Bill Swears's Blog, page 5

Tracking Book sales

I suppose it's early hours yet, but it's abundantly clear that I've spent a lot more time setting up accounts to track book sales than my potential customers have buying books.  If you are within the sound of this blog: a. buy Zook Country; b. tell all of your friends to buy Zook Country.  That's totally a joke, but do it anyway.  It's a good book.

Enough said?  I don't think so.  Maybe I should try individually e-mailing all of my friends.  That should kill another ten minutes or so.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0078X7CPI

Staying busy - Zook Country

Zook Country is formally available at Amazon as a Kindle book.  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0078X7CPI. In the end, I decided that it was more thriller than horror, and have listed it as Action-Adventure and Thriller, rather than urban fantasy, which was my first instinct.  Don't know what I really ought to call it, genre wise.  It's definitely an action book, and not far enough away from us today to call it alternate reality.
   As an aside, Teri and I have bought a business license for  Bleeding Edge Books , which so far is an introductory web-site and an idea, but might yet become more.  I'm looking forward to populating another site, www.billswears.com, which will bring our family derived sites up to about five. 

Sorry I haven't posted more here in the past couple weeks. :-)

Bill

Humpback Whale Rescue

I've always thought that Humpback whales were cool to watch, and something worth saving for the grandkids.  I thought this 8 minute piece was a pretty cool bit of video...

http://www.wimp.com/humpbackwhale/

bill

Zook Country from Bleeding Edge Books

With luck, the e-book version of Zook Country will go up next weekend.  I probably shouldn't bring it up until it does, but I've been running around coordinating things for the last few weeks, and etc, so I'm getting pretty excited. I'll reprise the blurb & etc. once I've got the final book in electronic hand. 

Oh, it will be by Bill Swears - so the voters have spoken...

I'm not welcome at either the liberal or conservative tables.

I’m a gun owning machete wielding landowner (Haven't found a better cure for devil's club on a steep slope than a big knife).  I live on a ridge line in the Chugach Mountains of Alaska.  I believe that the TSA should be constrained, the patriot act should be eliminated or critically rewritten by people who value their rights more than their safety, or even my safety.  I think that every hospital and medical clinic in the US should be able to fearlessly take in every American patient that comes through the doors without worrying about who is going to pay, because they know that the bill will be paid.  Medical care costs have grown beyond the resources of the middle class, and yet the country only exists as a country because of the efforts of that middle class.  We build the chips and datasets, cars and trucks, and the economic environment that allows the rich to become rich.  We do have the right to expect healthy lives, considering how much we participate in empowering this land, for how little of the pool of money, and there is more than enough money in the medical care system to ensure that all of us can. Just the money wasted on insurance overhead and caregiver financial administration would more than care for a sturdy health care system for the currently uninsured.

You might say that I'm an independent voter.  I believe that the banks, not President Bush, took down wall-street
and created the mortgage crisis for a clean and continuing profit (take over a mortgage, foreclose when the owner is one or three payments behind, take the mortgage insurance, sell the house for it's full market value, never repay the insurance payout.  What's not to love about that?).  The national debt was created to fund a war half-way around the world that we won, but whose outcome was never going to create any greater good in the U.S.  Why, weapons of mass destruction?  Not bloody likely. 

Saddam Hussein and his minions were never a legitimate threat to the U.S.  I'd like to know what the real reason was, but I'm betting I'd disapprove.  Western cultures have been trying to remake the middle east for more than two thousand years and it always ends poorly.  Maybe the U.S. really shouldn't go 11,000 miles away and exercise American dominance games.  I'm not sure who it's helping.  I know it isn't me, and I know it isn't my country's economy. 

Mother's Milk - The Gateway Drug

I don't know if anybody has noticed, but mother's milk contains tryptophan, which has been linked to the violent death of millions of turkeys each year, and further, is linked to a lifelong obsession with eating, and many eating disorders. 


Sorry, I just get tired of reading about gateway drugs.