Happy Birthday Dad

Hi all you wonderful people out there in the real world.

I just want to give a sincere
"Happy Birthday"
to my Dad who will be 88 years old on September 30th.

I am petitioning the Federal Government at this very moment to make it a National Holiday.

I haven't heard back from the President yet,
but I'm confident that we will soon have another day off from work to celebrate a meaningful or is it a meaningless Holiday.

Happy Birthday Dad.

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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Hello Again My Faithful Friends.

I received some interesting news yesterday about self publishing.

If you don't have a well established fan base reading your material,
to an Agent,
it looks as though no one is interested in your work.

You are better off submitting your stories to an agent
and avoid the self publishing route altogether.

Now I have to decide if I'm going to self publish my latest story or shop it around.

The fifteen or so followers that did purchase my last manuscript are expecting a new release soon,
since I told them I would have one coming out this fall.

I would hate to disappoint anyone.

Decisions,
decisions,
decisions.

What should a young droog like myself do with such a confusing conundrum?

Well,
you droogies and droogets,
I'll sleep on it.

Jim 

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My Faithful Companions

My younger sister,
who will remain nameless to protect the innocent,
visited this Blog the other day.

Hallelujah,
a member of my immediate family actually took the time to give me a little support.

Do I sound bitter here?
I hope not.

Well,
I'm not giving my family enough credit.

My sister
and brother
are just now entering the home stretch as far as raising a family goes.

I was the lucky one out of the bunch who was able to retire at the ripe old age of fifty-three.

(Ha-Ha)

I would like to thank my sister,
for taking the time out of her busy schedule,
she's a teacher don't you know,
to visit my Blog and actually comment on it.

Oh,
she didn't comment on the Blog itself.

No,
she had to send me a separate email to tell me what she thought.

What a little trooper!

I hope you have enjoyed this episode of
"Who Will Read My Blog?"

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That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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Send All Your Prayers My Way

“How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip-oil?

Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly, thou.” 

Don't be offended, Oh my brothers.

It's only a way to say hello.

Maybe not the best way, but it is a way.

I have been writing a lot lately.

I'm doing re-writes on some of my old short stories so I can offer them to Sci-Fi and Mystery Magazines.

Hopefully one of the Mags will buy one of them.

I have also been working on a new Fantasy story which I find kind of fun.

Since I'm not really into reading that kind of material I was surprised when I got the idea for the story and how fast the story has progressed.

The last thing I'm working on, is called "Hitler's Medallion."

I've already written 50,000 words for it, but I came across a part in the story that I didn't like.

I've re-written that chapter three times now.

It has finally gotten better.

All I need to do is go over the whole manuscript once more to see if any more re-writes are needed, then I'll be done.

If you like some of the short stories I posted on this Blog, check out my eBook at www.kobo.com.

In the search engine on their Web Site, type in the title, "No Return Address," click on the one by the author James Hauenstein, and you can purchase my first book for only ninety nine cents.

How can you go wrong at that price?

There is also a money back guarantee!

If you don't like it, I'll send you a penny a year for ninety nine years until your payed off!

Well, thanks for stopping by.

See you soon.

Jim 

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A Personal Thank You

Welly, Welly, Welly, Welly, Welly, Welly, Well.

To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of so many surprising visit of late?

(My impersonation of Alex from "A Clockwork Orange.")

I had no idea people have been visiting my blog.

I only thought I had the one visitor, since my friend Burt is the only person I have ever told to visit my blog.

Thank you to whomever for checking it out.

I appreciate it.

Now if I can get some of you to read my stories under the label "Short Stories & Poems" on the right hand side of this blog.

I would be honored.

Please feel free to comment on them too.

It will help me in the long run to become a better writer.

I have updated the short story A-L-I-V.

Correcting many mistakes and the jumbled plot.

I plan on sending the story to one of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazines out there, hoping they will publish it.

I'll post the name of the magazine if they decide to buy the story.

Wish me luck.

Thanks again.

Jim

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