($0.99 Ebook Day is pretty much every day, but let's keep that to ourselves)

I have just published my third book, Idiot Pageant.  It is ridiculously expensive to buy in paper version, so get the ebook instead!


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Y'all know I've been having trouble with my Thursday night writer's group for a few years now.  Chief among my complaints is that every time I read a section set in Iraq I'm told I'm too preachy.  And, lj, I hate to admit that you were right when you told me all those months ago to quit.  But you were.  So right ( Read more... )

 I need a fun, outdoors tourist place in pre-Katrina New Orleans.  Maybe a park or something?

And...go!

 I have a character who's religion has gotten a little out of hand (christian).  Any suggestions for a ring tone for his cell phone?

One of my friends recommended that to overcome a problem I have in my writing I take a poetry class.  I suggested books as a helpful alternative.

Anyone have any good poetry books/poems to recommend?

Let's say that you are in a country that doesn't really have a strong judicial system in place to protect your rights.  You've been accused of a crime and been ordered to open up your password protected computer and locked desk drawers for an investigation ( Read more... )

If you were going to seriously injure yourself so that you couldn't play soccer (ever) how would you do it?  What body part, what action.

Thanks! 

If you were a lone man going to destroy a brothel in a fit of rage, what method would you use?  I have an easy idea, but I used it in my last novel and I don't want to repeat myself.

If I were to make fun of Halliburton in my story, what name should I give them that would get the most mockage?  I had written Hellabuilden, but that sounds odd coming out of my Iraqi character's mouth.

Ideas?

Dear US Soldiers in Baghdad,

Can you please put the appropriate name of the building on your website when you post pictures? I am aware that Saddam had many, many palaces. But only one is called the Republic Palace and only one was used as the US Embassy.

For example, this building:

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