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February 1, 2013
News and Notices from the Writing Trenches #41…
#232: Follow-up about Amazon reviews. For more evidence that Amazon reviews in general represent meaningless information for potential book buyers (for more, see my three-part series a few weeks ago), consider the treatment Randall Sullivan’s Untouchable, a bio of Michael Jackson, recently received. According to the NY Times, a group called Michael Jackson’s Response Team to Media Attacks wrote enough one-star reviews to knock the book off Amazon. Whether you call this free speech or bullying...
January 31, 2013
Roles…a short story gift…
Another freebie…this short story will introduce you to NYPD homicide detective Sgt. Rolando Castilblanco. You might not have met him before. This was written after Pop Two Antacids and Have Some Java, an anthology about some other cases he lived through with his partner, Dao-Ming Chen. They are main characters in The Midas Bomb and Angels Need Not Apply. They will also be featured in The Golden Years of Virginia Morgan…coming soon! A third yarn about Castilblanco helping Chen, who has been fr...
January 30, 2013
Flight from Mother World, Chapter Five…
Flight from Mother World
Steven M. Moore
Copyright, 2013
This novella cannot be reproduced for any reason without the express consent of the author. It has been serialized and e-published in the author’s blog for the sole enjoyment of his online readers. It is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of characters to persons living or dead, Humans or Rangers, is purely coincidental. Any settings are purely the creation of the author’s imagination, as far as can be determined.
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Chapter Five
Far Place,...
January 29, 2013
Idealogues, young and old…
Secretary Hillary Clinton’s grilling by the Senate committee is more evidence that Congress has become a brothel where members prostitute themselves to ideological America. While Dem leadership (Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Reid) also makes a habit of doing this, the GOP senators hounding the secretary had no desire to discover the truth—they only wanted to score points in order to make themselves more attractive to their paying customers, the ultra-conservative rich elites who give billions to Super PACs...
January 24, 2013
Review of Chris Angus’ London Underground…
(Chris Angus, London Underground, Iguana Books, ISBN 978-1927403020)
As the Brits would say, this book is smashing fun and fiendishly clever. How to categorize it? It’s a sci-fi horror tale, a strange double romance, and a war story. It’s an overseas adventure, at least for U.S. and Canadian readers—readers in Great Britain will have fun recognizing places in new and old London and possibly remembering the horrors of the V-2 bombings; readers in Norway will be pleased to see their country feat...
January 23, 2013
Flight from Mother World, Chapter Four…
Flight from Mother World
Steven M. Moore
Copyright, 2013
This novella cannot be reproduced for any reason without the express consent of the author. It has been serialized and e-published in the author’s blog for the sole enjoyment of his online readers. It is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of characters to persons living or dead, Humans or Rangers, is purely coincidental. Any settings are purely the creation of the author’s imagination, as far as can be determined.
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Chapter Four
Mother Worl...
January 22, 2013
Ten ways to spot a gun fanatic…
Although I doubt any gun fanatic reads this blog, if you think you might be one, read the following characteristics. Please note that I’m not talking about a gun enthusiast (simple hunter, skeet shooter, authentic target-range aficionado, etc.). Again, if you don’t understand the difference between fanatic and enthusiast, read on. For other people, some of the characteristics below might be amusing, others just plain sad…because there’s always truth in humor!
1) Go to a gun show and watch how...
January 18, 2013
News and Notices from the Writing Trenches #40…
#227: New sci-fi thriller goes into final editing. The Golden Years of Virginia Morgan, a novel starring DHS agent Ashley Scott, is in its final editing stages. I hope to release it sometime in this first quarter of 2013. Readers will recall that Agent Scott is a friend of NYPD detectives Chen and Castilblanco, but she has been hounding me to feature her in her very own novel. As the title hints, this one is related to Boomers dealing with retirement. I hope your retirements will be more peac...
January 17, 2013
The Arab winter…
How appropriate! It snowed in the Middle East. If that’s not symbolic of the Arab spring turning to the Arab winter, I don’t know what is. Even if we don’t have confidence in nuclear power, solar energy, or natural gas (especially fracking), it’s imperative that the U.S. become energy independent in order to avoid all the turmoil in that part of the world. The longer I live, the more I believe that the Middle East is a hopeless case, a patient who is terminally ill and better off dead. If R.I...
January 16, 2013
Flight from Mother World, Chapter Three…
Flight from Mother World
Steven M. Moore
Copyright, 2013
This novella cannot be reproduced for any reason without the express consent of the author. It has been serialized and e-published in the author’s blog for the sole enjoyment of his online readers. It is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of characters to persons living or dead, Humans or Rangers, is purely coincidental. Any settings are purely the creation of the author’s imagination, as far as can be determined.
Chapter Three
Mother World,...
