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Monthly Archives: October 2014
Sunday Burst
Oddities and Awesome abound! :: Nifty video footage of the Atlantic Ocean Road in Norway. I’m not sure the video lives up the “OMG this road is an insane trek of DEATH!!!” that the surrounding article portrays, but it’s still … Continue reading
From the Books: “Come Along With Me”, Shirley Jackson
After last week’s entry, a more positive extract, this time, from the same book: Shirley Jackson’s anthology Come Along With Me. This is from an essay titled “Notes for a Young Writer”. I don’t read a whole lot of writing … Continue reading
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A brief update
After my Argleblargle of the other day, I’m happy to report that we’re back on track. The CreateSpace “review” of already-reviewed files ended that night, so I was able to re-upload the new files, which have also passed review-muster. So now … Continue reading
Love Is All Around
Sk Waller and her love, Nettl, are finally able to get married. We get a lot of stuff wrong in America, which makes it all the sweeter when we start getting certain things right. There are an awful lot of … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
I saw this on Facebook the other night and it was immediately clear what this week’s entry had to be: this astonishing cover, featuring a small army of great musicians, of the Beach Boys’ “God Only Knows” — which just … Continue reading
The Cover, REVEALED!
Want to see the book’s cover? Sure you do!
And now…THE COVER!!!
Good day to you all, Star Warriors! Of all the various concerns I had as I moved Stardancer toward publication, the one that was most worrisome to me was the problem of cover art. You see, while I like to think … Continue reading
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Argleblargle
So, this morning I finished my first round of proofreading and minor edits on Princesses In SPACE!!! Stardancer (wow, it feels weird typing that after so many years of the working title), and it came time to upload the files. … Continue reading
But don’t take MY word for it!
Jason Bennion speaks about a subject near and dear to my heart: my book! He was/is one of my beta-readers, and he provided a lot of useful comment regarding various matters within the book’s pages. In fact, I was on … Continue reading