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MY MOST LISTENED TO TITLE:

https://www.amazon.com/The-Bear-with-Two-Shadows/dp/B00CW9O1NY/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

PART OF BOTH MY DARK HOLLYWOOD & 

SAM MCCORD SAGAS

https://www.amazon.com/Her-Bones-Are-Badlands/dp/B00JEOI1BI/ref=sr_1_11?keywords=Roland+Yeomans&qid=1646064121&s=audible&sr=1-11

MY SEXIEST & SASSIEST LISTEN

AND NOT SURPRISINGLY

MY 2ND MOST LISTENED TO AUDIO

https://www.amazon.com/The-Last-Fae/dp/B00DQ9YBNY/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=Roland+Yeomans&qid=1646064613&s=audible&sr=1-4

AUDIO OF MY LATEST HARDBACK;

PROLOGUE AND EPILOGUE

BY WILLIAM FAULKNER!

https://www.amazon.com/Rites-of-Passage/dp/B00E392ZHK/ref=sr_1_23?keywords=Roland+Yeomans&qid=1646064952&s=audible&sr=1-23

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS SALE

TO DIVE INTO MY WORLDS FOR CHEAP.

SALE ENDS MARCH 4TH

HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED HOW IT ALL STARTED?

 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09TDW4XN2?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

NEVER IN PAPERBACK

NOW IN HARDBACK

How did the cursed Captain Samuel McCord become cursed in the first place?

How did he first meet the alien love of his love, the Empress of Death and Shadows?

How did DayStar, his lifelong Moriarty, become his deadliest enemy?

How did Lady Lovelace (Ada Byron), and Margaret Fuller meet to fall in love and to follow McCord all his days?

How did Elu, the Apache son of Mother Nature, become McCord's mentor and Judas?

COMING SOON

THE AUDIO BOOK OF

McCORD'S SON's 1ST ADVENTURE

THE SAGA OF McCORD IN ORDER:

RITES OF PASSAGE

ADRIFT IN THE TIME STREAM

(soon to be in hardback)

THE NOT SO INNOCENTS ABROAD

THE NOT SO INNOCENTS AT LARGE

DEATH IN THE HOUSE OF LIFE

THE STARS BLEED AT MIDNIGHT

HER BONES ARE IN THE BADLANDS

FRENCH QUARTER NOCTURNE

CREOLE KNIGHTS

TALES OF THE LAST WOLF

His appearances in the life of his son, Victor Standish

THE LEGEND OF VICTOR STANDISH

UNDER A VOODOO MOON

THE RIVAL (mostly in 1834)

END OF DAYS

THREE SPIRIT KNIGHT

BEWARE:

McCord's adopted mother,

THE TURQUOISE WOMAN,

will be watching to see

if you buy her son's first

adventure!

ON THIS DAY IN 1836, THE ALAMO PLEADED FOR HELP

 

On February 24, 1836, in San Antonio, Texas, Colonel William Travis 

issues a call for help on behalf of the Texan troops defending the Alamo, 

an old Spanish mission and fortress under siege by the Mexican army.

(A traditional bride and groom in the Ukraine, though I feel now more funerals will be held than weddings in that country.)

On this day in this year, Russia has invaded Ukraine, 

and I foresee many ineffectual international fingers shaking at Russia

and not much else.

(Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland)

On September 1, 1939, the German army under Adolf Hitler launched an invasion of Poland 

that triggered the start of World War II.  

What do you foresee happening after today?

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY, EVERYONE!

 

In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who would be their valentine. 

The single women’s names would be added to an urn and single men of the town would take a name out 

and pin it to their sleeves for one whole week. 

This would allow everyone in the town to see who their valentine was and 

could be where the term “wearing your heart on your sleeve” originates.

Oh, Hobbes gets the ides:

Calvin not so much!

My Go-To Valentine's Day Tune:

May the healing power of love

somehow touch you today

We Are An ENDANGERED SPECIES and How To Go Down Fighting!

 

If you are reading this,

then obviously

you are a reader.

The ranks of book readers 
are shrinking.

A recent study revealed 
that

33% of high school graduates 
plan never

to read another book ...

ever.

That same study revealed

42% of college graduates

plan never to read 

another book either.

I know what you're thinking.

But You and I 
are of another generation.

We reflect the thinking of 

the Past not the Future.

In this Digital, 
Multi-Task Era,

our world is designed

 for shallow skimming 

rather than deep diving.

Think SHORT STORY

Perfect length for this

distractible time.

Don't groan.

Think H. P. LOVECRAFT

His stories existed 
in a linked universe

with entities and tomes

crossing over from one

story to another.

Readers did not have 

to start from scratch

with each story.

The surroundings 
were familiar

although terrifying.

Or have a character common 
to all your stories.

Short stories bring more pressure, 
because like with poetry, 

each paragraph, sentence, and word 
is more important 
than they would be 
inside a large novel. 

 Short stories are precise 
with their delivery, 

they must capture 
the attention of the reader 
extraordinarily quickly, 

and

tell a full tale 
from beginning to end 
in roughly 
a half hour of reading.

Which is the perfect length
in today's world
with too much to do.

If you got anything useful
from this post,
consider
sharing it, will you?

:-)

Can You Have Heart-Warming Horror?

 

(A Farewell to Arms)

Apparently so

I submit for your consideration:

To what lengths would you go

to resurrect your lost first love?

It is the 1st Mardi Gras after WWII

and some wounds are not just

still bleeding

they have become gangrene.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09M59ZYG4

Take a listen or a read.

I do not expect to win a Nobel Prize

or be likened to Hemingway

but I write some of the best prose

to ever be not read.

:-)

HAPPY VALENTINE'S!

Have You Ever Written Yourself Into A Corner?

 

I did with my latest novel

I drove 500 miles on blood runs

 over the weekend,

so no inspiration then.

Monday and Tuesday,

my days off,

found me too exhausted to cognigate!

I try to put Lucas into as tight a trap as possible.

Worse, he had to escape using stage magic!

Then ...

I recalled from a prior book,

Lucas had stolen one of Leonardo's notebooks

on one of his O.S.S. missions.

just as I spotted a cover of one of my research

books on stage magic.

And PRESTO!

The solution came to me

But I start work tomorrow

so

poor Lucas will have to brave death for a week!

Have you come up blank when writing?

How did you write your way out of it?

Now, He Is Become Legend_Jeremy Hawkins_IWSG post

 

https://rolandyeomans.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-hulk-jeremy-hawkins-at-meiloris.html

I just recently heard that Jeremy had died.

Not passed on.

I refuse to hide from the fact that we will all die.

Life is but a promissory note 

and soon or late, we all will hear the knock on our door

that the foreclosure is due.

We will have lost priceless treasures existing in our Now by the searching for Tomorrow's  fool's gold. 

Jeremy Hawkins wrote in comment to one of my  posts:

"I have been trying to obtain a dream or reality for some time now and for me... 

I have hit the bottom. 

Many life situations have sucked my creative side dry and my steps, sites and attention proves it. 

Do we get it back, can I... I only hope too.

 Sadly, it's a long road... dreams are for those who like me, trying and failing.

Though I keep trying, but there is nothing I am trying for at the moment... 

and that thing called reality, that just sucks.

I think I went off topic... dammit, sorry."

Like the Velveteen Rabbit, Jeremy became real by being polished by the rough circumstances of Life.

He was beautiful to all those who knew him. And for the others who did not understand.

It was their loss.

He had a fascinating interview with The Left Hand of Horror:

https://lefthandhorror.com/2012/04/12/fister-interviews-jeremy-hawkins-curator-or-horror-blogger-alliance-author-of-retro-zombie-art-words/

In these past days, whenever I heard of Jeremy, he was always helping ...

with Art design, T-Shirts, a supportive word, or even a post on his magazine, SIX STRINGS

as he did with me: 

“The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.” 

—Robert Southey, Poet

I think a good choice of a musical selection for Jeremy's unique life is: