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- Early Humans Watching a Cornfield Grow
- Parable of the Penny
- Meet the Amazon Queens for Women’s History Month
- Destruction of the World as Predicted in the End of Days Prophecies
- Alligator in the Barn and Santa Claus in the Sky
- My Mother Was an E.T.
- Extraterrestrial Ants and the Power of Illusion
- The LITE Train that Saved the Day
Star Borne
Earth’s Extraterrestrial History
Kindle Comic Creator Application
I decided to give the Kindle Comic Creator Application a try for a kid’s book entitled, “Do Turtles Eat Strawberries.” I’d already successfully published several coffee table photo books on Kindle which were written in straight HTML, then run through …
Posted in Animals, Books, Dogs, Entertainment, Kids, Nature, Writing
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The Girl Who Plays With Toads
A question was posted in a writer’s forum, “How did you play with your toys as a kid?” The writer who posted the question answered first, sharing that he played with his Star Wars toys by telling stories with them, …
Posted in Animals, Books, Entertainment, Insects, Nature, Plants
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The Book That Got Me Banned From Photobucket
July 2010: I’d just published Bad Dog to Best Friend, and it’s the book that got me banned from Photobucket. One thing I’m good at is writing a blog and building a website, so of course I started with those, …
Posted in Bad Guys, Books, Dogs, Entertainment, Writing
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The Dumbing of America
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Like many writers, I have a day job. The schools had closed for a holiday and the boss brought her daughter and friend to work, rather than leaving them unattended at home. These two girls were fourteenish, and I was …
Posted in Deep Thoughts, Entertainment, Government, Movies, Writing
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Should a book have a Table of Contents?
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Recently in a writer’s forum, there was a discussion about whether to put a Table of Contents in a novel. Writers fell on both sides of the fence with their opinions. The consensus was that we shouldn’t clutter the front …
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