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Mar.31.2012
Sandra Elfenheimer from our Gundarland bureau in Dun Hythe reports that sales of Hank Quense’s collection of short stories and novellas is now on the best-seller list at the Scrolls and Blacksmithy shop. S&B is the largest scroll seller in the country and carries scrolls from a...
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Mar.26.2012
My wife and I talked about my addiction last night. I know I'm an addict, and I keep falling off the wagon as they say and I start "using and abusing" myself again. My addiction started when my father made fun of me for wanting to be an artist when I was 16, so I became an engineer instead. I spent...
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Mar.11.2012
Ambrose Bierce last produced a version of his masterwork, “The Devil’s Dictionary,” a century ago. That compendium of satirical, cynical, and ridiculous definitions exposed the harsh, hidden truths behind the commonplace, genteel...
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Feb.29.2012
A Satan Carol by spiritual horror author Alan Steven Kessler combines elements of the macabre and parody/satire to explore the concepts of free will and evil. Not having read in this horror subcategory before, I was intrigued when I received a copy of this ebook for review.
The story begins in...
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Feb.23.2012
More and more writers are doing it. Putting their work directly out there, without the intervention of the middleman. Self-publishing through kindle.
I imagine that most of the writers who choose this route are ones who have been unsuccessful in getting a conventional publisher to take them on...
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Feb.21.2012
Free ebooksI have two free ebooks available. Did you get your copies yet?
One ebook is called Humorous Yarns and Other Stuff and it's been downloaded over 2500 times since September 2010. It contains samples of my stories and novels.
The scene is called The Strange Worlds of Hank...
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Feb.10.2012
I come here before you today in defense of the most reviled creature on earth: the Hollywood liberal. This pampered pooch, this spoiled child, this diva who contractually demands Cyprian yogurt in her dressing...
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Jan.28.2012
The past few days saw a couple of Jay-Joe humorous swipes that met with two distinct reactions: WTF and WTF. The potent acronym is, however, about duelling ideologies.
1. “WTF! How can anyone be so insensitive?” 2. “WTF! Can’t we just chill and grow up? It’s a joke.”
I think I know a few mean...
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Jan.24.2012
An addiction confessed and confused
I do this because writing makes me a god. When I write the word big it is not mearly the letters b-i-g neatly strung together in a way that registers as word. It becomes something of substance. It becomes something I can truly perform sorcery on. It is not...
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Jan.24.2012
A meeting attended
My name is not important and what is important is that I am a writer. Not a particularly good writer but I enjoy it. Sometimes I write after school or between classes. Sometimes I write late at night or early in the morning. Sometimes I am writing so early in...
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