Author Archives: Chris Hambleton

Contests are the latest feature at BookBlitzer.com, which enable authors to quickly create and manage a variety of contests. The basic components of a contest are the purpose of the contest (such as to grow your newletter distribution, twitter-followers, book … Continue reading →

Now available on a Kindle/iPad near you! The Last Aliyah (Book 1 of “The Time of Jacob’s Trouble”) I’m proud to announce that my latest book “The Last Aliyah” is now available on Amazon and at Barnes & Noble! As … Continue reading →

Most of today has been spent publishing several of my books to the various eBook sites, namely Amazon, Smashwords, and BN’s Nook. This entry has two purposes:  to save others some of the headaches/time expended on this venture, and so … Continue reading →

BookBlitzer.com is a new website/service I’ve created for writers wanting to have their books read by a wide audience, and for book-readers looking to earn extra income by writing book reviews. Books sales on popular distribution sites such as Amazon.com … Continue reading →

Ok, I had my first experience with “writing the end first” yesterday — and it turned out pretty well. I’ve been stuck for the last week or two on how to wrap up the current book I’m working on (“The … Continue reading →

Whew! The book-writing software I’ve been working on — iWriterPro — is finally finished! OK, at least the first release is finished. In Software-Land, nothing is ever “finished” — there’s always “one more bug…” (or one more feature). It’s been … Continue reading →

The writing software I’ve been developing the last year (off and on) is now available — it’s called “iWriterPro” and is available for beta use at http://www.iwriterpro.com I finished most of it up about two months ago and have worked … Continue reading →

Whoa – looks like I took a long hiatus from blogging, since it’s now been over six months! All the entries older than this one were imported from Blogger.com. They were ok, but I don’t agree with some of Google’s … Continue reading →

A Japanese snowplow that “eats” snow and “poops” snow/ice bricks! This could come in very handy in my cul-de-sac, which always seems to get snowed in after the bigger snow storms. ———— What’s cute, yellow, eats snow and poops out … Continue reading →

I’ve been playing around with LINQ and WPF for a few months now, and have found it interesting that more companies (and recruiters) are not looking for people with WPF experience. Maybe it just hasn’t taken off yet (even though … Continue reading →