She’s a novelist and a graphics designer, but did you know she’s also a scientist working at Los Alamos National Laboratory? Here’s her really cool article on epigenetics, published over at Perihelion Online Science Fiction Magazine.
She used all her groovy science to write her award-winning novel “Chimeras,” (listed over on the left side of the blog).
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Where my wife subjects me to a “healthy” dose of ridicule — in public 🙂
Looking for great lunch and snack ideas to spice up your lunches and keep that keeps the vending machine at bay? Check out Nom Nom Paleo (an awesome food blog you should bookmark!) for great, healthy lunchbox ideas.
My husband regularly comes home from work complaining about the assortment of donuts, bagels, Panera sandwiches, cupcakes, cookies and other carb-loaded, sugary temptations at the office. When he is home, I know he eats healthy because he eats what I give him. But for a man who proclaims “pie” as his favorite food group, that daily 9-5 grind is more problematic.
Sure I send him to work with healthy lunches, but are they appetizing? When I’m scrambling around in the morning to make his lunch, I’m going for convenience (for me). I never really thought my cooking was in competition with this processed junk.
Perhaps my lunches are too…
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Super excited to learn E.J. Robinson has released Robinson Crusoe 2245. Loved the first book, can’t wait to see what he did with this one.
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So unless I’m completely crazy, it looks like “The Hobbit” 75th edition is in Kindle Unlimited on Amazon, but also selling over on Apple. Am I just late to this realization, that non-indies can be in KU and not be exclusive? What am I missing here?
First picture is from Amazon, the second is a screenshot from Apple (just open up ibooks and search for “the hobbit” to see).
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What a great Tuesday. I woke up to discover my boxed set featured on Apple iBooks. I’m actually in the process of lowering the price to 7.99 in preparation for a promo of book 1 this weekend (so as not to “rip off” anyone who thinks they’re getting a $5 deal), so if anyone’s interested in picking up the book, maybe hang on until tomorrow, after it’s 7.99 everywhere.
P.T. Hylton made the astute observation that there are 3 “Awesome Indies” being featured right now on Apple: Harvey Click, Carol Ervin, and P.T. Hylton. In this screenshot, you can see Carol’s book just to the right of “The Martian,” and my boxed set below it. We’re cornering Andy Weir to steal his mojo!
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Great interview, and yet another podcast I need to listen to.
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Anyone who reads my blog (hi mom!) knows how much I loved P.T. Hylton’s latest Deadlock book, “The Broken Clock.” I’m a big fan of his writing, as well as his indie career. Just today, he was a guest on the Rocking Self-Publishing Podcast. It gets better. He just released book 3 in his “Zane Halloway” fantasy series.
Here’s the link: “Lightning and Thrones”
He also has a new audiobook out for book 2 in the Deadlock Trilogy: “A Place Without Shadows.”
A great day for such and Awesome Indie. For those of you who follow the Rocking Self-Publishing Podcast, you’re definitely in for a treat.
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Totally fascinating. Another reason to avoid sugar 🙂
The devastation wrought by the Great Molasses Flood
In 1919, there occurred an accident so strange and so devastating that, as I learned about it, I was stunned into silence for a few moments while I scratched my head and tried to figure out how the hell that could happen.
On the afternoon of January 15 in that year, the citizens of Boston’s North End were gong about their business when they felt a rumble, followed by a huge crash and then the machine-gun rattle of thousands of rivets as they began to pop.
It wasn’t an earthquake that was about to befall the neighbourhood but a tsunami, courtesy of the Purity Distilling Company.
A five-storey-high metal tank, measuring 50ft x 90ft had split open, releasing a wall of molasses. Patrolman Frank McManus was there to witness it. He called in the report from a police call box: “Send all…
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Awesome indies Carol Ervin and P.T. Hylton are side by side in this screenshot on Apple. Unlike Amazon, it’s kind of difficult to score such placement, so hats off to them. If you haven’t read the 2 books featured — “Who is Dell Zero” and “Thorns and Tangles,” they’re great. I wouldn’t have put them on my blog if they weren’t — certainly not the 200 times I’ve mentioned them.
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A friend of mine created the following video trailer for “The Jenkins Cycle Boxed Set: Binge Edition.” I thought it was pretty cool, and used it in a Facebook ad. Now that the ad is over, I’m posting it here for your enjoyment.
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John L. Monk 