tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35614191493378265992024-02-19T01:24:37.108-05:00Kevin B. Henry<center><i><p>The Man! The Myth! The Author!</p></i></center>Kevin B. Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08683442253754617047noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3561419149337826599.post-38561474013638969282014-11-22T08:26:00.000-05:002014-12-29T08:43:24.393-05:00Guest BlogCome read all about me. I'm a guest blogger today.<br />
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Anyone who Retweets on Twitter, Likes on Facebook or comments here gets a free hug!!Kevin B. Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08683442253754617047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3561419149337826599.post-29757981799938377372014-11-05T15:21:00.002-05:002014-11-05T15:21:19.593-05:00Series Release DatesSo, <b>Amber Gifts </b>is a series now. Officially. <i>Champagne Books </i>will be publishing two more stories in the series in 2015. Here are the current release date:<br />
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<b>Amber Prelude:</b> <i> June, 2015</i><br />
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<b>Amber Legacy: </b> <i>November, 2015</i><br />
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I am thrilled, excited and grateful that these fine folks have decided to continue my stories.Kevin B. Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08683442253754617047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3561419149337826599.post-10686639380799111982014-10-28T12:24:00.001-04:002014-10-28T12:29:36.837-04:00Changes<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPH1Oh8pJJoMDDCWCFGaAI9EQkJlNGc5H4glW9pULaUeWECRhT4vzUpptbKNBapMwWdEfiQtRp55iZpfV31gt-WL8pGIiL2B1kgs7NVr2OXx3w9CRjt9CBHF8Kp597XhzHH4FkRgj7KM8/s1600/Me+in+Oregon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPH1Oh8pJJoMDDCWCFGaAI9EQkJlNGc5H4glW9pULaUeWECRhT4vzUpptbKNBapMwWdEfiQtRp55iZpfV31gt-WL8pGIiL2B1kgs7NVr2OXx3w9CRjt9CBHF8Kp597XhzHH4FkRgj7KM8/s1600/Me+in+Oregon.jpg" height="150" width="200" /></a>It's official! I'm changing all the old signage and using the phrase <b>Amber Gifts Series</b>.<br />
It's cleaner and less confusing. (Even to me!)<br />
Check it all out when you get a chance.<br />
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Visit <a href="http://ambergifts.blogspot.com/">Amber Gifts</a> on the web.Kevin B. Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08683442253754617047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3561419149337826599.post-50744781314430686642013-07-16T13:44:00.000-04:002013-07-16T13:44:00.270-04:00Books...<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Some books are to be tasted, </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">and some few to be chewed and digested.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> <i> -Francis Bacon</i></span>Kevin B. Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08683442253754617047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3561419149337826599.post-31228906432251817502013-06-27T09:19:00.003-04:002013-06-27T09:19:58.987-04:00I've been reviewed.and they seem to like me!! I'm so excited.<br />
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Today I can tell people I am a published author. Amber Gifts is officially available at Champagne Books. Here is the <a href="http://www.champagnebooks.com/" target="_blank">LINK</a>.<br />
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I've had a struggle these past eight months and I won't go into morbid detail, but I've have a lot of trouble gaining consistent access to the Internet. This has caused me to miss out on a lot of promotional activities and opportunities to learn more about what I can do to increase my visibility which hopefully would increase some book sales.<br />
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I also am at a place where I can't provide a lot of 'swag' for promotions. I have lots of ideas, so I'll let you guess what is the lacking component. On the upside, I've got the edits done on Prelude and I feel comfortable submitting it, as soon as I have all the additional documentation prepared.<br />
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<b>Update: </b>I just found my book available over at Amazon. You can not believe how that makes me feel. I've bought all sorts of things from Amazon since they were a little hole in the wall online store. Now I'm part of their inventory. That just makes my head spin... but in a good way.</div>
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Kevin B. Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08683442253754617047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3561419149337826599.post-91145049171015791172012-12-05T12:38:00.003-05:002012-12-05T12:38:44.366-05:00I Has Book Cover!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I can't say enough about the book cover for Amber Gifts. It's wonderful and amazing and I think Trisha and everyone at Champagne Books is awesome. Thank you all!Kevin B. Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08683442253754617047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3561419149337826599.post-48116350901404625122012-07-27T08:10:00.000-04:002012-12-05T12:39:13.673-05:00I Graphic<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have a new cover graphic at the <b>A</b><span style="background-color: white;"><b>mber Gifts</b> web site</span><span style="background-color: white;"> and also over at the <b>FaceBook</b> page. My champion graphic designer, world class blogger, award winning and best selling erotic romance author, <b>Samantha Lucas</b> did the heavy lifting and creating for me. Thank you so much. You should check out her books. You won't be disappointed.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">The banner is just some really minor changes, but it brings everything together in the way I want to present the series. I think familiarity and consistency are going to be important, so this change was important to me. I have the one story in the pipeline to be published and two stories I need to prep and submit. Champagne Books gets first dibs and I hope they accept them. They seem to be a great community of authors and editors. I really like them. I'll need to have a Plan B, just in case I get rejected.</span><br />
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For the three or so people, planet-wide who have ever read this blog, you may notice a new icon for Wordpress. It's over there, on the left, in the bottom of that pile of icons. During an interview for a job in the Mundane World I was asked about my expertise with the program. I'd heard of it but had never really played with the site. I fumble and turned the question around and did all the usual interview tricks that a person does when presented with an obvious, "<i>Uh Nothing</i>" answer. Needless to say I didn't get the job. I did however decide to explore the program and the site. (<i>Fool me once.</i>..) Hence I now have a <b>WordPress </b>site.<br />
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It's called <b>Amber Rants</b>. It took a while to decide how to use it most effectively. I saw no point in writing here, then copy and pasting to Facebook, then copy and pasting to Google Plus, rinse, repeat, copy and pasting to WordPress. Then came the epiphany. Blame the NBC Today show, but I found my mission for the site. If you want more about that, go, read. I don't need to repeat myself.<br />
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Now I can talk all Author, Writer, Publisher stuff here and when I get all fired up about something outside of those boundries I have a place where I might not always be politically correct or use all the best language. Who knows. Someone might eventually read that blog too. Wouldn't that be nice?<br />
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Thanks for reading.<br />
<i>~KbH</i>Kevin B. Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08683442253754617047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3561419149337826599.post-27689017472922712582012-06-20T12:41:00.001-04:002012-07-27T08:12:07.356-04:00I Return<br />
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lately. It’s been three weeks since <i>Amber Gifts</i> was picked up by Champagne
Books. Since then I’ve just been coasting along. I’ve tried to build up a good
head of steam to get back into writing the third story, but it’s been a
struggle. Lives, reality, all those nasty little vermin in our lives have seen
doing their best to sabotage my efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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little stories and have sketched out, in my mind at least seven books. I think
seven is a nice number. Don’t you? It should give me just enough time (pun
intended) to complete a very nice story arc. They may become more linear as
time (pun not intended here) goes on. I just have to do the work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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get the manuscript back from the publisher any time for edits. I don’t know
what to expect and worry about what they will want. I’m also really interested in
what the cover will look like. I’m sure I’ll like it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I’m going to need to figure out how to dig up more followers and some potential
clients. I’d like to sell a couple of hundred books in my life time. That’s not
asking a lot, is it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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message began, “<i>It is with great pleasure that I offer you a contract with</i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222;"><i>…</i>” and the next moment
I realized I was going to be a published author. <b>Amber Gifts</b> is going to be
published. I can’t believe it. I’m in shock. I’m so happy I can’t see straight.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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work to do and lots of things I have to accomplish. First off, I guess I need to email
the publisher, My Publisher, and tell them I accept. They sent a copy of the
contract and it all seems very standard. I had my dear friend, the Romance
Writer, look it over and she gave it her seal of approval. She has like twenty
different books out there, so I trust her experience and knowledge implicitly.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and family and made the big announcement. If I had a cigar and a veranda I’d be
sitting out there now enjoying the evening air and wondering what all the unpublished authors were doing tonight. Yeah, I’m going to be pretty hard to
live with for the next couple of days. I think God and the Universe will
forgive me. Don’t you?</span></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Who would you invite to a dinner party if you had the choice? Here's my list of the guests for my Writers Dinner. Mark your calendar, men. I'm sure the invites will be going out soon.</span><br />
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<strong style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><em>Joss Whedon </em></strong><span class="mceItemHidden" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">(47) - Writer. director, producer. His current credits include <em>The Avengers</em>. Past credits include Buffy and Firefly. A third generation media writer. What more do I need to say? Amazing awesome.</span><br />
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<strong style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><em><span class="mceItemHidden">J. Michael Straczynski</span></em></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> (57) - Writer and producer. Pulled together Babylon 5 continuity despite some vast corporate adversity. Has done comics, animation, all the good stuff. (Who ya gonna call? The Real Ghost Busters cartoon!)</span><br />
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<strong style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><em>Steven Moffat</em></strong><span class="mceItemHidden" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> (50) - Writer and producer. Currently head writer for Doctor Who and has been involved with the new incarnation since it's restart in 2005. He wrote the scripts for the movie The Adventures of Tin Tin and is responsible for the BBC show Sherlock. And don't forget, he's Scottish. The accent alone will be worth having him over for dinner.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">If Moffat is not available I'd pick </span><strong style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><em>Russell T. Davies</em></strong><span class="mceItemHidden" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> (49) - Former head writer for Doctor Who and is still deeply involved with the series Torchwood. He's Welsh, so he might like some of my obscure references. Maybe not.</span><br />
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<strong style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><em>N. John Smith</em></strong><span class="mceItemHidden" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> - I'd love to have someone involved in the StarGate series, another well crafted series, on the list. Smith was the one with the longest tenure so I picked him.</span><br />
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<strong style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><em>Gregory Widen</em></strong><span class="mceItemHidden" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> - He sold a story that was made into the movie Highlander. Then the concept went <em>viral</em> before that was even a legitimate term. It spawned additional movies and a television series, none of which he wrote or was involved with that I could see. I'd like to talk about his feelings of the changes that were made to his original concept.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">If Widen isn't available I'd pick </span><strong style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Jim Butcher </strong><span class="mceItemHidden" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">(40). I'd like to ask him the same line of questions about The Dresden Files, although there was only one season of that television series. It certainly was not the same look and feel as any of his books.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Who did I forget? I'm sure there are plenty, but for now this will be a good start. Besides, I'm not sure where I could host that many people, especially if they all bring wifes, girls friends or guests. (My guest would be romance writer </span><strong style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><em>Samantha Lucas</em></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">. You should check here out!)</span><br />
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<em style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">~KbH</em>Kevin B. Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08683442253754617047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3561419149337826599.post-77378470015914299482012-04-25T08:38:00.001-04:002012-04-25T08:39:09.582-04:00I Escape<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span class="description" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px;">This is a non-technical Feynman diagram explaining how to escape from a black hole, according to Ian Stewart's <i>Flatterland</i> (ISBN 0-333-78312-3).</span></span><br />
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="background-color: white;">You are outside the black hole.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="background-color: white;">You have fallen into the black hole. A future version of yourself <b>(4)</b> appears and gives you a portable white hole. You use the portable white hole to escape the black hole.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="background-color: white;">Another future version of yourself <b>(6)</b> appears and gives you a time machine.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="background-color: white;">You go back into the black hole and give the past version of yourself <b>(2)</b> the portable white hole.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="background-color: white;">You use the time machine to go far enough into the future (i.e. millions of years) that the black hole has evaporated due to Hawking radiation.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="background-color: white;">You then travel back in time and give the past version of yourself <b>(3)</b> the time machine.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="background-color: white;">You are now outside of the black hole. </span>Easy, Breezy.</li>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><i>KbH</i></span></span></div>Kevin B. Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08683442253754617047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3561419149337826599.post-18401204354002357382012-04-17T17:26:00.003-04:002012-05-05T15:36:40.703-04:00I, Hugo!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The finalists for this year's <b>Hugo Awards</b> and John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer were announced on Saturday, April 7. (I'm not on the list. It's okay.) Previous winners and nominees have included just about everyone I've ever read in the Science Fiction genre, including Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Roger Zelazny, Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon, Larry Niven, George R. R. Martin. I could keep going, but you can find the full list of past honorees in the Novel category here: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novel" target="_blank">Hugo Awards</a> They also give awards for novellas, short stories and media.<br />
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I am hoping that life will allow me to attend WorldCon this year. This is the annual conference of the World Science Fiction Society and the people who are responsible for the Hugo Award. Even if I haven't found a publisher, just going to such a prestigious conference would be incredible. Chicon 7, is being held over the Labor Day weekend. This is not your neighborhood Star Trek convention. The first Hugos were given in the 1950's. That's some serious history. If you're interested check out the conference web site: <a href="https://chicon.org/" target="_blank">Chicon 7</a></div>
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<i>-KbH</i></div>Kevin B. Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08683442253754617047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3561419149337826599.post-29324588727859439172012-04-07T10:42:00.002-04:002012-04-07T11:38:32.997-04:00I Stand Amused<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Today I read the story of the information that was given to the 1940 Census by the occupants of 8777 Lookout Mountain, Laurel Canyon, California. The home at the time of <b>Robert A. Heinlein </b>family. The Heinleins always liked their privacy and even the 1940 U.S. Census did not penetrate it. The woman who answered the door gave her name as Sigred Heinlein, her husband as Richard and their son, Rory. She claimed they were both born in Germany, while their four year old son was born in California. Richard worked as an artist in the motion picture business. <br /><br />I can't help but imagine how pleased R.A.H. would be if he knew we had discovered this small attempt of a prank at the governments expense. The Heinlein record is in E.D. 60-173. Good luck searching for it. I'm going to take this story at face value and then go back and read <b><i>He Built a Crooked House</i></b> for the eighth or ninth time.<br /><br /><i>KbH</i></span>Kevin B. Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08683442253754617047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3561419149337826599.post-33257579021771889552012-03-27T19:23:00.000-04:002012-04-17T17:27:21.957-04:00I Ponder<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I watched an interesting show recently that focused on Puma Punku in Bolivia. For those of you unfamiliar with the site, here is a link to a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumapunku" target="_blank">wiki</a> entry that will tell you more than you probably want to know. Not me. I find this kind of stuff<br />
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Puma Punku is a large stone monument-like complex of undetermined age where the stones appear to be very finely cut in near perfect geometric angles. Some people feel that the complex could not have been constructed in ages past with the simple stone tools available at the time. The shapes of the stone are amazing. The circular holes drilled into the stones are mystifying. I don't think you could do those stones justice with any Black and Decker tools that I'm aware of. The show did some experimenting and found that the cuts came closest to resembling a diamond cut saw.<br />
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The television show blamed those pesky old aliens. Yep, your friendly neighborhood extraterrestrials did it. Those little guys and their flying saucers landed, built exotic blocks of stone, used anti-gravity to move them into place, but not in any understandable pattern and then soared back to whatever star they originally came from. Sure, makes sense to me. The kind of mind numbing sense where these same folks, during a different show tried to convince me that Bigfoot is an alien too. I know better. I grew up in the Pacific Northwest and know the big fella is home grown, through and through. We've met. We've talked. We exchange Hanukkah cards.<br />
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My immediately thoughts upon watching the show was to wonder what a wonderful location Puma Punku would be for us to learn more about our friends the Amser. My guess is they had a lot more to do with the creation of Puma Punku than extraterrestrials did. What do you think? You read up on the location. I'll get to work on my part.<br />
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<i>KbH</i>Kevin B. Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08683442253754617047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3561419149337826599.post-43932041092223893392012-03-21T09:28:00.001-04:002012-03-27T19:23:41.956-04:00I Submit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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No. Not like that! Get your mind out of the gutter!<br />
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I submitted <i><b>Amber Gifts</b></i> to two different publisher this week. I feel like I've thrown one of my children out into the wilderness, except I don't have any real children. It can take months to hear back from these people so in the interim I'll keep up my online projects and finish the third story. I have it at least a third done and know most of what happens next, I just haven't been in a place mentally to continue. Maybe I can do that soon.<br />
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A wonderful friend is starting a new life in Florida this week. Let's all keep a good thought for her as she begins this great new adventure. It's a pity she'll be almost as far South of me as she was North of me before the move. No dropping by for tea and crumpets any time soon. Gas has gone up about twenty cents a gallon in the past week. Holy Cow!<br />
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<i>KbH</i>Kevin B. Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08683442253754617047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3561419149337826599.post-27963369351231629642012-03-19T09:38:00.000-04:002012-03-21T09:29:01.639-04:00I Blog!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've never been much of a blogger. Ask anyone who knows me. I write short little bits, not long, complex, descriptive material. I don't do much in my life, so blogging that I ate breakfast, took my assorted medications required of this aging would-be author and then spent the day writing or thinking or watching some damn TV show just doesn't strike me as very interesting.<br />
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Here's what I'm going to do:<br />
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<li>I'm going to try and talk about my stories. I like them. No publisher does.... yet. In truth only one has seen my first story but more will come. I'll keep you posted.</li>
<li>If you comment, I'll try and respond. If you're kind, then I'll be kind. If you're unkind please be advised that I have worked in Technology since before there was such a word and I can make the silly little tricks that <i>Anonymous </i>has done to banks and business and the Vatican look like child's play. Again, you've been warned.</li>
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Thanks for reading. Please be sure and visit all my other assorted sites. I've created links here for you to use. Feel free!<br />
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