Tag: Thoughts
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Four Star for Echo 1 on Goodreads!!!
Thank You Jason Murray!!! Jason just gave Echo 1 a four star on Goodreads! Like I’ve said before, a five star review is the equivalent of leaving me a $1000 tip, and a four star is like leaving me…$999! Almost as good, haha! Anyways, I am currently SLOGGING through Echo 1 again, trying to pick out…
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Musings
To see everything as natural, IMHO, is to evolve towards the “most natural” point of view. Machines and poets, tyrants and saints, even vegans and carnivores…every one of these things has evolved from the swirl of stardust and time. That doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t follow our instincts to make the world a better place;…
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Thank You Recent Echo Purchaser!!!
I wake up and LO! I see that someone bought a copy of Echo Volume 1 yesterday! Whoever that was…Thank You! Just FYI, I’m currently re-editing Echo 1 for it’s paperback release. Soon I’ll have a version that’s not so damn clunky as the one out there right now. Nonetheless, Big Thank You to whoever…
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Musings
As society evolves, it creates new and more insidious prisons—prisons for our time, prisons for our energy, prisons for our thoughts, prisons that are made of obligation and identity….eventually, rather than the accumulation of accolades/wealth/power or even lifestyle, I believe that our collective focus will evolve to center on freedom from ALL prisons, both tangible and…
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Musings
All talent does is give you a clue: a hint, a direction in which to apply yourself. To reach the greatest heights, however, talent is not enough. For without those lung-prickling bursts of effort, what is a clue, a hint, or a direction? A missed opportunity is what it is. Which could be argued as…
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Echo: The Weekly Update
Word Count, Vol.4: 126,133 Thanks to All Who Bought Echo! And BIG THANKS to Melissa, Barbara, Ian, Lorna, [anonymous], Lisa, Meg, Matt, Bobby, F.T., Alice Smith, Leslie Coop, Richard, Shauna, Sydney, Pam, Jessica, Angela, Kiesa, Ross, Keith, Alice and Daina for posting AMAZING reviews on Amazon!!! Ashley too for the 5 star on Nook! I’d…
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Palamades Publishing: Get your fix of poetry, ghosts, and soon…giant robots. That’s right: Giant robots motha duckas!
“Did she see us?” I’m crouched behind a counter in a darkened laboratory, trying to regulate my strained breathing. The question is meant for Bitefighter, my faithful 10 lb. terrier. He lifts his mustachioed face towards mine, and gives a me a grave, “Rowf!” Before I can say anything more, the lab door slams open. The…
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Echo 1 is coming in paperback and other tidbits
Echo 1 is coming in paperback!!! Palamedes publishing will be in charge of the physical stuff. Big changes in Kent Wayne’s routine, so let me give you an impromptu update. First off, Palamedes needs me to give Echo 1 a once-over before they send it to their editor. Editor’s gonna take a look at it and…
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Musings
The pull of sleep, of food, of convenience, of always taking in, of always CONSUMING…those pulls are incredibly strong. It is the rarest and best part of us that wants to overcome, to apply, to accomplish…and not just consume, but PRODUCE.
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Musings
Identifying with a view and saying this is right and that is wrong, this is proper and that is not…as humans that’s an entirely natural behavior, because we humans like to establish a comfort zone and stay there as long as possible. But to embrace the unfolding endlessness of possibility, to jump from view to…
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