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Buy Your Mom A Book and PSA – by Sarah & Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike

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Buy Your Mom A Book – by Sarah

First, happy Mother’s day to all of your out there!  Second:

*Note these are books sent to us by readers/frequenters of this blog.  Our bringing them to your attention does not imply that we’ve read them and/or endorse them, unless we specifically say so.  As with all such purchases, we recommend you download a sample and make sure it’s to your taste.  If you wish to send us books for next week’s promo, please email to bookpimping at outlook dot com.  One book...

The Writer Is Lazy

Okay, not exactly true.  I just have a ton of things to do, and most of them are a very physical list of cleaning, fixing, etc.

So, my mind is not tuning in to write a blog.

I’m going to leave you with a picture to have fun with and go scrub floors.

 

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We Can’t Afford Socialism-by Amanda S. Green

[image error] We Can’t Afford Socialism – by Amanda S. Green If you think life is expensive now, wait till how much it costs when it’s “free”.

One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again. – Thomas Sowell

 

This morning, as I sat down to write this post, I stared at the computer screen wondering what in the world I was going to blog about. I didn’t have a book review read...

Places of the Mind

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Amanda is, unfortunately, not feeling well, so her guest post has been moved, hopefully till tomorrow, when she should be more human.

I should have done a post earlier, but I was dealing with administrivia this morning.  So…

Have you ever thought about the places that are part of us?  Some of those places don’t even exist.

I mean, sure, when I was really little I used to base all my imaginary places — hovels to palaces — on grandma’s house.  Considering that by three or four I was imagining...

Alien Curse

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This is probably NOT the final cover.  But it’s the one I have right now, so I’m using it.  I’m very close to finishing this, and yes, there will be more Dyce and second musketeer vampires shortly after.

Sorry this stuff has been so slow, I’ve been… um…. hassled by other stuff and having to take Benadryl to stop the auto-immune flaring up.  For some reason benadryl turns off fiction writing.

Anyway, I’m on about 3 hours of sleep — no, nothing really bad, we just haven’t set up the air condit...

Into The Woods

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Today I woke up with sounds of my childhood — the call of the turtledove, and a lot of other birdsong.  Opening my eyes, I looked out the window at a line of pine trees not so different from my childhood pine trees.  Sure, the intervening ground here is more barren, but the line of trees on a ridge at eye level in the distance could have been the tree line visible from grandma’s garden.

In my distant childhood, when I was a little girl (rumors that say I sprang fully grown from the head of M...

Vows

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Humans are imperfect and transitory beings.  Our moods, attachments and directions, often change.  You don’t even need to scan the Ashley Madison ranks for that.  You just need to go to your local craigslist “Lovely puppy, two years old, moving in with boyfriend who doesn’t want him.  Free to a good home.”  (The ones who try to get rid of their elderly pets?  Those I want to shoot.  We have gone through this six times now, seeing a cat down to that final spiral, trying to keep them as comfor...

Book Promo by Sarah and Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike

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*Note these are books sent to us by readers/frequenters of this blog.  Our bringing them to your attention does not imply that we’ve read them and/or endorse them, unless we specifically say so.  As with all such purchases, we recommend you download a sample and make sure it’s to your taste.  If you wish to send us books for next week’s promo, please email to bookpimping at outlook dot com.  One book per author per week. Amazon links only.-SAH*

 

KEVIN J. ANDERSON AND SAR...

Uncharted is Available in e-version

Uncharted — written with Kevin J. Anderson — is available in e-version now, with the paper version coming out on the eighth.

Yes, I know this is very bad of me, to use this post for promotion.  Look, it’s not even that, it’s that it’s been a really rough week (nothing bad, just a ton of work) and I’m behind on three short stories and a novel.  And I thought maybe you guys would want to see this anyway.

And yes, my bio is wrong on the Baen site, and what they gave to Amazon.  Even counting ONL...

Heinlein Was an Optimist

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If there’s one thing everyone agrees on, particularly those who’ve never read him, is that Heinlein was an optimist.  The cup was damnright brimming full.  We’d go to the stars and stay there. Humans would survive everything, even puppet masters.  We’re rough, we’re tough, and by G-d we can make it.

It’s only when you read him and pay attention, particularly now, thirty years (has it really been that long?) after his death that you realize what a dark canvas he painted his individual streaks...