It's been a few months since I sent out a newsletter, but I'm back at it! Hope you enjoy reading it. Buy a book or two if you'd like to support it. Huzzah!
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Books Are Meant to Be Slow. The erosion of deep reading weakens our capacity to grasp complex ideas.
It's amazing how many folks I encounter who confess to me that they don't read much fiction or don't read any books at all. Reading really is a luxurious leisurely pleasure like sipping a fine wine.
Starman After Midnight is a Finalist for Humor in the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards!
Starman After Midnight is a Finalist for Humor in the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards! I'm honored and excited! With millions of books released every year, I'm shocked and humbled when one of mine gets selected for this type of honor. So, thank you!
www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books...
Thanks! This is a great read.
Paul McCartney sitting with a Dalmatian on his farm in Scotland during the early 1970s
My brief review: Man on the Run is an enlightening doc about Paul McCartney's time after the Beatles as the leader of Wings. Interesting take on him as a has-been or the uncool Beatle & his work ethic. Also his wife Linda's involvement as a Wing's member & their bandmates' personal views as sidemen.
Novel Starman After Midnight is a finalist for Humor in the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards!
My novel Starman After Midnight is a Finalist for Humor in the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards! I'm so excited about this! I'm honored! Congrats to all of the other finalists as well. Huzzah!!!
www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books...
Happy birthday to my little novel Starman After Midnight! One-year old today, this novel-in-stories has exceeded my expectations with great reviews showing up in Publishers Weekly and Booklist, and a fantastic audiobook recorded by Brian P. Craig. Happy birthday, Starman!
Hey Texas, get out and vote in the primary today! 🗳️
Wow! What's up with the area where the price should be though? It should have 12¢ up there, right? Like in this image.
Copies of Starman After Midnight by Scott Semegran in the Austin Public Library bookstore
Copies of Starman After Midnight by Scott Semegran in the Austin Public Library bookstore
The Central Library of the Austin Public Library has a cute shop where they sell books by local authors like me as well as Ron Seybold and Kelly Hitchcock. If you're visiting, then please support the APL and local authors by buying their books.
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Ban guns, not books
Ban guns, not books
Ban guns, not books
Ban guns, not books
Ban guns, not books
Ban guns, not books
Ban guns, not books
Ban guns, not books
Ban guns, not books
Ban guns, not books
Ban guns, not books
Ban guns, not books
Ban guns, not books
Ban guns, not books
Ban guns, not books
And yet, even with this ... after ALL of it, impeachment proceeds haven't started. 😡
Brendan Fraser and Akira Emoto in the movie Rental Family
My brief review: Brendan Fraser in Rental Family plays an American actor in Japan hired to be a family stand-in, a gem of a movie about the desperate need for familial connection in modern society pushed to the brink of disconnection and loneliness. Akira Emoto is fantastic as a crotchety Kikuo.
I'm excited to finish revising my current WIP novel manuscript so I can send it to my agent because I have a great idea for a new novel waiting in the wings and I can't wait to start writing that one!
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Seven years ago this month, my novel To Squeeze a Prairie Dog changed my life. It won the Benjamin Franklin Book Awards for Humor & the Texas Author Project for Fiction. I became the writer I wanted to be. For a limited time, get this humorous & heartwarming novel for only 99 cents on BookBub!
Just finished Wonder Man. What a great friggin TV show! Marvel needs to make more like that. * Chef's kiss *
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Fun issue! And that cover 🤩
Nice!
RIP Jesse Jackson
Robert Duvall in Secondhand Lions
When marveling at Robert Duvall's acting, many people mention The Godfather or Lonesome Dove or Apocalypse Now, but I think of Secondhand Lions—a late-career stunner of a performance by Duvall.
RIP Robert Duvall, one of the acting greats
President Obama
President Johnson
President Roosevelt
President Lincoln
Happy Presidents' Day
It's a fun one!
Comic book mail: Amazing Spider-Man #139. Dec 1974. Writer: Gerry Conway Penciler: Ross Andru. "Day of the Grizzly!" The Grizzly isn't the best villain but there's some excellent writing from Conway concerning Peter's existential crisis about a cheap place to live & working for pennies at The Bugle.
We've been watching Wonder Man. It's great!
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Oh! And after a lousy start, too. 🤔
