A.C. Flory's Blog, page 174
June 28, 2013
The Baby Boomer Generation Gap
“(Special Note: The Joke’s on Me, ebook edition, will be on sale for $3 off its regular price from Friday, June 28 through Saturday, June 29) The burgeoning genre of Baby Boomer Lit fascinates me. I love the stories authors are telling about the challenges confronting this generation as we face our mortality but still […]
June 27, 2013
How Not to Murder Your Grumpy
Knowing how funny author Carol E Wyer is, I expected her new book – ‘How Not to Murder Your Grumpy’ – to be a humorous look at ageing men! Well, it is, and it isn’t. It is definitely funny, and it is sort of about ageing men and their foibles, but hidden behind the humor […]
Muse Wrangling 101
I’m thrilled to announce that my first official post as an Indies Unlimited contributor has gone live! “Good morning Minions. The Evil Mastermind asked me to speak to you today on a subject that is close to his heart – productivity prose. Now I know the P-word can strike fear into the hearts of the […]
June 26, 2013
Where were you when… ?
… Gough Whitlam was deposed as Prime Minister of Australia? Some of you will be too young to remember the furor the Whitlam sacking caused. Some will not have even been born. But I was there, and I was shocked that such a thing could happen to an elected government. We were all shocked again […]
June 24, 2013
Mid-winter break
I’m going to be offline for a few days. Nothing horrible, unless you count having to upgrade your pc horrible. My old pc has served me faithfully for well over five years, but now, despite a fair bit of tweaking along the way, it’s starting to limp, badly. -sigh- To cut a long, sad story […]
June 21, 2013
Drowning does NOT look like drowning
“In many child drownings, adults are nearby but have no idea the victim is dying. Here’s what to look for. Children playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you get to them and find out why….” Please, please follow this link to Sunnysleevez blog post on what to look for re drowning. […]
June 19, 2013
A quiet hero
Quiet heroes go about their lives, doing good things just because they can. But sometimes quiet heroes need a little help. I’m voting for this guy because, despite being hit with a double whammy – cancer and Tourettes – he’s not focusing on himself. He’s focusing on kids with Tourettes, and that’s the only reason […]
June 18, 2013
Laurie Boris – author and editor extraordinaire!
Long before I ever spoke to Laurie Boris, or asked her to become my editor, I read her book, ‘Drawing Breath‘ and absolutely loved it. On the basis of that one book I knew I could trust her with mine. That was all it took. I didn’t ask for her CV or anything sensible like […]
June 17, 2013
Father and Son – by John Barlow
Let me start by saying that John Barlow is fast becoming one of my favourite authors, indie or otherwise, and he doesn’t write science fiction! What he writes is the thinking [wo]man’s crime. Long before I ever read my first science fiction novel, I read a psychological ‘crime’ thriller by the famous Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The […]
June 14, 2013
Ouch. To prologue or not to prologue?
About three months ago I submitted Vokhtah to a review site, a good review site, and every day since then I’ve read the daily review that lands in my inbox. Sadly, I have yet to see a review of Vokhtah. After reading one of the reviewer’s criteria for selecting a submission to read, I’m beginning […]
