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Richard James Estate Agents, WellingboroughTel: 01933 747004 Local call rate
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Tingdene Properties, WellingboroughTel: 01933 747052 Local call rate
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At William H. Brown we have over 100 offices covering the Home Counties, East Anglia, East Midlands and Yorkshire and were part of the Sequence Group - a network of estate agents with over 290 offices around the country. Last year we sold over £3.8bn worth of properties, handling tens of thousands of moves and we currently manage over 7,000 properties, so when it comes to buying, selling, renting or letting weve got lots of experience.
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Here's the deal: Next of Kin is on sale pretty much everywhere books are sold, and you can even get it Print on Demand if you really love paper. Buy a copy, take a screenshot of the receipt, and email it to firstname.lastname@example.com, and you'll be entered in a drawing; the winner, to be determined on July 11, will be chosen at random from among those emails, and I will send that winner an electronic copy of the manuscript for The Devil's Only Friend.
Kindle: 2.99
Smashwords: 2.99
Nook: 2.99
Print on Demand: $6.99
If you happen to be in our near Salt Lake City, come to the live launch party at WesterCon, Friday morning at 11:30, in the con suite (room 1508). We'll have free pizza, a reading, and several hard copies for sale which I will lovingly sign just for you. And if you really know your John Cleaver trilogy, you just might win another copy of The Devil's Only Friend….
Spread the word! Tell all your friends! Buy fifty-seven copies and get your Christmas shopping done early! This new series is awesome, and I can't wait for you to read it.]]>
The cover was designed by Chersti Nieveen, and assembled for production by Ben Crowder. The book will be available on July 4, with specific purchase info coming soon.]]>
The Devil's Only Friend picks up one year after I Don't Want to Kill You, with John still struggling to deal with the horrible things that happened in the first trilogy. On the plus side, he's working with a group of FBI demon hunters, but on the down side, that's not actually a plus side: he's spent his whole life trying not to think about killing, and now it's his job. He feels trapped, he feels desperate, he feels his control slipping away, and then…well, I'd better not say anything else. There's a war brewing between humans and monsters, and John's trapped in the middle, and it's not going to end well for anyone.
Next of Kin gives us a brief look at the other side of that war: a demon's-eye view of what it's like to live in our world, and hide in our shadows, and prey on our weaknesses. Elijah Sexton lives on other people's memories, and does his best to stay out of trouble, but his fellow monsters are trying to recruit him, and his stolen memories are calling out, and then there's that quiet young man he keeps running into….
Next of Kin will be available in all ebook formats, and in Print-on-Demand, starting July 4. If you're online, keep your eyes peeled: I'll be doing a giveaway with some fun prizes, including an advance manuscript of The Devil's Only Friend. Better yet, if you're at WesterCon or FantasyCon in Salt Lake City you can come to the launch party at 11:30 am, where I'll be giving away free pizza, reading from both stories, and doing a bunch more awesome giveaways. You probably have the day off, and you're family barbecue doesn't start until the evening, so come on down and grab an awesome new book. I will even compliment your shirt.
People have been asking me for years to tell the rest of John's story. This is it. The time has come. Kiss a corpse and smile sweetly at a cat: John Cleaver has returned.]]>
Back in January I was going through my spam folder, as I do every few days, and found an email with the subject line: "A Stage Play? John de Lancie." John de Lancie, as you probably know, is the actor who played Q on Star Trek, and Jane's dad on Breaking Bad, and a ton of other awesome things. I'm a fan, and have been for a while, and I figured I must have signed up for a John de Lancie newsletter or something. I do this a lot; I've been on a Barenaked Ladies mailing list for sixteen years, for example, and I don't think I've read a single one of their emails. So I deleted it.
Two days later I got the same email again, and thought "This is a pretty aggressive mailing list. I'm delighted he's doing a stage play, and I wish I could go see it, but I live in Germany and there's no way." So I deleted it again.
And then immediately I felt bad, because the email was just too weird to completely ignore. I don't typically get a lot of emails from famous people, but I get just enough rights questions from Hollywood studios that I couldn't let this one slide. I dug into my deleted folder, pulled out the email, and read it.
Turns out it was from the real John de Lancie, and he's a big fan of the John Cleaver books, and he wants to turn I Am Not a Serial Killer into a stage play. So that's pretty awesome.
I emailed back and forth with him for a few weeks, and then on my RUINS book tour I stopped by his house on my way through LA, and we talked about the possibilities and challenges of bringing IANASK to stage. He's an incredibly nice, extremely intelligent and funny guy. The first half of the story would be easy–very minimal adaptation required–but the second half, where it starts to get really supernatural and action-y, will take a lot more work. He's found a theater in LA that has the right facilities (run by Gates McFadden, who you may also know from Star Trek), and we're taking a look at what we can do to make it happen. I have no idea how long it will take, or what will be involved, or anything–I did a ton of theater in high school and college, but it was all little stuff, community and black box things with friends, and I've never written for stage before so I'm going in completely new. Unlike a movie, where you sell the rights and the studio takes over, this stage play is something I'll be doing in collaboration with John, working together to make this the best thing we can make it.
The other big difference between movies and stage is that movies are incredibly secretive, and I've been involved in the we-hope-it-happens IANASK movie production for five years now and there's still nothing I can really tell you. That's why I haven't said anything about this stage play thing for four months: not because I couldn't, but because I've been conditioned not to. John, on the other hand, has been talking about it at conventions all year, and most recently on the Nerdist podcast, which was pretty awesome. So yeah: this is a thing, and we're working on it, and it might happen and it might not. I have high hopes. My sister and brother-in-law are also theater people (he runs the theater department at a college in Tennessee) and are working on adapting my ebook A Night of Blacker Darkness to stage, so if all goes well I could have two stage plays next year. We'll see what happens.]]>
When my brother was first diagnosed with OCD, and described the symptoms to me, I was shocked. His brain would tell him to do things, like throw himself down the stairs or punch the wall until his hand bled, and he was literally compelled to do it–as in, manipulated by an outside force. When your brain tells you to do something it's every bit as un-ignorable as when your body does it. Imagine that you have to pee, and you try to ignore it, and it just gets worse and worse until you're squeezing your legs together and dancing in place because if you don't go pee RIGHT NOW you're going to explode. Now imagine that instead of peeing, you get the same urge with the same intensity about making your head bleed. You have to make your head bleed RIGHT NOW or your entire life will be a disaster, and come on what are you waiting for you're miserable and horrible and your head needs to bleed and why won't you let it because it would make everything better just do it. You know, objectively, that making your head bleed is wrong, and harmful, and a bad thing. But your brain is sick, and it wants what it wants, and you have to live like that for the rest of your life.
I remember an old comic by the cartoonist R. Kliban, who did a lot of stuff in the 70s and 80s, including several about cats that you may have seen somewhere. The one that always stuck in my mind was "Anti-Jump Muscles":
The idea of muscles that work in reverse is funny, but this is the reality that people with OCD live with every day. When my brother's brain tells him to break his hand, or hurt himself or (on a couple of terrifying occasions) his family, it takes all his willpower to not act. His Anti-Jump Muscles are fully flexed, day in and day out, just to live a normal life. It is scary and lonely and utterly exhausting, and he is only one of millions of people in the world who have to suffer through that.
If you know someone with OCD, give them a hug or send them an email, and tell them you love them. Tell them you support them. Do what you can to help.
And if you'd like to help my brother, and to raise awareness for other people with mental health issues, take a look at our Altered Perceptions campaign that just opened today. Dozens of amazing authors have contributed alternate versions of their published works to an anthology, and none of us are getting a penny from it–every cent goes to help Rob and, if we reach our goals, others like him.]]>
My brother, the illustrious Robison Wells, was diagnosed a few years ago with a severe panic disorder, was has since blossomed (or perhaps 'metastasized' is a better word) into depression, agoraphobia, OCD, and a whole host of other mental illnesses that make it impossible for him to live a normal life. I could talk about this for hours, and in future blog posts I will, but for now I'll limit it to two main points:
1) Rob's illnesses have put him into a lot of debt. He writes books, and they are excellent books, but this is not exactly a lucrative profession, and a panic disorder does not work well in an office environment. Watching Rob struggle with disease and debt made me want to do something to help.
2) Mental illnesses are WAY MORE COMMON than most people think. In the US alone, statistics suggest that most of you know someone with a psychosis, and all of you know someone with depression. If you don't, look harder–you probably know two or three. This is a big problem, and we as a culture and society are not doing nearly enough to help. An American with a mental illness is ten times more likely to be in prison than in medical care. This needs to change.
I wanted to do something about these problems, but I didn't know what. It was Brandon Sanderson, a good friend of both Rob and I, who came up with the idea: "let's do an anthology," he said, "full of authors who know Rob, and use it to raise funds. First we can pay off Rob's debts, and then if we get enough interest we can keep going and try to help other authors with similar problems." I thought it was an awesome idea, so we did it. And we put a cool spin on it that I think you're going to love.
I am proud to announce the science fiction/fantasy anthology ALTERED PERSPECTIVES, which is kind of like a bonus DVD full of deleted scenes and alternate versions of some of your favorite authors' books. Check out this amazing list:
Ally Condie, the foreword
Dan Wells, the introduction
Annette Lyon, An unpublished chapter from her retelling of the Finnish fairy tale, THE KALEVALA
Aprilynne Pike, TBA
Brandon Mull, Deleted scenes from BEYONDERS 2
Brandon Sanderson, five completely rewritten chapters from THE WAY OF KINGS, where Kaladin makes the opposite choice of what he makes in the published novel
Bree Despain, an alternate ending to THE LOST SAINT, and an alternate beginning to THE SHADOW PRINCE
Brodi Ashton, the first chapter from her YA novel about an unwilling alien fighter who has to rescue the boy she loves
Claudia Gray, a deleted scene from A THOUSAND PIECES OF YOU
Dan Wells, the original John Cleaver free-write that inspired I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER
Erin Bowman, a deleted scene from TAKEN
Howard Tayler, a creative non-fiction story about life with mental illness
J Scott Savage, three original chapters that led to writing FARWORLD
Jennifer Moore, a deleted scene from BECOMING LADY LOCKWOOD
Jessica Day George, a deleted scene from PRINCESS OF GLASS, where the main character plays poker with a witch
Josi Kilpack, the original opening scene to TRES LECHES CUPCAKE
Kiersten White, an original short story, set in a dystopian, sci-fi world
Larry Correia, a deleted fight scene from SWORDS OF EXODUS
Lauren Oliver, two deleted scenes from PANDEMONIUM, plus a hilarious scene about the plotting process
Luisa Perkins, a short story, "Seeing Red"–a modern-day retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.
Mary Robinette Kowal, deleted scene from VALOUR AND VANITY (the scene was cut because readers thought the scene was trying to depict depression)
Nancy Allen, bonus scene from BEAUTY AND THE CLOCKWORK BEAST
Robison Wells, an epilogue to FEEDBACK and the VARIANT duology
Sandra Tayler, a creative non-fiction piece called "Married To Depression"
Sara Zarr, a story featuring characters from one of Sara's previously published novels
Sarah Eden, "Farewells" for LONGING FOR HOPE and HOPE SPRINGS
Seanan McGuire, The original opening for DISCOUNT ARMAGEDDON
Shannon Hale, "Ravenous," a previously unpublished scifi short story
SJ Kincaid, the original first chapter of VORTEX, before it was entirely rewritten
You'll also get to read personal essays and comments from each of the authors, explaining their own connection to mental illness and the many ways it's changed their lives.
This anthology goes up on IndieGoGo on Monday, April 21, where you'll be able to buy it in hardcover or ebook, along with a ton of extra perks like manuscript critiques, dinners with your favorite authors, and the ever-popular "die horribly in one of Dan's books."
We,re really proud of this anthology, and I'm incredibly grateful for the hard work and amazing kindness of the authors who helped make it a reality. I hope you love it as much as we do.]]>
Or can you?
As a matter of fact, that is EXACTLY what we're going to do! I joked online about retitling "The Little Mermaid" in the same style, and was flooded with delightful suggestions, including everything from Beached to Silenced, with plenty of awesome non-past-participle answers thrown into the mix (I suggested Speechless, and my brother-in-law made me laugh out loud with "Shellfishness"). So, that's what we're going to do: retitle all the Disney princess movies with one-word titles that wear the character's main arc, or the movie's main theme, as clumsily on their sleeve as possible. For the purposes of this exercise we are looking ONLY at Princess movies, so no Aristocats or whatever, and we are imagining a world in which each princess is actually the main character of her movie (in other words, your title for Aladdin will be about Jasmine, because if they made that movie today that's exactly how they'd do it). You get points for describing the character, extra points for describing the character's arc, more extra points for incorporating the movie's visual theme, and even more extra points for making me laugh. Past participles are preferred (mostly that means 'words that end in -ed,' but there are exceptions), but don't let that stop you from laying down a gem like Shellfishness. You can rename one or all, and enter as many times as you like, and–why not?–I'll pick a winner and give them something awesome. Probably a book, or maybe a T-shirt, or maybe I'll name a corpse after you in the new John Cleaver. MAYBE ALL OF THE ABOVE. The winner, by the way, will be chosen by me, based on whatever criteria I so desire. I can do whatever I want, because the title of my own personal movie is "Empowered."
Without further ado, here's the list of movies:
The Core Set:
Snow White
Sleeping Beauty
The Little Mermaid
Beauty and the Beast
The Princess and the Frog
Brave (because seriously, it needs a new name)
Princesses Disney tries to forget about because their movies are dumb:
Eilonwy (The Black Cauldron)
Kida (Atlantis: The Lost Empire)
The BEST Disney Princess, who is totally a princess, even in-world, but who doesn't get included in their marketing because even their marketers know she would never be caught dead in a lame-o Disney Princess product:
Megara (Hercules) (I kind of have a thing for Megara)
Other movies it might be fun to rename in this style, even though they're not about princesses:
Alice in Wonderland
Peter Pan
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
The Sword in the Stone
The Jungle Book
Robin Hood
The Brave Little Toaster
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Lion King
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
And why not? Disney owns this now too:
Princess Leia (Can you even imagine the Star Wars trilogy remade as a Disney Princess franchise? That sounds so terrible that I CAN'T HELP MYSELF I WANT IT RIGHT NOW.)
Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
We'll start with a YA book to help ease you into it. I assume you've already heard of Ender's Game, even if only for the movie; this is one of the best science fiction books of all time, and I would argue one of the best ANY books of all time. A super-genius six year old is forced into space combat training, horribly manipulated by everyone around him, and tries to figure out who he wants to be and how to define his own morality. It's a book that celebrates intelligence, and approaches kids on their own level, and I've read it three times and loved it more with each one.
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Another one to help ease you in to the wider genre, this is a straight-up dystopian novel about a world where books are outlawed, and the government floods the people with a constant stream of television and other media to keep them stupid and complacent. Ray Bradbury is one of our greatest SF writers, and if you love books and/or dystopias–and if you're reading this I assume you love both–you owe it to yourself to read Fahrenheit 451.
Starship Troopers, by Robert Heinlein
Now we're getting into some non-YA, non-dystopia (by most definitions) novels. If you only know Starship Troopers from the movie, forget it; the book is completely different in almost every way imaginable, aside from the names of some of the characters. The starting point is similar to Ender's Game (bug-like aliens have attacked Earth, and now we're training soldiers to go out and fight them), but from there it diverges into a completely different story, chronicling not a command school but an infantry boot camp. It's partly a war story, and partly a philosophical exploration of what war is for, and why we fight, and why even an enlightened society might never be able to stop no matter how much we want to.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
This is the first of a five-book trilogy (that's not a typo), and that description alone should give you a sense of the completely silly, ridiculous, hilarious nature of the series. A man named Arthur Dent discovers that his best friend is an alien, who helps him escape the planet Earth right before it gets blown up to make way for a hyperspace bypass. It's funny, sometimes side-splittingly funny, but it's also brilliant and inventive and surprisingly poignant in places, exploring everything from loneliness to friendship to the meaning of life (and the universe, and everything).
Dune, by Frank Herbert
This is my favorite book ever. It's kind of science fiction, and kind of space fantasy, and kind of a political espionage story, and kind of a masterclass in theoretical ecology. The desert planet Arrakis is the source of the most valuable substance in the galaxy: a drug called Spice, that lets users see the future. Harvesting it becomes a deadly game of politics, religion, and warfare, and I love EVERY SINGLE DROP of this book. One of the early scenes is a dinner party where nobody trusts each other, and the conversation they have is as thrilling as any fight scene you've ever read, and it only gets better from there.
A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller
A group of Catholic monks, deep in a desert, dedicate their lives to finding and preserving the last surviving fragments of an ancient civilization: ours, hundreds of years after we destroyed ourselves in a nuclear war. This book is told in three different sections, spanning almost a thousand years, as the post-apocalyptic survivors slowly rebuild a world, discover our lost secrets, and try to avoid falling into the same tragic pattern that killed us the firts time around.
Neuromancer, by William Gibson
This book hit the bookstores like a cannonball, changing everything people thought science fiction was or could be, and has probably influenced more of the modern genre and society at large than anything else on this list. A hacker-for-hire is paid to break into a secured file and find the identity of a mysterious figure, in a journey that takes him around the world and into orbit and back again, uncovering one world-changing secret after another. This book was so far ahead of it's time that it still feels prescient, even thirty years later, and the writing itself is poetic and beautiful.
Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
The main character is named Hiro Protagonist, a samurai hacker who delivers pizza for the mob, and if that doesn't make you desperate to read this book I don't know what will. It's a mind-blowing cyberpunk where governments have disappeared and private corporations rule the world, and an archeologist has discovered a language so ancient and powerful it can actually be used to infect a human brain like a computer virus. Trust me, you'll love it.
The Mirage, by Matt Ruff
This the most recent book on my list, just a year or two old, about a parallel reality just like our own, but with one thing flipped: Iraq is the world superpower, and the USA is a squabbling collection of religious extremists. The prologue begins with Christian terrorists crashing airplanes into the World Trade Center in Baghdad, and just in case that wasn't already fascinating enough, a few chapters later the Homeland Security agents investigating this find a copy of a newspaper from our world, explaining it as a Muslim attack on Manhattan. I've rarely ever read a book this audacious, starting with that basic premise and following the rabbit as deep as it goes.
Flatland, by Edwin Abbott
In contrast, this is the old est book on my list, written by a schoolmaster in 1884. It's both a science fiction story and a mathematical thought experiment, telling the story of a two-dimensional person who slowly becomes aware of other dimensions, and what their existence means for him. This book made me think about the world beyond what I can perceive in a way I never had before, and I can't recommend it enough. It's incredibly short, practically a novelette, and you can probably read it an afternoon.
A Scanner Darkly, by Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick is one of the greatest of all SF writers, and while some of his other novels are more famous (his most famous is almost certainly Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, on which the movie Blade Runner was based), this one is by far my favorite. A narcotics officer goes undercover to investigate a drug called Substance D, with effects that mimic schizophrenia, and over time realizes that the drug has broken his mind in half, and he is in fact investigating himself as both officer and dealer. It's not only a great SF story, it's an incredibly personal look at the author's own experiences with drug addiction and mental illness, and presents those kinds of mind-altering effects from an insider's perspective I've never seen anywhere else.
The Hyperion Cantos, by Dan Simmons
Think of this as a single story split into two books: Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion. Together they're kind of like a far-future SF version of the Canterbury Tales, with a group of pilgrims visiting a mysterious planet and, each in turn, telling their own stories of why they've come and what they hope to learn. My favorite of the flashbacks comes in the second book, but all of them are wonderful, and together they add up to an epic story of humanity's past and future and potential for greatness.
Contact, by Carl Sagan
Most people know this one from the movie, starring Jodie Foster as a SETI scientist who discovers a real message from aliens. The book does a lot of great things, including it's incredibly plausible description of how our society might actually react to a message from outer space, but that's only a part of it. The core of the story, the thing that makes me love it, is the way it presents the search for extra-terrestrial life as a parallel to religion and an expression of personal faith: we know that something's out there, something bigger and greater than ourselves, that might help us to understand our world and our life better. This is the most spiritual look at science I have ever read, and I love it.
These are some of my favorites, and only a very small sampling of the amazing science fiction literature just waiting for you to discover it. What about you: what are favorites?]]>
Every anti-net-neutrality article said this would never happen: http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/23/technology/netflix-comcast-streaming-deal/index.html … THIS IS LITERALLY THE FIRST THING THAT HAPPENED
In the last 16 hours that's been retweeted more than 350 times, and rising quickly. That's not a huge deal, as famous people retweets go, but it's a lot more than I typically get, and that's kind of cool. The problem is, there's so much more to the issue of net neutrality than can be contained in one snarky tweet, especially on an issue that continues to evolve. My own understanding of the issue continues to grow, even in the last 16 hours, and my thoughts are no longer perfectly aligned with the thing I keep getting quoted for. This post won't be retweeted as much as really pithy thing I said last night, but I'll feel better knowing it's out there.
Net neutrality, put as simply as possible, is the idea that Internet Service Providers have to treat all net traffic the same, just like all phone service providers have to treat all calls the same: you can't, for example, purposefully make one group's service worse or less far-reaching than another's, just because you don't like them. This is a good thing, and none of us question it on phones, but when it comes to Internet some people (mostly ISPs) want the rules to work differently. In their defense, a lot of their rules already work differently, and when net neutrality was officially struck down last month it was because the FCC had pulled some classification shenanigans that made their version of it illegal. I'm not here to debate the legal grounds of the current situation, because I don't understand it in full, and neither do almost any of you: we're not tel-com lawyers or FCC officials, and while we may passionately defend the version of the story that we think is correct, that's not the same thing as actually being correct. What I do believe is that net neutrality, whatever we have to do to make it work legally, is vital to the future of the Internet, which makes it vital to the future of everything. That's not an exaggeration.
The people who support net neutrality often do it with some version of this: "If you let ISPs control the flow of information, they will do so in a way that serves their own ends, and not their customers." That's the basic version–most of the time it's more of a scare tactic:
"Tel-com companies could hold certain websites hostage, demanding more money to let people access them."
"Tel-com companies could influence elections by artificially hampering one candidate's web traffic and availability."
"Tel-com companies could artificially limit your access to certain web content unless you pay a premium fee."
I call these scare tactics, but some of these things have already happened; the last one, in particular, started happening within hours of the net neutrality decision, with some ISPs purposefully throttling certain web services, including access to competitors. Let's say you're on ISP X and don't like it, and want to switch to ISP Y; it's now harder for you to get to ISP Y's webpage through ISP X's network, because they made it harder on purpose, because they don't want you to leave and it's legal to screw with you, so why not? To put that in perspective, imagine picking up an AT&T phone and trying to call Verizon, only to discover that AT&T decided your phone is not allowed to call a competitor. That sounds insane on a phone, but that's where we're headed with ISPs.
That's why I freaked out when I read that article about Netflix, because it seemed like a clear case of an ISP (Comcast) shaking down a content provider (Netflix) for money: "you've got some really great content there, buddy, it'd be a real shame if nobody could access it over our network. Pay your protection money or we can't be responsible for what happens next." Let me reiterate: that kind of behavior is now legal, and it has already happened in small scale, and I full expect it to happen in large scale, probably sooner than we think. I suspect that I jumped the gun a little in this particular situation, though: Netflix is a massive force on the Internet, accounting for anywhere from 28-33% of all Internet traffic in America. Yes, you read that right. Let that sink in, and then ask yourself how a company like Comcast would possibly risk offending a company that powerful? They desperately want that traffic–providing service to Netflix is, in a very real sense, 33% of their business model. If they throttle it artificially, their customers will go somewhere else, somewhere their Internet access is not suddenly reduced by 33% for no good reason. So really, companies like Netflix are probably safe for now; this deal with Comcast is more likely an attempt by both companies to work together and try to get that 33% piece of the pie even bigger, though upgraded cables and servers and data centers. They need each other.
But they don't need everybody, and I don't think I'm being an alarmist when I say that we're going to start seeing these big ISPs strong-arming smaller companies, and customers, in ways both subtle and direct. I don't think this is a good thing. I want net neutrality reinstated, through whatever means are both legal and ethical. But I also wanted to clear up this particular point, since it irked me to have made such a broad generalization, including some facts I later learned were faulty, in such a public way.]]>
Note that some of this info, particularly the bit about cons, is specific to my home state of Utah, but the principles can be applied no matter where you live.
I wrote this for a man named Justin, who at the ripe old age of 32 decided he'd been wasting his time in marketing when his real love was writing. Whatever your age or gender or geographical location, it's never too late for now.
Dear [insert your name here]:
The good news is, your story is common, and your solution is more or less what you already know it to be: write a lot until you're good at it. I'll be saying a bunch of other stuff in this post, but it all comes down to that. Write a lot until you're good at it.
The other good news, and arguably the best news, is that you can make a living as an artist. Dave Wolverton told me that in college, and I realized–like you–that no one had ever told me that before. Our education system is not designed for artists, it's designed for people who sit in cubicles and earn salaries and get retirement benefits, and that's fine if that's what you're into, but artists have to make their own way. So let me reiterate: you can make your own way. It's scary and it's hard and it requires so much more effort than just going to work and getting a paycheck, but you can do it and it's worth every hardship.
Don't feel like you've wasted time in law and marketing and such, because there are very, very few writers in the world who got that way by studying writing academically. Anyone can learn writing just by reading a lot and then trying it on their own. By studying other things, you've filled your head with stuff to write about, which is often way harder. Look at how many "mainstream" novels are about literature professors who want to write books: there's a ton of them, because those guys write what they know, and that's all that they know. Take the time to study new things and learn new awesome stuff, and then you'll have more to write about. I started in marketing and advertising, just like you, writing brochures and websites and stuff for a long parade of health and beauty companies (and one scrapbooking company), and right now my agent is shopping around a science fiction novel I wrote about a health and beauty company that destroys the world. The more you know, the better, so hooray. Particularly if you have a family and a house and all kinds of other stuff to pay for, having a "real" job before the writing takes off is pretty much requisite, and I worked that marketing career for eight years, writing in my off hours, before I finally started selling books at a level that allowed me to quit and start writing full time.
What advice can I give you? The first thing is to point you to my podcast, Writing Excuses, which I do with three other authors (Mary Robinette Kowal, Brandon Sanderson, and Howard Tayler). It's completely free–I'm not trying to sell you anything–and designed for aspiring writers, with fifteen-minute episodes on everything from dialogue and plot to editing and talking to agents. We've been doing it every week for years, and there's hundreds of hours of it posted online, and frankly there's not much I can tell you that isn't already presented more usefully there. Jump in on the current episodes, cherry pick the archives for your favorite topics, or just start at the beginning and try not to get overwhelmed.
Second: check out your local writing scene, looking for conventions, conferences, writing groups, and so on. Depending on where you live, and what genre(s) you're trying to write, there are a ton of options out there–far more than you think, I can almost guarantee. Go to your local bookstore or library and ask if there are any writing groups that meet there; if they have a bulletin board, start your own group and post a notice. Do a quick Internet search for writing conventions, or SF conventions that might have a writing track. If you're in or near Utah you're in luck, because there's a ton of stuff: CONduit, LTUE, LDStorymakers, Writing for Charity, Salt Lake City ComicCon, and more are all fantastic places to meet other authors. Wherever you are, there's bound to be some kind of local (or near-local) convention. If you're writing SF or fantasy, also consider WorldCon, World Fantasy, and Writing Superstars, though those are going to involve much more expense and travel. If you're really serious and have the time/money to spare, considering signing up for Clarion or Clarion West, or some of the similar conventions out there, which are intensive, multi-week writing workshops with big-name authors teaching the classes. A cheaper option, if you can't make any of these in person, is to go online to a place like NaNoWriMo's website and start clicking through their forum to find the one for your region; it might be kind of sparse this time of year, but in the fall it will fill up with like-minded aspiring authors, who often do local meet-ups and might be interested in joining a writing group.
Third, and this is a big one: allow yourself to write a bad book. Don't insist that your first or second or even fifth book be perfect, because they won't be–give yourself the chance to try new things and screw them up and learn from your mistakes and try again. Your first book will teach you how to write your second, which will teach you how to write your third, and so on and so on until your books are as awesome as you've always wanted them to be. I didn't get published until my sixth book, and like I said earlier it took me eight years of working other jobs before I got to that point. Nothing worthwhile is free, and if you want to get good at something you need to work at it. The good news is, if you invest the time and effort, and really give it a sincere try, it will pay off. I see it happen every day.
I include this last section because I know people are going to ask about it: is it better to go traditional publishing, or self publishing? You'll hear a lot of stuff on both sides, but the only true answer in my opinion is this: it's better to not limit your options. They both have their ups and they both have their downs, so don't worry about which one is better and just do everything. Write as much as you can, try different genres, try different publishing models, try all the new things you can find until you find something you love that works for you. "Write a lot until you're good at it" applies to the business model just as much as the craft.
I hope this helps. Good luck, and please keep in touch. I can't always write big advice essays, and I have a policy against reading people's manuscripts–I used to do it, but I just don't have the time and had to force myself to stop. What I can do, though, is cheer you on and exult in your successes. And if you have the chance to say hello at a con or a signing or whatever, please do. I'd love to shake your hand and share a…well, I don't drink, so how about some hot wings?


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Cartersville attorney Anthony Perotta has filed a motion in Clarke County Superior Court to suppress evidence in a hit-and-run case allegedly involving his client, William Wilson Heaton, 23, a former Bartow County resident.
The Feb. 16 accident resulted in severe brain damage for Woodstock resident Emily Bowman, 20, a former Kennesaw University student, who had been walking along Oak Street in Athens with a friend.
According to a story in the Athens Banner-Herald, in a motion to suppress evidence filed in Clarke County Superior Court, Perotta claims that:
- There's no evidence that his client was drunk when the accident happened;
- Police threatened and coerced Heaton's parents to talk to them;
- His client may have not been driving the Mazda pickup that hit Bowman;
- Police illegally searched Heaton's vehicle; and
- Evidence gathered from social media and cell phones should be suppressed.
Heaton, now 23, remains at large on a $50,000 bond, wearing an ankle monitor and living with his mother in Oconee County. At the time of the accident, he was living with family in Rydal, just north of Cartersville.
Bowman remains at home with her parents in Woodstock. In an Oct. 11 post on her Facebook page, Bows for Bowman, her mother wrote:
Now as far as how Emily is doing - I really believe things are starting to emerge. In the last couple weeks she is now starting to grasp objects with her right hand - most of the time that is with us supporting her elbow and letting her move her hand. She has actually picked her arm up on her own several times as well. When I think back to when we were first at Shepherd though - this is how we started with her hand movement by holding her arm and supporting her elbow so it is basically like we are starting all over again but I see progress starting to happen! She is also starting to move her legs as well - and I did say LEGS!!!
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2006: Ran a season-best 1:01.41 in the 400 meter dash at the Hoosier Relays...ran a leg of the second-place 4x400 relay (3:56.09) at the All-Ohio Indoor Championships...outdoors, set a personal record with a 1:03.75 in the 400 hurdles during the BIG EAST Outdoor Championship prelims...ran a leg of 4x400 relay (3:45.10) that finished sixth at BIG EAST Outdoor Championships.
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2004: Finished seventh in the 100 hurdles at the Southern Ohio Cup with a personal-best 15.67...ran a season-best 1:06.82 in the 400 hurdles, finishing 15th at the Conference USA Outdoor Championships.
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Here you go, "Truth Seekers.! Some Truth...!!!!!!!
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I've asked many of those who claim that these verses have been taken out of context - or that this book is an "old book" - to prove otherwise. Yet, a very popular YT Rabbi expressly described it as a "beautiful book" in one of his videos. And I have yet to hear HOW exactly these verses have been manipulated and/or distorted. To learn more visit: http://theforbiddentruth.net/index.php?referrerid=1060
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Deadspace76 September 8, 2009 8:43:29 AM CEST
I dont know about Hitler, But Himmler very well might might have been all Jewish..
Deadspace76 September 8, 2009 8:41:27 AM CEST
Thats pretty funny I could just see it.. YOU see my BOOT "WHY IS GOD LETTING IT SLIDE OFF YOUR FACE".???
Deadspace76 September 8, 2009 7:40:19 AM CEST
You got it..!! Fuck off, and DIE...!!!
Donmost September 8, 2009 7:14:39 AM CEST
what type of mind state do u have if u believe that the creator of the universe and everything in it chose you as his one and only favorite..everybody else just might as well fuck off huh?
Deadspace76 September 4, 2009 10:10:39 AM CEST
NO! Hitler did not not believe in God. BUT that is NOT an excuse.!!
Deadspace76 September 4, 2009 9:59:54 AM CEST
Look brother. I am sorry about what I said in my other comment. But I am just soooo sick and tierd, of falsly being called an anit-semite for calling out these people, and make no mistake my freind "these people" By that I mean Racist Zionist Jews..! Control it all.!! The money, the media, the government, and even what we think we know about History.!! Specificaly the holocaust, and "What realy happend" in Germany under hitler. That is why it is the only historical event in history that you can be put in prison for Questioning "THEIR" take on it. You can not even ask one thing about the so-called "Gas Chambers" without attacting suspicion.!! Now this is the Behaviour of those how are trying to hide something..!! No rational honest person can say it is not.!!! Question the facts of any other historical event, and know one cares, but don't you dare Question the HOLOCAUST..!! Because If you do, you can, and will be put in prison in places like Europe Brittian, and Australia, and if "They" are not deffeted..?? Soon it will be this way in the United States.!! Also, few people Know, but these exact kinds of so-called hate speech laws were instituted in Russia by Racist Jews in Stalins Government. You could even be put to death for so-called anti-semitism.. As Defined by the Jews, and the state NO DOUBT.!!!
Aliengrey September 4, 2009 9:03:19 AM CEST
Deadspace, u made a good point down there.. when white people say "Oh this race is complete shit, killing them is awesome." it's automatically considered evil (which it is, dont get me wrong) but when some ppl in the middle east do it, jewish, muslim or whatever, it's ok. It's ok, it's their religion, just let em work it out. Remember Hitler? He thought he was doing god's work too.
Aliengrey September 4, 2009 8:59:46 AM CEST
all of those rules in that book sound like they were just made up by some uneducated racist, childish, ignorant bigot. "Adam had intercourse with every animal in Eden." "Jesus is in hell being boiled in shit." who would follow this bullshit? People who kill on behalf of this garbage should die. not slowly or painfully, just a quick mass execution. especially that dumbass jewish kid with the bottle. I'm not racist against jews, but that is some bullshit. I woulda stomped that little fuck right into the ground, while asking him why God is letting him be stomped into "his" ground.
Deadspace76 September 3, 2009 2:18:21 AM CEST
In ISREAHELL "They would shoot you, and your American Government would cover it up..!!!
Deadspace76 September 3, 2009 2:08:08 AM CEST
Sorry to disapoint you, but I am not a Christian my friend.. So no matter where ideas like this crap comes from.. They need to be exposed, and understood for the hateful racist, and destuctive nonsense that "THEY ARE"..! "THEY ARE" the hateful ones NOT ME, and it is because Jews, and "SOME" Christians believe this Garbage with all of thier hearts, that they practice such awful behaviour..!! So it is the "Truth" that I am trying to "STIR UP", and that my friend, by it's very nature..!!! Will always "STIR UP" trouble..!! SOO.!! The very "POINT" is your beliefs cuase your "ACTIONS"..!! No "rational honest" person can argue against that.. I thought that from the video.?? "THAT" "POINT" was made very clear..!! Take off your Zionist "JEWISH" blinders my friend..!! "WHITE" supremacist who hold similar Ideas are rigthfully singled out condemed for having such "beliefs, but as I have said so many times before..!! If you call out the Jew for having these "SAME" ideas, that the Jew writen Bible as in the video showed in Deutoronomy, and the Talmud..! That "They" cearly "DO have these beliefs" you are The "racist..!! What a joke, but you are partly right to say that not all Jews practice these beliefs, but there are only few who openly deny these other Jews fo believing this crap.. I ask you where are the rest..?? The fact is that even Jews who are not Talmud fanatic's..!!! Secreatly desire all of the Rabinical praise and lavish vanity that is reaped upon them by the racist Zionist Jew fanatics, and money masters..!! So as always..!! I suggest you people do you "OWN research into this matter, and "STOP IT" with the "FALSE" claims of hate..!!! This is a "Strawmans" tactic who dose not have any real facts to argue with..!! For, or against..!!


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This lesson serves as an introduction for Fingerstyle Guitar with Jim Deeming. Come on in and get started!
Taught by Jim Deeming in Fingerstyle Guitar seriesLength: 24:32Difficulty: 0.5 of 5
Jim, After making a comment, I sighted down the neck of my dean and there is a bow. I just got it back after several years. Off to the guitar store.
Jim, In phase 2, first lesson intro, you mentioned setting up your Gibson for finger style ie; light strings ect. Did they adjust the finger board and/or neck using the adjustment I see on the head? Because I have a Dean performer egn without the adjustment. I noticed the distance between the string and the finger broad on my Dean to be a 1/8 in. Of day light. Tough on my fingers even with ultra light strings.
What's the name of the song he plays in the intro and does he teach that arrangement?
Ok, this sounds dumb, but my finger is too small for a finger pick! I'm only 11 :p
What about wood characteristics? What's a good wood choice for fingerstyle and body type. I love an om shape and wanted to know which wood combo would work with this body style
I didn't think I would like a mostly talking lesson as much as this one. Very good. I also lost the tip of my index finger as a kid. You give me hope. I'd like to re-iterate the Bojangles request.
Hi Jim- I just completed (& continue to practice) Phase 1. I went through your lessons & Eve Goldbergs. I just started your phase 2 lessons today. The other day I purchased a Fender T Bucket CR 400. Are you familiar with this guitar & what do you think of it?
I'm 82 years old and I started playing guitar with a professional classical, jazz teacher. I was asked to play and sing "Silent Night" and "Holy Night" this coming Xmas but I Play these in an arpeggio style which was not what they wanted, I was browsing the Internet and , by chance, came upon Jim Deeming playing "Silent Night". That's exactly what I was looking for so I bought the course. Already I've learned how to string a guitar, and I'm hoping to play Silent Night finger style just like you. Thanks Gerry
Hey Jim, I use a Herco Medium thumb pick but it's a bit bulky, yours looks more compact, what type is it? Thanks, Ed
Some one that is huge right now that uses a lot of fingerstyle and has since he first started on the scene is John Mayer. In a lot of his songs, he has started utilizing both a pick and playing fingerstyle at the same.
great introduction, i really think this is what i'm looking for. much love!
Hi Jim!! I've been on jamplay for a week now and I am loving it. It's really the best bet for me. I've been wanting to advance my guitar skills but can't afford to take private lessons (neither time nor money) at this time. I am a visual lerner and do not do well with learning from books. I never knew what this style of playing the guitar was called. But, seeing your intro sold me on jamplay and fingerstyle guitar. Here's my question for you in regards to "setup" - I use my guitar a lot for basic strumming & accompaniament while singing. If I alter the setup of my guitar by lowering the action for fingerstyle playing what are the negative implications (if any) for basic strumming / rhythm guitar? P.S. - i too just purchased a thumb pick today. :)
I've been noodling and doodling on guitar for 40 yrs since I was 10. I got a thumb pick Fri then Sat I went to a family reunion and dropped my thumb picks and lost them. the family organizer found them and gave them to me and insisted I play. I obviously didn't do too well. I can't wait to go again next year with my new guitar skills. I've been playing all day with renewed enthuseasm!
Question about thumbpicks and paste-on false nails (my nails split every time) vs. a flat pick, bare fingers, or something else -- There are lots of ways to play, and I don't want to put the cart before the horse, but I like finger picking, in addition to strumming and flat picking. I want to have the the full range of playing though. I want to sort of blend all the styles together as the spirit moves me -- not just fingerstyle -- all. I especially don't want to learn based on the mechanics of my choice of pick. Any thoughts you can share? Thanks. (Hope this is the place for this question.)
I grew up listening to Chet Atkins music and have always held him in the highest esteem....I've got a feeling that you do as well......you're a fantastic instructor and i am so happy to find someone to teach me the finer points of Chets style. I was wondering if you would consider teaching us Chets version of yesterday
Thanks Kenny. I play a simplified version of Yesterday. Chet's is pretty enough that it would be worth the extra time for me to hunt down some of the prettier chords he adds in there. I'll take a look at that - good call!
Hi, Who is the rocket scientist that Jim mentioned? I just did not get it :-)
Leo Kottke - take a look on youtube. Lots of complex tunings, rhythms, slide guitar, and 12 string stuff.
Mate... I so need a thumb pick. I don't think I can go on without one. Where are all the thumb picks when you need them? AAAGGHHH!!!
Got my first Thumb Pick this weekend.. :-) I can't wait to get going on this.. Please keep the lessons coming.. Your teaching style is awesome !
I just got a thumbpick. Yay! But I also have thin, weak nails. I'm trying Sally Hanson's Hard As Nails on them. So far, so good.
Jim will be happy to know he's converted someone else :) He's going for world domination, one thumb pick at a time.
I was conscious of the neck width when I bought my guitar; but it turns out I didn't really know what I was supposed to be looking for. You mentioned in the video that your 2" classical was too wide. You also mentioned your Gibson ES335 being very narrow. How wide is that? How wide is the acoustic you play in this video?
Hello, Just so you know Jim will currently not be able to answer as many questions as usual as he is currently in the Ukraine adopting a child. He will get back to this message as soon as he can. As far as necks go they come in SOOO many shapes and sizes the only real way to figure them out is to play them. It's amazingly difficult to find the PERFECT fretboard, but once you do, oh my goodness your playing will be so much easier.
I waited to get used to my thumbpick, that done, now I am here. Long live the thumbpick revolution, lol
Great lessons! Will you be adding more anytime soon? How about teaching your opening song, "Mr. Bojangles"? Thanks, Art
Fingerstyle guitar allows you to play the bass, harmony, and melody of a song all within the context of a single guitar part.
Lesson 1
This lesson serves as an introduction for Fingerstyle Guitar with Jim Deeming. Come on in and get started!Length: 24:32 Difficulty: 0.5 Members Only
Lesson 2
Jim demonstrates a basic fingerstyle exercise that you can use with any of the chords you know.Length: 16:05 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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Jim expands on lesson 2 and teaches several different picking patterns. He also covers the basics of muting.Length: 14:23 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Jim Deeming explains how to integrate basic syncopation into your rhythm playing.Length: 17:00 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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This lesson is all about picking melody notes. Fingerstyle guitar really gets interesting when you combine bass, harmony, and melody.Length: 33:00 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Jim Deeming teaches a fingerstyle version of the classic Civil War era song "Aura Lee."Length: 43:23 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Jim explains key components of Chet Atkins' guitar style.Length: 18:12 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 8
Jim Deeming teaches a fingerstyle arrangement of "Bicycle Built for Two." He uses this piece as an example of 3/4 or waltz timing.Length: 37:34 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 9
Jim Deeming teaches a fingerstyle arrangement of "Yankee Doodle" and "Dixie." Both songs are played simultaneously!Length: 30:03 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 10
Jim Deeming teaches the basics of open G tuning. He also teaches a song entitled "Spanish Fandango" to show how the tuning can be used.Length: 39:58 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 11
Jim Deeming introduces a playing style called "Carter Family Style." The technique is also referred to as "Frailing" or "Clawhammer" style.Length: 13:07 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 12
Jim Deeming teaches the many wonders of DADGAD tuning.Length: 32:25 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Jim Deeming tackles the topic of thumb independence.Length: 31:51 Difficulty: 1.5 FREE
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Jim Deeming teaches a more advanced version of the aptly named "JamPlay Song."Length: 7:24 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Jim Deeming teaches a fingerstyle version of the classic song "The Wayfaring Stranger."Length: 31:27 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Jim Deeming answers one of the most common fingerstyle questions, "which thumbpick should I use?"Length: 13:03 Difficulty: 1.0 Members Only
Lesson 17
Jim Deeming presents his thoughts on how to properly grow and groom your fingernails.Length: 7:07 Difficulty: 1.0 Members Only
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Jim Deeming teaches a fingerstyle arrangement of "The Entertainer," a classic piano song ported over to the guitar.Length: 20:40 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 19
Jim Deeming teaches the skills necessary to transform any song into a solo fingerstyle masterpiece.Length: 37:04 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
Lesson 20
Jim talks more about arranging fingerstyle songs. This time around he discusses harmonization and chord inversions.Length: 13:35 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 21
Jim Deeming demonstrates alternate ways to play the CAGED chords that can be very useful when playing melody and accompaniment simultaneously.Length: 30:38 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 22
In this lesson Jim Deeming talks about a simple way to add harmony notes to the melody section of fingerstyle songs. This technique is quite simple and can add a whole new dimension to your playing.Length: 5:51 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Jim Deeming got his first guitar when he was only six years old. His Dad was taking fingerpicking lessons, and Jim wanted to be just like him. The Mel Bay books didn't last very long before he strapped on a thumb pick and added the Chet part to Red River Valley so it sounded better.
Most of Jim's early learning was by ear. With unlimited access to his Dad's collection of Chet Atkins albums, he spent countless hours decoding his favorite songs. They were never "right" until they sounded just like Chet. Around the age of 12, Jim heard Jerry Reed for the first time and just knew he had to be able to make that "Alabama Wild Man" sound. The styles of Chet & Jerry always have been a big influence on his playing.
More recently he has pursued arrangements by Tommy Emmanuel and Doyle Dykes, in addition to creating some of his own and writing originals.
Jim has performed in front of a variety of audiences, including concerts, competitions, weddings and the like, but playing at church has always been a mainstay. Whether playing in worship bands or guitar solos, gospel music is deep in his roots and is also the driving theme behind his debut CD release, titled "First Fruits".
Jim has been playing for about 38 years. He also has taught private lessons in the past but believes JamPlay.com is an exciting and better venue with many advantages over the traditional method of weekly 30 minute sessions.
Jim lives in Berthoud, Colorado with his wife, Linda, and their four children. Although he still has a "day job", he is actively performing and is already back in the studio working on the next CD. If you wonder how he finds time, look no further than the back seat of his truck where he keeps a "travel guitar" to take advantage of any practice or song-writing opportunities he can get.
The opening song you hear in Jim's introductory JamPlay video is called, "A Pick In My Pocket". It's an original tune, written in memory of Jim's father who told him early on he should always keep a pick in his pocket in case he ever met Chet Atkins and got the chance to play for him. That song is slated to be the title track for his next CD, which will feature several more originals plus some of his favorite covers of Chet and Jerry arrangements.
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After three days of gains, gold prices Tuesday fell by Rs 70 to Rs 30,500 per ten gram in the national capital on profit-selling by stockists at prevailing higher levels amid a weak global trend.
Silver also declined by Rs 75 to Rs 45,000 per kg on reduced offtake by industrial units.
A similar trend was noticed in Mumbai, where gold of 99.9 and 99.5 per cent purity lost Rs 150 each to Rs 30,150 and Rs 30,000 per ten gram, respectively; while silver shed Rs 50 to Rs 45,750 per kg.
Traders said profit-selling by stockists amid a weak global trend on speculation that the US Federal Reserve will trim stimulus, just as physical demand in Asia slows before the Lunar New Year, mainly led to decline in gold.
Gold in Singapore, which normally sets price trend on the domestic front, fell by one dollar to USD 1,255.50 an ounce.
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