tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68450314331717607022024-03-05T16:25:17.664-08:00Francine Saint MarieThe official website of author Francine Saint MarieUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6845031433171760702.post-4903570885429511702014-10-29T05:46:00.001-07:002014-10-29T05:46:31.045-07:00Epic Ellen and Portia Fight: 'NOT'<div style="text-align: justify;">
According to <b>Ellen and Portia</b> they aren't like most other couples on the planet. Not just because they're queer, of course, but because they don't have arguments, epic or otherwise. </div>
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And the reason they don't is very simple: <i>They're</i> "happily married," <b>Ellen DeGeneres</b> is claiming, amid a hailstorm of allegations the high profile lesbian duo is anything but content. </div>
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In fact, organizers of a recent animal-charity fundraiser the ladies were billed to host are now reporting the twosome waylaid themselves en route to the gala event so they could ... um ... "fight."</div>
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Incredibly, this spur-of-the-moment disagreement was said to be so "epic" that Ellen and Portia had to scrap attending altogether, although DeGeneres now insists they weren't even scheduled to be at their favorite charity's fundraiser that night, let alone jointly hosting it. </div>
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Her attorney Marty Singer went further: “The story is a complete lie," he stated. "My
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6845031433171760702.post-14270051119049166042013-05-21T11:40:00.000-07:002013-05-21T12:10:00.994-07:00Kaitlyn Hunt vs. The State of Florida<div style="text-align: center;">
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Amidst growing controversy in the wrongful arrest of <strong>Kaitlyn Hunt</strong>, 18, for her same sex love affair with a fellow student, 15, Florida's state attorney general stubbornly insists he "will not drop charges."</div>
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Ms. Hunt's long term romance with the younger girl -- an advanced placement student -- enraged the minor's homophobic parents, so they maliciously waited until her eighteenth birthday to file a criminal complaint alleging <strong>statutory rape</strong>. </div>
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Biased prosecutors had been hoping to quietly persecute Kaitlyn Hunt and add the <strong>LGBT</strong> teen's name to the national sex offender registry, thereby ruining her life forever. But her parents reached out through Facebook this week and even created a <strong>Change.org petition</strong> to stop the abuse of their lesbian daughter and her lover.</div>
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Florida's <strong><a href="http://definitions.uslegal.com/r/romeo-and-juliet-law/" target="_blank">Romeo and Juliet Statute</a></strong> was enacted in 2007 to protect young people like Hunt who engage in premarital relations from being mistreated by the law and mischaracterized as sex offenders, though an exception is clearly being made because of Hunt's sexuality. </div>
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In a month that has seen the shooting death of a gay man in the heart of New York City's famed Village district, and a nationwide escalation of similar hate crimes toward the homosexual community, the idea of state sanctioned harassment of gays and lesbians is quite onerous.</div>
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This case, one of the ugliest to emerge from Florida since butterfly ballots and Anita Bryant, needs as much attention as possible. A large public outcry will aid in preventing further harm to these two brave young ladies by unabashed bigots and deter those same authorities from discriminating in the future as well. </div>
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Whatever your own sexual <a href="http://francinesaintmarie.blogspot.com/p/coming.html" target="_blank">persuasion</a> is then, it doesn't matter, intolerance cannot be tolerated by a free people. So please take a moment to show some support for Kate in this battle. She and her parents are frightened, of course, and worried sick about a future that had once seemed so promising.</div>
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Visit the <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/FreeKate/members/" target="_blank">Free Kate</a></strong> page and join the fast growing group of supporters there, and also consider joining the 100,000+ citizens who've already signed the Hunt family's <a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/assistant-state-attorney-brian-workman-stop-the-prosecution-of-an-18-year-old-girl-in-a-same-sex-relationship?utm_campaign=friend_inviter_chat&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition&utm_term=permissions_dialog_false" target="_blank">petition</a> to free their daughter from such shocking injustice. </div>
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'First, apologies to those looking for digital copies of THE SECRET KEEPING, FORTUNE IS A WOMAN, and THE STOLEN KISS in the kindle store now. Yes, they've been there for years and years, but Amazon has developed yet another *issue* with these titles. This time because I demanded payment for 5100 eBook units they gave away <u>without paying me a single dime</u>. </div>
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In any event, with the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Amazon+Nazis#hl=en&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&q=Amazon+hires+neo-Nazis&oq=Amazon+hires+neo-Nazis&gs_l=serp.12...10174.12580.1.14288.10.10.0.0.0.4.1367.4186.6-2j2.4.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.3.serp.7C1r4C2bxzc&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&fp=4886a6e8aba534a1&biw=1371&bih=640" target="_blank"><strong>scandalous news</strong></a> today that Amazon Inc's fuhrer, Jeff Bezos, employs Nazis in various managerial roles throughout his Amazon empire, I've got to say, based on my own years of experience with this truly cold-blooded corporation of his, it really doesn't surprise me one bit.</div>
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From censorship of my work, e.g. rigging my kindle titles so they wouldn't register sales ranks allegedly because their LGBT subject matter is "smut", to de-ranking my paperback editions so they too wouldn't show up in customer search results, stripping them of tags, pirating them, etc., etc., etc., all I can say about today's revelations is that it's clear now the only thing this company isn't guilty of is goosestepping.</div>
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Most people consider the number thirteen unlucky. It's not usually for me but, regardless, I think whether lucky or not most everyone's going to feel the pain this year from major publishing upheavals, particularly with respect to eBook publishing and distribution.</div>
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And by that, I don't only mean self publishers either -- all major players will stumble in 2013, as digital and print sales continue to decline and as digital eReading devices themselves begin to lose their appeal. The list of doom will include the likes of Amazon with their 'Kindle', Smashwords (who didn't even have the good sense to make an eReader) and Barnes and Noble with their stylish 'Nook' ensemble.</div>
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As an author who's own work has been both traditionally published and independently produced, I've seen up close the fast pace of change the publishing industry has made in only a matter of years. Unfortunately, not all of it good...or very promising. </div>
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The good of course is that, with the availability of so many self pubbing platforms these days, an author's career is now more solidly in their own hands. Because of that, new writers no longer have to wait around praying, perhaps forever, to be *blessed* by the big guys. They don't need the big six (or is it five now) to put their masterpieces onto store shelves. </div>
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One of the most significant obstacles to emerge in the world of eBooks which is negatively impacting every author now is all the free downloads currently glutting the marketplace. Something originally encouraged by startups like Smashwords, but accelerated of late by Amazon with their recent and exclusive KOLL program for self publishers.</div>
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In one way or another I've been in merchandising my entire adult life, from working with major corporate clients like Bloomingdale's and Merrill Lynch, to regional chainstores and small specialty boutiques. So I know firsthand that offering huge discounts or even free products has generally been a beneficial ploy many business have relied on to promote their product lines or services. </div>
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But the trick there is that cheap or free was only ever used sparingly and for only very limited periods of time. Now go log onto any major eBook retail site today and you'll see 'sparingly' has become a thing of the past. In fact, prices overall have not only plummeted for digital downloads, freebies dominate these outlets and on most venues are even being charted as *bestsellers*.</div>
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So what? Well, essentially, this troubling trend has created a vast readership of <em>non-customer</em>s. People these days who are purchasing an eReading device are doing so solely because they think, and rightly so it would seem, that it's a one-off investment for them. That they'll never have to buy another book again. For those with this mindset, even if a book they want is not legitimately free, they'll go to a filesharing site to get it anway. So determined are they that an author not get a single penny from them, that they're willing to face five years in prison and a hefty fine for infringement.</div>
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That overinflated sense of entitlement is very bad news for those of us who pay our rent and utility bills with the modest royalties we earn from the actual SALE of our copyrighted content, and yet another reason to reconsider giving away our books voluntarily. </div>
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Pirated or freely promoted, free eBooks has been a boon of course for manufacturers of eReaders, which is why they have gone overboard in enticing newcomers to offer their hard-work for nothing. Yet they too are seeing a sharp leveling off of demand the past two seasons, partly because people no longer need much more than a phone or a computer screen to download and read digital books anymore. </div>
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A saturated eReader market is a problem bound to be further exascerbated in the coming years as the going price of eReader devices in general steadily falls. Indeed, one doesn't need a crystal ball to foretell that someday soon, as is already the case with cellphones, eReaders including Nook and Kindle will also be so affordable as to be considered *disposable* by consumers.</div>
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Probably the first publishing platform to push free downloads as "an effective marketing tool" was Smashwords. Launched by self-publisher Mark Coker only five or six years ago, this eReader-less publishing company is still in its grace period for writing off operating losses -- seven years maximum per IRS laws. But the day of fiscal reckoning for all publishers, distributors and authors alike is coming soon, and despite the heady and ebulliently optimistic tone of Coker's quarterly newsletters, his fledgling enterprise too will soon have to show genuine profit-making, or go bust. </div>
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1. Major scandal of Google proportions for retailers like Amazon who are already suspected of 'fixing' their site algorithms and sales ranks to favor certain book publishers over others. Government oversight is long overdue in this area and the focus of these inquiries will also be on retailers accounting methods and whether these are 100% truthful, since currently there are too many gltiches in report mechanisms and no trusted independent party to audit for accuracy.</div>
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2. Smashwords will try various maneuvers to keep itself afloat and viable: staggering royalty payments, offering adverts, making backdoor deals with reliable sellers...etc. None of this will work; they have to have real book sales ASAP, and from as many author members as possible, not just a handful of inter-connected Indy publishers. Additionally, Coker's much complained about obsession with "quality formatting" over quality content, if not abandoned, will speed up Smashwords' end-of-days scenario.</div>
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4. Some familiar names that are presently prominent in the digital retail sector will fold because they don't manufacture anything else but eBooks and eReaders, and in those areas they are desperately floundering. These companies will close their virtual doors with a very loud slam heard and felt by all, before their fudged accounting is ever fully exposed. But that's not to suggest they'll get away with this; it just may take some time to pinpoint precisely which third-world countries their ex-CEO's are hiding in.</div>
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5. Some freebie-pubber-gurus who've alleged to have 'made millions' by simply advocating the virtues of free promotion to unsuspecting new indies will <em>simply</em> be sued for their deceptive practices, since, in reality, resorting to fraudulent means of promoting and selling one's own titles is illegal. Techniques such as paying for customer reviews supplied by people who have never even read the material they're praising, or purchasing five-star ratings, Facebook likes and a phony Twitter following, constitute serious consumer fraud. As does viciously trolling competitors and posting negative reviews on their titles in an effort to deter potential readers from sampling and buying them.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thank you for visiting the newly launched and official website of author FRANCINE SAINT MARIE.</span></div>
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