It happens every year. Acorn Productions in Westbrook, Maine announces a call for new plays, and dozens of playwright hearts flutter. In April of 2013, the 12th Annual Playwrights Festival will showcase monologues, 2-minute plays, 10 minute plays, one-act plays and full length scripts. They are “looking for the best new plays by Maine-based playwrights.” […]
Month: September 2012
It’s Not Your Father’s Army…
…nor his country either. I’ve just returned from grandson Derek’s Army Infantry “Turning Blue” and Advanced Individual Training (AIT) graduation exercises at Fort Benning, Georgia. It’s been fifty years since I was last there doing a little training of my own, and I’m here to tell you that the place and the people are nothing […]
Interview
My Author Interview on Chompasaurus Reviews Blog
Random Effects of Ratings on eBook Sales. What’s luck got to do with it?
Well… the answer may well be: a lot! This fact emerged from experiments carried out by sociologists Duncan J. Watts, Mathew Sagalnik and Peter Dodds which Watts described in his 2011 book, “Everything is Obvious* (*Once You Know the Answer)”. Their work focuses on online markets. This post of mine is based on Robert H. […]
Querying Bloggers
Anne R. Allen’s Blog: How to Query a Book Review Blogger—and Combat Paid-Review Mills
Review of Venceremos by Howard Waxman
Venceremos by Howard Waxman My rating: 4 of 5 starsI discovered Venceremos in the Book Section of the Portland Press Herald. Howard Waxman is from Bath, a neighboring town. Most of all though, I was attracted to the novel because of its subject matter – the late 60’s early 70’s years when young men had […]