Ok, this is our dog, Shadowfax. We named him around the time the LOTR movies came out.
I normally don’t post dog pictures but it’s sort of a funny one, and who doesn’t like funny?
Added a new menu thing
I wanted to showcase some of the funny pieces I’ve done on the blog, but didn’t feel the little categories drop down quite did it. So I added a little menu item up top called “Fun” and put all the links to things like “Ten years from now” and “Mutaphysics” into it.
Enjoy
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Excellent podcast episode with Russell Blake on self-publishing
This guy works at it, he’s successful, and he talks about why and how. Anyone who’s serious and has time to listen, I recommend you do so:
http://rockingselfpublishing.com/episode-39-writing-entrepreneurial-venture-russell-blake-2/#listen
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Fogland Episode 3: House Call on Queasy Street
Mark Capell, an author I learned about through Lindy Moone, has produced a podcast of a story I submitted for his Fogland project. You can listen to it for free at the Fogland website. It’ll also be available on iTunes.
Ladies: if listening to Mark Capell’s sexy British accent doesn’t do it for you (it did for me), you can download the ebook for 99 cents on Amazon.
Anyway, what else? Oh yeah, here are the links:
Podcast on Fogland Website (free/sexy)
Amazon UK (.77 in pieces of eight)
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“STATE YOUR OCCUPATION!”
Tnaillirb…
Just signed the tax forms. Where it said “occupation,” I put “writer,” but only because THIS wouldn’t fit:
“I take those stupid fb tests, you know, the ones where you’re supposed to find out which ’80s action hero you are (John McClane), or which Harry Potter character you are (Hermione, duh!), or which famous writer is your soulmate, even though she’s dead and you’re not a lesbian (Virginia Woolf) or which kick-ass character you are from a TV series (RIVER SONG, alias Harmony Pond. I get to marry The Doctor, who, by the way, has also kissed me mum).”
You know what else wouldn’t fit under “Occupation”? This:
“I turn sentences around. That’s my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back in and write another sentence. Then…
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Made it to the next round in the “Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award” contest
I was hesitant to post this on the blog because getting to round 2 has nothing to do with the actual book part of the book. What you do is pitch the story as if you were pitching it to a publisher. Apparently, out of the 10,000 entrants, they liked mine and 1999 other pitches. I can’t help but feel bad for the other 8,000 people who didn’t get picked.
Still, it’s pretty cool.
From now until April 14, I can still enjoy that feeling you get when you play the lottery on Monday: like I’m walking around with THE winning ticket. I still get to dream of all the things I’ll buy with the $50,000 Grand Prize.
Things I can buy with $50,000:
- 50,000 cheeseburgers off McDonald’s $1 menu.
- An awesome, tricked-out gaming computer for $5,000, and 45,000 cheeseburgers off McDonald’s $1 menu.
- A gallon of gas in 2025.
- I could quit my job and write full time for a year, see how that goes (wife won’t let me).
- New car? Naa…
- European vacation? Definitely, though with a side-trip to Malta for a week.
- Charity…uh…sure…(whistle).
- Or instead of the European vacation, a camper for road trips.
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Another addition to my Awesome Indie project
Hooray, we have another great discovery to add to the list of awesome indies (left side of blog). Here are the rules of the project if you’re curious: (The Rules).
Dan’s Lame Novel, by Dan C. Rinnert, is anything but “lame.” It’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever read, and stupendously creative. I highly recommend it. If you buy it, make sure you read the “Dedication” and “Forward” in front, and don’t just skip over it like I almost did. It’s actually part of the story, in a way, and explains the hilarity to come.
Here’s his website, which is also a hoot: (His Website).
Oh, and a big thanks to Lindy Moone for cluing me in to this talented author. She also told me about Mark Capell late last year. One wonders who she’ll tell me about next… Here’s Lindy’s review of Dan’s Lame Novel: (Lindy’s Review).
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Author Linda Welch reposted my St. Patrick’s Day story
Is it not the height of vanity that I’m linking to someone who’s linking to me? Oh well, I’m vain.
The Reconstruction Years: The Tragic Aftermath of the War Between the States
Walter Coffey’s latest book looks great, can’t wait to pick it up. His awesome month-by-month account of the Civil War was a great read, too.
I haven’t read his latest book about The Reconstruction (click the cover), but if it’s anything like his Civil War book, it’ll be quality material. I also enjoyed Walter’s Civil War novels.
Full Disclosure: I know this guy, personally. He’s also blogged about me, and one could assume that “I owe him” (and they’d be right). However, I wouldn’t steer folks wrong publicly like this and risk alienating them. Sadly, because I know Walter personally, I can’t add him to the list of great Indie Reads over on the left, but if anyone deserves a spot there, he does.
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11 Lame Excuses for Not Writing (And Why They’re Lame)
I refuse to write another novel until all the children of the world are fed and all people live as one…that’s MY excuse.
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John L. Monk 