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Two Worthy Projects for Certain Writers . . .

Are you the kind of writer who thrives at a café? Do you read there? Write there? Make valuable friends there? Do you have a favorite writer-friendly café? Are you looking for a writer-friendly café? Enter the Thesis Whisperer—”Just like the horse whisperer — but with more pages“ From their About Page: “The Thesis Whisperer […]

A Few Videos To Help Spark Your Creativity

Regular readers might remember the posts I’ve done that explain the trials and pain I’ve had, discovering how to incorporate social media into my writing life—3 years of what I have to call Tribulation—”…from Latin tribulare ‘press, oppress’, from tribulum ‘threshing board (constructed of sharp points)’, based on terere ‘rub’.“ For the past few months, […]

Can A World Government Be Anything But A Dictatorship?

Here we are at Friday again with another Behind The Scenes of Notes from An Alien post. The book is still for sale and still free —> Grab a copy :-) That last link will also lead you to a Preview of the book and some Reviews. Also, please don’t forget you can ask Any […]

What Do You Want To See On This Blog?

This is the fourth survey I’ve had on this blog—the longest yet—probably take all of two minutes to complete… It’s all about what You want to see here. There are some choices you can make that have to do with my short novel, Notes from An Alien. If you haven’t read it, you can just […]

Tell Me What You’d Like . . .

This is the third or fourth survey I’ve had on this blog—still in the latter stages of recovery from my operation (plus, all the meds) and it’s late at night; otherwise, I’d run a search and nail that number down :-) I can say with certainty that this is the longest survey yet—still, it will […]

Knowing What Happened Before The Book’s Beginning . . .

This is one of the Special, Friday posts—Behind The Scenes of Notes from an Alien, my short novel, which is for sale and also still free :-) As always, I encourage you to ask Any questions about the book in the Comments of Any of these Behind The Scenes posts. This post has Spoilers so […]

Fictional Science & Science Fiction

My most recent book might be considered sci-fi by some readers or perhaps Speculative Fiction… And, even though science fiction doesn’t have to have accurate science (since it’s fiction), many sci-fi writers strive to keep most of their science authentic or at least “plausible”… So, where do they go to get it right? If writers […]

Cleaning Out The Closet . . .

Regular readers know I use a number of sources for possible blog posts—I even use myself on the Friday Behind The Scenes posts :-) I gather possibilities without deciding if they’ll actually turn into a post—some I just can’t figure out how to use, though I still think they’re worth reading… So, here come some […]

A Great Place for Writers (And, Readers) To Buy Professional Books

Quoted from the March post, How Do Words Get Into A Dictionary?: “I subscribe to the Oxford Dictionary Pro but their free online edition of the Oxford Dictionary is good, too. “Naturally, the dictionary is managed by the University of Oxford—”It is the oldest university in the English-speaking world, and the second-oldest surviving university in […]

A Library Without Books?

Well, not quite—all the books will be E-books :-) It will be in San Antonio, Texas. The ABC News Site has this to say: “It sounds like an oxymoron, but come the fall of 2013, San Antonio’s Bexar County is going to be home to the BiblioTech, the country’s first book-less public library.” “Library goers […]