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Andre if you are ever in Dublin you can come and cook dinner for me!
Patti (Migrating Coconut) wrote: "Yum Andre!I'd love to try that recipe but Dave is allergic to dairy. He can have sheep and goat cheese though. Can you think of a variety that would work?"
That recipe depends on the cheese really, both for taste and for protein.
Greek feta by law is made only from sheep's milk or sheep and goat milk, so that would do. The one time we had someone to dinner with a no-dairy request, when the Yellow Mountain was served as a vegetable dish in place of plain cauliflower cheese, we made it without the sauce and with a plentiful supply of cubed feta. But you have to cover the dish with foil so that the steam from the veg keeps the feta moist (otherwise it dries out), and that makes it a different dish.
But what you could try is gently heating some olive oil, melting the feta in it, and then pouring it over the made dish, and baking as usual. I've made pasta sauces this way with enough success for people to remember them and ask to have the dish again.
Gingerlily (or Cyberlily..) wrote: "Andre if you are ever in Dublin you can come and cook dinner for me!"I'll take you up on that. Don't worry, I'll leave your kitchen tidy, except for some ingredients on the ceiling, too high to wipe off... I call it Action Cooking.
Oh thanks Andre. I've never tried melting feta. I will do soon.
Sharon wrote: "Andre, I just got an email from Amazon UK, suggesting books I might like to read. IDITAROD was number one on that list!"Nice of Amazon to give my book a boost.
IDITAROD a novel of The Greatest Race on Earth is into it's 23rd year as a bestseller, currently on lists in Canada, the UK, Germany, etc.
Sharon wrote: "Andre, I just got an email from Amazon UK, suggesting books I might like to read. IDITAROD was number one on that list!"Nice of Amazon to give my book a boost.
IDITAROD a novel of The Greatest Race on Earth is into its 23rd year as a bestseller, currently on lists in Canada, the UK, Germany, etc.
I also see it is on the list of
Must Buy Smashwords Books
44th out of 428 books
$2.99/€1.91/€2.60
And here's the return plug for Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/IDITAROD-nove...
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Sharon, thanks for letting me know and sending a copy of the Amazon circular to my maiboxl. Uncharacteristically, Amazon neglected to tell the author they were doing him a favour...So, without your kindness, I would never have discovered this.
My family wants me to resurrect a dish I cook with smoked mackerel and rice, a distant cousin of kedgeree. Remind me when I have more time to write it out for y'all.
"VANGUARD ELITE was a real pleasure to read, the writing is rock solid and flawless – every word is the right word, in the right place. The only problem I had is that the first volume of this multi-volume saga is too short. The next volume is written and awaiting publication. Bring it on." — abrwrite/Librarything
CoolMain Press Proudly Announces
the epic saga
of ten intertwined families
who live and die by their love of
their Russian and American motherlands
and the searing passions they
arouse in each other
VANGUARD ELITE Book 1 of COLD WAR, HOT PASSIONS
by André Jute
FROM THE STORMING OF THE WINTER PALACE...
In the beginning they were impassioned young revolutionaries risking only own their lives for justice. The prince, the soldier, the peasant and the baroness became the founders of three families, steadfast in love and war, whose generations are enfolded in the sweep of humans and inhumans, inquisitors and victims, the betrayals of friends and family, the show trials of colleagues, the psychiatric tortures of dissidents, that was Russia under the Communists, right up to glasnost, when the fourth generation must answer the question, Was the result worth three generations of tragic suffering and sacrifice?
And the Americans who opposed them for liberty, the patrician Adams family, the refugee Hirches, the redneck Remptons who became political powers in the land, the McQueens who did not count the price of rising from smalltown mid-America to the highest levels of the nation, the Drexlers who had always served their country, the implacable Southern Hubbells who could — and did — threaten Presidents, and the clever Talbots whose shy Joanne married the handsome Russian who was the cleverest traitor of them all.
In his first novel for two decades, a storyteller who has always had a knack with the true history of men and women will touch your heart and thrill your mind with the risks these men and women took with their lives and their families for the ideals they were born to — which some betrayed, and some paid too high a price for in love, even with their lives.
...TO THE BITTERSWEET END
75 YEAR LATER
$2.99/£1.88/€2.60
COLD WAR, HOT PASSIONS
the series
by André Jute
• around 2000 pages
• launched in eight volumes
• at the rate of one volume per month
All volumes $2.99/£1.88/€2.60 each
FIRST REVIEWS IN FOR
VANGUARD ELITE Book 1 of COLD WAR, HOT PASSIONS by Andre Jute
REVIEW FROM LIBRARYTHING:
The time is 1917; the scene is St Petersburg; the event is the Bolshevik Revolution. Those are the central historical facts forming the beginnings of Andre Jute’s Russian saga. The story begins not with politics but with a character introduction straight out of Russian literature; a peasant and soldier, dislocated, hungry, in the midst of the chaos and abuses of power of a society breaking down. But then Russian history seems to be a state of permanent social breakdown.
For me this was the best part of this story, and recalls Russian literature at its finest. But the entire book was interesting and well worth reading. The Bolshevik Revolution is not a period of history I know much about, or was ever very interested in, to be perfectly honest. Based on what I know of Andre Jute’s work I assume he has portrayed events accurately and fairly represented the policies and personalities of the leaders of the emerging Bolshevik hegemony. At the risk of introducing spoilers, I must say the ineptitude of both sides was a major surprise (some Mexican revolutions were better planned) and in that sense the Bolshevik Revolution prefigures Soviet era society. But I may be guilty of reading more into the story than was intended. The foreshadowing of the coming "Bolshevik Terror" is, I'm sure, deliberate, however.
Dreams #1 was a real pleasure to read, the writing is rock solid and flawless – every word is the right word, in the right place. The only problem I had is that the first volume of this multi-volume saga is too short. The next volume is written and awaiting publication. Bring it on.
--abrwrite/LibraryThing
Q&A today on Unusual Historicals about DREAMS. http://unusualhistoricals.blogspot.ie...Also an except that no one else has from DREAMS by André Jute http://unusualhistoricals.blogspot.co...
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO COMMENT ON EITHER
PS That’s a picture of my heron that’s good for the screen image on your phone. http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting
Andre Jute wrote: "My Christmas Message is funnier than Her Majesty's. Shorter too. http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting"But not nearly as reverential...
Bernard J Schaffer guests on my blog to introduce the second Kindle All Stars charity book, Carnival of Cryptids. Blame Leonard Nimoy - http://bit.ly/W1f673 .@ApiarySociety .@Schooloftheages .@kindle_promo
Entry on my blog that has already violently divided cyclists and other sportsmen...THE DOPING DILEMMA LANCE ARMSTRONG HAS DROPPED TOP LEVEL SPORTS INTO - http://bit.ly/VCKS9Z #cycling #sports #doping
Stieg Larsson Man Myth & Mistress ebook $2.99/£1.88/€2.60. Also in paperback, $15.95.
REVIEW FOUND ON AMAZON
Four Stars
Interesting Readingå
"This is more of a critique of Larsson's work then a biography, but it is an interesting book. Jute goes into the story of his family conflict over his estate and the history of how the books came to be published. He delves into the weaknesses of the story and Larsson's writing and apparent unwillingness to edit. I enjoyed the book and I think anyone who has read Larsson's books would find it worthwhile."
— Lynn Pena "Lover of words" (Allen, TX USA) Amazon (extract only)
New entry on my blog: So what good are parking lots?
Amazing, two in a row of cycling interest... In theory the blog is the record of a writer's procrastinations in rewriting a book that has already gone through umpteen editions. Cycling is GOOD procrastination!
Andre Jute
Review going on to my blog when my internet provider next pulls it's collective finger... I thought about putting it on the recipe thread, but I'm brave, not reckless.***
A FEAST OF THE IMAGINATION
Carnival of Cryptids: An Anthology of Strange and Mysterious Creatures
Editor: Bernard J. Schaffer
REVIEWED by Andre Jute
A cryptid is an imaginary creature. This is the second volume of short stories in which all the proceeds go to a most worthwhile cause, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. But never mind that you're doing a good deed by buying and reading this book, what are the stories like?
Well, they're what I would call "substantial commuter stories". Substantial because they're not short-shorts, they're pretty meaty in ideas and length. And they're commuter stories because several of them, if you're a nervous type, you'd better not read in bed, but on the train or the bus going to work, when there are guaranteed to be plenty of people around.
As for "meaty", I read the interesting author bios at the back first, and then, since I was there already, and since I know Matt Posner from his YA series School of the Ages about the young Jewish magician, I started with his story "The Paring Knife", which is about a kitchen from hell, a TV show from the boiler room of hell, and a supply of cooking ingredients and condiments from a truly olympian imagination. Posner tells his story as a TV script, which is clever, because it makes his almost universally nasty cooking contest competitors instantly accessible to the reader without in the least stereotyping them. I wish I thought first of the cook who tries to use the contest to poison his detested sister right out in public!
"I am reading this now. So well-written, with the combination of graceful, elegant prose and tough subject that matter that makes Andre one of the best around." — Matt Posner on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/professorposn...
VANGUARD ELITE Book 1 of COLD WAR, HOT PASSIONS £1.88
VANGUARD ELITE Book 1 of COLD WAR, HOT PASSIONS
by André Jute
$2.99/€2.60/£1.88
5 Stars
Gone With The Bolsheviks?
Review by Doug Glassford
How do I describe this book... it reads like a literary classic and as a screenplay for a historical documentary miniseries. The language is lush, vibrant even when describing the horrors associated with the Bolshevik Revolution... as with any great nation that suffers the chaos of change brought about by a sudden shift in government. This story follows the lives of three generations of strangers who became fast friends in a decidedly unfriendly environment. Idealists and realists intertwine as things that keep spinning out of balance are justified and vilified in this dense, tense telling of a true historical event; one that helped shape our world into what it is today.
I have not yet completed the final chapters of this amazing narrative. It is difficult to rush through. The imagery through words painted by author Andre Jute makes me feel that I am moving through an art gallery where I wish to study every aspect, explore every color... more than once. I cannot remember when I have read a book of this caliber in recent years. I know that I will enjoy reading this book over and over again throughout the upcoming years and referring back to it's wonderful descriptive use of language imagery to challenge my own writing efforts.
If you enjoy historical fiction that feels like historical fact. If you enjoy immersing yourself into a historical time period or place where you can never physically go. You will enjoy this book. If you are looking for light, quick reading, you might not enjoy this book. It is immediate and had a tunnel vision effect upon me. It might do the same to you, so if you commute be careful; you might miss your bus stop or train stop. Should you wish to read this while on your treadmill, I would suggest caution. You might fall off during a moment of visualization. This novel demands and absorbs a lot of your sensory perception so you should only read it when you have the time and proper place to do so. Even in a coffee shop don't be surprised if your latte goes cold before you've finished the current section or chapter you are reading.
You might think this pure hyperbole, but I assure you as best I can as a faceless reviewer that I am not fluffing this up. I challenge you to prove me wrong.
A man should be allowed to show off once a year!
IDITAROD a novel of The Greatest Race on Earth
4th straight year on the international bestseller lists
Amazon Bestsellers USA
#23 in Kindle Store > Books > Fiction > Genre Fiction > Sports
#14 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Genre Fiction > Sports
#26 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Sports
#34 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Lifestyle & Home > Home & Garden > Animal Care & Pets > Dogs
#10 in Kindle Store > Books > Fiction > Sports
#15 in Books > Fiction > Sport
Amazon Bestsellers UK
#6 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Home & Garden > Animal Care & Pets > Dogs
#20 in Kindle Store > Books > Fiction > Sports
#7 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Sports
#12 in Books > Fiction > Sport
#83 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Sports
#31 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Genre Fiction > Sports
#76 in Kindle Store > Books > Nonfiction > Home & Garden > Animal Care & Pets > Dogs
Amazon Bestsellers CANADA
#5 in Books > Sports > Winter Sports > Iditarod & Dog-Sledding
#5 in Books > Outdoors & Nature > Outdoor Recreation > Iditarod & Dog-Sledding
Amazon Bestseller DEUTSCHLAND
Nr. 55 in Kindle-Shop > eBooks > Fremdsprachige eBooks > Englisch > Belletristik > Populäre Belletristik > Sport
If you're just signing in here for the iditarod, go to iditarod.com for the ceremonial start. The start proper isn't till Sunday 11pm British Time, but on the video of the ceremonial start you can put faces to the names.
For a race so far away you can get lost in the information. So you need keep only four windows open permanently on your screen. Close all others the moment you finish with them. Keep these open permanently:1. This window is your Iditarod Central: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Iditaro...
2. Here's a map of the Iditarod route I had specially drawn. http://coolmainpress.com/iditarodcomp...
3. You need an Alaskan time clock. This one scales to any size you want. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock...
4. The official standings. http://iditarod.com/race/2013/ Learn the bib numbers of your favorites. There is no number for a reason I'll explain later.
CLOSE EVERY OTHER WINDOW AS SOON AS YOU FINISH WITH IT.
The race is on right now, so this is a most appropriate review of IDITAROD a novel of The Greatest Race on Earth by Kathleen Valentine on her Parlez Moi Blog."a good time to re-read this very excellent book"
http://parlezmoiblog.blogspot.ie/2013...
To join me at the race, come to http://www.facebook.com/pages/Iditaro...
Country folk are definitely weird...At the Sign of the Hedgehog
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RECIPEPumpkin makes a novel winter dessert. Cooked, mashed pumpkin is formed into small flat patties, lightly browned on both sides in a little oil of your taste, then slid across a plate to lightly dust them with a mixture of ground cinnamon and finely granulated sugar. Or the covering can be served in a dish with a spoon. Lemon slices for adults, extra sugar and cinnamon for short but growing persons.
Someone said a few days ago in a post I've now mislaid that sales picked up after he/she/it fine-tuned a book's categories.But here's a bunch of categories for Andrew's and my Larsson book, some of which I've never heard of, and including a brandnew one, added this week, in the book's fourth year on the bestseller lists, that I've definitely never heard of --
#88 in Books > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Movements & Periods
-- that someone at Amazon must have popped the book into, because none of us did anything. It raises the question of whether you can, or even should, fine-tune your own categories, or just leave it Amazon.
BTW, if you want to read this book (or for that matter any book on the CoolMain Press list), and you write reviews, don't spend your own money. Just drop me a PM and a review copy will be on its way to you.
BRAGBOX (updated)
Stieg Larsson Man, Myth & Mistress
by Andre Jute & Andrew McCoy
in its fourth year as an
International Bestseller
Amazon Bestsellers USA
#1 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > World Literature > Scandinavian
#1 in Books > Literature & Fiction > World Literature > Scandinavian
#25 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Literary Criticism & Theory
#97 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Genre Fiction > Mystery & Thrillers > Thrillers > Technothrillers
#7 in Kindle Store > Books > Nonfiction > Literary Criticism & Theory
#8 in Books > Crime, Thrillers & Mystery > Technothrillers
#8 in Kindle Store > Books > Fiction > Crime, Thrillers & Mystery > Thrillers > Technothrillers
****#88 in Books > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Movements & Periods****
Amazon Bestsellers UK
#11 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Crime, Thrillers & Mystery > Thrillers > Technothrillers
#6 in Kindle Store > Books > Fiction > Crime, Thrillers & Mystery > Thrillers > Technothrillers
#5 in Books > Crime, Thrillers & Mystery > Technothrillers
#3 in Kindle Store > Books > Nonfiction > Literary Criticism & Theory
#2 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > World Literature > Scandinavian
Amazon Bestseller DEUTSCHLAND
Nr. 1 in Kindle-Shop > eBooks > Fremdsprachige eBooks > Englisch > Belletristik > Weltliteratur > Skandinavien
Nr. 1 in Englische Bücher > Belletristik > Weltliteratur > Skandinavien
Nr. 1 in Kindle-Shop > eBooks > Fremdsprachige eBooks > Englisch > Belletristik > Geschichte & Kritik > Europäisch
Nr. 9 in Kindle-Shop > eBooks > Fremdsprachige eBooks > Englische eBooks > Belletristik > Weltliteratur > Skandinavien
Clasificación en los más vendidos de Amazon: ESPANA
n°3 en Tienda Kindle > eBooks Kindle > eBooks en idiomas extranjeros > eBooks en inglés > Literatura y ficción > Historia, teoría literaria y crítica
n°26 en Libros en idiomas extranjeros > Literatura y ficción > Historia, teoría y crítica literaria
n°34 en Tienda Kindle > eBooks Kindle > eBooks en idiomas extranjeros > eBooks en inglés > Policíaca, negra y suspense
Classement des meilleures ventes d'Amazon FRANCE
n°4 dans Boutique Kindle > Ebooks Kindle > Ebooks en langues étrangères > Ebooks en anglais > Literature & Fiction > World Literature > Scandinavian
n°13 dans Livres anglais et étrangers > Literature & Fiction > World Literature > Scandinavian
n°10 dans Boutique Kindle > Ebooks Kindle > Ebooks en langues étrangères > Ebooks en anglais > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > European
n°15 dans Boutique Kindle > Ebooks Kindle > Ebooks en langues étrangères > Ebooks en anglais > Literature & Fiction > World
ETC
Here's a good crisp, essential read if you want to know why the baddies appeal to you as a reader. It's by Matt Posner, who writes the intelligent School of the Ages series. http://www.writersfunzone.com/blog/20...Here's my graphic encapsulation of this important question:
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And here's the tweet to send to your friends if you want to share this enlightening article:
#Villains in #literature: my analysis. tinyurl.com/b5cvkks @Beth_Barany @The_Evil_Hare @thrillsjute @Chrystallathoma RT
Of course, personally, I've lived such a blameless life, and thought only such wholesome thoughts, that I was shocked to discover there is evil out there!
Listen up folks. Yesterday I fell into conversation with a an elderly gentleman who saw me sketching; it turns out he's a distinguished watercolorist. Last week he was arrested in the UK for carrying penknife to sharpen his drawing pencils, and kept in jail for two days until the magistrate sat. He told me, "There no toilet paper. You have to wash yourself over the toilet." For carrying a penknife to sharpen his pencils... The magistrate dismissed the police case with contempt it deserved and apologized to this man.
Obligatory on-topic remark: Six months after launch, Dakota Franklin's NASCAR FIRST (RUTHLESS TO WIN), which I edited, is still the No 1 bestseller in its category on Amazon.
AMAZON
#25 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Fantasy > Superhero
KOBO
#491 in Sci Fi & Fantasy > Science Fiction
#463 in Mystery & Suspense > Suspense
#128 in Sci Fi & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Adventure Sci Fi
HENTY'S FIST 1: GAUNTLET RUN: Birth of a Superhero by Andre Jute, Dakota Franklin, Andrew McCoy
The Gauntlet Run is the toughest race ever run by man: across America with every man’s hand turned against you from the statue of Liberty to the old US Mint in San Francisco. There the prize awaits you: $10 million and a full and free Presidential Pardon.
The Runner is marked for all to see by an indestructible Fist, keyed to his metabolism. If the Fist is removed without the key from the Mint in San Francisco, he dies. Between the Runner and the key stand the ruthless bounty hunters, the Syndicate’s lethal odds fixers, the sinister Organ Bank chasers, the Humble & Poor Hunt, the US Air Force, and mobs of good citizens, all turned into bloodthirsty savages by the magnificent prize for tearing the Fist from the Runner — and the Presidential license that nothing done to the Runner shall be illegal.
Henty needs two million dollars to send her son Petey to the Artie stericlinic for treatment that will save his life. The care of The Caring Society is exhausted, her chicken farm already carries a second mortgage. Hopeless. But beautiful young Texas widows don’t just give up. There is still the Gauntlet Run. To qualify, you have to be a criminal — so Henty robs a bank...
No woman has ever Run the Gauntlet. No Runner has ever survived the Gauntlet.
You have to pay 99c at Amazon and B&N
http://www.amazon.com/GAUNTLET-RUN-Su...
But you can get it FREE on Apple & Kobo
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GAUNTLET RUN: Birth of a Superhero
My editor is resorting to the sangria.The hard life of an editor 2: Wolves on the Cote d’Azur
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The hard life of an editor 4: The dual-purpose churchyard, renewal and departuresLisa Penington's family, in the South of France for the summer, has survived the storm...
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Does your avatar look like you slept your way to the top? http://www.kboards.com/index.php/topi...
Screamingly funny, if I say so myself.
“Wild but exciting. A grand job with plenty of irony.” – New York Times
DERRING-DO
is Book 3 of
COLD WAR, HOT PASSIONS
the epic saga of ten intertwined Russian and American families who live and die by their love of liberty and the searing passions their fight for freedom arouses in war and peace.
THE GREATEST
SECRET INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN
BEGAN AS ONE MAN’S DREAM
There was David, the Boston patriarch, comrade of “Wild Bill” Donovan and father of the intelligence mandarin Joshua. And Joshua’s friends. The roistering, confessing Richard, the last soldier-priest. Joe-Bob from the Louisiana swamps, who saw the power of politics, an artist with a knife. Hillel, the penniless Jewish refugee from Germany, equally handy with a pistol or a computer. Harvey McQueen, the permanent outsider, the greatest spy of all time, who exposed Kim Philby and dug the Berlin Tunnel into the heart of Russia’s darkest secrets.
And their women. Virginia, the senator’s daughter. Nicole the Resistance fighter. Giselda the German spy. Jen whom the pressure turned into a lush. Belinda the brain. Fiona the faithful.
***
There were two cars. One took away their jumpsuits and parachutes. They climbed into the other car. David sat beside the driver, a woman. He leaned over the back of his seat. ‘The Contessa de Grubelli drove racing cars before the war but I hope her skill will not be called upon tonight. I asked General Donovan to send me his very best men.’
‘To do what?’ Hillel asked.
‘To take over a country.’
‘It had better be a small country, sir,’ Richard said. ‘There are only three of us.’
‘It is only a small country.’
‘Then between us and the sea we got them surrounded,’ the irrepressible Joe-Bob laughed.
DERRING-DO
The new Louisiana Defense:The Grub Street Kneecapping
Self-instruction in property defencse for writers
by Andre Jute
Piracy abounds. For instance, on ScribD, I found the slimy thief ramon1325 who without anyone's permission posted Escribir un Thriller, the Spanish edition of my Writing a Thriller. The legitimate translation into Spanish is the edition by the arts publisher Paidos which is available in trade paperback at all good bookstores in Spain and at the Spanish stores of international internet operators like Amazon, Barnes & Noble etc.
It seems to me the owners of ScribD are just as much slimy thieves for encouraging piracy with their three-strikes policy. If they were serious about wiping out piracy, they would chuck proven thieves off immediately, not give them two more chances to be caught stealing, and put in place measures under which posters have to prove under pain of penalties that they own the copyright of material they post.
It is a provocative insult to make the owner of the copyright swear on pain of perjury to some grubby merchant that he owns his own property before the grubby merchant stops profiting from selling what he doesn't own.
In general, while better than nothing, I think the DMCA notice system is a limp and cumbersome makeshift for protecting intellectual property. It is symptomatic of the low esteem in which creators are held that such a stupidly misdirected remedy could be put in place by legislators trying not to offend commercial interests. People who steal the money of corporations are prosecuted by the justice system; why should people who steal the money of writers not be prosecuted the same way? These thefts should not be left to the perpetrators and facilitators like ScribD to put straight, but should be reported to the police and routinely handled by them like every other property crime, with the criminals, both the thieves and the fences like Scribd, on conviction jailed. A few months on a Georgia chain gang will soon straighten out these soft Californian miscreants.
There should be something similar to the Lousiana Defense (which lets you off for horsewhipping someone who insults a lady) in the arts, under which writers are let off for breaking the knees of scum who steal from them.
Copyright © 2013 Andre Jute. This article may be freely reprinted as long as it is reprinted whole, including the headline and every word of the text, and this copyright notice is kept intact with it.
Reprinted from Kissing the Blarney at http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/
A guest article you really want to read because it could put money in your pocket
by hooking your writing into the collective unconscious.
Yah, I know, it sounds like mumbo jumbo,
but it's impeccable science.
Hidalga Erenas reviews
“The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers”
by Christopher Vogler
Part 1: Archetypes
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ESSENTIAL INFORMATION FOR ALL WRITERSTo celebrate the reissue of
A CRIME OF INFLUENCE*,
Andre Jute’s screenplay from his novel
AN ELECTION OF PATRIOTS,
Hidalga Erenas reviews
“The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers”
by Christopher Vogler
Part 2: The Hero’s Journey
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J. A. Beard on Dialoguehttp://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/ar...
This is a follow-up to
Interview: Matt Posner, author of How to Write Dialogue
http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/ar...
Quite a few new entries on my
blog
, among them a review by Matt Posner of J. A. Beard's innovative Mind Crafter, and a review by James Everington of Jeff VanderMeer's Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction. Also an entry where you can click through to get free books by a whole bunch of best-seller authors at Cookie's Book Club Annual Christmas Giveaway. Sue McLarty, who runs this bonanza for readers and writers must be very popular, judging by the quality of writers she attracts. Enjoy. 
In the dogsledding regions like Canada and Alaska, IDITAROD a novel of The Greatest Race on Earth is pretty much a year-round staple of the bestseller lists and has been since it was first published in 1990. But the interesting thing is that each year in October, IDITAROD a novel of The Greatest Race on Earth starts climbing the bestseller lists outside the ice regions. This is because the intensely loyal fans of the eponymous Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race get involved in the buildup towards the race. Standings in the last day of 2013 for
IDITAROD a novel of The Greatest Race on Earth:
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: US Top 100 Paid
#69 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Sports > Winter Sports
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: UK Top 100 Paid
#43 in Kindle Store > Books > Nonfiction > Sport > Winter Sports
And elsewhere, of course, but there are now too many Amazon outlets to check them all. Also in paperback on Amazon.
IDITAROD a novel of The Greatest Race on Earth
(The first three volumes in a set of eight in an omnibus: VANGUARD ELITE, TERRORS, DERRING-DO.)
Cold War, Hot Passions Omnibus One
COLD WAR, HOT PASSIONS
OMNIBUS ONE by André Jute
the epic saga of ten intertwined Russian and American families who live and die by their love of liberty and the searing passions their fight for freedom arouses in war and peace.
“Wild but exciting. A grand job with plenty of irony.”
New York Times
“Jute has clearly conducted a great deal of research into everything he describes, investing the novel with an air of prophecy. His moral concerns are important.”
Times Literary Supplement
THE GREATEST CONSPIRACY THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN STARTED WITH THE STORMING OF THE WINTER PALACE
In the beginning they were impassioned young revolutionaries risking only their own lives for justice. The prince, the soldier, and the peasant became the patriarchs of three families whose generations are enfolded in the sweep of humans and inhumans, inquisitors and victims, that tells the story of the KGB — which is the story of Russia in the Twentieth Century — from the day Lenin created it as the Cheka in the Smolny Convent: the Extraordinary Commission from the beginning and from the inside, motivated by its own imperatives of fear and fanaticism, through the murders of whole classes, the massacres of kulaks, the betrayals of friends and family, the show trials of colleagues, the psychiatric tortures of dissidents, right up to glasnost, when the fourth generation must answer the question, Was the result worth three generations of suffering and sacrifice?
While on the other side of the world a slumbering giant awoke slowly to a threat, not of a Russian bear stirring, but of German tanks rumbling…
THE GREATEST SECRET INTELLIGENCE AGENCY THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN BEGAN AS ONE MAN’S DREAM
There was David, the Boston patriarch, comrade of “Wild Bill” Donovan and father of the intelligence mandarin Joshua. And Joshua’s friends. The roistering, confessing Richard, the last soldier-priest. Joe-Bob from the Louisiana swamps, who saw the power of politics, an artist with a knife. Hillel, the penniless Jewish refugee from Germany, equally handy with a pistol or a computer. Harvey McQueen, the permanent outsider, the greatest spy of all time, who exposed Kim Philby and dug the Berlin Tunnel into the heart of Russia’s darkest secrets.
And their women. Virginia, the senator’s daughter. Nicole the Resistance fighter. Giselda the German spy. Jen whom the pressure turned into a lush. Belinda the brain. Fiona the faithful.
And there was Hubbell, who saw the final truth. He knew it was greater than power could ever be—and gladly risked the world for it.
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There were two cars. One took away their jumpsuits and parachutes. They climbed into the other car. David sat beside the driver, a woman. He leaned over the back of his seat. ‘The Contessa de Grubelli drove racing cars before the war but I hope her skill will not be called upon tonight. I asked General Donovan to send me his very best men.’
‘To do what?’ Hillel asked.
‘To take over a country.’
‘It had better be a small country, sir,’ Richard said. ‘There are only three of us.’
‘It is only a small country.’
‘Then between us and the sea we got them surrounded,’ the irrepressible Joe-Bob laughed.
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