I am more accustomed to reading books like Bob Asprin's MYTH series or Piers Anthony's "On a Pale Horse" (although the series declined the more of it I read) or some of the classics from J. R. R. Tolkein, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ian Fleming, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary Shelley, Bram Stroker, William Shakespeare, Dante, Kenneth Blanchard, Dale Carnegie, Terry Pratchett, C. S. Lewis and others.
It seems like the media over the past year or more has been looking for Heroes. They are looking for inspiration in the extraordinary. What they have done is take ordinary and call it better than that. Perhaps they do so to show that ordinary is extraordinary. Perhaps they do it boost moral. Perhaps they do it because they do it - in ohter words they follow the trend that someone told ...
Well, in the past month I have travelled to California twice, Washington DC, and am about to head to Indianapolis. I've had first and second interviews for positions in Phoenix, Little Rock, and I don't even remember where else. Anyone know the secret for turning interviews into job offers?
I read somewhere, perhaps it was in Stephen King's On Writing, the question "if you can write, why do anything else?" While I am not a fan of horror, I am a professional fan of Stephen King and I have really enjoyed several of his non-horror stuff (Hearts in Atlantis and On Writing come to mind off the top of my head).I would suspect that many people feel this way. Particularly ...
