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July 9, 2013
Barber’s Conundrum Nominated for 2013 Best Indie Book Award: Free E-Book Version For You!
I found out last week that my book — “The Barber’s Conundrum and Other Stories,” is a semi-finalist in the non-fiction category of The Kindle Book Review’s 2013 Best Indie Book Awards. The top 5 Finalists in each category are chosen on September 1st and from there, the category winners are announced on October 1. […]
July 3, 2013
Author Interview with John Hartnett on The Reading Cat
Hello again. I feel like a complete nuisance but here’s another interview in support of my book, “The Barber’s Conundrum and Other Stories“. It’s played for laughs so you’re not going to have to suffer through any stories containing angst, self loathing, trying to write with a typewriter that didn’t have an “e”, bouts of […]
Man Vs. World #23 – Another Black Eye for the NSA
Filed under: Current Events, Entertainment Humor, Humor, Humorous Jokes, Man vs. World Tagged: bugging U.S. allies, congress, epcot center, Europe, government spending, international relations, national security, NSA
July 2, 2013
Sure Fire Tips for Authors. Here’s Ten.
Reporting back again from the whirlwind virtual publicity tour for my book, “The Barber’s Conundrum and Other Stories“, sponsored by the good people at Orangeberry Book Tours. These virtual tours are grueling, particularly with all the rain we’ve been having. Not that you go outside. It’s all done on the computer, still I get a […]
Man vs. World #22 – Planning Your Summer Vacation?
Filed under: Current Events, Entertainment Humor, Humor, Humorous Jokes, Man vs. World, Political Humor Tagged: eric snowden, funny photos, NSA, paula deen, planning summer vacation, russian airport, seeking asylum, travel, wikileaks
Man vs. World #21 — Man’s Best Friend
Filed under: Entertainment Humor, Family Humor, Humor, Humorous Jokes, Man vs. World Tagged: dog humor, missing pets, pet humor, scotties, scottish terriers
July 1, 2013
Author Interview with KY Bunnies
How Many Self Indulgent Posts Does It Take to Screw Up a Relationship? Don’t leave me over this post. I wouldn’t even bring this to your attention except that it’s played mostly for laughs. I did a short interview with the blog, KY Bunnies, a site that focuses on authors, their books and ah, photographs […]
Book Signing Horror Story
Doing some promotion for my book, “The Barber’s Conundrum and Other Stories“, with Orangeberry Book Tours and they asked me to submit a “book signing horror story”. Believe me, it wasn’t hard to do. My post is on a blog called “M0mmy Adventures with Ravina”, which upon reflection, sounds a a lot more “intriguing” […]
June 28, 2013
Friday Weekend’s “One Size Fits All Horoscope”, June 28, 2013
Another scorcher in NJ today. I was getting out of the car and happened to see the mailman and my neighbor’s German Shepard, Lance, giving each other the evil eye and then they both said, “Whatever” at the exact same time and went their separate ways. I don’t know the exact temperature but if it […]
Man vs. World #20 — The Five People You Meet…
Filed under: Entertainment Humor, Family Humor, Humor, Humorous Jokes, Man vs. World Tagged: book parody, five people you meet in heaven, funny photos, jokes, mashup, mitch albom, satire
