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Weak and Wounded Sold Out In One Week!

Thanks to your tremendous support, the signed Limited Edition hardcover of Weak and Woundedsold out in ONE WEEK. My thanks goes out to everyone who placed an order.I suspect Vincent Chong’s amazing cover artwork convinced a lot of people to take a chance on this collection of stories, so I want to thank him again for his amazing work:

10 Reasons I Think My Samsung Galaxy S Was Manufactured On An Ancient Indian Burial Ground

Based on all of the scientific data I could gather, I think my Samsung Galaxy S was manufactured in a plant built on an ancient Indian burial ground.

Here are some of the features that weren’t mentioned on the box:

1) Two to three times a day, it’ll freeze and I have to pop the battery out. When I start the phone back up, it notifies me that the battery is almost dead — even if the phone was just removed from the charger minutes before it froze.

2) It often takes three tries to open a text messa...

Testing The Comments Section On BrianJamesFreeman.com

I had a little trouble with the comments function on this site — specifically, the comments function stopped working for a bit — but I think everything is back up and running now.

If you have a moment, could you try posting a comment to this post, just to make sure the commenting process works for you?

If you’ve never posted before, your comment will go into the moderation queue to make sure you’re not a spamming robot trying to sell everyone handbags, but I will get it approved later today.

Tha...

Weak and Wounded Announced by Cemetery Dance Publications

Cemetery Dance Publications has announced my new mini-collection of short stories, Weak and Wounded, featuring an exclusive introduction by Ron McLarty and original interior illustrations by Glenn Chadbourne. The signed Limited Edition and deluxe Lettered Edition are already 80% sold out, so please don’t wait if you’re on the fence.

About the Book:

This new collection by Brian James Freeman features characters who are searching for answers to deeply troubling questions.

* In “Running Rain,” a de...

Elmore Leonard On Writing (Part Two)

I’ve quotedElmore Leonard on this blogbefore. He passed away this morning, so I thought I’d post another of my favorite things he had to say about the art of writing.

Elmore Leonardon writing: “If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”

Glenn Chadbourne’s Painting of “Night Surf” by Stephen King

This isGlenn Chadbourne’s painting of “Night Surf” by Stephen King from a promotion Cemetery Dance Publications offered a few years ago:

Spammed By Term Paper Writing Service On My Term Paper Post!

A while back, I wrote a post about a student who basically wanted us to write her term paper for her: A Student Needs Help With A Term Paper

This morning, I was notified of a pending comment in the moderation queue for that post. 99% of the time on a post that old, these comments are spam.

(The only exception is my post Restoring A Mac From A Time Capsule Back-Up Via the Ethernet Port, which a lot of people seem to find thanks to Google searches related to a problem they’re having.)

Normally the...

Audiobook of Blue November Storms Now Available For Just $6.95!

I’m very pleased to report thatBlue November Stormsis now available as an unabridgedaudiobook read by Steven Roy Grimsley for just $6.95 onAmazon.com,Audible.com, andiTunes.

I’ve always thought of this early work of mine as a “chills and thrills” B-Movie type of story and I thinkSteven Roy Grimsley ran with that idea when he recorded his excellent reading. This audiobook features the revised version of the text and the introduction by Ray Garton from the trade paperback and eBook editions that...

Having A Little Fun With Telemarketers (How To Open A Clown Hospital)

Telemarketers have started calling my house again even though we’re on the Do Not Call list.

Some people get really upset about this sort of unsolicited phone call, which I understand completely when the call comes in the middle of the night or wakes your baby during the day, but so far these have been normal sales calls during the work day and there’s been no harm, no foul.

Some people get so irate that they swear at the caller, or deafen them with an air horn, or generally vent about the stat...

Very Cool Inscribed Copy of IT by Stephen King

A book collector named Chad was the grand prize winner of TheDarkTower.org’s latest fundraiser for The Haven Foundation and his prize was a copy of the Gift Edition ofIt: The 25th Anniversary Special Limited Edition by Stephen King, which King very graciously agreed to inscribe to him. I absolutely love the inscription and Chad was kind enough to permit me to show off a photo of what King wrote to him and his son: