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Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike & Sunday Book Promo The Better Late Than Never Edition

[image error] Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike & Sunday Book Promo The Better Late Than Never Edition Sunday Book Promo!

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Memes

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I’m alive, yeah, but we’ve been in an antechamber of heck (not the full h*ll) this morning, because Dan is updating software in all my computers in rotation, so I think I’m safe, and in comes the tech support to do necessary stuff I didn’t know it was necessary.

Now I know how the cats feel when — to their mind — I chase them from room to room with the vacuum.

Anyway, if you haven’t read this article from Richard Fernandez, you should read it.

It’s been bothering me.  It’s something I’ve sor...

The Shadow President—Another Liberal Hit Job – By Amanda S. Green

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Follow the Authors into an alternate reality where you shouldn’t trust your lying eyes – SAH

The Shadow President—Another Liberal Hit Job – By Amanda S. Green

Well, I’m at it again. This time, I’ve chosen the recently released “The Shadow President” by Michael D’Antonio and Peter Eisner. Now, the subtitle to the book tells us everything we really need to know. “The Truth About Mike Pence”. Well, perhaps it should be “The Truth As We Want You to Believe” but I’ll let you decide. I’ll also be...

Kiss Your Ash Goodbye: The Yellowstone Supervolcano, Part V, A Vulcanology Primer by Stephanie Osborn

Kiss Your Ash Goodbye: The Yellowstone Supervolcano, Part V, A Vulcanology Primer by Stephanie Osborn

Excerpted from Kiss Your Ash Goodbye: The Yellowstone Supervolcano, © 2018

By Stephanie Osborn

http://www.stephanie-osborn.com

Images in this article are public domain unless otherwise noted.

 

What Would Happen If Yellowstone Erupted Today?

That would depend on the type of eruption. Because, you see, sometimes Yellowstone vomits, sometimes it coughs, and sometimes it only sneezes.

 

The Snee...

Living In Niches

 

[image error]Sorry this is so late, but apparently I had to write the world’s longest post for Mad Genius Club.  I needed to do it because despite the award this has been week from hell, and the only way to explain things I’ve chosen to do (now) and say without besmirching the innocent is to give the whole history.  Also I’m tired of people trying to “defend” me and making things much worse.
I don’t need people to defend me, because even though I made mistakes, they weren’t KNOWING mistakes.  For the re...

When Things Go Wrong

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Yes, I now, this is a weird post to be writing the week I won the Dragon.  But other than that win — and it’s not QUITE real yet — it was a profoundly sh*tty weekend.  We were away to write, and I got semi-ill (long story) and couldn’t sleep and therefore didn’t write much.  I did jog the novel out of a flat spot, but honestly, 5k words all weekend sucks. And I’m not even sure what I wrote is useable.  I just know it’s a path out of the place I was in that wasn’t working.  Even if I end up r...

I’m not going to write a blog post

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It’s too early in the morning.

What winning the dragon did was effectively short circuit the last day of away-writing.   Also we went wild and crazy and had a whole scoop of ice cream.  Carbs these days have an effect similar to a hangover for me.

So I’m not going to write a blog post until I’m home which should be early afternoon.

Ya’ll can wait that long, right?

Good.

See you on the flip side.

 

UPDATE: We’re home safe, much later than we thought.  So, post tomorrow?

 

We Interrupt the Local Insanity

For this announcement:  Kevin J. Anderson and myself won the Dragon Award for Alternate History 2018.

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I Got In, I Got In

Yesterday I only had facebook.  And today I have no access to email, so I can get neither the word for the challenge nor your books.  I think we’ll have a book pimping Tuesday or something.

We’ve been having breakfast at a place called Wendell’s.  Writing has been happening.  I will have a real post tomorrow.

And here’s a picture for a writing challenge.

 

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Priorities

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Amanda’s post will be tomorrow, unless I’m incommunicado.  More on that later. She didn’t have it ready, because Real Life attacked her.  So…

Anyway.

As some of you have noticed, I’ve been writing a lot more for PJMedia.  Partly this is to try to cover the monumental hole left in our finances when the college decided younger son wasn’t illegible for more loans (because he’s taking two majors and three minors.)  Yes, he could graduate in one, but at this point it would take the same time beca...