It’s not really a robot, sucker.

Petticoat JunctionImage via Wikipedia

November was a funky month for me. I was making great strides with a novel for the NaNoWriMo, where you chunk out a 50,000 word novel in 30 days with a few thousand of your pals, but about half way through the month I became a little encumbered by some medical issues and couldn’t finish.

I learned a lot though and my family loves the story. They helped me by inspiring the characters. It’s a story about us in the future. It’s what we’d like to see happen next year if we could just up and “Green Acres” ourselves to the country, but 60 years in the future. What would Eddie Albert or Ava Gabor do in 2076? It turns out that my story ends up reading like Forrest Gump meets Petticoat Junction. Dunno if anyone other than Red1 will think that’s funny or remotely interesting.

Fortunately, we discovered that Green Acres is playing over at Hulu:

The other thing I learned is that advertising can be cruel. I really wanted the coffee pouring robot shown in the ad below. Maybe he’ll make an appearance in the book.

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Crave/CNET Blasts off with Top-10 tech tricks we’re sick of seeing

Top-10 tech tricks we’re sick of seeing in movies | Crave – CNET

[This list is long gone. Too bad sites didn’t keep their permalinks permanent. Guilty!]

This is a great list from last week, but it’s sure to be a classic. Super zoom in, bad cell phone reception, copy the data off the enemy’s computers, all cliches that we must put an end to.

I promise not to put any of these into my book.

Hilarious clips in the article including this one, which is one of my very own personal pet peeves.

CassaStar – art and coverage

CassaStar coming soon from Alex J. Cavenough

“…calls to mind the youthful focus of Robert Heinlein’s early military sf, as well as the excitement of space opera epitomized by the many Star Wars novels. Fast-paced military action and a youthful protagonist make this a good choice for both young adult and adult fans of space wars.”
– Library Journal

How nice is that?!

Alex is about to be published next month, and you can preorder,  but Amazon doesn’t even have his book cover on the listing yet.

How long will it take for one of the fans to add their own artwork?

Steve Jobs while presenting the iPad in San Fr...Image via Wikipedia

When will it be available on Kindle or the Apple iPad store. Barnes & Noble?

Will Steve have to buy his copy on paper? How SciFi is that?

To learn more about the book, go straight to the source.

http://alexjcavanaugh.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html

I suppose my copy will have to be on paper! Yours, too?
 

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