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24-HOUR AMAZON GIVEAWAY

Okay, I know what you’re thinking…first U2, now Brindley.

Am I right?

Well, let me tell you straight away so we don’t have to muddle through all the confusing media reports that are soon to follow — I did not demand from Amazon to allow them to give my short story away for free anywhere near as much as U2 demanded from Apple to allow them to giveaway their album for free.

Though, negotiations were pretty stiff.

In the end we settled on mutual terms: I allow Amazon to give away my story for free and Amazon allows you to write a Reader Review to tell everyone how awesome we both are, me for the writing, and Amazon for allowing the rest of us to exist in their world.

Hey, don’t blame me.

I didn’t make these new New Media freemium rules.

I’m just a slave to them like everyone else.

But them are the rules – content creators now are required to give their creations away and the consumers are free to do what they want with it. All in the hope that they, the consumers, will be kind enough to pay us, the creators, with a few sentences telling everyone what they think about all this free stuff they’re receiving/demanding.

Don’t act surprised — I warned you…

24-HOUR AMAZON GIVEAWAY 12:00AM – 11:59PM (PACIFIC) October 7th, 2014

Filed under: Business, Short Stories Tagged: Amazon, Apple, fiction, free, freemium, giveaways, New Media, publishing, short stories, U2, writing

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Published on October 06, 2014 06:52

#HONGKONG

#☂REVOLUTION

Filed under: China, Freedom Tagged: democracy, 香港, free speech, freedom, liberty, protest, revolution,

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Published on October 05, 2014 22:40

Unfallen

Filed under: Photography Tagged: GIMP, Lake Erie, nature, photo editing, photography, spring, trees

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Published on October 05, 2014 15:33

Haiku of the Autumnal

like decaying leaves

first we whither, then we fall

oh, the coming days!

*

sullen sky today

yet still, aspirations burn

shadowed paths revealed

*

low, gray clouds advance

footsteps crack like breaking bones

the wind’s chill churns deep

*

the pine’s evergreen

or the maple’s sudden fall

flare comes with a cost

*

with the winded leaves

with the doves in their mourning

I explode with life

*

soon the leaves will fall

thereafter, soon, too, the snow

soon, all is too soon

Filed under: Poetry Tagged: autumn, autumnal, evergreens, fall, haiku, leaves, life, maples, poetry, poets, trees, writing

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Published on October 05, 2014 08:22

Society of Evolving Species

Filed under: Poetry Tagged: access, culture, evolution, no access, Poem, poetry, poetry videos, society, species, videos, writing

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Published on October 04, 2014 16:34

The Presupposition of The

If it is employed, then one must suppose that it is being supposed, as it has been for over a thousand years, that it is known to what it refers.

Or it should be known.

Or it will be known.

Filed under: Language Tagged: assumptions, English, etymology, grammar, grammar history, history, humor, linguistics, riddles, suppositions, the, writing

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Published on October 04, 2014 11:42

“PRO” TIP: HOW TO GET MORE “LIKES” — GUARANTEED!

Well, I guarantee that you will get more “Likes” from me, at least.

And that is the collective “you,” btw.

Look, I love, love, love to read.

And I especially love to read Indie Authors, Indie Poets, Indie…

Well, let’s just say you had me at “Indie.”

Which is why I believe WordPress is the best invention since the remote control.

WordPress is an organic eruption of creativity and expression.

WordPress is Indie Heaven.

If I could marry WordPress, I would…among other things.

In fact, there is so much Indie creativity and expression erupting from WordPress that it is impossible to gather it all in.

That is why the WordPress Reader is so critical to me and my endeavor to read and appreciate as many Indie Writers and Creators as I possible can.

I pretty much live in that Reader.

In fact, you could just about call me a WordPress Reader agoraphobic.

I really get a bit antsy when someone, or something, tries to prompt me away from it.

So, if you are one of those creators who think you are going to get more page views by only showing a summary of your post in the Reader so we’ll click out of it to your website, well, I’m here to tell you, chances are you probably won’t.

At least not by me.

Usually.

Hear me when I say that I really want to both like and “Like” what you have created. And while I may not always like your message and/or content, I will just about always like and “Like” the effort.

As you well know, as is evidenced by your own sweat equity, Writing and Drawing and Poeting ain’t always easy.

It takes effort, and I like effort…especially when it’s coming from others.

But I am not going to like or “Like” something unless I read it, all of it, with my own eyes.

Now I’m sure some so-called pro bloggers will “Like” just about anything, whether they like it or not, and whether they read it or not.

But that’s not me.

I’m here for the content and the relationship building that quality content generates.

But if you’re trying to drag me away from my Reader then…let me tell ya, you better have a really, really good hook of a title and some powerful content in that Reader summary.

It happens sometimes.

And I really look forward to those times when it does.

But, in all honesty, it doesn’t happen nearly enough.

So, help me help you help me by going to your Dashboard, then click on your Settings, then click on Reader, and then where it says For each article in a feed, show, please, please, please click on the Full text radio button.

If you do, the Writing Gods will smile on you.

And so will I.

I guarantee it…

Like/”Like” it or not.