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The Real Story about Heath Ledger
People dying in conflicts, famine, and road trauma hardly get a mention yet the death of an actor causes such grief around the world. The paparazzi can make so much money because we have an insatiable desire to see and know what celebrities are doing, saying, and sleeping with |
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The Muslim Brotherhood – a force not to be underestimated
An introduction to the Muslim Brotherhood and why they are the best interlocoutor for the West to the Middle East. It is my belief that the Muslim Brotherhood will be an increasingly important force, one which cannot be ignored. |
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Jezebel
Young Reg discovered sex in the shearer's quarters. But he was soon to discover that Jezebel had more to achieve than sex. |
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Angel
Cairo Egypt - 1941
The first thing Private Jeff Douglas remembered was a moan and he wondered where it was coming from. He was in a fog and it was slowly clearing and he realised th... |
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Summer Flames Review
Summer Flames is an excellent contemporary romance novella written by Vella Munn. What immediately drew me to reading Summer Flames was the title of the book. Seeing the cover added extra spice for me. |
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The Third of August
The Battle of the Third of August is etched into the history of the 2/43rd Battalion. This is a fictionised version based on the facts. |
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Good Tricks from Trashy Novels
I recently did something that I said I would never do. That I looked down on others for doing. Whenever the topic arose in public, I would smile encouragingly all the while feeling inwardly superior for not stooping so low. Yet, last week it happened. I read a romance novel. And not only did I like it, but I found how it could aid with writing as well. |
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Getting Ready
Bill Kelly, John Cross, and Daisy Day, with the rest of the 2nd 43rd Battalion boarded a troop train at 06:00 hours for Brisbane in Queensland. After their return from El Alamein in 1943 and... |
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Somalia – Al Qaeda’s New Base – America’s Next War?
Somalia has long been the world’s centre of anarchy and Mogadishu the capital of mayhem. Awash with weapons for 16 years, it has existed without a central government and has been plagued by civil war between competing clan and sub-clans, warlords and jihadists.
In the medium to long-term, the invasion by Ethiopian forces looks set not to quell this phenomenon, but to eventually exacerbate it. There is a real danger that it will provide the incubus for the flourishing of al-Qaeda’s first solid base in Africa. |
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Najaf - now forwards towards an Iraqi revolution!
American and British flags burned and were trampled under foot by hundreds of thousands of Iraqis in Najaf last weekend. A crossroads has been reached from which this could be the spring board to a genuine revoutionary struggle against the US occupation and sectarianism. More of these actions are the only chance for Iraq to remain united and to drive out the occupiers as soon as possible. |
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Coping with the Revise
Up until a few years ago, a revised piece meant that I had read it over twice and double-checked grammar and context. Blame it on my high school English teachers. Then, I began working on a novel and realized - wonder of wonders - that so much more is needed to make a creative work flow.
Those of you who have long mastered the art of revision may be smirking, but better to learn late than never, right? And on the chance that there are writers still out there that are stuck on how to revise—or those who have revision down to a science but are looking for new ways to approach this subject—I thought I would share some pearls (or cubic zirconia) of wisdom. |
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The Genre Conundrum Surrounding YA Literature
A disturbing thing is happening in bookstores. Favorite titles, old and new, are getting misplaced. Most recently, I was talking to my sister about Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. This beautif... |
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The Politics of the Pitch
By now, I assume you are rested and rejuvenated and sitting at your tidy desk, ready to embark on the next phase of the freelancing life. You know the goal is to get assignments and you have various ideas jotted in your notepad or on your computer screen. The next few steps will tell you just what to do to transform your ideas into pitches that catch editors’ attention. |
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A Godfather's History of Cursing by Joe Harless
As my friends start to become parents, my wife and I have started to attend social gatherings put on for their small children. We find ourselves as the honored guests at birthday parties and... |
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Politics, Religion, and the American Café
Within the last decade, café patrons have begun to utilize the café setting as a place for discussion of religion and politics. This behavior is no longer a trend seen only in urban cafés. |
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The Craft of Freelance Writing
Do you wake up in the middle of the night with burning questions about writing? Who doesn't? Here is the first of articles to come on the mysteries of the writing world. |
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Marketing Tips For Authors
Marketing Tips for Authors is an article that offers various tips for authors to market themselves and books.
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Maybe Tomorrow
After twenty five years of marriage she finds herself sitting on a park bench watching a young couple take their vows...don't do it, she wants to say.
"You'll only end up existing in darkness, like me".
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Religion - Constructive or Divisive?
Is religion causing a split among civilisations in the current global climate? Undoubtedly yes, with the conflicts between many religions being more than just a minor irritant. Infact, it is happening with alarming regularity. Is this the end of an enlightened age when man can talk their differences out without resorting to violence and war? Or did that age never even ever existed? |
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Choices
Golden curtains of light flowing through the crystalline glass of the chandeliers. Monochromatically coloured attire adorned by monochromatic men balancing intricately crafted steel platters. A beautifully polished marble-granite floor blanketed by an expensive Persian rug embroidered with the swollen pride of emperors atop gloriously festooned elephants. |
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The Final Greek Victory II
Mardonius, seeing next morning the columns of Greeks retreating upward on the hills, from his camp by the river, was prompt to pursue them. He could not see however, the Spartans who had remained hidden behind the low hills, which arose from the valley. |
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The Final Greek Victory
Themistocles and his followers rejoiced immensely when the Persian retreat was apparent. After making certain that Xerxes and most of his forces had indeed gone, he resolved that they should return to Athens. The city was in ruins. All the temples were destroyed and the homes abandoned and in disrepair. Laboriously, they began its reconstruction. Their spirits high after the tremendous victory against all odds, the soldier returned to his civilian abilities and pursuits with renewed vigor. |
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A Message to Garcia 9
By Humberto Rodriguez We read the original article, "A Message
To Garcia" in a previous part of this publication. This was reportedly
the most reproduced article during the lifetime of an ... |
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The Battle of Marathon
Many scholars agree on the theory that the human race came out of Africa and evolved according to the climate and conditions of the region where they settled. Having fingers, we seem to have been meant to eat fruits and hunt. Indeed tribes were nomad hunters, who later became shepherds. |
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A message to Garcia 8
It was but a short ride from Paralejo to the banks of the eastern side of the river to the town, once a city of 30,000, now a mere village of perhaps 2000. It was surrounded by a row of blockhouses the Spaniards had built on both sides of the stream. |
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A message to Garcia 5
"A Message to Garcia" Part 5 of 8 Having become famous after
delivering his message to Garcia, the swift success of the United
States in the Spanish-American War and the overwhelming circu... |
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A message to Garcia 7
Hitherto there had been danger; from this time on there would be more. Spanish troops mercilessly hunted down Cubans and small mercy was shown by the forces directed by Weyler, the "butcher," to men found in arms, or outside the concentration camps, even though they might be unarmed. The remainder of the journey to Garcia was fraught with many dangers and I knew it, but this was no time to consider them; I must be on my way! |
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