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April 4, 2016
Not Quite so Stories Now Available Direct From The Publisher!
Are you one of the people who doesn’t like ordering on Amazon? Do you like ordering directly from the publisher? Well, celebrate! You can now order Not Quite so Stories direct from the publisher (Literary Wanderlust)! In fact, they’ll have it on sale (along with all their other books) for $7.99 for the entire month of April!
Yay! That makes the sting of AWP being over for yet another year just that much more bearable. It always helps to have something good and literary to look forward to.
April 3, 2016
April 2, 2016
April 1, 2016
March 31, 2016
March 30, 2016
Other Things AWP Could Be
Well, AWP 2016 is about to start. For those in the know, that’s the annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference. It’s huge. Approximately 10,000 people attend each year. However, many aren’t in the know. Some who are in the know still don’t care. As such, I thought we’d take a look at other things AWP could be (courtesy of The Free Dictionary):
AWP
Awaiting Parts (military equipment status)
AWP
Average Wholesale Price
AWP
Annual Work Plan
AWP
Associated Writing Programs
AWP
Aerial Work Platform
AWP
Amusement with Prizes
AWP
Association of Writers & Writing Programs (est. 1967)
AWP
Any Willing Provider
AWP
American Widow Project (est. 2007)
AWP
Association for Women in Psychology
AWP
Arctic Warfare/Police (Counter-Strike)
AWP
Association of Web Professionals
AWP
Australian Women’s Party
AWP
Association of Women Professionals
AWP
Aviation Weather Processor
AWP
AlphaWolfPack (gaming clan)
AWP
Availability Work Package
AWP
Antenna and Wave Propagation (communications engineering)
AWP
Allied Weather Publication
AWP
Assembly Work Platform
AWP
ASEAN Women’s Program
AWP
Automatic Weapons Permit
AWP
Associate Web Producer (gaming)
AWP
Amusement with Payout
AWP
Apparent Wave Period (oceanography)
AWP
Acoustic Wall Panel
AWP
Alice Water Project (La Mirada,CA)
AWP
Alternate Work Pattern
AWP
Algemeen Waterkwaliteitsplan (Dutch: General Water Quality Plan; Belgium)
AWP
Australasian Wood Products
AWP
Amiens Webmastering Production (France)
AWP
Advanced Wireless Paging
AWP
Associate of Woolwich Polytechnic (UK)
AWP
Attract WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.) Project (online forum)
AWP can apparently be many things. Funny how context dependent an acronym can be.
March 29, 2016
Photos From The “Not Quite so Stories” Reading Friday
I just wanted to take a day to share some photos from the Not Quite so Stories release reading at the BookBar last Friday:
Thanks to everyone who took photos and let me access them. I was otherwise occupied, so I didn’t have a chance to take any myself. Thanks to everyone who picked up a copy at the event, though the book will of course be available on Amazon for anyone who didn’t manage to make it.
March 28, 2016
Thanks To All The People Who Came Out To The “Not Quite so Stories” Reading Friday
I just wanted to take a second to say thanks to all those who came out for the Not Quite so Stories release reading at the BookBar last Friday. It was a good time and I was happy to see everybody there. Hopefully everyone was as happy to be there as I was to see them. Hopefully I should have some pics and videos from that up on the book website soon.
The Goodreads giveaway has finished as well. Copies will be going out in the mail to the winners today. Hope everyone enjoys reading. We actually ended up with an amazing 737 people entering, which obviously means not everyone could win. Sorry to those who didn’t, but hopefully people can console themselves by the fact that they can still buy a copy if they’d like. (I really, really hope they do.)
In any event, thanks everybody!
March 27, 2016
March 26, 2016
James Meyers Makes Me Think Of “Family Guy”
I’m sure you’ve heard about James Meyers. He’s the one who was arrested recently for purportedly not returning a VHS tape of Freddy Got Fingered that he rented back in 2001. The warrant for the charge, which apparently only carries a $200 fine, was still active despite the fact that the video store has since closed. This immediately made me think of the bit from Family Guy where Lois makes some comment about needing to return tapes to Blockbusters right before a cutaway where she tosses the tapes in a crater.
Normally I’d provide a link to a clip of that here. However, I couldn’t find one. I couldn’t seem to find a mention of that happening in Family Guy. Maybe I’m remembering it wrong. Maybe it was another show entirely. Anyway, let’s look instead at what might be only of the best clips (in my view, some people didn’t seem to like any clips at all and I wasn’t a huge fan of the movie overall though I did find it funny for the most part) from Freddy got Fingered:
