I finally finished the thriller novel I've been trying to finish for... It seems forever. Done before the end of the year! Now it's on my wife's computer for her excellent proofreading, after which I'll send off for the proof copy.
At that point, I'll be happy to send anyone who wants one (for possible review, for reading, or just out of curiosity) a PDF of the uncorrected proof. Let me know by DM if you want one. If you prefer email, contact me at david@dvorkin.com I'll put you on a list for when it's available.
The book has telepathy, criminals, violence, terrible secrets, and an evil cabal. No sex, but only because it didn't really belong there. It's 70,000 words and is, I hope, a quick, entertaining read.
Here's the cover:
https://i.imgur.com/dApFMmC.jpg
In the far future, when mankind develops the technology to spread across the galaxy, out intrepid pioneers will carry with them in their starships innumerable pots containing saplings to establish forests in their new homes and buckets of moss to establish mossy coverings for rocks in those forests, all of which will have been harvested somewhere near Vancouver, BC.
Remember, everyone, that when the national emergency signal is broadcast to all cell phones and other devices later today, Joe Biden's microchips put into us with the Covid vaccine will activate and turn us into mindless zombies. The only ones who won't be affected are those who believe this conspiracy craziness because they're already mindless zombies.
Well, yes, it's true that I've imagined that and much worse about certain neighbors.
Yeah, it's Fox News, but I love the headline.
Nurse fired for secret affair with patient who died during sex in hospital parking lot
https://news.yahoo.com/nurse-fired-secret-affair-patient-174424348.html
Here's a bit of info about the Threads Web interface. The home page, threads.net, displays a holding pattern at this point, but you can go directly to a person's feed on the Web if you know the username. E.g., my name on threds is ddnothingelse, and you can go to my feed there at this link:
https://www.threads.net/@ddnothingelse
How times change.
I'm reading a Jane Austen novel in which two sisters are talking about their brother Sam and his love for a Miss Edwards. Miss Edwards will inherit 10,000 pounds and her parents have high standards for potential husbands for her. Unfortunately for Sam, that excludes him, for he is only a surgeon.
“Lawmakers are gathering in Washington” sounds so much better than “Republicans are putting on hold their attempt to stay in office by appealing to the vilest elements in American society and slithering back to Washington to try to undo as much social progress as possible, as ordered by their ratfink plutocratic masters”.
Writer, former software developer, tech writer, aerospace engineer (Apollo, Viking Mars lander). Atheist and anti-theist; I try not to go on too much about that and frequetnly fail. Mostly fairly leftwing except on certain subjects; ditto about going on too much about it. Come to think of it, that bit about going on too much about stuff applies to all of the above.