How do you make holy water?
You boil the hell out of it!
A Few Things!
A couple of items of possible interest:
Item the FIRST: I’ve been working on getting Stardancer available on more platforms than just the Kindle, and I can now report initial success: the book is now available for Nook, right here! Zap! Pow!!
Item the SECOND: Now that Stardancer is no longer Kindle-exclusive, I can also repost sample chapters. To that end, Chapters 1 through 3 are now available on Wattpad!
Item the THIRD: I always dreamed of having success to the level of being a guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Sadly, that can no longer happen (although we’ll see how this Trevor Noah fellow does), but I can still imagine! And what I can imagine, I can write. Hence, this guest post of mine on writer Briana Mae Morgan’s blog. Check it out!
That’s about it for right now. More stuff in the hopper, though! Stay tuned, Star Warriors!
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Something for Thursday
There’s a new book coming out about Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken”, by an author named David Orr. I look forward to reading this book — the poem is amazing, and deeply complex — but for now I’m remembering a work I performed while in the choir at the Bristol Hills Music Camp back in the late 1980s. Good times, those were!
Here’s “The Road Not Taken”, by American composer Randall Wallace.
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So, how’s Phil Spiderman doing these days?
One of my routine duties at work is surveying the roof. We have a large building, and the roof can present its own set of issues, plus there is HVAC equipment up there that is generally supposed to be behaving, and if that equipment does not behave, by the time we realize it down inside the building, things have gone awry.
So today I’m walking my rounds up there and I come across this guy:
Big guy, as the photos suggest. And his web was really big, probably spanning a good thirty inches from upper left to lower right. Dude was doing a job, man.
I took my photos, and then I left him to his business. I didn’t even disrupt his web at all. Generally I’m fine with spiders. If one is inside the house, I’ll make every effort to gently catch him or her in a paper towel and put the critter outside. I’m sorry to admit, however, that if a spider happens to end up on me in some way, my instincts kick in way before my “Be nice to spiders” moral view does. In short, spiders that drop on me are almost certain to be squished. And then I feel bad.
This fellow, though, got a free pass from me. Spider’s gotta eat, right?
Oh, and the title of this post refers to this.
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A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter
How messy is your desk?
Mine is probably just past the point where a neat freak would go “GAHHH!!!!” at the sight of it, but I don’t think my desk is really messy, either. I think I’m generally in-between. My whole library area could use some tidying, though. Maybe on an upcoming long weekend….
How about you?
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Cover Reveals
…but not mine! (Not yet, anyway.)
Two author-folk for whom I have quite a bit of admiration revealed the covers for their new novels this weekend. Huzzah for them!
First up is Carrie Morgan, with her cover art for her novel The Road Back From Broken.
Road is the story of Jacob “Fitz” Fitzgerald, a U.S. Army sergeant whose struggles with alcohol, post-traumatic stress and survivor’s guilt have estranged him from his wife and son. When a DUI car accident leaves Fitz facing the possibility of losing both his Army career and his family, he realizes that his relationship with his family can be healed only by confronting the very memories he wants to forget and by coming to terms with his role in the death of a comrade killed in an IED attack.
The other author to reveal her cover is Briana Mae Morgan, who is writing a YA post-apocalyptic novel about the aftermath of a devastating plague and two young people struggling to survive it. Check out her cover for Blood and Water!
Seventeen-year-old Jay Harris lives in a world struck down by a deadly virus. His parents are dead, along with half the planet. When Jay’s sister Maia falls ill, he must find a cure before he loses her, too. But unbeknownst to Maia, Jay is also sick… and he’s running out of time to save them both.
I look forward to both books. Congratulations to both authors!
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Straight Outta OP
John Scalzi pointed out a goofy thing where you can have a photo edited to be like an album cover, matching the style of an upcoming movie about NWA called Straight Outta Compton. Now, I don’t know the first thing about NWA, but I’m always game to play with some photo-styling doohickey, so here are my creations, straight from the 14127!
Ayup….
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Bad Joke Friday
Something for Thursday
(Hey, you know that thing I sometimes do with this feature and others when I screw up the scheduled publishing and don’t realize it until night-time? That’s pretty funny when I do that, right?)
I’ve had this insanely earwormy song in my head for days, and now you can, too! I actually like this song quite a bit. Here’s “Little Talks” by Of Monsters And Men.