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Book Signing: Books Are Awesome
I will be signing copies of my new novel at Books Are Awesome in Parker, Colorado
I will be signing copies of my new novel at Books Are Awesome in Parker, Colorado, on February 8, 2020 from 5:00pm - 8:00pm. Come out and see me and pick up a hardcover copy of the book. It's the Grand Opening for Books Are awesome in Parker. There are lots of activities throughout the day. ... more »
Kindle and eBook Sale: Purple Hearted Man
Purple Hearted Man is on sale at Amazon and Barnes and Noble in digital format. This is a chance to get the book at a discounted price—$.99! Get a copy now before the runs out.
Purple Hearted Man is on sale at Amazon and Barnes and Noble in digital format. This is a chance to get the book at a discounted price—$.99! Get a copy now before the runs out. ... more »
Quick Review Of Knives Out
Let’s get this out of the way right at the start: go see this movie. Knives Out is fun and worth the time. It’s an old-fashioned mystery. Think Ellery Queen, Columbo and Clue, even Murder On The Orient Express. It’s filled with completely unlikeable and eccentric characters—none of whom would cause you to be upset if they were guilty. Except, of course, the one person who seems guilty is the outsider, and wholly likable.
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An Event
Writer's Group story. The parameters: Observing a developing civilization and a near-death experience
Movie Review: Ford v Ferrari
Sitting in a packed theater I found it difficult to find anything I didn't like about the movie Ford v Ferrari
Wow! What a good movie. Ford v Ferrari was strong all the way through. The pacing was great and the acting fantastic throughout the entire movie. Matt Damon and Christian Bale were excellent. Even the race scenes felt realistic. It should be noted, if you aren't a big race car fan you'll still enjoy this movie. There was a great deal of excitement around LeMans when I was young, which reminds me how quickly and much things have changed and shifted. Back then, the '60s and even the '70s, racing, and cars in general, were still relatively new and exciting. Reaching the limits of what would be possible was still well into the future and in some ways it was a golden era for pushing the limits beyond anything known. ... more »
Terminator: Dark Fate - Impressions
When the new movie came out and the critical reviews weren’t horrible (71% on Rotten Tomatoes) and I learned it had Linda Hamilton in a lead role, I decided to see it.
Win a Signed Hardcover of Purple Hearted Man
Enter now to win a one of four free hardcover copies of the book! The contest is over at Goodreads.
Jeffrey Keeten Review Of Purple Hearted Man
Jeffrey Keeten has written a nice review of Purple Hearted Man. Jeffrey is considered one of the best reviewers on Goodreads and one of the most followed.
As I was reading this book, I kept thinking about Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, which I read, frankly, another lifetime ago. There is a fairy tale aspect to the way this book is presented that allows Jack McDaniel to talk about serious issues without coming across as moralizing. Purple just wants us all to take a step back and consider that all the things we find to be most important are actually fabricated constructs that should be treated with skepticism instead of veneration. ... more »
Purple Hearted Man On NetGalley
Purple Hearted Man is now available on NetGalley. For those of you who are members, this is a chance to get a free copy and leave me a review.
Purple Hearted Man is now available on NetGalley. For those of you who are members, this is a chance to get a free copy and leave me a review.
... more »Purple Hearted Man Audio - First Chapter
As I have noted before, professional voiceover artist Justin Sewall is narrating Purple Hearted Man. Below is a brief excerpt of the first chapter. Enjoy! And don't forget to pre-order the book.
Joker, The Movie
I’m tired of several things with all of the comic book movies. One is the multi-movie format.
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First Impressions - The reMarkable Tablet
I recently purchased a ReMarkable tablet. There was a great deal on refurbished models so I decided it was time to try one.
Addiction
Writer's group story. The prompts were: Bored AI and something about garbage. 750 word limit.
Filipino Honey
Thoughts of my Filipino honey buoy my sinking morale. Short fiction.
Change Of Gard
The last days of a dying empire.
The Lepidopteran Nuisance
Another writer's group short story. 750 words.
Justin Sewall To Narrate Purple Hearted Man
Voice-over artist and friend Justin Sewall will be doing the audio version of Purple Hearted Man.
Voice-over artist and friend Justin Sewall will be doing the audio version of Purple Hearted Man. I'm excited because Justin is a professional artist and he has already read the book and jumped on board. Justin is also a good writer and understands the process. He and I have been members of the same writer's group for several years.
... more »Purple Hearted Man
The cover for Purple Hearted Man is done!
New book coming out January of 2020.
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Artist and Community Leader
Tadashi Hayakawa isn't just an internationally respected artist who happens to live in Parker, Colorado. He is also one of the community's most valuable assets
Take A Walk On The Wild Side
Cincinnati’s Over The Rhine. Then. A convergence of the grind and grit of life with the surreal.
Loss Of Innocence
It’s not the woods that have changed. It’s more that the freedom I experienced as a youth – that letting go and just being – always ends up in shackles, dragging the weight of time behind it
Our favorite thing to do everywhere in the woods was to turn over the large stones and fallen branches and look at the things living beneath them. We wanted to know what was underneath. A few minutes along the path and at the bottom of a hill was a creek. In the creek it was even more true about turning over rocks, except there we were looking for crawdads. Sometimes we would capture them, sometimes not. It was more about the hunt. ... more »
Discarded Demons
Another science fiction story from the Consortium Universe. Agent Rha Erinsies of Special Branch hunts down a fugitive. This was also part of my writer's group work.
Demons hide in the oddest of places. Folklore and legend has them under beds, just around corners, under ground or in the basement. The Bakkle of Solorn is said to hide in the low hanging clouds on a rainy day. Ha! If only that were true. ... more »
Rearranging Worlds
The rain only knows that it must fall. It has no intent. It seeks no path. But on the ground, well, that is another matter. Raindrops form puddles, congregate together and await the jumps of little girls, and the chance to fall again.
Lilith sucked in air, held her breath, squatted and jumped for all she was worth. A few feet later she landed – SPLASH! – two-footed in a small puddle. She giggled. ... more »
Barrel Of Horror
Ever wonder what life is like inside the Barrel Of Monkeys? Neither did I, before. Now I have. Sorry. New story.
It all started when she had friends over. It started out normally, we were all arm in arm, kids laughing, us reds doing our best to beat the blues. You know. Then they started laughing, the kids did. I got tossed, landed on an edge and bounced into drawer, I think. She pushed stuff into the drawer when cleaning up and was pushed towards the back. There was a crack in the back of the drawer and eventually I fell out, stuck in the darkness under the chest of drawers. Just me, alone. ... more »
Handicap Jesus
Maybe He looked out upon humanity and decided we were more work than He imagined. He could be tired of being handicapped at every turn by our inability to progress in the ways He imagined.
I rounded a corner on my bike toward the end of my normal Saturday morning ride and there He was. It was the first morning in a long while where the sun was secluded, hidden behind clouds and a general mist that also made the morning feel quite cold. Fifty degrees in September in Denver used to be illegal. Now, unexpected weather thrusts at the extremes at odd times and is sprouting up all over like weeds and becoming the norm. But Jesus didn’t seem to notice or care. He wasn’t wearing lycra ... more »
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