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No, Wiping Doesn't Stop a Virus

Let's get to what seems to be the important question, first: No, I don't know why people are hoarding toilet paper. It's not that kind of virus. There's so much...

Emily's magic: New Book Cover!

Okay, so I already revealed the cover to More Slightly Off the Mark once, but this time we really, really mean it. We thought the original was a little imbalanc...

It's Our Sheets and Pottery Anniversary

I can't tell you what I got my wife for our eighth wedding anniversary, because it hasn't arrived yet, and she sometimes reads my blog. And by "it hasn't arrive...

Indiana Beach ... Gone For Good?

Here's the interesting history of the "Riviera of the Middle West": https://ndsmcobserver.com/2020/02/indiana-beach-gone/ For several years I got Indiana Beach ...

Because it’s there?

I have a Mardi Gras themed book wallpaper! No, I’m not going to Mardi Gras, and I don’t celebrate it. Why do you ask? Guess I’ll just use it to shout out our we...

book review: The World War 1 Triva Book, by Bill O'Neill

I wanted to get away from all the anger and destruction going on in the world today, so I went looking for some light, fun reading. I chose World War 1. Nobody ...

Red Is For Ick, or: How icky is that title?

I've been kidding myself with the name of one of my novel manuscripts. It's not that I was in love with the title: I was more in love with the possibilities the...

On Valentine's Day, Be Meme

I was going to write a loving Valentine's Day salute to my wife, otherwise known as sucking up. But I got sick, also known as every freaking holiday and anniver...

Free Humor Anthology for Valentine's Day

Yes, I posted about My Funny Valentine last week, but that was before I found out the e-book version will be free from now until February 14th. That's a heck of...

Celebrity Death Knell

Orson Bean, Robert Conrad, Kirk Douglas, Mary Higgens Clark, Freddie Silverman, Kobe Bryant, Jim Lehrer, Terry Jones, Edd Byrnes, Buck Henry, Gene Reynolds ... ...

A Little Snow Goes a Long Way

Everybody complains about the weather forecasts, but nobody wants to get a meteorology degree and see if they can do it better. It's an axiom. I assume. I'm not...

Yes, guys--they're doing Valentine's Day again this year.

I was going to lay off the shameless self-promotion this week, but then I remembered ... this. Coming off the big SportsBowl weekend, it takes many men a few da...

Scooby Doo meets The Thin Man

This was lost in my blog drafts--it was actually written several months ago, then forgotten! It's interesting to me, because in it I speculate on a novel projec...

99 cents for no campfires, so don't be fussy

This may seem an odd time of the year for this, but I've been working on a novel set at a horse campground in late April, so to me it fits right in. In conjunct...

A Short Short Story Update

I wrote awhile back that one of my short stories, "Grocery Purgatory", was bought and would be published soon. Sadly, the publisher suffered a death in the fami...

Any book is better with horses, and dogs, and The Wizard of Oz

I've already worked into my novel-in-progress three atrocious puns, three references to The Wizard of Oz, two more to Harry Potter, two horses, and ... well, ju...

Lost in the Amazon

I noticed recently that if I went to Amazon.com and searched for "Mark R. Hunter", I did not come up first. In the Kindle store, the first six hits didn't have ...

The Good Parts of Being Sick

Yes, yes, I know--how can we come up with anything good about being invaded by nasty little sickness bugs? Well, it's like this: Everyone around here is getting...

Book Review: Outlander

You may have heard of Outlander, a little tale of time travel and kilts that spawned, oh, several dozen sequels, and a TV series that's headed into its sixth se...

New Year's? Are They Doing That Again?

Oh, yeah, New Years ... we're doing that again this year. And after a century of waiting, we'll be back into the Roaring Twenties, so there's that. The Teen yea...