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![]() ![]() I thought I was going to go with one but I did not like some of the restrictions. Yves: I spoke to several well-known publishing companies. Morgen: You’ve self-published, what lead to you going your own way? Yves: I wrote There Is No Gray In Moral Failure: A Practical Guide In Preventing Financial and Sexual Misconduct. Morgen: Maybe you could write that one next? What have you had published to-date? I wanted to write an entirely different book! I was based in Fort Washington, MD but my family and I moved to Tucson, AZ this June. I’m a preacher by trade and I’ve just started my “moonlighting” career as a writer. I’m the Founder of Christ Is My Savior Ministries. Please tell us something about yourself, where you’re based, and how you came to be a writer. If you like what you read, please do go and investigate further. A list of interviewees (blogged and scheduled) can be found here. Today’s is with non-fiction author Yves Johnson. Welcome to the six hundred and ninth of my blog interviews with novelists, poets, short story authors, biographers, agents, publishers and more. ![]() ![]() ![]() While the Hell Divers cross an ocean to battle the machines, an old flesh-and-blood threat returns to the islands. The New York Times and USA Today bestselling series ![]() ![]() Now in the seventh book, the series has only gotten better and better…If you love science fiction in a postapocalyptic world then this series is for you! Highly recommended.” The Sci-Fi BlendĪn Audible Pick of Listeners' Favorite Audiobooks of the Month Finalist for the 2020 Voice Arts Award A Gizmodo Pick of the Month A Tor.com Reviewers' Choice of the Month's Best New SSF An io9 Pick of the Month “I was completely HOOKED, when I first heard about Hell Divers by Nicholas Sansbury Smith. Bray, award-winning narrator of the Hell Divers series Seven books in and it’s still got the juice!” R. “I’ve read every word of every HD book and Warriors is by far the best. “A very satisfying postapocalyptic sci-fi…If this was turned into a movie, I’d be there on opening night…I loved it.” Scott Sigler, New York Times bestselling author of the Generations trilogy, on Hell Divers III: Deliverance Smith is to be applauded.” SFRevu on Hell Divers II: Ghosts “A well-told, action-packed tale…This story has something for even those who don’t favor military science fiction and Mr. “Nicholas Sansbury Smith has created a compelling story about people we can care about…From the first page, I couldn’t stop reading.” Orson Scott Card, New York Times bestselling author, on Hell Divers ![]() ![]() I studied dozens of books and, eventually, created elaborate rubber molds from which I could cast the forty-six columns of the peristyle and other architectural elements. After making my first model of it for a class project when I was about twelve, using cardboard toilet paper rolls to stand in for the original’s elegantly fluted Doric columns, I embarked on creating a proper scale model, three feet wide by six feet long, the ambitiousness of which now strikes me as almost absurd and the construction of which was never completed, although it absorbed the next five years of my life. Of these, the Parthenon was the object of an almost obsessive interest. I was a fervent model-maker in my early teenage years, often devoting all of my after-school time to making intricate reproductions of buildings from antiquity. ![]() The difficulty of representing the past accurately-even if that past is itself a dream, a reconstruction of a reconstruction, a palimpsest of a palimpsest-is one known to people other than writers, of course. ![]() ![]() ![]() This volume contains short stories by Balzac, Anton Chekhov, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Dostoivsky, Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, William Faulkner, Gustave Flaubert, E. ![]() This is certainly one of the most comprehensive collections of short stories as it includes almost all of the world's great writers. Now, we take the opportunity to publish a collection of 55 short stories by 55 great writers. Henry & Maupassant will be remembered for their short stories. Short stories have always fascinated the readers throughout the world. Package Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.6 x 1.8 cmīuy at.This volume contains Oscar Wilde's only novel, 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' and all other stories. It contains the famous passage : 'Books are well written, or badly written. Oscar Wilde wrote a preface, which appeared separately in the Fortnightly Review in March 1891. 'It is a tale spawned from the leprous literature of the French decadents - a poisoned book, the atmosphere of which is heavy with mephitic odours of moral and spiritual putrefaction', wrote the critic from the Daily Chronicle. ![]() His only novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray' was published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890 and provoked a storm of protest from the Victorian society. ![]() The world in which Oscar Wilde lived was riddled with hypocrisy and he exposed it in his writings. Oscar Wilde was a genius and he transformed his talent into his stories, plays and poems. Somehow or other I will be famous, and if not famous, I will be notorious', declared Oscar Wilde. ![]() ![]() Along the way, he tells inspiring stories of Olympic gold medalists, leading CEOs, and distinguished scientists who have used the science of tiny habits to stay productive, motivated, and happy. He uncovers a handful of simple life hacks (the forgotten art of Habit Stacking, the unexpected power of the Two Minute Rule, or the trick to entering the Goldilocks Zone), and delves into cutting-edge psychology and neuroscience to explain why they matter. In this ground-breaking book, Clears reveals exactly how these minuscule changes can grow into such life-altering outcomes. He knows that real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions ? doing two push-ups a day, waking up five minutes early, or holding a single short phone call. ![]() But world-renowned habits expert James Clear has discovered another way. People think when you want to change your life, you need to think big. ![]() Atomic Habits James Clear € 26.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 3-5 working days. ![]() ![]() ![]() "He seems perfectly demented." The asylum is deserted (except by ghosts), the entrance blocked with yellow crime scene tape. ![]() "Is he all right?" No, comes the relieved and delighted reply. They literally run into the above-mentioned escaped prisoner. Gomez promises her they will find a home that "no one in their right mind would be caught dead in." Cue the 'Welcome to New Jersey' sign. In this modernized, animated version, we first see Morticia putting on that ashy make-up for what turns out to be her midnight wedding, interrupted by angry neighbors with torches and pitchforks who want all the people they consider weirdos out of town. And their deep enjoyment of what otherwise might seem scary-having an escaped prisoner from the asylum for the criminally insane as a butler, a disembodied hand as an all-purpose helper, applying the ashes of dead parents as make-up, encouraging a child to play with explosives-makes it funny and even endearing instead. Father Gomez (here voiced by Oscar Isaac) and mother Morticia ( Charlize Theron) adore each other and are loving and devoted parents to their daughter Wednesday ( Chloe Grace Moretz) and son Pugsley ( Finn Wolfhard). What makes the Addams Family so appealing is the contrast between the ghoulish details of their lives and the endearing sweetness of their family dynamic. ![]() ![]() Through his network he got wind of the target on his back and took drastic steps to protect himself-including ordering a hit on a former employee. He enlisted a loyal crew of allies in high and low places, all as addicted to the danger and thrill of running an illegal marketplace as their customers were to the heroin they sold. The Silk Road quickly ballooned into $1.2 billion enterprise, and Ross embraced his new role as kingpin. All the investigators knew was that whoever was running the site called himself the Dread Pirate Roberts. Spurred by a public outcry, the federal government launched an epic two-year manhunt for the site’s elusive proprietor, with no leads, no witnesses, and no clear jurisdiction. It wasn’t long before the media got wind of the new Web site where anyone-not just teenagers and weed dealers but terrorists and black hat hackers-could buy and sell contraband detection-free. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything-drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons-free of the government’s watchful eye. The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom-and almost got away with it ![]() ![]() ![]() Tucker is the Bonner Lowry Professor of Psychiatry and neuro Behavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia. And there’s also a page about alternatives to PayPal. ![]() So if you appreciate it and would like to help support it, there’s a PayPal button on every page of the website. ![]() This program is made possible through the support of appreciative listeners and viewers. And if this is new to you, and you’d like to check out previous ones, please go to bat gap comm where you’ll see them all organized in several ways under the past interviews menu. Buddha at the Gas Pump is an ongoing series of conversations with spiritually Awakening people, and conversations about topics relevant to spirituality and enlightenment and all that kind of stuff. If you would like to proofread it please contact me. This is a rough draft generated by Otter.ai. ![]() ![]() We also meet Assail and he becomes a huge part of the future with the Brotherhood. ![]() We learn so much about the Shadows that we never knew and Im so glad we get a book just about them! They have been a part of this world since the beginning and we finally get to learn their whole story. (If there wasnt all of that, Wards books wouldnt be so long and yall would have something else to complain about!) There is a lot happening in this book…be prepared to jump from story to story but by now you should be use to that if you are a true BDB fan. As in every other BDB book, there are many backstories and we meet new characters. The King is obviously another book about Wrath. Guess what? Its a book! It doesnt always go like you want it and thats what makes it interesting! I will continue to read the BDB series because I like the characters and Id like to see how their plot line and lives play out. ![]() The reason I dont read the reviews anymore on Goodreads/Amazon is because some are MEAN. ![]() |