Just my opinion.
There are some crimes our legislators are continually ignoring, and I really believe the following misdemeanors should be added to the Criminal Code with immediate effect. Any person or persons ensconced in a supermarket check-out queue who darts off to fetch an article or two they forgot and hence creates a check-out traffic jam should…
Now I have to tell you that I was totally shocked yesterday. Jody Ruth very kindly nominated me for … wait for this …. The Stylish Blogger Award! Anyone who knows me would immediately grasp the shock value here as the word ‘stylish’ is definitely one that has never ever been associated with my name…
For me, May signals a time to focus on the business side of writing. With my semester winding down here in America, I have the time to research markets, create spread sheets—in other words, abandon the fluidity and near haphazardness that so often characterizes my creative writing. Looking for opportunities, I checked out the May/June…
A Vandal reader made an astonishing discovery: Google has censored the planet Gloth! Yes, I know it is hard to believe that such a remarkable feat of astronomical detective work by Derek Haines should be covered up, either by glaring omission or, more likely, by a government conspiracy, but it is sadly the current state…
Like a rocket landing in the eye of a full moon, steampunk as a genre has become a recent force in the publishing world. Books such as The Windup Girl, Behemoth, and Corsets & Clockwork are available on Kindle and Nook. There is a large following, as well – Steampunk conventions are popping up in…
While reading a news article recently about dairy farming, I had one of those odd thought moments. It seemed to me that milk and words suffer a similar fate in the marketing process. They are both products at the very bottom of a long production chain. This means that the selling price for the raw…
