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9/16/2015 – CO Pot Tax Waived, ‘Fearkiller’ FREE on Kindle

In honor of Colorado waiving the tax on marijuana for the day, I am offering Fearkiller (Volume 1) and Notes from Trillionaire Island: Fearkiller (Volume 2) FREE on Kindle.  So go buy your pot. Don’t pay tax for it. Then go get my books at the Kindle Store. And don’t any pay pot tax for them, either.

FREE Download — ‘Fearkiller (Vol. 1)’ — 5/13 and 5/14

So you’re thinking that the $2.99 price for Fearkiller (Volume 1) seems a little high. You’re thinking of all those cars, jets, mansions and yachts that you could be buying with that $2.99. Then there is all that college you could buy for your kids with that $2.99. Or maybe you’re thinking, “How many rain forests … Continue reading →

Optimism

– excerpt: Notes from Trillionaire Island: Fearkiller (Volume 2). Also posted at Medium. Optimism. Take a minute and ponder the concept of a hot tub. Get your mind out of the gutter. We’re not being pornographic here. Think about what you buy versus what you desire. You fork out a couple grand for a shaped piece … Continue reading →

Open letter to myself in February of 2009, part 1.

– article also posted at medium.com   “Gee, maybe the new presidency will stabilize the country.” Dumb-ass.   Hi, picture of me in February of 2009. (With everything that has changed in six years, you and I still run behind schedule. The future version of you was meaning to write an end-of-the-year piece for 2014, … Continue reading →

The Buffalo Billican: Colorado’s vanishing breed of citizen.

My state is getting press lately for a variety of things. This makes me happy. Why not? Good press. Bad press. Whatever. As long as mass shootings aren’t the topic, I’m enjoying the energy. Even attempts to revise the American History curriculum in the Jefferson County Schools—I hate this on one level, but the overall response … Continue reading →

A fearkiller: not as fear-ish or killer-ish as it sounds.

  Now that you’ve read the above definition, forget it. Forget you ever saw it. The words after it, too. Back to reality. October, 2014. We just heard this “fearkiller” word. Let’s think about this word. Cue dramatic music. That guy who does all the trailers that need his moody, throaty voice starts to speak. … Continue reading →

Quick book announcement

Hello and happy Sunday. I need to make a quick announcement. The book: I had spacing issues in a couple of later chapters. (Learning about how things lay out in different Kindle versions when you’re a writer who puts scripts in their stories.) I fixed these issues. If you bought a book and those chapters … Continue reading →

First 30 pages of my story

Well, Notes from Trillionaire Island: Fearkiller (Volume 2) is now available. I’m excited. More blog posts on the story’s core subject matter soon: the post-Great Recession growth in income inequality, offshore banking, and predatory capitalism are some of the areas covered. In the meantime, check out the opening 30 pages of my story. (The Amazon page has the … Continue reading →

Sequel news

Notes from Trillionaire Island: Fearkiller (Volume 2) Author’s Note.   First off: to those who have read Fearkiller (Volume 1), thanks. It’s been a cool ride in the almost-two years since I put that book out there. The strain of fear I wrote about in that story is still around, but I see it lessening … Continue reading →