September 2011

On sale at Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, and Smashwords. Basement Noir by DeAnna Knippling If you didn’t want me to find out, you shouldn’t have made me a detective. Private Investigator Spade comes up from the basement to investigate the death of Gramps in an old hotel run by a monkey and populated by lunatics. But sometimes the […]

On sale at Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, and Smashwords. Basement Noir by DeAnna Knippling If you didn’t want me to find out, you shouldn’t have made me a detective. Private Investigator Spade comes up from the basement to investigate the death of Gramps in an old hotel run by a monkey and populated by lunatics.

I’ve decided to stop posting weekly free stories. I’m still going to post a story every week; I’m just not going to put them up for free for all, every week.  I’ll have exceptions. The reason is this:  very few people are taking me up on them.  For example, last week, I hadone person do

I’ve decided to stop posting weekly free stories. I’m still going to post a story every week; I’m just not going to put them up for free for all, every week.  I’ll have exceptions. The reason is this:  very few people are taking me up on them.  For example, last week, I had one person

Last night I dreamed of Guinea pigs. Lee, Ray, and I were on our way back from a store in another dream, just walking along a road, when I saw a flowerpot on the side of the road with Cheese Nibs crushed in it.  And the back end of some critter, its little feet kicking

This week is banned books week. While I do not (yet) have a book that has had the privilege of being banned, I have read many, many banned books and have enjoyed most of them. Here is a list of the most commonly banned/challenged books in the U.S.  How many have you read? Italics =

Now at Smashwords, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and OmniLit. Sail away with a free copy of this story, this weekend only, at Smashwords.  Use coupon code NF29C. The Last Voyage of the Mermaid by De Kenyon Steal pirate ship.  Hire crew.  Decide:  wooden leg, hook, or eye patch? Obtain parrot. Arnold had always imagined himself as Captain Hook–only he would

Now at Smashwords, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and OmniLit. Sail away with a free copy of this story, this weekend only, at Smashwords.  Use coupon code NF29C. The Last Voyage of the Mermaid by De Kenyon Steal pirate ship.  Hire crew.  Decide:  wooden leg, hook, or eye patch? Obtain parrot. Arnold had always imagined himself as

Everybody knows about some famous book or other that was censored.  Lady Chatterly’s Lover.  Or an instance where cuss words were bleeped out on screen.  Or even the political correctness movement (which has now morphed into “thou shalt not speak poorly of all things Christian, redneck, patriotic, etc., and don’t you dare say it’s the

Now at Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, and OmniLit. The robots won’t know what hit ’em this weekend only with a free coupon code at Smashwords: KW79G. Factory Above, Factory Below by De Kenyon If Connor had been a robot, he wouldn’t have let the humans live this long. “If you’re really bad,” the Teachers had said, “the robots will come