The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
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Meanwhile, back at the writing biz
The ebook of Darkness Rising: Book One of The Catmage Chronicles is on sale at $2.99 until Thursday. You can get it via Amazon, B&N, and Kobo. Remember, you can read four chapters for free (and send the link to … Continue reading
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Antisemitism and the U.K.: But I repeat myself.
Yeah, anti-Semitism is still the only prejudice you can express publicly now, pretty much without punishment. To recap: On Holocaust Memorial Day, no less, The Times of London published a disgusting blood libel cartoon of a large-nosed Benjamin Netanyahu cementing … Continue reading
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Did WWII end the Great Depression?
An interesting take on how government spending did not end the Great Depression. When we apply this standard to life during World War II in America, it’s clear that the war did not end the depression in any meaningful sense. … Continue reading
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Found
I’ve been recovering my old short stories from various backup directories, and converting them from XyWrite to Notepad to Word files. Been a busy day. Reading these stories again is like meeting old friends that you haven’t seen in ages.
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Friday briefs
Countdown to the end of the oil weapon: Australia is joining the club of nations who can supply themselves and others with oil. A huge shale oil deposit was found in the south. Israel, Cyprus, Australia, America, Canada–pretty soon, the … Continue reading
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Hamas Military Academy: Watch the world ignore the hate
Hamas is setting up a military academy to train Gaza children to “liberate” “Palestine” (sorry, there are going to be a lot of quote marks in this sentence) “from the river to the sea”. Hamas is planning to establish a … Continue reading
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The Israeli election double standard
The U.K.’s foreign secretary has once again opened his mouth, and out came the dire “last chance” warning that we’ve been hearing about Israel for, oh, a couple of years now. (It’s apparently a really long-term last chance.) Britain said … Continue reading
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Just for kicks and giggles
Do a Google search for “cat belly”. Look at the first image you see. Now click on the “images” tab and look at the first image. Click on that image. The power of Google ranking. And cat bellies.
So, the Israeli election
Yes, Bibi won, and yes, the media has egg on its collective face. All those scary, scary stories about how Israel was turning to the extreme right, and who wins the second biggest number of seats? A center-left, secular party. … Continue reading
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Hamas to media: Visiting the Western Wall is a “provocation”
But really, they’re moderating. Israel just needs to withdraw to the 1949 Armistice lines and Hamas will be all happy and everything will be great. Except it won’t. A spokesman for Hamas said that a visit to the Kotel–the retaining … Continue reading
MLK Day briefs
No work for you? Yeah, that’s because you’re not part-time with no holidays or benefits. Al-Qaeda isn’t quite dead yet: The WaPo on how Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb is the hottest Jihadi group on the block now that the … Continue reading
Home again
This weekend goes down on the Top Ten Suckiest Weekends of My Life. Clearing out your elderly mother’s apartment because she’s in a nursing home? Yeah, I can mark that one off my bucket list. On the other hand, I … Continue reading
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Elder care
Clearing out my mother’s apartment this weekend, as she’s in a nursing home and won’t be going back to independent living, ever. If you or your parents haven’t discussed things with an estate lawyer yet, you should. My brothers and … Continue reading
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Tig on ice
Somebody was mightily displeased with the snow and ice on the deck this morning.
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