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…
Author Archives: Meryl Yourish
Narrative fail
President Obama was leading in the battle for women’s votes, by a double-digit margin, not very long ago. But he couldn’t keep that lead after the debates. But he kept trying to pull the “war on women” bullshit. Then suddenly, … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Politics
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Rocket fire from Gaza, bias from AP
Terrorists fired dozens of rockets into Israel today, wounding three foreign workers, two of them seriously. A day ago, a roadside bomb critically injured an Israeli soldier, who may not survive. The Iron Dome system stopped seven rockets from landing … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Media Bias, Terrorism
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Tuesday briefs
Remember this guy also funds al-Jazeera: The dictator of Qatar, one of the supposedly more modern Arab states, is the first head of state to visit Gaza, bringing money and prestige to Hamas. Mark him in the “enemy of Israel” … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome, Media Bias, Terrorism
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The first week’s sales for The Catmage Chronicles
I had a great first week, considering almost nobody knows that Darkness Rising: Book One of The Catmage Chronicles is out. Twenty-four sales the first week! Woot! Actually, I really am happy about the total. It’s the first step on … Continue reading
Who, exactly, is the cyborg?
I finally put Instapundit in my RSS feed. In the last five days–from 16 October to 21 October–there have been 443 posts. Glenn has been using six co-bloggers. Six. Out of the 443 posts, Glenn has written 258. That’s 58%. … Continue reading
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Sunday news roundup
Mittmentum! The NBC/WSJ poll shows that the presidential race is now a tie. Can it be? Will we truly be ridding ourselves of the worst. president. ever? Hey, he’s directly responsible for my being put from full-time with benefits to … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Middle East, Politics, Turkey, United Nations
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Caturday Tig
My goofball, being goofy. Here he is in his tube toy. And here he is zonked out on the newly-made bed. That’s my fluffy goofball.
Posted in Cats
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Misleading headline of the day
Take a look at this headline and give yourself a minute to interpret it. Jewish and Christian groups at impasse over U.S. aid to Israel Hm, looks like the groups are having trouble agreeing on something, right? Wrong. Christian groups … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israel Derangement Syndrome, Religion
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Friday briefs
When you’ve lost the MSM: McClatchy covers the changing Benghazi story. The AP says that the CIA told the White House within 24 hours that the Benghazi attack was not a mob, but “militants“. Oh, next week’s foreign policy debate … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time, Lebanon, Middle East, Religion, United Nations
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The I thought you said no more briefs briefs
So, what, all of them have been middle-class now? The myth that terrorists all do it because they’re poor and oppressed continues to be busted, as an upper-middle class Bangladeshi boy (a Muslim, of course) was arrested for trying to … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israeli Double Standard Time, Politics, Terrorism, The One, United Nations
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The blogging solution
Well, it appears that after all these months of trying to figure out what to do with this blog, I have decided: I’m sticking around. I’m going to have my author blog for my writing. I will doubtlessly mention my … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Site news, Writing
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Farewell, Mad Libs guy. Blank in blank.
One of the men responsible for bringing Mad Libs to the world has died. Sloan, the last survivor of the trio of founders of Price Stern Sloan publishing, died Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after a brief … Continue reading
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Kitty pictures!
Because Pamela asked for them. First, a “Soon” from Gracie. She was mad at me because I woke her up to give her a pill. Next, Gracie on paper. Last, Tig asleep in his kitty condo. Best $20 I ever … Continue reading
Posted in Cats
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Tuesday, briefly
Can you say “projection”? I knew you could: The Mad Mullah-in-chief of Iran is accusing the EU of being stuck in the 19th century. Of course, the proper response to that is, “Nyah-nyah, that’s 12 centuries ahead of you!” And … Continue reading
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The human bullet
You know, I think I’m just about the only person who really doesn’t give a damn that some idiot went up nearly to outer space and then jumped to see if he could break the sound barrier with his body. … Continue reading
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