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There’s Still Time

Sorry, guys, still on the road, looking for a place to land.

Will hopefully do promo post later to hold you till tomorrow, but if not will do tomorrow.

Just want to remind you there’s still time:

http://davidjohnbutler.com/giveaways/five-books-may-giveaway/

Don’t burn anything down. If you get trolls please don’t bat them underneath the fridge when you’re done. That fridge is really heavy, and if we don’t get the troll out in time it will stink up the whole blog.

I’ll hope...

Style Sheet, Peeps, Style Sheet

One of the advantages of the collectivists is that they organize like nobody’s business, while we liberty minded…. Well — pats heads all around — well, you guys are adorable, but the individualists failed to organize, okay.

Now,while many of you translate this to a paramilitary clash and panic, don’t. most of their supporters aren’t nor will they commit violence, unless the can do it when no one is looking, sneakily, and against someone old, disabled, frail or very young.

Most of the...

We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Promo Post

*Irrelevant but interesting science-fictional note!
I have found proof of the Mandela effect. I come from a parallel world where FB never reverses its decisions. I was banned on Friday for seven days, and and am now free again! I mean of course I’d protested the ban, but I expected nothing to come of it.
This never happens where I come from, so obviously a parallel world. – SAH*

Sorry this is so late. The reason we’re traveling interfered.

This is not your regular promo post. I’ll probab...

An Important Request

We interrupt the current insanity for a very important request.

If any of the authors who comment here, or their friends have books missing, and you can get a direct link, please drop that link in the comments and I will do a very special grande gigante con mui octopus promo post tomorrow.

Thank you!

On The Road Again

On day two of the road trip. Not driving because my glasses weren’t done in time, so I’m in the back seat, editing. The cursed book WILL be done by the end of the weekend, rain or shine.

And it’s all gone myffic. Husband and son, for reasons unknown to me, decided the Roman gods lived in the small town where we overnighted. This is why I drink. No, wait, when I drink I do it because I like it, but I actually haven’t drank much. I’m fairly sure in the middle of editing I misunderstood som...

I’ll Be Away Most of the Day

So this is partly an excuse to do an open floor.

BUT as it happens, I also have links to share today.

First, I’m part of this giveaway.

Second:

(Yeah I know. They went and mentioned the movie, but anyway….)

I might have some images to share with you later, too.
Oh, and my editor says you need to order through a comic store…. but that you can ask for a particular cover.

OTOH someone in the comments had a link to buy the signed editions, I think? If someone did, please post a...

Becoming Who You Are

One of the reasons that Jordan Peterson (hail lobster!) is revolutionary (and shouldn’t be, in a sane society) is that he understands we don’t live from good intentions and that words alone don’t change reality.

Yeah. Shouldn’t be. Because this is obvious. This is the wisdom of millennia, which is why most major religions encourage praxis (or require it) as well as faith and words. Faith love and charity, and while you might think of love as airy fairy fweeings you know d*mn well it’s sup...

But With A Whimper

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In one of his world’s Clifford Simak had a near depopulated Earth, in which each human remaining had retreated to his country estate and lived like an English gentleman of the golden era, attended by android servants.

When I was little, lying in bed, reading these books, after the daily Malthusian sermon at school, this place and time seemed very desirable. (To be fair it still does. That’s the appeal of a certain type of escapist novel, and why people keep reading them and writing them. ...

Understanding and Misunderstanding Freedom- By Professor Ornery Dragon

Understanding and Misunderstanding Freedom

By Professor Ornery Dragon

The other day a friend on FB posted a meme/captured Twitter thread about a woman who had been through the wringer with a medical issue that tragically claimed the life of her small child. The rant was about how the insurance company reneged on paying after they received a settlement, how the hospital immediately put a lien on her house to insure she’d pay the PICU bill, and how in the end, they got nothing and had to...

Habitually

This is not a post about writing (except insofar as it is my work.) even if it seems to be so at first.

Over the last twenty years I’ve mentored maybe 30 people. Now the quality of mentoring went to heck 10 years ago, because of life. But usually I try to read at least a few pieces by people I mentor, and try to figure out what is holding them back. Because that’s what mentors do.

When I was younger and took raw newbies, one of the hardest things to get them to see — and something tha...