There were 204 response comments to the Frontlines giveaway. This morning, I employed a random number picker to spit out two very random numbers: According to my scientific calculations (and starting the count from the oldest comment), the winners are: Ken Malphurs and Marlo Brown. Congratulations, you two. Please contact me at marko.kloos@gmail.com and […]
Continue reading →I’m in the mood to give something away, so I’m going to do a thing. Let’s call it a….”giveaway”. Yeah, that’s a good name for it. If you would like to receive signed and personalized print copies of TERMS OF ENLISTMENT and LINES OF DEPARTURE, leave an affirmative comment on this post. One comment per […]
Continue reading →The Apple Bluetooth wireless keyboard that ships with new Macs is very sleek and stylish, but it doesn’t stand up to hard typing. It has minimal key travel, lacks a Delete key, and the tactile feedback is so-so at best. For checking Facebook and writing emails, it’s OK, but folks who have to drum out […]
Continue reading →Wow, will you look at that calendar? Seems like we’re a week into July already. I’m still writing on the third Frontlines novel, which was TECHNICALLY DUE LAST MONTH. Erm. Let us not speak of this right now and continue on to other subjects. (I’ll be done soon, I promise.) Team Munchkin Wrangler just got […]
Continue reading →Books-A-Million, we need to have a little talk. You see, I used to go to Borders a lot. You remember Borders, don’t you? Yeah, it’s that book store chain whose store location you took over in West Lebanon a few years back when they went the way of the apatosaur. You kept most everything in […]
Continue reading →So I got to upgrade the long-in-the-tooth Dogevan last week. I was briefly flirting with the idea of downsizing and going with a Mazda5 or a Mistubishi Outlander, based on their ability to serve as a six- and seven-seater respectively in a pinch. In the end, however, I decided on getting…another Grand Caravan. Here’s the […]
Continue reading →These days, there are two kinds of police: there are law enforcement officers, and then there are peace officers. My friend Matt is a peace officer.
Continue reading →My friend Claire tagged me in a blog hop. The idea is to have a bunch of writers answer questions about their work and then tag other writers to participate. I don’t have anyone to tag, but if any of you shifty writer folk reading this want to take up the baton and run with […]
Continue reading →This review of the new 2014 Mitsubishi Mirage is the best car review I’ve read in a month of Sundays. I had to check to make sure it wasn’t out of Car & Driver, because it reads just like their reviews during their snarky peak. Example quote: The reborn Mitsubishi Mirage lowers expectations, strangles them […]
Continue reading →This one will make the automotive nerds flinch: 1956 Mercedes-Benz 300SL “Gullwing” totaled at Mille Miglia. That’s a million dollars’ worth of Teutonic sheet steel turned into scrap metal, and they’re not making any more of those. The Gullwing is an automotive classic, one of the most desirable cars in the world, and it got […]
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