books

Digital Book 'Ownership'

February 6, 2021
books, rant, digital rights

I like books. Hardbacks. Paperbacks. Ebooks. Audio books. Old books. New books. Comic books. Dusty old programming books. I love them all. I hoard them where I can. I get a bit of anxiety when I can’t. In theory, digital content should help with that. In reality, it makes my anxiety worse. I’m old. I’m grumpy. I DO like new tech, but I don’t always like paradigm shifts. I can go to a store and buy a book. ...

I got published?!?

February 1, 2021
books, humor, review

My wife made me this shirt for Christmas. I think it pretty well sums it up. This past summer, an author friend from Facebook, Noah Sturdevant, requested submissions for a humor anthology he was putting together. I was on vacation, and feeling more creative than usual… Long story short, this happened. I’m not credited in the Amazon description, but I have both a short story (technically microfiction) and a limerick in it. ...