January 2011 Blog Posts (223)

What constitutes the elements of a good read for you? Do you need to have a gigantic seven foot, disfigured, complex hero type? Aggressive and violent mob bosses? An ex-wife that totally hates the main character? A quadriplegic midget who wants to dominate the world and has dreadlocks that hang to the ground? A main character that is an assassin for Homeland Security and also does work on the side? Wait, how about a group of trampoline using knife throwing circus midgets? I forgot to mention…

In the Middle Ages, a self respecting witch kept a familiar, an animal that acted as a link to the devil. The most commonly recognised familiar was a cat, preferably a black one, but have you ever stopped to wonder why a perfectly adorable animal became linked with black magic?

To answer that question we need to look at the reputation cats had in medieval times. Highly prized as a catcher of mice the 10^th century law of Hywel Dda has this to say.

“The value of…

Now is a great time to get hold of a copy of my latest release, the mystery adventure thriller Glastonbury (4RV Publishing). Amazon.com are currently offering the…

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Hello, my fellow writer;

Are you needing MAJOR EXPOSURE for you and your…

Left Neglected is the newly released novel by Lisa Genova author of Still Alice. I have not read the first one, but quite honestly if it is anything like the new one, I am going to put it on my Goodreads –to read – list. Maybe Goodreads should make a new designation, -must read-, to make things easier. Genova seems to have a thing about brains and the injury that can come to them, in Still Alice she tackles Alzheimer’s, in  Left…

To celebrate the launch of my new novel Zaftan Entrepreneurs: Book 1 of the Zaftan Trilogy, I'm giving away five free copies of the ebook.  The contest will run from January 15 to January 29.  Winners will be picked at random from all who participated in the contest.

Answer the following multiple choice questions and email the answers to me at hanque99@verizon.net.   Under subject…

Press This is a bookmarklet built into WordPress that allows us to grab any web page(s) that we find on the net and publish it on our blog. We can find Press This tool inside the Tools option of the Tools menu. Tools menu can be selected from the main navigation menu. On selecting the Tools option from the Tools menu, we get a page that shows two tools, Press This and Categories and Tags Converter as shown in below given figure.

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Link to Niteblade online magazine's review of "On the Verge of Madness":

http://www.niteblade.com/news/book-review-on-the-verge-of-madness-by-george-wilhite

Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale takes place in a Plasma Universe is a futuristic story of intelligent beings without consciousness and self-awareness. Could this be possible? Author, Leonid Korogodski makes you think that it could really happen -- that our human consciousness could possibly be a direct result of evolution.

Just in case you've never heard of Plasma Cosmology,…