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My clothes drier stopped working this morning. (Just stopped. No smoke, sparks, explosions or personal injury — very anticlimactic, for me.) I thought there could be some cosmic connection between that and the potential income from my short story connection, since it’s coming out in just weeks or days, so I did some basic math.

Yeah. I’m not optimistic enough to think I’m going to sell that many copies before I get tired of hanging stuff on the line.

Added by Mark R Hunter on May 31, 2012 at 10:37am — No Comments

Getting Pumped Up Over Fire Engines

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http://www.markrhunter.com/2012/05/23/getting-pumped-up-over-fire-engines/

Getting Pumped Up Over Fire Engines

 

SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK

Most kids love to see a big fire engine, with all the bells and whistles on it. Since Albion just received a…

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Added by Mark R Hunter on May 23, 2012 at 11:30am — No Comments

Storm Chaser Shorts to be released in June, 2012

http://www.markrhunter.com/2012/05/22/storm-chaser-shorts-to-be-released-in-june-2012/

 

 

            Earlier today I finished going through the galleys for my upcoming short story collection, Storm Chaser Shorts, and sent it in to my publisher. It’s now to be released by Whiskey Creek Press in June – one year after its parent novel, Storm Chaser, came…

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Added by Mark R Hunter on May 22, 2012 at 11:00am — No Comments

All the news that's print to fit

SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK

Every now and then all the little news and pop culture items I collect go into one column, usually because, say, roofers are banging on my house and I can’t concentrate on anything longer. Be warned: Finding out what’s going on in the world may cause you to lose your faith in humanity:

A video clip of Adolf Hitler giving a speech was recently used in a commercial to sell shampoo. Okay, did they even look at that guy’s hair? The Stalin…

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Added by Mark R Hunter on May 17, 2012 at 11:30am — No Comments

A writer's first time

http://www.markrhunter.com/2012/05/16/a-writers-first-time/

            There are certain first times that I suspect surprise all writers, no matter how often they may have fantasized about them.

            Emily and I went camping last weekend at Chain O’ Lakes State Park, where several scenes in Storm Chaser were set. At the gatehouse the lady who checked us in asked all the normal…

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Added by Mark R Hunter on May 16, 2012 at 11:30am — No Comments

Stitching Together an Obama Opponent

Mark’s column, Slightly Off the Mark, appears weekly in the newspapers Albion New Era, Churubusco News, and Northwest News. It's also posted on his website at www.markrhunter.com.



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Once again Indiana was left in the cold, as Republicans had their Presidential nomination process all but wrapped up before reaching the Hoosier state’s May primary. In 2008 the Democratic battle…

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Added by Mark R Hunter on May 10, 2012 at 5:35am — No Comments

Window Crushes Home Maintenance Dreams

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            Some things are way funnier in entertainment than in real life.

            Ever seen the TV show Home Improvement? The main character, a tool loving cable TV star, just doesn’t get how very bad he is at his job. Really, the only difference between him and me is that I know I’m mechanically incompetent.

            I had time to think about him as my fingers healed. Boy, sure wish I…

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Added by Mark R Hunter on May 5, 2012 at 11:00am — No Comments

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