The Miskatonic Manuscript, reviews part 2
6:11 pm December 11th, 2015
Thomas Mitchell’s review of TMM is here: https://4thst8.wordpress.com/2015/12/11/check-out-the-second-installment-in-the-exciting-adventures-of-a-used-book-dealer/
The Miskatonic Manuscript, reviews part 1
5:06 pm December 11th, 2015
Thomas Knapp of Kn@ppster — publisher of the Rational Review news digest — reviews The Miskatonic Manuscript here: http://knappster.blogspot.com/2015/12/review-miskatonic-manuscript-by-vin.html
Miskatonic Manuscript now on sale!
7:37 pm December 10th, 2015
Hardcover copies now available via ABEbooks: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=17818381819
If that doesn’t work, try this link: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sortby=0&vci=51238921 (You may have to scroll down past newer listings.)
Kindle version at www.amazon.com/Miskatonic-Manuscript-Matthew-Chantal-Stevens-ebook/dp/B0197R4TGW/
Tune in tomorrow …
2:11 pm December 10th, 2015
(Followup note: Ernie’s hour-long interview with Vin is on Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/148642352 . )
The Miskatonic Manuscript — “housekeeping”
12:56 pm December 10th, 2015Release day is almost upon us! We sure hope all goes well and our internet connection doesn’t cut out, or that sort of thing. We’ll do our best to have live links up by the end of the day … or failing that, as early as possible tomorrow. Lots of little last minute details to attend to.
If you’ve reserved a low numbered copy and didn’t get a response/acknowledgement from us, you’re probably covered — but we did have a disastrous computer crash here in early August, and might possibly have missed someone. So if you sent a request during July or August, feel free to send us a reminder. 😉 (And please, if you intend to order more than one, let us know that too, as we’ve already assigned lots of numbers.)
Elsewhere on the Net
12:20 pm December 9th, 2015
J.D. Tuccille, author of the Western Lands novel “High Desert Barbeque,” offers a detailed (and amusing, at least to some of us) update on the efforts of the federal government and its statist allies to keep the majority of the lands in the western states in their grasping claws at http://tuccille.com/disloyal/2015/11/09/the-great-western-land-grab/ .
A Thank You To My First Grade Teacher
5:55 pm December 7th, 2015A Thank You To My First Grade Teacher
By: the Brunette
Warning: This is not the heartwarming, mushy sort of Thank You letter most teachers would want to read — it’s taken me fifty years to write it, but looking back on it she taught me the most important lesson of my early life. If you were or are a happy student, or teacher, or just a firm believer in public education — kindly do us both a favor and do not click the “more” link — this was not written for you; I’m not interested in arguing with you, and am glad your experience was a positive one. It’s been written for all those other kids — of all ages — out there who’ve been damaged by the educational system, who choose to read it. I hope they’ll share their stories too … this is just mine, and no doubt others have far worse stories to tell.
What is a ‘gun found at crime scene’?
4:09 pm December 1st, 2015(A version of this column appears in the Dec. 10 edition of “Shotgun News.”)
In October, jurors ordered a Wisconsin gun store to pay nearly $6 million in damages in a lawsuit filed by two Milwaukee police officers who were shot and seriously wounded by a gun purchased at the store, The Associated Press reports.
Getting their kicks (52 miles off) Route 66
3:56 pm December 1st, 2015
ABE Books — now owned by Amazon, last we checked — occasionally posts features intended to encourage customers to frequent and buy from the nation’s remaining “used and antiquarian” bookstores.
Vintage Brunette: What Anarchism Means to Me
12:59 pm November 26th, 2015Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! You guessed it, Brunette here again. 😉
Vin’s a writer, and (not that I have to tell any of you!) a pretty darn good one — I was a fan long before we ever met. But he’s not a blogger at heart … nor am I. He’s encouraged me to post here more often, and I hope he won’t regret it! — mostly I’ve felt reluctant to do so, it’s his blog after all.
Online, I’ve always been Cat — it’s a pen name, not my “real” one, but I prefer it. Because of that, and the fact that I’m a bit of a hermit by nature, Vin long ago dubbed me “the Brunette” — which suits me just fine. Many of you won’t know that for a time (in what feels like a previous life now) I did some writing too. Even had a website, which I created with some help from friends … but life happened, as it has a way of doing, and when a couple years ago I went to update my contact info I discovered that the site host is utterly non-responsive. So now my site exists in a frozen limbo — I can’t access it, period. Perhaps someday I’ll recreate the site from scratch — start over with a new, more reliable web host. But, for now, rather than see my old work totally lost to the shifting sands of time and cyberspace, I’ll re-post an old favorite here. Perhaps with more to come, over time, if there’s sufficient interest.
Here it is — I’ll resist the pesky urge to revise, and post it in its original form (warts and all.)
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What Anarchism Means To Me