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May.21.2013
The proof copy of Smoky Days and Sleepless Nights is in! Here’s a photo Emily shot just after we got it:
http://markrhunter.blogspot.com/2013/05/smoky-days-and-sleepless-nights-proof.html
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May.17.2013
For those of you who have Facebook, here’s the event page for the Albion Fire Department’s 125th anniversary celebration on July 20th:
https://www.facebook.com/events/134280070100750/
This will also be the first book signing for my history of the department, Smoky Days and Sleepless...
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May.15.2013
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK
Years ago, when I first got started in the emergency services, an old medic told me, “Son, if you plan to stay in this business, you’d better learn to love coffee.”
I never did (although I certainly did...
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May.14.2013
Smoky Days and Sleepless Nights has been formatted, and a proof copy is on the way! If all goes well, by this time next week we’ll be ready to order a print run. Then: time to get everyone to come to our first book signing, at the Albion Fire Department’s 125th anniversary celebration July 20th.
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May.08.2013
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK
Many challenges face a couple in modern society. Raising children, paying bills, sharing a bathroom, having a conversation …
Assembling...
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May.05.2013
Finished line edits for Smoky Days and Sleepless Nights. Emily has formatted the manuscript and readied the photos, now it’s time for me to fit them in – one step closer!
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May.03.2013
I’ve received my first ever award nomination for original fiction!
The 2013 eFestival of Words Award Nominations are out, and Storm Chaser Shorts has been nominated in the Best Short Story Collection category. In addition to that, the anthology My Funny Valentine, which carried a humor piece...
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May.02.2013
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK
I try never to write two serious columns in a row – this is supposed to be, after all, a humor column. After last week’s diatribe about terrorism, I wanted to get back on the humor horse.
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Apr.17.2013
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK
One thing I find interesting about history is the way things come together in unexpected ways.
Yes, I find history interesting. That...
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Apr.11.2013
(Yeah, the photo's shaky -- I was busy.)
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK
“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. And suppose you set controlled burns, but didn’t keep an eye on them...
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Apr.05.2013
You can get your first look at the cover of my upcoming book (which was designed by my wife, Emily) here:
http://www.albionfiredept.com/
You...
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Apr.04.2013
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK
“The Pope is a sissy,” said my friend, Howie Dunnit, who’s always full of interesting ideas.
I took a few steps away from him. That’s...
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Mar.30.2013
lenawinfreyseder talks short stories, and puts me in good company:
http://wmdgroup.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/the-power-of-short-stories/
Time to write more!
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Mar.28.2013
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK
(My wife wrote a column for me this week because I was indisposed, which is to say I was in the hospital with agonizing abdominal pain. Emily tried to write it the way I would have, as if it was me writing. But it was shorter than my normal, and since I’m feeling a bit...
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Mar.23.2013
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK
Parents should never have to bury their children.
That’s not the way life’s supposed to work. Parents should go to their death beds...
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About Mark
My romantic comedy novel, Storm Chaser, was published this summer by Whiskey Creek Press, which next spring will release my short story collection Storm Chaser Shorts. For the last twenty years my humor column, Slightly Off the Mark, has been published by...