Book Review: The Worst Hard Time

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan This is a very important book for anyone who cares at all about American history and/or American political policy. It chronicles the dust bowl from when it was nothing but Comanche-owned grassland until the end of …

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ALTERNATE SUSAN

      Happy birthday to you, Alternate Susan! Click here for the paperback, here for Kindle, here for Kobo, Nook, and many other ereaders.                    

Blue Swirl Cup

I made this tumbler to try to practice dragging stringer lines with simple swirls of color rather than actual stringers.  To make a stringer, you need to have a piece of colored glass hot enough that it will stick to a punti, which means putting it in the annealer, which takes more foresight than I …

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Book Review: Hero to Zero

Hero To Zero by Zach Fortier I got this off bookbub, figuring that I was willing to take a chance on a free book. It’s exactly as promised: stories of cops who went from excelling in their career to being persona-non-grata, usually because of hubris. Fortier has a direct style of writing. For the most …

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Need Zombies?

  http://www.littlebrown.co.uk/Books/detail.page?isbn=9781405528825 This is just out. Follow the link to get the book. My story “She’s Taking her Tits to the Grave” is in it, but there are a lot of other people you might also have heard of.