEMIC's publishing date has been pushed back, Junkies: the new release date is Jan. 21, 2014. This is the third and final book in the INFECTED trilogy.
On the third draft of PANDEMIC, I found some issues that weren't up to the quality of plot/science/logic that you as a reader have come to expect — those things had to be fixed. I want this book out as bad as you do, but I'm not going to deliver a sub-par story and expect you to pay your hard-earned money for it.
Your time is irreplaceable: I will always treat it with respect and appreciate the fact that you spend it with my stories. This is a deadline-driven business. We have to release books to put food on the table. I can't spend ten years re-writing to get everything just-so, but the final product still has to be as good as I can make it.
I hope PANDEMIC will be worth the additional three months' wait.
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Click here to download THE MVP Episode #26Quentin and the Krakens return to Sklorno Dynasty space, where the Touchback was once hammered by pirates and sentients died. Will Quentin be thrown into another space battle, or will he and his teammates reach Alimum untouched for a showdown with the Armada? PROMO IN THIS EPISODE: Podioracket Glimpses SPONSOR OF THIS EPISODE: Petco.com |
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Well, that was awesome. Honestly awesome.
Hello from the Director of Døøm. On April 1, we sold 1,301 books — in 24 hours. That's 797 copies of THE ROOKIE and 504 copies of THE STARTER in paperback. That's a lot of books, in case you were wondering.
We're very happy that so many peeps stocked up on copies of these books for their local libraries, their kids' schools, and for their not-yet-Junkie friends and family members. It's wonderful to know that folks enjoy the Galactic Football League series so much that they jumped at the chance to share it. It's humbling and inspiring and cool as all get-out.
I'll be honest, it was also a bit of a surprise; we estimated we'd sell about 400-500 books. Selling more than twice that many changes the game in the best way, but still changes the game. We had to order the additional forty cases of books from our distributor. I placed an order for additional mailers today. It's the best kind of surprise for a company that works everyday to delight our customers.
Due to the huge success of the Ascension Day sale, the timeline for shipping out all orders will probably stretch through April. We've got lots of help at Dark Øverlord South for when all the supplies finally arrive, and we'll move 'em out as fast as we can.
If you ordered, I appreciate your patience while we process these orders and get them sent.
As always, Scott and I thank you for your support. We couldn't do it without you, and wouldn't want it any other way.
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It was April 1, 2007 that the FDØ kicked the publishing industry square in the ding-ding. That's the day that ANCESTOR went on sale, a trade paperback from a wee little publisher in Canada. The book hit #1 on Amazon.com's Horror and SciFi charts, and was the #2 fiction book overall (behind a HARRY POTTER book, fer cryin' out loud).
This was before eBooks, mind you. We accomplished this with a $15 paperback, not a free or .99 cent ebook, and for that fear we are quite proud.
Henceforth, April 1 is and always will be Sigler Ascension Day! So on Monday, April 1, we're havin' us a big Ascension Day sale. Just come to scottsigler.com on Monday, April 1, 2013. The sale runs the twenty-four hours of that day, on Pacific Time. We'll plaster this up on the front page.
Are we crazy? YES WE ARE! Monday, April 1, 2013 only, we're selling THE ROOKIE paperbacks for just 41 cents each, plus shipping.
But wait! Don't order yet!
We're also selling THE ROOKIE and THE STARTER paperback combo for just $4.10 plus shipping.
And for both offers, unlimited copies! What? Did I just say that? I must be innnnn-sannneee!
That's right, unlimited copies. Shipping depends on quantity ordered and on your location. You'll get the shipping price when you order on Monday, April 1, 2013.
We'll be using PayPal, which means you can use your account there or just a straight-up credit card. PayPal helps us dial in cheaper shipping costs for multiple copies, if you're so inclined to order them.
That's right, fill it all up. Why not deck out that bookshelf with paperback glory?
Gift-giving season isn't far away, and neither are birthdays. No one has to know you paid so little for these great books. It's our secret!
At these prices, a few dollars of your disposable income means great books for the kids in your area. Think of it, Junkie — for a few lousy bucks, you're helping kids discover reading. And for just $50-ish, you could give ten sets of the GFL Books I & II to your local library sytem.
Face it, there are some kids that don't want to read Shakespeare or Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance for their school reports. That doesn't mean the kids are dumb, it just means they have different interests. Why not give some lads and lasses the opportunity to grab these great paperbacks from their school library? They have a book they can fall in love with, and hence, discover the joy of reading. And you spread Siglerism!


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The newest trooper at the Portsmouth Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is no stranger to area roadways.
"I'm originally from Portsmouth, I went to (Portsmouth) West," Trooper Michael Keating said. "My parents are Steve and Becky Keating."
Keating said he underwent 24 weeks of training at the Ohio Highway Patrol Academy in Columbus, beginning in September of 2011.
"It was very intense paramilitary type training," Keating said. "I was never in the military, but some of the guys who were in the academy with me that were military, said it's like being in boot camp, but with just a lot more classwork. They emphasize physical fitness. You start your day very early, about 5:30, do physical fitness, then go to class. You do details and things like that. There are core values they try to engrain into your using every day. But most of which, those values, are something that you already have, like honesty and things like that, in addition to attention to detail and adaptability."
Keating said, while training is difficult, it is also rewarding if you want to be there and do that job. He said the training is difficult and fun at the same time. He graduated on Feb. 24 of this year and began training with veteran trooper Nate Lawson. After a 60-day training period, Keating went out on his own.
"It was relatively easy (training Keating) really," Lawson said. "The academy did a good job of teaching him what he needed to know. That's basic training. When you get out in the field, it's different. But they put down a really good foundation. He's smart and intelligent and aggressive, so it was relatively easy to teach him how to take care of business out on the road."
Lawson has been with the OSHP since 2001, and while there is now more of an emphasis on making drug and other felony arrests, he has not seen the Patrol mission change over those years.
"I would say our mission has not changed. Our mission is still the same," Lawson said. "Enforce the law; dedicate, motivate, out there as far as saving people's lives, and make a difference out there on the highway for Ohio drivers. People across the nation are coming through. Safety for them is paramount. We have modified our work ethic a little bit, due to the higher volume, but the drugs have always been out there. It just has increased."
Keating said troopers are trained to look for criminal indicators when they pull drivers over for traffic violations.
"You look for anything and everything," Keating said. "You know when something's not right. It's pretty evident. You've just got to pay attention to detail. That's one of the core values they instill in us up at the academy. You look beyond the traffic stop. If something doesn't seem right it is more than likely not right."
Both Keating and Lawson talked about their pride in the uniform they wear each day, and the distinctive hat that tells the public they are members of the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
"We've got a semi-military structure," Lawson said. "Most of our troopers are self-motivated. They don't have to be told to do anything. They do it. We're not exactly responders. We're active in going out and achieving. At the Portsmouth Post it's stirring it up, making it happen before it happens."
Keating said he would recommend the OSHP as a career for people wanting to get into the law enforcement field.
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New Flickr: has Yahoo lost its mind?
Gary Marshall Flickr used to be simple: basic accounts were free, and Pro ones were $25ish per year. Now Yahoo!'s chasing ads and that means no more pros and some crazy pricing.
Gary Marshall Flickr used to be simple: basic accounts were free, and Pro ones were $25ish per year. Now Yahoo!'s chasing ads and that means no more pros and some crazy pricing.
Tapered ends, Xenon flash and a new camera app called Nokia Pro Camera? The EOS could pack a host of new features, too.
In Depth Wondering why action cams are popping up in cars, attached to helmets, on bikes – basically stuck to everything? To find out, we spent a week living with the GoPro Hero3.
Flagship 1 Nikkor lens adds large-aperture portrait photography to the Nikon 1 system.
June release confirmed for Canon's EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM Extender 1.4x.
In depth Forget 3D - Ultra HD is the next thing in TV and film, and it's going to make you want to buy a new TV.
Olympus has introduced a new PEN camera to sit at the top of the lineup, featuring a raft of interesting new features and the OM-D sensor.
The release of the Mac upload tool brings the full complement of three upload options on Canon's Project 1709 platform to Apple users.
Competition TechRadar has teamed up with Samsung to celebrate the launch of their Connected Home at Grand Designs Live 2013 and you can win one of four fiercely sought-after prizes.
Buying Guide From professional RAW tools to simple library management, Linux has come a long way, baby. Adam Oxford investigates.
Pelican Imaging is talking to at least one smartphone maker and will bring its unique camera tech to handsets in 2014.
Instagram has added a new way to tag people and things in your photos, such as friends, family and shops.
Adobe shows off a demo its the powerful Lightroom photo editing software running on an iPad today.
Blip 'Insect eye' camera measures in at 1cm
Samsung has launched its latest CSC, the NX2000, which features a 20.3 million pixel APS-C sized sensor.
Updated There are hundreds of compact cameras out there, waiting for you to ogle and eventually buy one of them. So which one will win you over?
Updated Here on this continually updated Nikon rumours page, you'll find the latest hot gossip, information and rumoured specs on what camera is likely to be announced.
Buying Guide What's the best portrait lens you can buy for a sensible price? Here are eight of the best affordable wide-aperture, fixed-length lenses.
In Depth We visited Sony Pictures in Los Angeles to discover just how seriously Sony takes its mission to convert the world to 4K.
Aimed at more advanced photographers as well as those attracted by the high zoom ratio, the camera features manual options.
Panasonic has updated its 14-140mm (28-280mm equivalent) travel lens for its range of G series cameras.
Panasonic has unveiled a new premium compact camera featuring a fixed, zoom lens, EVF and 12 million-pixel sensor.
Panasonic has introduced its latest compact system camera. Sitting in the enthusiast range, the G6 features Wi-Fi and NFC.
The Android app for Google Glass features coding for a wink-based camera, making sure you'll never blink and miss it again.
Rumours suggest that Fuji will be releasing another camera to sit in its X range of interchangeable lens models, this time aimed at beginners.


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FaLiThi Spiritual & Energy Healing had been contacted by KARE 11 News to collaborate and begin a local campaign of the holistic healing business. This will be a very new way of letting others know about PaLiChi's Psychic Shaman healing modalities. There will soon be a release of the campaign on the KARE 11 Website about her Shamanic healing services and modalities for all who seek alternative therapy.
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FaLiThi Spiritual & Energy Healing located in Brooklyn Center, MN had been requested by KARE 11 News recently to collaborate locally and start a campaign that will help the growth of it's holistic healing business.
"This is a very modern way, for my line of work that I will use to show what I can offer, as a healer, to others within my local community." As PaLiChi, the owner, states. This will be different from a way older Shamans and the Hmong community are used to seeing, yet a new way to make available ancient healing in a modern society. As she mentions, "We must turn with the world and awake to new ways along with utilization of our ancient ways if we want to be part of the movement forward." The campaign will run starting this week. You can view it on Youtube as well.
In the olden days, villages were small and everyone knew each other somehow or someway and would call upon the Shaman for any and all healing needs. Nowadays, times and values of family and love have changed. Therefore, the "Modern Shaman" as she calls herself, "needs to use technology in a wise way to reach an audience too, especially if that is your soul purpose to use your natural gifts of healing to help others and make a living at the same time." This work that she does is greatly humble and brings appreciative value to many and already has too her local, national, and international clients who have experienced healing from her. A client comments on her healing that, "Chee is very good at what she does. If you need help seeing the future or to be spiritually centered Chee is the best person to go to. She has told me things that have come true and helped to guide me in my future. I would highly recommend her and have to other friends."
A short 10 minute phone consultation with her would allow you to know what she senses about your situation and help to determine which healing modality will help you best in your initial healing session with her.. FaLiThi Spiritual & Energy Healing helps to guide any person who seeks an alternative therapy to healing and with this movement to utilization of technology is only a small step for such ancient ways.
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