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Sep.19.2012
Sherron designed a wonderful promo poster for the upcoming launch of my two companion volumes, New & Selected Poems and Stromata: Prose Works.
It really is a privilege having someone in my life with such a keen visual eye.
Have a look...and hope to see you there!
(Click on the poster to see a...
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Aug.26.2012
What can I say, two books out this month, both of them superb, literary efforts and that following the release of my western novel The Last Hunt earlier this spring.
That makes three books with my name on them on the shelves in one calendar year. This from a guy notorious for being one of the...
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May.17.2012
One of the things I love most about cross-stitch is the way the picture emerges from tiny stitches and colored threads.
It begins with a blob of color that grows with each stitch and each new color from nothing special to something quite beautiful -- if I do it right. I have moments when I get...
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Mar.22.2012
Excerpt from The Shogun's Scroll
Shunko Zabayashi knew the importance of using his own resources when he effected a coup against his cousin in Tarama Province. He carefully thought about his actions before moving into position to take control of the clan. Although his cousin was a...
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Mar.01.2012
The Way of the Modern Warrior - Living the Samurai Ideal in the 21st Century
This is a work that has been in progress for a few years and will be released in the Fall of 2012. It is a prominent, new work that is certain to be received with large acclaim. The cover is still to be designed by the...
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Feb.28.2012
I get a daily update on the state of the book publishing biz from "Galleycat" and quite often they include book sale figures.
The news on that front is always depressing. I think a story from yesterday's news feed indicated that mass market paperback sales are down nearly 41% from a year ago...
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Dec.23.2011
Today's emails wait over in Gmail, organized by importance, stars, unread, read, from friends, websites, newspapers, magazines, and so on.
There is a lot of junk in there. JC Penney's is having another sale. They're always have a sale, what's new? The google alert on bank robbers is...
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Jun.17.2011
Thanks to the fine response I have had with the original version of Self-Revealization Acceptance and the comments that have come from readers and practitioners, there is now a revised edition (including book cover) to alleviate some of the pain that many readers have had with the exposition of...
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Jan.21.2011
The Roller Coaster of Publishing The writing career is interesting. Everyone has an opinion (especially these days) on big house publishing, small house publishing, self-pubbing, p.o.d., electronic publishing, etceteras. As the industry tries to manage through a roller coaster of change, the writer...
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Jan.20.2011
Everything new is old again - or, something like that. Not that I complain, since I have written some of Kafka's 'diaries'. I actually think this would have been quite an exciting writing challenge, to infuse these mysteries with a judicious combination of originality and familiarity. And with all...
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