For some reason, I can’t post my usual cover-art-and-blurb attempts to sell my books to folks, today. And trust me, I have been trying all day.
BUT I did go on twitter to remind my followers that (a) I exist and (b) I write things. That counts… right?
Please go to my Smashwords Profile and buy generously.
“It occurs to me…your inability to use the brain evolution granted you is none of my fucking concern.”
(There’s a difference between being differently abled and BEING WILFULLY IGNORANT)
[AN: Oh, don’t I know it. Just look at the majority of the Republican Party, anyone wealthy enough to never worry about bills, or Tony Abbott]
They’d carried through with it. The police, who he paid for with his taxes, had done little but make
Read more »OUT NOW!
All of 2014’s instant stories, packaged in easy-to-access format. Corrected of errata.
And because I love you [And because I fail at basic math] you don’t just get 366 stories… you get 367!
Click on the pic to go get your copy today!
…and please purchase generously…
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I’m editing One Leap Year of Instants and pondering the nature of the Bechdel Test.
See, I’m also writing Kung Fu Zombies and the very low bar of the Bechdel Test is, for the first time ever, a very hard bar to clear.
Why?
Well… my protagonist and sole POV-holder is a self-absorbed, self-centred, self-important, white male. Age twelvish.
And he doesn’t get his head out of his arse until act three. The last third
Read more »Read more »Arizona pyrope garnets occur in a remote section of the Navajo Nation in Arizona. The gems have never been mined commercially because there aren’t enough of them. The entire world supply of these gems depends on those living nearby who collect a few stones after the occasional rainstorm and trade them at local stores.
This gem is most commonly called “ant-hill garnet” because they are “mined” by ants. Ants find the garnets while digging their anthills, drag them out, and discard
Read more »“Hmrph… but that’s how it always is, isn’t it? Just because they have so many prolific bards and scholars in their employ, they think they get the rights to dictate how everyone else is seen by the future generations - they don’t even TRY to ask my opinion… I’ve got scales on my butt older than their eldest king, and they still think they know more about my kind than I do… Humans are utter idiots.”
Catlike,
Read more »“The first great technological innovation in this ancient and primitive society,” the documentary host said with a small chuckle, “was the idea of attaching a very big blunt rock to the end of a very long stick to smash their enemies and prey at a relatively-safe distance, rather than attempting to engage them at closer range and bash them with a somewhat-smaller pointy rock held in the hand…”
A pause for effect as the camera passed across the
Rapid tissue cloning from donated cells + vat-grown flesh as food-products = “My God… I’m delicious!”
They’d called the restaurant Eat My Ass. And the staff handed out FAQ sheets as to why they did it.
Fast-tissue cloning worked best on the muscles of the gluteus maximus. Which, in the kitchen/laboratory, became the best well-marbled meat individually tailored for each customer.
They had a wide variety of dishes that, technically, were veganism in its purest form. No animal had to
Read more »Sales Report
As you can see, people are downloading my free titles on a regular basis. The most popular is also the most recent, Interview Inside a Terrarium.
Actual sales, people who got the paid titles in my repertoire, remains low. Only one sale each of Hevun’s Ambassador and Hevun’s Gate. You can see them on the line graph on the far left.
The good news is that most of my downloads are coming directly from Smashwords. If
Read more »Free prompt! This ticket entitles the writer to do any daily drabble that just needs to be written, and may be used out of sequence.
[AN: The following is a preview of sorts for my book-in-progress, Kung Fu Zombies. However the point of view presented may not appear in the book. Essentially, I’m cleansing my mental palette]
If she wanted to be kind, E would say that Aiden astonished her. Amazed, confounded and confused. Maybe even a little bit of
Read more »T’reka and some of the weirder things humans eat….
Of course putting a settlement into otherwise pristine land was bound to cause some ecological imbalance. The absence of so very many trees meant an upswing in homeless insects. Some of whom took the deforestation as a cue to breed.
The insects fed the birds and amphibians, who took the excess food as a cue to breed.
Which meant there was now an excess of Gargantua frogs looking for food in all
Read more »*Has entered the top 10 of Best Gifts I would love to receive*
And there isn’t a link why?
Seriously…i need this
it’s called “Kit to Thwart Writers Block“ by Elizabeth Dilk.
This is perfect.
*BREATHING HEAVILY*
Dear Santa…
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Australian Pelicans are like something out of Jurassic Park - like they remember when things like them ate things like you, and are just biding their time. (I literally asked a zookeeper “do they run off with toddlers?!?” when I saw one for the first time)
[AN: I have not met any other kinds of pelicans, so I just assumed they were all like that. And for the record, they prefer fish.]
Irwin glared at the current batch of temporal tourists. Another
Read more »Terri Main (via pancake-angst)Read more »You’re a writer, the ‘normal’ ship sailed without you long ago.
Read more »Theory: Part of the reason for much of the socially-driven guilt and negativity about the body and sexuality is because of clothing hiding it, as if the normal human anatomy is something to be avoided and shamefully concealed. Without clothing to obscure and interfere, people would be effectively forced to confront the natural state of themselves and others, and without the perceived stigma of hiding and shame, such negative attitudes and personal guilt would soon vanish as people became more acclimated to