War
September 11, 2009
- For the last few days, I - and several other authors who have work on Smashwords and Kindle - have been downloading mobi files (from Smashwords) to send free books and stories to deployed soldiers.When Ian was deployed, he couldn't have enough reading material for his down time. Started by author Edward Patterson, this project took off quickly. Now Smashwords is directly involved.Read about ...
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September 8, 2009
- A couple of weeks ago, I received an email from a blog talk radio host just hours before we were due to go live. The host, afraid to upset the show’s listeners, wanted to change topics from talking (with a book club) about Homefront’s story and characters to talking about publishing and writing, in general, because there was concern the readers of the book, and listeners of the show, ...
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September 4, 2009
- Earlier this week, President Obama evidently was presented with a state of the war report from his new commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal. While the contents are largely classified, this much is evident. McChrystal appears poised, not surprisingly, to request an increase in troop presence to "protect the people" of Afghanistan.
Given the escalating national deficit ...
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September 1, 2009
- Before the hours of insanity and annihilation that changed world history on September 11, 2001, the month of September was noted by members of my family primarily as the birth month for at least a half dozen individuals. It remained, of course, their month after 9/11, but the shadow of that event tends to lessen the glow of birthday candles and soften the volume of songs and laughter. ...
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August 31, 2009
- I have a feeling there’ll be some disagreement from the Editor community that a collection of short stories should be a haphazard free-for-all, but that’s why indie publishing is so great. I do plan to eventually write a collection that has a connecting thread, and I hope to publish it traditionally. But Carol’s Aquarium is exactly what I want it to be–a ...
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August 28, 2009
- The luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite is a bestselling literary novel by Beatrice Colin. It is a paperback published by John Murray and its ISBN is 1848540310. It is so well written it is a pleasure to read and it is full of historical content of 20th century Germany and the history of the movie industry. It is a sad and touching story rich in characterisation and highly evocative. Through a ...
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August 26, 2009
- Each year at the Advising Workshop for faculty, the Dean of Admission presents facts about our incoming class: their ethnography, academic records, community service and place of origin. We have watched the diversity of the College grow every year; more students speak more than one language, more perform community service. Then the Dean pointed out, this class, the traditionally aged students, ...
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August 20, 2009
- Death and destruction came last year and they will be here ill-mannered, drunk, and stinking tomorrow so with your soul right now kiss me to a naked cinder full of un-silent love and grappling, I promise you nations will continue reloading guns and rehearsing stupidity tirelessly so therefore, and thus and such, in what we call the meantime please allow me to peruse the poetry of your velvet ...
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August 15, 2009
- Wow. Just wow.I'd never heard of sand animation before, but I've seen this video linked to many, many times today. Here is the story behind the video.
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August 14, 2009
- by and by the bible beckons me it whispers the pages flutter softly in the breeze that seeps through my ocean beach flat squeezes though the cracks nooks crannies that have opened themselves up over the years opened themselves up just like i open myself up to god i resist but sometimes the bitch just overcomes overwhelms and i simply roll take her down from my bookshelf it's up there ...
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