Is there more to life than drinking and playing pool?

Do likes and follows become book sales?

My page has 1,200 likes on Facebook. I hope some of those turn into book sales. http://t.co/HCFWo1PGkk
— Ralph Michael Chiaia (@RMChiaia) December 16, 2013

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Who keeps pirating my books?
http://thepiratebay.pe/torrent/9349587
This says "eBook" but it is actually I, Orange Girls which is otherwise only available at lulu.com. Why pay $10 when you can get it for free. I think soon someone might upload a compilation of all my work for free. I just have a feeling that is what the "pirate" is thinking. Who knows?

Pirated Books

Sample Chapters of Glyphic (available on Pirate Bay):
http://thepiratebay.pe/torrent/9349536

Oigan, Mexicanos

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Fiverr

Fiverr has some really interesting ideas out there. Check them out. Is this the wave of the future?

This one is a guy who will design your facebook cover in a very creative way:
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This woman will model with your product or sign:
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This one records a video product review:
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This guy will whiteboard your stuff into a video:
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Twitter Question for Free Book

Free book for those of you that know where in Mexico I lived outdoors. Hint: There are two places - Leave... http://t.co/6Mq2ZLfNb9
— Ralph Michael Chiaia (@RMChiaia) December 9, 2013

Time to Clean House

The things that I have always admired about the Godfather movies is that in the last sequence all business is settled. The cold, Sicilian temper is a very dangerous thing. I cannot help but operate under the same guidelines. Every once in a while it is time to clean house. For me at this point in my life I have wasted a lot of fucking time. I'm 38 years old now. I'm bald. Well, I shave, but I'm going bald anyway--what's to wait for, huh? I want to be a writer, but I have had basically no success. I have a few books out but they are either small press or indie published. I have a bar that is sucking the life out of me. I spend most of my time there playing pool or just wasting the night drinking (this and my massive appetite has made me fat). Now, with that cold Sicilian mentality I want to change it all. I want to change my life: no more gambling, a lot less drinking, eat less, sell the bar, quit the pool team, and devote myself to getting something good written. So far everything has been kind of half-baked. For Monks Only is too short, Glyphic is too complicated, and I still don't have a novel or a bunch of short stories out. The other major mistake I made was to submit 50 copies of Glyphic to the Goodread First Reads. What a huge mistake! The people who received my well-researched, in-depth, poetic novella in verse wanted a Young Adult book or a Romance or Fantasy or something very different than the Contemporary Literary Novella in Verse that I had written. I got some very low reviews (which I'm proud of) from some readers who I really don't respect too much. I assume everyone is reading Italo Calvino, William Faulkner, Haruki Murikami, and Toni Morrison. I'm wrong. They are reading Fifty Shades of Gray and Twilight. Well, I'm learning. Now is the time to put the things that don't work in the front seat of the car and wrap a wire around their necks and pull till I choke the life out of them.

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When did they start calling today #CyberMonday? LOL

http://t.co/lC2shETbec what more could you possibly want for #CyberMonday but a book about how big business is destroying the #soul @amazon
— Ralph Michael Chiaia (@RMChiaia) December 2, 2013

What is it?

What book rhymes with terrific and specific? with transpacific, scientific, cryptic, and artistic?

Have you read I, Orange Girls?

2007-2008 produced these silly, mad, smart, slutty poems: http://t.co/wUv4aweptY
— Ralph Michael Chiaia (@RMChiaia) November 21, 2013

Somebody asked me, "what's your world view?" I thought about it a few minutes now and say: Imperialism sucks! Let's be nice to each other.
— Ralph Michael Chiaia (@RMChiaia) November 13, 2013

For Monks Only (RMC's writing): As Kurtis Blow says, "these are the breaks"

For Monks Only (RMC's writing): As Kurtis Blow says, "these are the breaks": A reviewer gave Jean-Paul Sartre and I both 1 star but, don't fret, Life of Pi (that's a movie, you know) got 4 stars and Twilight g...

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Ralph-Michael Chiaia, Glyphic, and the Sacred Calendar

If you love Mayan stuff, then you will love my books
Glyphic and the Sacred Calendar. 

I am another yourself

Who is interested in K'iche'? I know some of you out there are interested. It may be the most widely-spoken Mayan language out there. It contains lots of culture and history, and it sounds beautiful. Here's the subtitle to my book Glyphic written in K'iche'.

Le In In Lak'ech. If you understand that then try this: http://t.co/OW28VPEVTq?
— Ralph Michael Chiaia (@RMChiaia) November 13, 2013

Glyphic, subtitled I Am Another Yourself (In Lak'ech)

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Glyphic is coming out November 7th, 2013

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