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When One Decision Creates Seventeen More
I love indie publishing. But there is a lot that goes into indie publishing. Thanks for reading Do Some Damage! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. And I mean a lot. But I wouldn’t have it any other way. What People Think Indie Publishing is Like I get the impression that some people think indie publishing is easy. There’s a certain thought process I think folks have about us indie writers: we write the book, we put a cover on the file, and upload. Voilà! Move on to the next. Repeat. If only it were that easy. I think there’s also an impression that, with traditionally…
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Best Medicine Finds Its Charm in the Space Between Quirk and Heart
It’s been a long time since a TV show has charmed me. I use that word to describe “Best Medicine,” an American TV show inspired by and semi-based on the BBC TV show “Doc Martin.” The Fox TV show stars Josh Charles as Dr. Martin Best, a brilliant surgeon in Boston who has developed a blood phobia after operating on a young girl that resembles his long-dead sister. He makes his way to Port Wenn, a small fishing town in Maine where he summered as a kid and which recently lost its longtime town doctor. Hang on, you might be saying. That’s a pretty grim origin story for a show…