Reason #2: I now know quality is not the biggest factor in book sales. According to IMDB, Austrian actor Christopher Waltz is 56 years old and has more than one hundred acting credits. Yet, most people outside of Austria and Germany never heard of Waltz until Quentin Tarantino cast him in Inglorious Basterds a few years […]
Reason #1: I know I should not be my own editor I published my first novel, The Savior of Turk (Only $2.99. Hurry while digital copies last!) a little more than a year ago. I don’t know if I’m any smarter, but I was dumber then than I am now. An adage, which I just […]
I got everything I wanted for Christmas this year, which was peace, love and understanding. What’s so funny about that? Not to be picky, but I offer a short list of things I didn’t get for Christmas. I make them available for anyone doing some early shopping for next year: The purpose of semicolons; I […]
We put up our tree last night. It’s a small Fraser Fir. The names comes from an old Germanic dialect which means Dude, you were totally ripped off. I much prefer another variety of Christmas tree called coniferous cheapus. I often buy trees from the boy scouts who have a lot at a nearby church. One year […]
My daughter keeps asking me for a Christmas list, so I’ll write one here, which she can reference if she cares to. I wish companies mistakenly delivered big cans of popcorn to my office year round. Popcorn is nature’s perfect food. Especially when it has caramel drizzled all over it. But I can do […]
Late in the evening on Thanksgiving, after much of the family had left and a handful of us remained, my dad told a story from his childhood. Dad was born in 1929, the same year of the Great Stock Market Crash and the beginning of the Great Depression. In the early thirties, farmers in the […]
I interrupt my regularly scheduled posts on things roughly to do with writing to bring you this announcement: THE LAST TWINKIE IN MY DESK DRAWER. Behold. THE LAST TWINKIE IN MY DESK DRAWER. This wonderful product is also THE FIRST TWINKIE IN MY DESK DRAWER, which I had to have as soon as I learned Hostess was […]
In honor of the movie premiere of Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 2, I provide here a passage from the first few pages of Twilight, the novel: They came up through the stand of cypress that shrouded the graveyard, the pickup hidden off the road in a chert pit clotted with inkblot bowers of honeysuckle. […]
Goodreads Book Giveaway The Night Budda Got Deep in It by Ron D. Smith Giveaway ends November 12, 2012. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win Update: Congratulations to the winners, Pamela V. of Pittsburgh and Margaret C. of Mansfield, PA. And thank you to the 500-plus others to entered the giveaway.
I feel a little grumpy today, so here’s a list of things I would be damn okay never seeing again: Enormity used in a sentence to mean big. When I read something like the enormity of campaign spending, I wonder if the writer means spending is heinous or just really big. It could be both, I […]
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