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new ebook - "Getting Gone" - Exclusively for Kindle at Amazon.com

It's kind of a good book.My new ebook "Getting Gone" just hit Amazon.com! It's a novella (that's a short book ... keep up), and I'm very excited about this one! Here's the cover blurb from Amazon: 

Shawn Stewart is kind of an unusual husband.

He has high-functioning Asperger's Syndrome, but that hasn't stopped him from becoming an incredibly wealthy inventor with a gorgeous wife. Brilliant and resourceful, and sometimes a little clueless, Shawn knows he's anything but a typical guy.

When his wife, Christine, turns out to be an ex-spy and is murdered by someone Shawn thought was a friend, he's forced to go on the run and stay one step ahead of the organization that will do anything to bury one of Christine's darkest secrets.

Buy it here! http://amzn.to/UiVlm3 Exclusively for the Kindle, at Amazon.com!

 

thanksgivingness

I'm so very, very, very, very grateful you're here. No one ever comes here.

support "the world of steam"

Anyone who knows me knows I love Steampunk. So it's no suprise that I would definitely want to see this guy come to life!

Kick in a few bucks and help bring a pretty amazing new series to life. 

Kickstarter is a way to put the power of creating stuff like this back into the hands of the creatives. No studios. No networks. No red tape to cut through. Pure creative energy on screen. That's a dream for a lot of creatives out there, and now there's a means to make that dream a reality. 

vulnerable creative wordslinger

A touchy-feely message from your friendly neighborhood Wordslinger. With guns and missles and manly weapons of mass destruction. Implied.

golf balls (and the nature of writing)

Things we know from science. WORD science. 

done up wordslinger

It's really pretty impressive how the camera just follows me around.

creative apathy and other good times

I'm not a political activist or commentator, and I'm not an advocate one way or another for involvement in politics, so you'll have to take this for exactly what it's worth: I'm not voting.

 

I'd also like to make something absolutely clear: You should be proud of yourself for voting, making your voice heard in any way, large or small. You should be proud that you chose a candidate who closely represents your views. You should be proud that you have the freedom to place that vote. Don't let anyone, especially me, convince you that voting isn't important if it is, in fact, important to you. 


My apathy toward the process is entirely driven by my firm belief that the person occupying the office isn't the problem—the shattered, mangled, openly broken and bleeding system is the problem. I believe that "politically active" should mean "involved in the bureaucracy and mechanics of government," not "involved in the sexiness of politics." It doesn't matter to me who the President is, because he's a powerless figure who can only act as far as the system will let him act. The system, then, is what we should work so hard to change, and then the 4-year-job can practically be filled by anyone.

If you want to be active in government, start ignoring the politics and start digging deeper into the mechanics of the system. Find office holders who actually work to make a change and support them, if that's your bag. But mostly, look for something that needs doing and then fill that gap. IF you want to be active in government.

If you just want the show, the drama, the adrenaline of the race, then you're really, truly in luck. Because that's all this is. The big show. Every four years, a new season. 

 

 

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This video will change your life. Or it won't. One of these things is true. The other is not.

who are me?

I like me.

And granted, Me is a dynamic, ever changing, every improving concept. So I like the Me right now. It's got a vintage flavor, but also a hint of high-tech herio wiht a dash of spice and style. And funny. And immodest to a fault. And not bad looking.

I think people should like their Me more. 

I spend a very large quantity of time focused on building a brand, a voice, an outward-facing persona for my clients. There's  a lot of chatter about 'how we're connecting with the community" or "how we're facing the public" or "how we're being percieved" or "who we're reaching with our marketing language." There isn't so much chatter about "What's our Me? Who are ME?"

And aside from sounding like a native from a bad movie, that's a pretty big question to ask yourself. If you're trying to develop a marketing strategy—or just trying to promote yourself as  musician, a novelist, a blogger, or whatever—the focus is almost always on what you're going to say to the community. But you can't figure that steamy little nugget out until you know what you're saying to yourself.

What's the story you're telling yourself in the mirror or in the board room or in the team meeting? It needs to be a good one, because it needs to be the reserve fuel you fall back on when all other motive force is depleted. 

I like me—my style, my sense of humor, my conscious effort to create value, my conscious decision to help people any way I can—and that Me fuels my brand. It lets me define the cues I'm giving to THOSE WHO WATCH, THOSE WHO READ. 

There will be folks who disagree with this next statement, and I can understand why ... but life is marketing. Every moment of the day is an opportunity to improve your message, to bring more value, to boost your brand. Start with Point Zero. Define your Me. Then go out and make a difference in the world with it.