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Going for a Trilogy
My, the consummate stand-alone novel guy, is going for a trilogy. I mentioned a while back that I was wading into virgin territory by starting a sequel to my finished yet unpublished novel “A Man too Old for a Place too Far.” As I’ve been working on the sequel, the stories line just keep ballooning…
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We Need More Booker T. Washington
As a history teacher, I made sure to excerpts from Booker T. Washington’s autobiography, “Up From Slavery,” into the curriculum. It is of course a fascinating and enlightening study of one boy’s rise out of slavery to become one of the foremost scholars and respected leaders in American history. Now his views did not come…
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Open Submission … (if, if, if …)
I’m currently looking to expand the reach of some of my plays which I admittedly have done very little with over the past couple of years. Researching on-line, I’ve come across some wonderful theatres and festivals who encourage new voices of the stage to submit their work. I’ve very encouraged by all of this. At…
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My Digital Move
I’m leaving Malaysia in four months. I’ve lived here for eleven years, but now it’s time to move on. So you know how this works: sell stuff you don’t want, pack the rest in crates, and shove the remaining in suitcases. That’s how you move. However, I also realized that there is a different kind…
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Facebook Fatigue
I used to love Facebook. But as I’m sure you’ve noticed, its become toxic. Why can’t we be friends without discussing politics? Please, add as many cat memes as possible, but is it really the place to be discussing immigration policy? And yet, I find myself commenting on any number of threads. I cannot not…
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A Meeting with a Beta Reader and More Genre Issues
I had a wonderful opportunity yesterday to sit down and discuss my new, unreleased novel with one of my beta readers yesterday. He provided some terrific insight in regards to characterization and novel pacing. He even shared with me that he felt that the novel didn’t feel like a novel in some regards. He kept…
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Last Chance! Free Kindle Version of “A Love Story for a Nation”
One more day on this great free promo. I hope you’ll love this novel as much as I do. It’s full of suspense, full of twists and turns, full of courage, full of interesting fantastical stories, full of truth about our world, and lastly with an ending that will make you think. And its absolutely…
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Trump’s Order on Immigration: Constitutional or Not?
Trump’s executive order on immigration has set the Internet afire in a dizzying array of memes and vitriolic rants about the president’s bold actions. Those who are dishonest will call it a “Muslim ban” predicated on religion. Of course, that’s absurd for those who actually read the executive order. On the other side, Trump’s supporters…
Author Mark W Sasse 