09/27/12: Back in July, I was the featured reader at the
Tamale Hut Reading Series in North Riverside, reading portions of my recent book,
The Hidden Message, and my brother was there with his trusty camcorder, capturing a portion of my story. I've converted it to a Flash video and have posted it here for your enjoyment.
If you like what you hear, you can pick up the book from Amazon, in either
paperback or
Kindle format. Or if you'd like a copy signed by the author and the cover artist,
send me an e-mail and we can work out how to get it to you. I even have a couple of copies left of my first book,
Casco Cove, if you'd like signed copies of my full output to date.
And if you do read it, would you please post a comment on the Amazon site? I've had offers from family members to write a review, but I figured it would look better if the first review wasn't from someone who worked on the book, or with the same last name as the author.
09/14/12: I used to read Yahoo News all the time, but I switched over to Google News because it seemed to me the quality of the stories they picked to feature has declined dramatically in the past few years. Google News is not as good as Yahoo News used to be (they frequently link to things behind paywalls, for instance) but overall I'm happy enough to not switch back just yet.
But one thing I kept going back to was the
Yahoo TV news page. For the longest time, it was the best place to find out what's going on with my favorite shows, to get information about other shows, and to just read industry stories. Now, though, it seems like it's all reality show news and other crap I don't care about. Plus, it seems like some stories linger there well beyond their expiry date. Case in point: this screenshot of the site, taken just this morning. Why is this still the top story chronologically on the page? Beyond the fact that it's nobody's business if Anderson Cooper is gay, the byline on this article is
over two months ago! Is this still headline news? Was it ever?
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