Cuttlefish, Octopus and squid are all cephalopods. Cephalopods communicate using their ability to control the pigment in their skin. They flash messages in colorful spots and splotches. This is due to chromatophores, surface cells, filled with red, yellow and black pigments that can expand or contract in a few thousandths…
But missing is a lonely business. It’s like pain, something you can’t share. Odd… you can share joy and laughter… but pain, physical that is is not helped by fellow sufferers. I grew up with Ray, never realizing he was famous. I only knew him as one of the author’s,…
Book Giveaway For So it Goes: a Tribute to Kurt Vonnegut So it Goes: a Tribute to Kurt Vonnegut by Max Booth III (Goodreads Author)(Editor), T. Fox Dunham (Goodreads Author), E.E. King, Thomas Messina, Aric Zair, Tony Wayne Brown, James Dorr, Michael Lee Smith, Christian A. Larsen , more… Kurt Vonnegut was a man who pushed his imagination off a cliff and followed…
III. Daily 3-5pm Writing Workshops – $49 I will be Teaching at Ojai wordfest 3-5 on Sunday April 7 — Writing Short Stories with Sizzle and Soul also doing a reading at the library! at Soul Centered Dome, 311 N. Montgomery St. 640-8222. Register online or at Soul Centered. …
This is the fabulous new anthology I’m in published by Perpetual Motion Machine Press They are great! fun and inventive… but the never stop moving!
I am by nature a short story writer, but short collections are difficult to sell. Taking a leaf from Ray’s The Illustrated Man I connect several of my new shorts into a novel, “The Card Game.” Fate, Chance, Destiny and Luck play cards beneath a new October moon. As the…
Letter To Ray From me E. E. King 7/18/2006 Dear Ray, It was so lovely talking…
This ia a letter Ray wrote my Dad when in Ireland writing Moby Dick… He was Disappointed that Fahrenheit 451 didn’t’ “make the splash,” or perhaps set the world afire, like he hoped.. Little did he know! (Note: In 2010 a friend of mine would visit from Sarajevo for the…
I ran into Bill Nolan at a Science Fiction convention and we began talking about Ray and the writers group. Bill said he had been to the group once… doubtless before my time. How many great writers have passed through that house and sat round the coffee table reading…
SEVERAL springs ago some friends and I arose before dawn in Moab, Utah, to witness the sunrise mating dance of the Gunnison sage grouse: a surreal display of nine ornately plumed, chicken-size birds tottering about amid the sagebrush like windup toys, fanning their spiky tails and uttering a magical sound —…
Although I am a science fiction/fantasy writer, my next book will not be fiction. It will be, not a biography of Ray Bradbury, buta remembrance. Ray was a close friend, first of my father’s and then, many, many years later, of mine. I grew up with Ray, never realizing he…
PMMP AUTHORS PRE-ORDERS ESSAYS VONNEGUT WRITE A KILGORE TROUT NOVEL EXCERPT, WIN A FREE BOOK Posted by admin in Contests on Mar 4, 2013 If you are a fan of Kurt Vonnegut, then you already know who Kilgore Trout is. To those without a clue, Kilgore Trout was a character frequently used in Vonnegut’s…
Kurt Vonnegut was a man who pushed his imagination off a cliff and followed it for the whole drop; a man who was able to write the most cynical material, yet make you die of laughter at the same time. We have been enjoying his brilliance for over 50 years…
When Ray was writing the screenplay for Moby Dick he read every other chapter… 1-3-5-7. Because he didn’t want “too much nonsense.” Then after the odd chapter reading he wrote the screenplay and read the entire book to see if he’d “missed anything.” Made the necessary fine tuning, and finished…
Summer in the Catskills, the days long and warm, the air humming with insects. Squirrels dangle from branches, trying to steal seeds out of bird feeders. The steep mountains are carpeted with trees. In 1800, giant hemlocks, 80-100 ft. tall had covered these ridges. But by 1850 most had been…
I worked in a camp for war orphans and refuges after the war (in about 2002) Ray Bradbury, my mentor, was a hero to readers in Bosnia due to Fahrenheit 451 In August 1992., at the beginning of the Siege of Sarajevo, longest siege in modern times, historical building of…
Storytelling was wonderful last night. Hosted by me and Mariana Willians Tales had the audience laughing and crying. Stories of teenage orphans and strawberry field not forever, tribulations of travel, lingual miscommunication, armed fathers, memories of mothers, childhood angels, imaginary families, a masked strip tease, a theatrical journey into blackface,…
Thanks I stole his BLOG!!!!! so it goes…. Perpetual Motion Publishing Machine has provided the contributing authors to SO IT GOES: A TRIBUTE TO KURT VONNEGUT with the galley proof for a final edit so… if so it goes well….. the anthology should be available early spring. SO IT GOES:…
Butterflies!
“La guía de Dirk Quigby al más allá”, de E.E. King. via “La guía de Dirk Quigby al más allá”, de E.E. King.