For anyone following me you might notice around 100+ emails for blogs posts. This is not a virus. I am merely reposting old blog posts from Google’s Blogspot to this new blog here on WordPress. It does not make sense to maintain a blog that is not supported by its […]
Monthly Archives: September 2012
12 posts
I am a member of Toastmasters International. Why? As an author, it provides me with the tools to present my stories to the public. It provides a feedback forum on my interpersonal skills, communication skills and yes, even my writing skills, because I convert my written speech to verbal. In […]
As an author I am able to converse with other authors from many countries. My favorite is to converse with British people because their sense of humor is closer to mine than American humor. I was raised on watching Monty Python’s Flying Circus on PBS whenever our rabbit ears and […]
As a CPA and financial advisor, I’ve done public speaking for over 20 years. My largest audience ever was around 2,000. The topics were of course accounting, tax, business, investments and technology. Only those interested in such topics attend and pay any attention to my speeches. Two years ago I […]
An independent author’s success is dependent on one thing and one thing only, the reviews of their readers. We need a review to prove people are actually reading our stories and to assist us in improving as an author. Because of this we independent authors have to have a thick […]
I am going to go out on a limb here in the hopes of learning from fellow authors and readers. If you read that a novel was influenced by Christian, Jewish or Islamic faith, would you immediately discard reading the book? The reason I ask this is that many stories […]
I am currently on my fourth book of a nineteen story mythology. I have already completed a trilogy which by itself stands alone as very entertaining and though provoking read. This fourth book is an expansion of the history contained in the first nine chapters of the first book of […]
This month on the opposing blog edition, Female Code, is a post the lengths women go through to have a baby and all that follows afterwards. I called this post Baby Olympics, because I finally realized it was a game between women. If one announced she was pregnant, a race […]
I was involved, against my will, in a conversation with my pregnant daughter-in-law, daughter and wife about our upcoming grandchild. It was in that conversation that I learned another female friend of my daughter-in-law wanted to be the first to announce a pregnancy. My daughter had already announced she was […]
When I began drafting the mythological world of Allivar in the year 2000, I wanted to create a complex, yet original universe of characters, races, worlds, monsters, etc. Leading the way to my influence I turned to my lack of knowledge of mythology. I had enjoyed Greek and Roman mythology […]