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Just some thoughts I had today. For what they are worth.

Don’t be something you are not. Don’t do things just because you think it is what someone else will want, or so that person won’t be angry, or sad, or lonely. Not for anyone. Don’t change anything for anyone just because you think it’ll make someone happy. It is ingenuine. It is a form of dishonesty. The other person will never know if it is really your desire or just you doing what you think someone else wants. It will end in distrust, even if your intentions were good.

How you are is not you...

Recognizing Kali in a Young Girl

This is the first poem of mine I had ever heard read aloud. I had wondered about my poetry, whether it was any good or not. Whether it was worthy of publication in any way. I had been reading the works of my favorite poets, Piercy and Ciardi and Millay, wondering if I would ever like my own work as much. No, I was sure. No.

One late night, after a campfire and dinner with friends, driving from Jonesville back home to Gainesville, Florida, the radio on a local station, welistenedto a show with...

Shells

She walks along the weaving foam,

waves bright under the full moon,

picking up shells,

perfect shells,

white shells,

bright shells,

leaving footprints to

fill with glistening sea.

She wants them all.

Each shell, every shell.

Then, when her hand, her arm, are full,

returns them,

one by one,

in splendid moonlit arcs,

again to the sea,

walking away with one,

only one,

the first one.

The Pheonix and the Dragon Featured by Kobo Books.

Smithcraft Press is triply blessed today. Not one, not two, but THREE books from Smithcraft Press, including one from yours truly, are featured on the Kobo Book Hub. (Kobo sells some very cool eBooks.) We are thrilled—but not at all surprised—to have two Smithcraft Press authors being promoted by Kobo's Book Hub. Check 'em out!

Me, of course. Also, Dragon Fate and Dragon Blade by J.D. Hallowell.

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The Phoenix and the Dragon: Poems of the Alchemical Transformation

Dragon Fate

Dragon Blade

Bud the Spud named Preditors & Editors™ Readers' Poll for Best Children's Book Published During 2012!

"Smithcraft Press is pleased to announce that our Mensch-in-Chief, Adam Byrn Tritt, has won the Preditors & Editors™ Readers' Poll for Best Children's Book published during 2012! Bud The Spud was honored with reader comments like, "Gruesome fun—the illustrations are mind bending and the words tell a story that everyone needs to hear" and "Incredible book! what a great way to teach kids the benefits of activity and the draw backs to being a couch potato!" THANKS TO ALL WHO VOTED, AND CONGRATULATIONS, ADAM!"

I could not have said it better myself. So, if you still don't have your copy of Bud the Spud, what are you waiting for?Bud the Spud

Bud the Spud named Best Children’s Book in Print or Ebook Published in 2012

“Smithcraft Press is pleased to announce that our Mensch-in-Chief, Adam Byrn Tritt, has won the Preditors & Editors™ Readers’ Poll for Best Children’s Book published during 2012! Bud The Spud was honored with reader comments like, “Gruesome fun—the illustrations are mind bending and the words tell a story that everyone needs to hear” and “Incredible book! what a great way to teach kids the benefits of activity and the draw backs to being a couch potato!” THANKS TO ALL WHO VOTED, AND CONGRATUL...

Bud the Spud: Vote for Best Children's Book of 2012

Bud the Spud, my first children's book, is in the standings for Best Print/Electronic Children's Book published in 2012! Please please go to the Predators & Editors™ Readers' Poll Voting Page and VOTE NOW! And share the link if you will. Let's see Bud launch like a spud from a potato-canon.
Reader Poll:Best Children's Books of 2012 Bud the Spud

Make Bud the Best Print/Electronic Children’s Book published in 2012!

My first children’s book is up for an award. Want me to win? Of course you do. Bud the Spud is high in the rankings and was #1, but not today. And there is only two days of voting left. YOU can change that. Make Bud the Best Print/Electronic Children’s Book published in 2012! Please please go to the Preditors & Editors™ Readers’ Poll Voting Page and VOTE NOW! And share the link if you will. Let’s see Bud launch like a spud from a potato-canon.
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A Rejection Letter

Hi,

Mr. T____,

I have read through about half of the script for T_____ T_____ o_ M_____ a__ M_____. I had thought, from your description, and from the first thirteen pages of your graphic novel, that it was tales. As in multiple. Perhaps it branches off into related tales. As a structure, that is something I could appreciate.

The second story, as a separate entity, of course, really is a second chapter, seemingly, of the first (perhaps only) story. Not so much Tales of the Crypt meets Tarantino,...