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November 11, 2009
- At least that’s what some are saying. According to the Mayan calendar, Revelation, some star configurations and that long haired leftover-from-the-sixties ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ looking guy trudging along with a massive cross on his back – he’s been trying to tell yall for years that Armageddon is upon us. Now we have a date – 2012. Cyberspace is all abuzz with the hype. Yeah, I ...
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October 28, 2009
- We are opening our doors! The concept is a conservatory where the archetypes method is used as an organizing principle for all work.Our curriculum opens with a weekly Friday night "AW Movie Night," where we will watch a "UoD" movie from the list in the book. UoD movies contain two worlds or "universes of discourse" which interact in a particular way. ...
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October 1, 2009
September 9, 2009
- Repentance and redemption are close cousins. Often, repentance is only fully realized and satisfied when redemption is at hand. Such is the tale of Ghost Orchid, my next fiction novel soon to be released by L & L Dreamspell. This story of love, lies and redemption is really the story of a series of mistakes that lead to pain and loss among a small set of friends and family. The ...
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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
- Doing 60, 90, 120…ignoring or liberally interpreting the yellow “RIGHT LANE ENDS, MERGE NOW” sign, the driver of a white pick up truck scattering gravel in the break down lane passed us and cut us off, the raised bumper inches from ours, the dual exhaust rumbling. I was captaining our station wagon. My beautiful wife sat next to me, her hand proffering reassurance to my shoulder. ...
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July 21, 2009
- Ever Wonder What It Would Be Like To Become Someone New? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to simply start over? Become someone new. No doubt, everyone at one time or another has speculated. But what if your life depended on it? Would you be willing to leave everything behind in order to survive?Well, that's the subject of my upcoming, July 14th release from Linden Bay Romance , ...
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June 26, 2009
- A couple of months ago, Wendy at the literary website Musings of a Bookish Kitty asked if I’d like to write a guest blog just before her review of my novel, The Brightest Moon of the Century appeared. I wrote about the connection between author and audience. I include the posting below.--As a professional writer, I started as a playwright first, before becoming a novelist. Never did I think the ...
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June 10, 2009
- My grandfather collected every single issue of Life, the weekly magazine that began November 23, 1936, and ended December 8, 1972. He bound most of them in hardback volumes, four volumes per year--127 volumes total, and the rest wrapped in craft paper by quarter year. It's something like sixteen hundred pounds of magazines. My mother inherited them. Now that she's selling her place, I'm in ...
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April 3, 2009
- ACT ONEHe was small, a Japanese Napoleon. His pal had a bald patch like a monk. The Japanese was on the voice treadmill, the monk was silent, listening, like a vow. Expensive scotch was ordered, Napoleon asked to see the bottle. I left it there. And forgot about it. They went to the jukebox and loaded it up with heavy metal, music not to listen to at 1.30am. I yelled last call. And remembered ...
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