Aaron Ross Powell - Latest Comments

Re: This month: THE HOLE for just $0.99.

Aaron Ross Powell — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:38:28 -0000

Testing paragraphs.

Another one.

And this one uses shift.

Re: The Politics of Taste

Leonardo Live — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:47:46 -0000

i like

Re: Aaron Ross Powell - In which I discover the root of all our troubles.

scott6784 — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 10:38:16 -0000

I can't believe they're proud of that. On second thought, I guess I can.

Re: More on Science, Sam Harris, and Morality

cobrown — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:41:06 -0000

This guy is really smart.

Re: "The Autonomy Myth" by Martha Albertson Fineman: Chapter 10: The Tenable State

Roger Hopkins — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:20:29 -0000

What is scary is that this professor is taken seriously

Re: Thoughts on virtue ethics

Gregory B. Sadler — Tue, 22 May 2012 22:55:14 -0000

Thanks! Glad you liked the stuff

Re: Thoughts on virtue ethics

Aaron Ross Powell — Tue, 22 May 2012 17:06:08 -0000

Thank you for the links. Great stuff. I've subscribed to the blogs.

Re: Thoughts on virtue ethics

Gregory B. Sadler — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:20:00 -0000

I'm glad to have chanced across this blog post while searching on Virtue Ethics and blogs. As it happens, Virtue Ethics is the main approach I rely upon, and one I teach in my Ethics classes, videos from which you can see here: http://www.youtube.com/play... and here: http://www.youtube.com/play...

I also publish two blogs, one devoted specifically to Virtue Ethics: http://virtueethicsdigest.b... the other a bit broader in scope: http://gbsadler.blogspot.com/

Re: How The Minimum Wage Hurts The Poor

SaraC — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 02:16:18 -0000

I know from personal life experience that it is the larger corporations protecting their profit margins that keeps minimum wage down. It does not stop most small businesses from hiring. I've worked for 3 large chain corporations, 3 small privately owned businesses, and 1 non-profit. Can you guess which 3 jobs I had where I was actually paid minimum wage??? That's right - the 3 large corporations with the huge profit margins. One of those corporations even got hit with a class action suit for not paying proper over time to employees and threatening our jobs if we refused to stay at our regular rate. In the smaller companies, the one's people against an increased minimum wage argue would be put out of business if the wage was increased, always paid me near double the minimum wage. They are all still in business by the way. I actually made the highest wage at the non-profit which makes sense because they have to spend out every dollar that comes in. They aren't concerned with a profit margin to protect.

And Aaron no - if I were unemployed I would not want to make less than I could live off of rather than no paycheck at all. At that point after paying gas to get to and from and childcare to be at work I would be broker than not working. I know. I worked my way from welfare mom to college educated working single mom. I decided I needed to get my degree before I could get off of aid and work because financially living off of the minimum wage would have left me with less money at the end of the month.

Re: Intelligent Design's Logical Fallacies

latonw — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:40:55 -0000

"Amen to that'! Intelligent Design is not a valid scientific theory because it is not testable.

Re: My experience selling a draft novel on the Amazon Kindle

Aaron Ross Powell — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:57:45 -0000

@BryanDoyle As a new author, you're going to have a difficult time no matter what. There are lots of books out there and lots of new ones coming out every day.

That said, what @MagnusBakke suggests is a good idea (I just did it with my new short story collection, in fact). I've also had luck telling people about my books on Facebook and Twitter.

Re: My experience selling a draft novel on the Amazon Kindle

MagnusBakke — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:28:59 -0000

@BryanDoyle

You set the price low. People will buy it. If it's the first in a series, and it's good, then they will buy the next volume, which should be a lot more expensive. Otherwise, the book will be suggested if people look at books that are similar to yours.

Re: "Animus: Six Tales of Crime and Terror" is now available!

Aaron Ross Powell — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:22:01 -0000

@Sonya76 Thanks, Sonya. My friend Jon Meyers did the cover and I'm thrilled with how it turned out. Let me know what you think of the book.

Re: "Animus: Six Tales of Crime and Terror" is now available!

Sonya76 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:27:24 -0000

Love the cover image, very creepy. 99 cents is so cheap.

Re: "Animus: Six Tales of Crime and Terror" is now available!

Sonya76 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:27:24 -0000

Love the cover image, very creepy. 99 cents is so cheap.

Re: My experience selling a draft novel on the Amazon Kindle

BryanDoyle — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:19:37 -0000

I'm a simple guy, no computer expert....so my question is, since people aren't literally walking by and looking at books on shevles...where they can literally SEE something, how do you get people out there to notice your novel. There are (I don't know) a gazillion books out there. What do you do, marketing-wise, to make yours stand out? I do have a book I just put up on kindle, but except for me personally telling someone I know, 'Go to...' I'm not sure how to move it. Be patient??? Is that the answer? Hit and miss?

Re: My experience selling a draft novel on the Amazon Kindle

Aaron Ross Powell — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:56:33 -0000

It's definitely not too good to be true -- but it isn't a panacea either. You still have to work pretty hard to get people to actually buy your book. It won't sell itself just because it's on Amazon.

Re: My experience selling a draft novel on the Amazon Kindle

Mary Conner — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:10:50 -0000

Thanks for the input. Kindle Direct Publishing seems like such a good opportunity for new/unpublished writers that I needed some feedback on whether it was too good to be true!

Re: My experience selling a draft novel on the Amazon Kindle

Aaron Ross Powell — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:52:05 -0000

Hi, Mary. I don't think my book was more exposed to that sort of thing by being on the Kindle than it would've been published any other way. If someone wants to copy my book, they'll do it, whether it's in paperback or on the Kindle or anything else.

Re: My experience selling a draft novel on the Amazon Kindle

Mary Conner — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 02:13:14 -0000

I noticed that the published copy of your book has an ISBN. I'm considering publishing a novel on Kindle Direct and I was wondering how well you felt Amazon protected your rights as the author of the book. Did you feel like your work was more exposed to potential plagarism because of the medium, or did you feel like Amazon's measures were sufficient?

Re: Finished the homicide desk in L.A

Aaron Ross Powell — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:50:06 -0000

I almost didn&#39t buy it for precisely that reason. You can watch some guy play through the whole game in HD on YouTube. But driving around 1940s LA was too much to pass up.

Re: Finished the homicide desk in L.A

Joe Kaluza — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:46:35 -0000

I watched my wife play LA Noire through, and loved it as a mystery movie.

Re: Finished the homicide desk in L.A

Bryan Hall — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:42:14 -0000

Trust me, Heavy Rain won&#39t disappoint.

Re: Finished the homicide desk in L.A

Aaron Ross Powell — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:30:15 -0000

I do have a PS3 and played the demo of Heavy Rain a bit. I&#39ll have to check out the full thing after I finish L. A. Noire. (Even if elements of the story bug me, I&#39m such a huge, huge fan of the genre and setting that I&#39d finish it for those alone. And, anyway, only minor bits of the story have really bugged me so far.)

Re: Finished the homicide desk in L.A

Bryan Hall — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:26:38 -0000

I agree - story comes first in every game for me. Not sure if you have a PS3, but Heavy Rain is absolutely incredible and is probably why I got tired of L.A. Noire. After seeing how an interactive movie could be done so well when I played Heavy Rain, LA Noire just felt forced for some reason.