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Noteworthy: Timcheck is one of four Ohio State University students named a Goldwater Scholar. The award, named after the late Sen. Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona, provides up to $7,500 a year to cover the last two years of his undergraduate tuition, fees, books and room and board. He is the first sophomore nominated for the award from Ohio State in eight years and is one of 271 recipients from among more than 1,100 sophomores and juniors nominated on the basis of academic merit in mathematics, science and engineering.
Age: 19
Residence: Franklin Park
Family: Parents, Marianne and Paul Timcheck; brothers Andrew, 26, Phillip, 21, and Stephen, 17; and a sister, Theresa, 24
Background: He is a member of the Honors Collegium, a program for select students in the University Honors Program at Ohio State, and has conducted research in particle physics with Ohio State faculty.
Education: He is a sophomore majoring in engineering physic at Ohio State; he graduated from North Allegheny Senior High School in 2011.
Quote: "I am excited to use the Goldwater Scholarship to continue my education at Ohio State toward a research career in high-energy physics."
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1 - 17 of 17 Comments Last updated Dec 26, 2012
#1 Jul 9, 2008
Does anyone know him? Is he married? Does he still live in corbin? I haven't talked to him in a long time.
#2 Jul 9, 2008
i tongued his balls last week in the local waffle house.
#3 Jul 10, 2008
Well now how nice. I hope you have been checked for the critters and such.
#4 Jul 15, 2008
Shane is a big time dope head and a rat. He's one of those that our fine law enforcement lets keep going with his bs to get a few more arrests.
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#5 Nov 16, 2008
you hit that stuff right oh but dont forget he will tell you he is professional fighter..hahha a professional doper and rat if you ask me and he does have the nasties considering he lays with anyone
#6 Nov 16, 2008
just living with a gal and she has 3 children by him... he has like six children or more. The women he is living with, she believes everything he tell her... he thinks she is a who*e and he want let her go anywhere with out him..
#7 Nov 25, 2008
He was married to a real good woman! She divorce him this year... He cheated on her. She done alot for him and took alot of shit off of him. She was way to pretty for him...She was hot!!!!
#8 Dec 1, 2008
His name sounds so familiar
#9 May 26, 2011
from what i've read none of u all no him 4 starters he isnt a dope head his thing is drinkin on the weekends,he has 4 kids and it had been yrs since he had been introuble until his d.u.i a couple of months ago..we have been friends our whole life and he is real thats why u all have a prob with him cause he tells it like it is n none of u can do nuttin bout it cause he is a mean mother u dont want none of so u hide behind a fake name n tell lies bout him wishin u could b like him but never will b..haters really r admieres of who they r tlkn bout just jealous they will never have it like that..
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#11 Aug 15, 2012
He pay child support?
#12 Aug 16, 2012
Yes he pays child support. What's it your business?
#13 Aug 28, 2012
Im making it my business. Im a grandpa.
#14 Sep 11, 2012
Yeah so you are a grandpa...I'm a mom. It's the business of the mother and him whether he pays. He may have been wild in his past and done some bad things, but he does pay child support.
#15 Sep 11, 2012
If you knew him then you would know he is a professional boxer and has his license. When you run your mouth without all the facts YOU are the one that looks like an a$$. A stupid one at that!
#16 Dec 25, 2012
Seriously, if you know him so well wouldn't you know how many children he has??? Four? So you don't know about Wesley or Brianna?
#17 Dec 25, 2012
If anyone has his number that would be great!
#18 Dec 26, 2012
Please leave Shane alone. He's a good man. It deserves major respect and gets it from the right people. To the ladies that want him... Yes he is fine. However.. he has been with his childrens mother for years and will never go anywhere on account of those kids. So ur wasting ur time.
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The death of Mr. Eisenhower, who had been the oldest surviving child of an American president, was announced by his family.
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Rich, ripe raspberry, strawberry flavors. Drinking beautifully now. Long finish.
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The bed linens had a horrible smell. It was a strong chemical smell. Ended up using my bath robe as a top sheet. This is the only reason for the 7 out of 10. Otherwise the experience was great.
Friendly staff, nice amenities, favorable price
Pool temp was too cool to swim in !
Conveniently located for last minute overnight accommodations. Free parking.
Price a bit steep for the purpose this hotel serves. Should not be more than $--- per night. There are no nearby attractions. The tub faucet was rusted, cracked, and leaked, stains in the tub. Breakfast bacon paper thin and greasy, eggs cold. No movie ch
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It should be a cheaper rate for the room, and smoking room should have one bedroom in it, Breakfast the bananas were bad and muffin were dry.
Nice rooms
issues with room keybreakfast bar shut down early
Very clean. Very nice staff
Older facility but very clean
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I slept there.
The 2 star hotel on the other side of the road has multiple HBO channels and this '3 star' only had 1. There's NOTHING special about this hotel that it should be rated over the 2 other chain hotels nearby.
The front desk staff was helpful and the location suited my needs well.
Hotel desperately needs renovation and the cleaning staff leaders should be counseled and trained on customer service.
Close to downtown
Condition of room for the price paid.
Friendly staff. Close to highway. Beds had NO bugs! ;-)
Terrible bathroom; small shower stall! Couldn't accommodate average-sized american male. Paint splatter all over sink. Shower faucets had ridiculous amount of calcium buildup & rust flowed from the shower. Floors & toilet were clean though. Too expensive!
Staff was more than willing to go out of there way to help you
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Staff were friendly and helpfu.
Rooms were clean and comfortable.
Price was very reasonable.
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Being hailed as a historic victory and a surprise to Lone Star state lawmakers, the Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee approved a bill Wednesday that would make it legal to buy and sell marijuana in Texas, the Houston Chronicle reports. The panel's three Democrats were joined by two Republicans to give House Bill 2165 a "decisive 5-2 victory."
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Celebrity Chef Candice Kumai Has Tips on Getting a Little "Me" Time + Cooking Up "We" Time
From sneaking away for a warm cup of cocoa, to whipping up a sinful dessert for two; the busy chef, author and Iron Chef America judge knows the importance of taking a little "me"- and "we" time. She shares simple ways to add a little decadence to your day, including ways to jazz up a simple snack and tips on how to unwind with your Valentine. Candice also provides tips to creating anytime indulgences that will satisfy, without ruining resolutions. With Valentine's Day around the corner, she also talks about how to cook up a sexy meal worth sharing- with your special person in the kitchen helping with the cooking!
Candice Kumai– celebrity chef, lifestyle expert and cookbook author!
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WASHINGTON – A framework for the continuation of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians does not yet exist, the US confirmed on Friday. But should an agreement be reached, it said, the parties are reserving the right to keep some of its details secret from the public."We'll cross that entire bridge when we get to it," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters. "I expect there would be something that would be public if the sides agree to a framework."Psaki spoke on the issue just after Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to Aqaba, Jordan, to meet with its king on a wide range of regional issues, the Middle East peace process among them.Kerry's spokeswoman was also pressed to address recent comments made by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in which he said there was "no way" he would recognize Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people.The PLO will "not accept Israel's demands to recognize it as a Jewish state despite pressure put on us," he told a group of Fatah-affiliated student activists.Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has repeatedly said that Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state is a "minimal requirement for peace" between the two parties. He repeated that demand in his meeting with US President Barack Obama at the White House this week, and in his speech the following day to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.Asked whether the US considers such recognition to be a precondition in the negotiations, Psaki declined to comment. But she did reiterate America's longstanding position on the matter."That's been our position, as you know, for a long time," Psaki said. "That Israel is a Jewish state. That doesn't reflect, of course, what the parties are going to agree to.... We're talking about a discussion and what's being compromised as part of a discussion on a framework for negotiations."
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For Some, The Blogging Never Stops
Published: May 27, 2004
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Barbara Quint, the editor of the magazine, said she did all she could to get him to deliver his columns on time. Then she discovered that Mr. Wiggins was busily posting articles to his blog instead of sending her the ones he had promised, she said. ''Here he is working all night on something read by five second cousins and a dog, and I'm willing to pay him,'' she said.
Ms. Quint has grown more understanding of his reasons, if not entirely sympathetic. ''The Web's illusion of immortality is sometimes more attractive than actual cash,'' she said.
Jocelyn Wang, a 27-year-old marketing manager in Los Angeles, started her blog, a chronicle of whatever happens to pop into her head (www.jozjozjoz.com), 18 months ago as an outlet for boredom.
Now she spends at least four hours a day posting to her blog and reading other blogs. Ms. Wang's online journal is now her life. And the people she has met through the blog are a large part of her core of friends.
''There is no real separation in my life,'' she said. Like Mr. Wiggins, Ms. Wang blogs while on vacation. She stays on floors at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco with access to a free Internet connection. (''So I can blog,'' she explains.)
Blogging for a cause can take on a special urgency. Richard Khoe, a political consultant in Washington who in his spare time helps run a pro-John Kerry group called Run Against Bush, posts constantly to the blog embedded in the group's Web site (www.runagainstbush.org). He blogs late into the night, although he knows that the site still attracts relatively few visitors.
''Sometimes you get really particular with the kind of link you want, so you search a little more, then a little more, then you want to see what other people are saying about that link you chose,'' he said. ''And before you know it, some real time has passed.''
Others find they are distracted to the point of neglectfulness. Tom Lewis, 35, a project manager for a software firm in western Massachusetts who has a photo blog (tomdog.buzznet.com/user), has occasionally shown up ''considerably late'' for events and has put off more than a few work-related calls to tend to his blog.
Mr. Jarvis characterizes the blogging way of life as a routine rather than an obsession. ''It's a habit,'' he said. ''What you're really doing is telling people about something that they might find interesting. When that becomes part of your life, when you start thinking in blog, it becomes part of you.''
The constant search for bloggable moments is what led Gregor J. Rothfuss, a programmer in Zurich, to blog to the point of near-despair. Bored by his job, Mr. Rothfuss, 27, started a blog that focused on technical topics.
''I was trying to record all thoughts and speculations I deemed interesting,'' he said. ''Sort of creating a digital alter ego. The obsession came from trying to capture as much as possible of the good stuff in my head in as high fidelity as possible.''
For months, Mr. Rothfuss said, he blogged at work, at home, late into the night, day in and day out until it all became a blur -- all the while knowing, he added, ''that no one was necessarily reading it, except for myself.''
When traffic to the blog, greg.abstract.ch started to rise, he began devoting half a day every day and much of the weekend to it. Mr. Rothfuss said he has few memories of that period in his life aside from the compulsive blogging.
He was saved from the rut of his online chronicle when he traveled to Asia. The blog became more of a travelogue. Then Mr. Rothfuss switched jobs, finding one he enjoyed, and his blogging grew more moderate.
He still has the blog, but posts to it just twice a week, he said, ''as opposed to twice an hour.'' He feels healthier now. ''It's part of what I do now, it's not what I do,'' he said.
Suffering from a similar form of ''blog fatigue,'' Bill Barol, a freelance writer in Santa Monica, Calif., simply stopped altogether after four years of nearly constant blogging.
''It was starting to feel like work, and it was never supposed to be a job,'' Mr. Barol said. ''It was supposed to be an anti-job.''
Even with some 200 visitors to his blog each day, he has not posted to his blog since returning from a month of travel.
Still, Mr. Barol said, he does not rule out a return to blogging someday.
''There is this seductive thing that happens, this kind of snowball-rolling-down-a-hill thing, where the sheer momentum of several years' posting becomes very keenly felt,'' he said. ''And the absence of posting feels like -- I don't know, laziness or something.''
Photo: DEDICATION -- Richard Wiggins did not abandon his Web log while on vacation in Key West, Fla. (Photo by Mike Hentz for The New York Times)


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i want to extract audio from video file and save as a audio file of any audio format,is it possible through java program.can i use JMF for this purpose,if yes how?,how can i use JMF in my program code,is there any better way?please post a sample code
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Krystle D'souza wikiKrystle D'Souza is an Indian tv actress. She debuted her career with the show Kahe Naa Kahe. After that, she did star popular shows Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil and Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri Behna Hai. She got famous for her role of Jeevika in Ek hazaaron mein meri behna hai which aired on Star Plus. She was last seen in the role of Sakshi in the serial Ek Nayi Pehchaan. Recently she has crossed one million likes on Facebook.
BiographyKrystle D'Souza was born on 1 March 1990 in Mumbai. She completed her schooling from Auxilium Convent High School Wadala and from there she enrolled in St Xaviers College. D'Souza also maintains a good relationship with her Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri Behna Hai co-stars Karan Tacker, Nia Sharma and Kushal Tandon.
Personal ProfileName : Krystle D'souza
Birthday : March 1, 1990
Age : 25 years
Star Sign : Pisces
Height : 5'6"
Status : Dating
Debut Serial : Kahe Naa Kahe
Krystle D'souza and Karan TackerKrystle D'souza and Karan Tacker both were the co-actors from the serial Ek Hazaaroon Mein Meri Behna Hai. In this serial they both were married to each other. Karan Tacker played the role of Viren (jeevika's husband) in this serial.
Boyfriend/MarriageKrystal broke up with Abhinav Kapoor, her 5 year old boyfriend and is not in a mood to take it anymore. According to sources, she has become very close to Karan Tacker, her co-star from Ek Hazaron Mein Meri Behena hai. She said, "Karan is a great buddy. There is no guy in my life. There are guys, but no one special yet. For now there is only time for work, work and more work in my life."
InterviewA Rumour or Gossip that has shocked you.
Rumors and gossips never trouble me. In fact, I laugh at them. One such rumor was that I was not allowed in a pub as I was declared underage to enter the place. When I actually heard of this, I was laughing my heart out with my friends.
Parties for you are?
Close friends, good music and Good food.
Three things you can't live without.
Cell phone, water and my family.
Your Latest Crush.
My new I pod (laughs), we don't have time to have crush.
An Actress who inspires you.
Priyanka Chopra.
One Actor who makes you go weak on your knees.
Hrithik Roshan.
You are Superstitious or Practical.
I am definitely superstitious. I don't cut my nails at night, and if a cat crosses my way, I will never venture ahead.
How important is money to you?
Money is very important for survival as it fulfills our basic needs of food, clothing and shelter.
What has been your most expensive purchase?
I have a fetish for bags and tend to splurge a lot on them. I think all my bags cost around a lakh each.
What was your first salary?
Ek Hazaaroon Mein Meri Behna HaiEk Hazaaroon Mein Meri Behna Hai was the story about relationship of two sisters jeevika and Maanvi. krystle d'souza (jeevika) and Nia sharma (maanvi) both played the role of sisters in this serial. Jeevika and Viran were married to each other. She played the role of a "aadarsh bahu". Her sister Maanvi was married to Virat, brother of Viran. krystle d'souza gained popularity for her character Jeevika. She bagged good compliments from her fans.
In Ek Nai PehchaanStunning actress Krystle was last seen in the lead role in Jay Mehta and Kinnari Mehta's show Ek Nai Pehchanon. She played the role of Saakshi. Saakshi had an arranged marriage which was not her choice but totally her parents who want the tie-up for business purpose too. She was rebellious in the beginning since this is not what she wanted but ultimately she decided to go ahead with her parents wish and then she started loving it too. The show was based on 'women empowerment' and veteran actor Poonam Dhillon, Karan Sharma and Sooraj Thapar also featured in this series.
Latest NewsKrystle D'Souza has been approached to take on the role of Anusha in the upcoming TV show "Mohi". The story of the show is about a young tribal girl named Mohi who makes her weakest moment her biggest opportunity in life.


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One of the world's few airlines to be awarded Five Stars rating by Skytrax, Hainan Airlines (Hu) is a premier Chinese airline, with its main operating hub situated at Haikou Meilan International Airport. The airline is renowned for its excellent network across the People's Republic of China, America, Africa and Asia, and flies on more than 500 international and domestic routes covering more than 90 cities. Hainan Airlines maintains a fleet size of more than 135 world class aircrafts making it China's largest private air transport organization. Offering world class amenities and excellent customer service, Hainan Airlines certainly knows how to form a personal connect with its passengers.
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It offers the best of dining, world class entertainment and comfortable seats, and yes flying with Hainan Airlines can be a memorable experience. The carrier plays great emphasis on comfort and offers seats that are designed to rejuvenate you to the core. While economy class passengers are offered seats that come with features like 32 inches pitch, 105 degrees recline and ample legroom, business class passengers can enjoy seats that come with massage features and can be converted into flat beds. To tantalize your taste buds, the airline offers both Chinese and Western cuisines and provides everything from appetizers, salads, desserts to delicious three course meals. Don't miss the exciting range of wines that the carrier offers. When it comes to in-flight entertainment, you are in for a big delightful surprise. Business class passengers can enjoy an amazing collection of blockbuster movies and television programs on their personal touch screens while those who love a good read can enjoy the company of an enticing book.
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Children from poor families become drop out because parents can not afford to pay tuition fees and provide educational materials. This project is intended to keep these children in school.
What is the issue, problem, or challenge?
The community is predominantly poor and deprived . Children from this community often drop out in junior high school because their poor parents can not continue to pay their tuition fees and over time these children are forced out of school. Provision of basic educational materials such as books pens pencils and uniforms becomes difficult and because of the shame felt by these children and abuse they suffer it discourages them from going to school.
How will this project solve this problem?
This project is aimed at providing educational materials and paying of tuition fees for children who are affected in order to keep them in school and complete their education and also reduce the drop out rate in this community
Potential Long Term Impact
Beneficiaries will be able to complete their basic education and continue to a higher level.Education is key in reducing the poverty level of their family and the community because an educated community creates opportunity for its people
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $500
Funding Information
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Project Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $500 . The original project funding goal was $15,500.
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From the initial application: With the continuous concern with water resources and water management in a changing climate, students at McGill University are taught the value of water sustainability but no building or system on the Macdonald Campus can be used to showcase sustainable water recovery and usage.
A key element of sustainable design is 'eco-education', which is the concept that incorporates sustainability into the curriculum to allow improved understanding of system design and its impact on the environment. A fully functional rainwater collection system at Macdonald Campus would be used as a 'showcase' hands on sustainable teaching tool for students to learn about water conservation and rainwater harvesting in particular.
The design of a water collection system for sustainable irrigation and education at Macdonald campus was proposed as part of a class project in Bioresource Engineering to educate the university on sustainable water recovery and includes steps for filtering, storage and delivery of the water for use in the greenhouses and surrounding gardens. The design consists of installing eve troughs around the building, three collection tanks, a final storage tank, pipes and a monitoring system. This project will provide water for the Horticulture Research Center and will provide a training site for current and future students studying water resources and sustainable practices on the campus.
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I'll confess to more than a little arrogance. But I'll also excuse it somewhat by stating that writers need a healthy sense of their own worth, because otherwise they'd never write a word. It goes with the territory – to have the temerity to believe your words are worth reading, much less paying for, you have to believe that you can make magic happen with prose, or at the very least, tell a story well.
I happen to believe that being a writer is a noble calling, in the same way that being any artist of any sort is. Whether or not the world rewards you with riches can be the luck of the draw – consider what an acknowledged master like Van Gogh made from his art, which is basically nothing. No question his work is brilliant, and also no question that nobody really gave two shits while he was alive. The world can be unfair, and we only get one spin of the wheel. If you want fair, look elsewhere than the arts.
But I can remember as a child, reading the work of Poe and Lovecraft and Ludlum and Forsyth and Christie and LeCarre, and thinking that there could be few things as fundamentally important as being able to transport a reader to a different place, into a different world. As I aged and discovered the work of Orwell and Vonnegut and David Foster Wallace and Steinbeck and Hemingway, I further realized that one could tackle serious subjects with a certain grace, and even whimsy, and transform the way people view their reality.
Then the business of being an adult claimed my time, and I turned to mundane adult things, the making of money and chasing of women and building of empires, all the time thinking that to be a successful writer must be wonderful, because then you can have your financial cake and pursue a grand passion simultaneously. I mean, I've enjoyed some of the things I've done for a living, such as architecture, which still gives me tremendous pleasure for its artistic challenges, but mostly I did things because they made the most possible money with the least expenditure of effort, not because they were particularly redeeming or self-actualizing.
But all along, I managed to find ways to write. Be it ad copy, or manuals, or brochures, or how-to books, I wrote, honing my skills, putting them to use in the interest of communicating ideas or affecting behavior.
When I retired and settled permanently in Mexico, my idle meandering didn't last long, and I wound up starting a design and build firm that had startling success – but after five or six years and over a dozen "important" builds and at least fifty design projects, I was restless. That too had become a grind, and I remembered why I had retired in the first place. It wasn't about the money – once you have sufficient to live however you like, more doesn't involve living any better if you've truly chosen a life you find fulfilling to start with. Rather, I'd been bored after a few years of navel gazing on the beach, and it's not my nature to sit still too long.
A friend of mine had read some of my scribblings and badgered me with article after article about the new wave of self-publishers conquering the world, back around 2010. After a year of that he shamed me into trying my hand at it. I approached the business of writing and publishing the way I do everything – full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes. For seven months and about 10 novels, I sold barely enough to buy beer and a couple of decent dinners, but I never let off the gas, and continued to pour all my time, money, and soul into the work. I caught a tail wind in early 2012 as Select was making waves, and hit the market with a decent backlist and the right product at the right time – and the rest is history.
But back to why I think writing is an honorable calling (if honorable can be used to describe inventing lies and selling them for a living), if not also a kind of alchemy. To write well you have to be literate, and it helps if you're informed and have opinions, because otherwise you likely aren't particularly interesting to anyone but yourself. To be able to create worlds on the page imbues the author with the power of a god, and if executed correctly, offers escape from reality to the reader, immersing them in a universe of your making. That's an amazing thing to be able to do.
How many other gigs enable you to do that? Few, besides lying politician, I'd say. But while being a politician is largely anything but noble, to embark on an effort for which there will likely be slim, or no, reward, other than perhaps touching others in a profound way, is a sort of quest – a calling, if you will. It can be transcendental, and I believe can put one in touch with a deeper part of ourselves only reached through artistic meditation – what some might call the creative process, that joy of discovery wherein you read your prose a few months after writing it and think, crap, did I really write that?
That fugue state where you're something larger than yourself is an amazing thing, to be cherished. To have the ability to share it, to effectively connect one-on-one with readers and enable them to enter your thoughts for a few hours, is incredible. And to be able to entertain to the point where someone's willing to pay you is validating beyond description.
It would be wonderful if all books received warm welcomes from readers, just as it would be great if all puppies found loving homes. But the world has never been just, and many don't. I think the trick to persevering in this business is to truly love the act of creation, and if you can earn a living at it, to remind yourself daily that you are the luckiest person alive. That's what I do. And I believe I truly am. Okay, maybe not as lucky as a Kardashian or members of the lucky sperm club, but still. Lucky enough.
Which is my longwinded way of saying I'm grateful for the support of my readership, and as I close in on four years of publishing (June 11 is the big day, and yes, cocktails will be consumed, no question), I'm humbled at the opportunity the universe has provided me to do what I enjoy, and to be rewarded more than equitably.
They say that a lucky man is one who feels lucky.
I feel lucky.
Apparently the death of the ebook is greatly exaggerated. Perhaps not for the big publishers, whose market share of ebooks is indeed shrinking. But for indie authors, whose share is growing by leaps and bounds, it's the best of all possible times.
Hugh Howey and the Data Guy just published their latest report on the state of publishing at Author Earnings. What it shows is in stark contrast to what mainstream sources that ignore indie titles are declaring. Contrary to the hype, it would appear that the reason those pundits are claiming a decline in ebook sales is because indie authors are taking significant market share from traditional publishers.
The reasons, I believe, are twofold: 1) Price. Readers could give two shits who publishes a book. What they care about is the quality of the content, and it would seem that indies are delivering as good or better quality as their trad pubbed brethren, at a lower cost. 2) Visibility. Indie authors market. Many are quite good at it. They maximize resources like Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc., because it's their money at stake, not some mega-corporation's. This savvy marketing results in more readers seeing their wares.
To the second point, trad publishers release tens of thousands of new titles each year. It's impossible for them to market them all, or even a significant percentage, but their model's fine with that. They just wait to see what catches fire, and then push whatever does. The rest are left to sink.
Forget about marketing backlist titles. That's a dream. There are an endless stream of new titles to push.
Whereas indies are aggressive at promoting not just their new releases, but also their brand, and their backlists.
Take a trad pubbed author for whom I have enormous respect: James Lee Burke. The price of his backlist is quite reasonable – it fluctuates between $5.99 and $6.99, and is totally worth it.
But he shifts less ebooks than I do at the same price. Why? Because the publisher isn't screaming about his backlist on every available channel. It's crickets, so the only ones buying those values are those who stumble across them, likely after buying his latest work.
I'll take a novel that's coming up on four years old as an example of what I mean. The Delphi Chronicle is a modest seller for me, and yet it's shifted over 20K copies since I released it December, 2011. I price it at $4.99. It was languishing for the last few quarters, so I did a promo for it that moved almost 4000 units. Sales post-special price are respectable, and the title's earned a nice return that's several multiples of the marketing cost, and continues to do well.
As it will for many years, if I keep marketing it periodically. Because it's new to 99% of readers on Amazon, regardless of how long it's been released. That's an important point – every day there are hundreds of thousands, or millions, of new readers who have never heard of my work. Every day I can be discovered. But I have to help myself, or get lost in the rising tide.
If you look at your backlist as an investment portfolio of IP, it's a good model. Even if I stopped writing tomorrow, with almost 40 novels out, I could market my existing work, change covers occasionally, and likely make a nice living in perpetuity. But if I were trad pubbed, those books would go unloved and unread as the marketing folks push the latest shiny, and I'd be back working at Burger Barn before I knew it, or eating dog food, or both.
Needless to say, that gives me a significant advantage over a trad pubbed author with similar ranking. I'll earn around 5X what he will for the same books sold, and I control my destiny. I like that. A lot. So should you.
In other news, I listed the first 10 chapters of Ramsey's Gold, which releases end of this month, on Amazon for .99. I tried to make it free, but it didn't work. If you're interested in checking it out, be my guest, and feel free to return it for a refund once you're done. Hopefully that will motivate you to purchase the full novel. I think it's some of my best work, and recommend it highly. Then again, I'm biased. But you should still buy it. Really. I'm serious. Here's a link.
A friend of mine emailed me today, worried. The email asked whether I'd seen the latest review on one of my books. I said, no, I largely don't read 'em anymore. She didn't believe me, and was aghast at the complaints over the writing in the book. Outraged, more like it.
Here's my take: criticism is a difficult topic to approach dispassionately as a content creator of any kind, but if you're to succeed you need to have a system for evaluating it so you can learn from the meritorious critiques and flush the garbage.
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I used to design and build luxury homes. Big ones. Six, seven thousand feet, on the beach.
When you design homes, it's much like writing a book, in that your target audience (the client) will express preferences in the style of architecture they favor. Some like contemporary, others Mediterranean. Some demand as many columns and arches and curves as possible, others want only straight, clean lines. One person's fugly might be another's treasure. Rather like babies, that. And nobody's really wrong, assuming the design's competently executed.
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There are three components to a book that people generally review: The story/characters, the mechanics (grammar, editing), and the style. I'll take them one by one.
With story/characters, some will leave poor reviews if they simply dislike the message/tone/moral of the story, or the language used, or the characters – often because the reader wanted them to do X, and instead they did Y, or because they were mean, or deplorable, or unlikable – or find just the story itself unappealing due to genre ("I hate conspiracy books. This conspiracy thriller reminds me why"). Others will dislike the structure of the story – it doesn't flow well, there are plot holes, it wasn't believable. The first complaints address the style of the story, the second, the structure of it. I've found it's worth taking a hard look if you get a lot of reviews complaining about the structure – you may have a weakness in your plotting that's invisible to you but obvious to others.
Mechanics are more straightforward. Is the grammar correct? Punctuation? Is it edited decently? This is pretty binary – yes or no. Now, you can choose to eschew proper grammar, for stylistic reasons, or because in dialog your characters wouldn't speak the Queen's English, and that's fine – as long as you actually know how to write according to the set of rules consensus agrees are the correct ones, and are deliberately choosing to break the rules for effect. If you aren't, and you don't, my advice is don't publish your book, because it isn't ready. If you're going to ask people to pay you for it, or even take their precious time to read it, you better have mastered the basic skills involved in writing before putting it out there.
Style is the tricky one, because it's often like design: everyone's got a preference, and none is "right."
But surely, some are better than others, no?
Not necessarily. It entirely depends on reader reaction. If the majority of readers you're targeting enjoy your style of writing, it's right for you and them.
Some prefer short, simple sentences, eschewing any description beyond the most necessary. This is a school of writing made famous by Hemingway. It can be quite effective. It can also bore the crap out of some. Others prefer involved, evocative prose like that of Joyce or James Lee Burke. But those who prefer the former style will likely hate the latter, as there are too many words, too much extraneous detail, etc. Some enjoy very basic prose – almost The Cat Saw The Rat level. Others view that as puerile and illiterate.
The point being that these are all preferences. One person's overwritten or purple may be another's amazing read.
Now, authors especially, will tend to confuse their preferences with the "right" or "correct" or "good" way of writing. They're emotionally invested in it. They've taken a stand, decided (or more likely, took some courses in school or read a few books on craft) on a preference, and by God, that's the way people should write, and if you deviate from it, the work is deficient. And they have been known to leave reviews stating the writing is terrible, florid, overwrought, or alternatively, simple-minded, monosyllabic, barely readable, sophomoric. They might also find work clumsy and inept. And they're no more right than they are wrong. If it's clumsy and inept to them, they're right. But that doesn't mean it is to everyone else.
Readers also have preferences. A reader of 50 Shades of Gray would probably not be that interested in the stylings of a David Foster Wallace. Likewise, a reader of Faulkner probably wouldn't be all that excited about a NA romance written in the first person at a third grade level.
And that's all good. Fine. There are different styles to suit every fancy.
When you read your reviews, or any review, it helps to determine, certainly on negative ones, where the reviewer is coming from. Do they have a problem with the story, the mechanics, or the style? If a story/character problem, is it a stylistic dislike (Bo was an a-hole – I hate him! Sue should have wound up with Jeb!) or a structural dislike (The story was disjointed, lacked veracity, and the plot had holes large enough to drive a semi through)?
If a mechanical problem ("the grammar was TERRIBLE") does it seem like they have a point, or, not? You can usually tell after a few pages of the look inside whether the book's written competently from a mechanical standpoint. Likewise, the editing, or lack thereof, will show through pretty quickly.
But when it comes to style, you have to really take a hard look at what the reviewer is complaining about. Often, as in 90% of the time, they're saying that their preference doesn't align with the book's contents. That's what it all boils down to. That in their opinion, it's deficient because it doesn't meet their style preferences, or alternatively, that the performance was a poor one within the given style attempted.
All of which is entirely subjective. In the reader's opinion, the writing could have been more X or Y or Z, or was too M or N or P. For them, the writing didn't work.
This is where you have to step back and take a deep breath.
It's entirely possible that the book's poorly written within the style it pursues. If there are 90% four and five star reviews, probably not. More likely, the reviewer in question has different standards than the target reader, either because they are an author and believe anything below their quality determination is inferior, or because they are having a bad day, or because they spent six months studying the "right" way to write and this doesn't adhere stylistically to what they learned, or they've read thousands of books and find anything less than an out-of-the-park performance objectionable. Or they just didn't like the writing because of X.
My usual steps if I have doubts about a review on someone else's book are to first read the book's look inside and see if there's any merit to the poor review, and then look at the other reviews that reviewer's left. Is this the only book ever reviewed? Hmm – might it be the review is deliberately negative for reasons that have nothing to do with the book? If not, are the preponderance of reviews the reviewer's left for other books one and two star? If not, are the other books reviewed in a different genre?
Look, there are tons of poorly written books. Tons.
There are also plenty of what I'd consider poorly written books in a stylistic sense that have sold many millions, making their readers extremely happy even as their critics rail about their deficiencies. I recall one in particular from The NY Times lambasting the latest Ludlum years ago – trust me it was about as nasty as anything you can imagine. Of course, he probably didn't care, because he sold hundreds of millions.
Can't please everyone, and in my opinion, you shouldn't try. You should be writing to your audience's expectations and keeping them happy. Not people who aren't your audience. Because you'll never make them happy. And you can't please everyone. If you've told the story competently, and the grammar and editing are good, you have to look at complaints about style with a jaundiced eye. I'm not saying ignore negative feedback by any means. It could be you sort of suck at the style you're shooting for. We all usually start out sucking at whatever we're new at, and get better with practice, time, and application. It would be wonderful if we could pick up a cello and sound like Yo Yo Ma. Ain't gonna happen. And sometimes you can practice for years, but you're still not going to be Yo Yo because he's got a different talent. World's not fair. Boo hoo.
But assuming you've got your chops down, if someone doesn't like the way you write, it's like someone at a singles bar not wanting to sleep with you. You're not looking for the ones that don't want to, you're looking for the ones that do. Maybe the rejection you just got prefers taller, thinner, blonder, or shorter, heavier, darker, or any and all variations in between. Could be a million reasons, none of which are anything but stylistic preferences.
For the record, I've designed literally every style of home you can imagine, and while within each style there are conventions you have to follow and need to know, no one style is "right" while the others aren't. There's simply well executed, and poorly executed, and the majority, which are average. But one owner's average house may be the home of their dreams, making them happy with each new day, whereas another's average may be a constant disappointment due to their expectations, their eye, their preferences. Worse, as a designer and builder, I'm the absolutely most critical of my own home, so often finding deficiencies – while most who come over think it's beautiful.
Takes a lot of flavors to make a stew. If most of your reviews are honest, and are good, and you're selling at a level you're happy with, then you're hitting your audience right, and keep on keeping on. Don't let criticism bring you down. Some exist solely to criticize (yes, Mom, I'm giving you the squint eye), others to further unknown agendas, still others just hate your frigging guts for myriad reasons you'll never understand. It's all part of the game.
I had a long discussion with a friend who's an aspiring author about how to move the plot along and engage the reader at every turn. To that end, I thought I'd share some things about how I plan and outline my own work. If you find it helpful, good. If not, well, it was worth what you paid for it.
Let me say up front that there is no one or "right" way to write a novel. Some start writing with barely an idea, others do 50 page outlines. So I can't advise the only way to write a compelling draft, I can only explain the system I use.
Here's how I do it: First, I ensure that if it's an action book, there are sufficient beats to keep the reader engaged. I do this visually, as I outline (I do single sentence summaries of each chapter, usually in three acts, approximately 15 chapters per act), by color coding my chapters with action beats or reversals. So if my typical book has, say, 45 chapters, and I don't have a beat every two or three chapters, it's probably going to be a snoozefest. I'd rather know that going in and contrive more story than discover I lack beats once written.
As discussed, my outline will be single sentence chapters, a la "Giant panda storms Tokyo," "Protag introduced, narrowly escapes," "Romantic interest introduced, helps her across river," etc. The action beats will be highlighted red (or in romance, the conflict beats). I want to see a lot of red in one of my action adventure tomes.
When I do my single sentences, I focus on who's in it, why they're in it, and what's happening. If it's not essential to moving the story along or imparting important info of some sort, my philosophy is it should be cut – it serves no purpose but to occupy space, and it's a better read if every chapter has impact, a specific purpose. Purposeful outlining, and then hopefully, writing, is a key in creating a gripping read.
I also try for as many reversals as I can achieve. She's being chased, the situation reverses, she's now the hunter, the prey eludes her, and doubles back, putting her in harm's way again. She was on top, now she's scrambling. The love interest was making advances, now he's distant. Reversals make it interesting. The more the merrier, and if you can achieve multiples within a chapter, so much the better.
Probably the biggest thing in a larger sense is to try to demonstrate qualities about the characters, what they're feeling, attributes, without doing so explicitly, i.e. showing vs. telling, because even the fastest moving novel will lose reader interest pretty quickly if everything's explicate and obvious.
And finally, on second and third draft, I ask myself with each sentence whether it needs to be there – does it tell us something vital about the story, characters, etc.? Is there a better way to say it? Is it repetition of something I said earlier? Is it setting a tone or mood? Does the reader already know this? Are the characters logically consistent in their behavior?
One of my pet peeves is when a character has to behave stupidly or illogically (outside of the framework of the world I've crafted) in order to move the plot forward. So I'm careful to watch for that – although note that in something like my NA trilogy, I deliberately have the protag behaving in contradictory ways, but that's because when you're a teen, you can have contradictory impulses in a short period of time. That's how it was for me. Part of becoming a mature adult is being fairly responsible, but being a teen is the path toward that, so I want that push pull of emotions, that "should I or shouldn't I" instability. It's the instability that adds to veracity, that even, while frustrating in a kind of "No, don't do that!" way, feels true and real, even if annoying that the character is doing something that isn't in her or his best interests.
And then finally, I'll check for echoes, which are repeated or overused words. I have an entire list, but it seems like every book has a few new chestnuts I find, new lazy habits.
In summary, I strive for pacing and consistency. I'm not immune to the lure of prose, to the well turned phrase or the bordering-on-purple description, but that's a personal style preference. I know many books and courses counsel the Hemingway/Chandler school of sparse prose and economic description, and that's fine, but it's a preference, nothing more. I do look for readability as a final check – is there musicality to it? Lyricism? Is there suitable difference in sentence structure to avoid monotony? Is there a cadence, and if so, is it one that I like, or could I do better?
The big takeaway is that color coding your chapters might work for you, might not, but I've found it a reasonable way to do what a content editor might, on my own, and ensure my characters get into sufficient trouble to keep it interesting. That will help with structural issues and pacing, and then the rest is block and tackling of multiple drafts to get the prose right.
Now, go buy my crap. JET – Ops Files, Terror Alert, is out and garnering impressive reviews, and Ramsey's Gold is on preorder for release end of May. Both are worthy of a hard look. Terror Alert is as good an example as any of how my approach to pacing unfolds, so it's not a bad place to look for the structure within the chapters. And Ramsey's a blockbuster read. Trust me on this.
As to my situation, I've got a mountain of work to get done over the next ten days, so will be in and out.
Hope this little glimpse into my process resonates. Now go write something.
I just typed "The End" on my 40th book in 46 months of self-publishing.
It felt pretty good. And I think it reads better than the first book I wrote, but that's debatable, because that first one (Fatal Exchange) still sells well when I promote it, and still garners great reviews. It would suck if I've gotten worse, but that's also possible. Guess I'll have to wait to see how the reviews come out on JET – Escape to know for sure.
I'm taking a month off in April to recharge my batteries, and then will be knocking out another couple of novels in May and June.
A buddy of mine asked me how it feels to have written a solid 4 million words in about four years, not counting blog posts or message board missives, which probably easily brings it to 5 million.
I responded honestly that it feels like I'm starting to get the hang of it.
For those who've missed my prior posts on process, here's a quick reminder of the habits I follow to write an awful lot of books in a relatively short period of time (BTW, there's plenty of historical precedent for this output – look at some of the pulp greats, or even authors like Asimov, Cartland, Bloom, Inoue, Roberts, etc. There have always been, and always will be, prolific authors who can sustain reasonable quality at a rapid pace.). And before we get into the usual debate about quality dropping with speed, I'll share this observation: Most who believe this are aspiring authors who can't or won't produce regularly, and who sneer at commercially successful genre fiction, or who can't do it themselves and so assume everyone's abilities must be similar.
Here's the truth: If it takes you 250 hours to pen 120K novel first draft, it doesn't matter whether you spread that 250 hours over 25 days of 10 hour writing days, or two years of navel gazing with a few words dashed out here or there. It still takes the same number of hours. So the quality shouldn't suffer, unless it's a function of fatigue, or lack of craft.
So my advice, from a message board post yesterday:
1) Plan on writing a lot, every day, whether your muse is working or not. I shoot for 7K a day, and on a lousy day force myself to write 4K. The reason I force myself is because, as with all jobs, I go to work whether I "feel" like it or not. I don't go to work, I don't get paid. Just as a Hollywood writer working on a series writes every day regardless of their mood. If you aspire to be a pro, behave like one, not like a teen girl on a shopping spree trying to decide which shoes to buy. Your job, should you decide to accept it, is to write well, and write a lot, and demand more out of yourself, regardless of your "inspiration" or your mood or your biorhythms or whatever. You want to be a writer? Then get to it, and stop whining about life getting in the way. Life will happen whether or not your write, and nobody's holding a gun to your head, so you need to be your own motivation, and be unrelenting in your demands on yourself.
2) Outline. If you don't know where you're going, it's going to take a lot longer to figure out how to get there. Couple days of serious thinking and knocking out a chapter by chapter single-sentence summary goes a long way, and speeds the writing along.
3) Turn off the internet when writing. Turn off the phone. The text messaging. All of it. It's a distraction you can't afford. Research after you're done, or before, but when it's writing time, write, don't screw around.
4) Write as though your life depends on it. You only get one life, you've decided this is how you want to spend a few hundred hours of it, so do it like you mean it, or find something you can muster that zest for, and don't bother trying to write. Life's too short to do shit you don't have passion for, and I guarantee you when you're looking back at your existence all the soul sucking BS you spent time on won't give you any satisfaction. If you're going to do anything, keep it real, do it with 110% of yourself, and take no prisoners, or you're letting yourself down, failing your obligation to yourself to be the best you can be.
5) Don't worry about what anyone else thinks. It's a first draft. Lots of it will probably suck. That's fine. Fix it on rewrite. Don't try to edit as you go along, or you'll lose your momentum. Edit on second draft, and then edit that on third. If you fixate on trying to get it perfect on first draft, you'll kill your muse deader than Elvis before you're at chapter two.
There's more – a lot more – but these are the basics.
In closing, pretend you are working on a TV show, where every week you have to turn out polished product at a high quality level. Because that's what pro writers in Hollywood do, day in and day out. If you're busy rationalizing why you can't or don't work that way, or are unwilling to, or feel you shouldn't have to because it'll hamper your creativity or voice or whatnot, fine, but don't complain when you aren't able to compete in the marketplace with those who do. Because like it or not, in the new world of self-publishing, being able to hit the HNR lists with regular releases is a game changer for many authors, and to ignore that phenom is dangerous to any career aspirations beyond that of hobbyist.
And it wouldn't be a Russell Blake blog without exhortations to buy my crap. If you're looking for my newest, it's JET – Ops Files, Terror Alert, which is moving a few copies. And Ramsey's Gold, the first book in my new series, is also shifting a copy or two on pre-order. As is JET – Escape.
I'm thrilled to announce that the exciting sequel to JET – Ops Files has just gone live! JET – Ops Files, Terror Alert, chronicles Jet's early years in the Mossad as she races to stop a terrorist attack of epic proportions that would claim thousands of innocent lives.
It's everything you've come to expect of Jet, with a racing plot, twists, reversals, evil villains, conflicted good guys, and an ending that will leave you breathless.
Hope you enjoy the book. It was a blast to write and moves like a freight train!
The ninth, and possibly final, installment of the JET series, JET – Escape, is now available for pre-order on Amazon, and soon, on B&N, iTunes, and Smashwords.
Believe me when I say that this one is a juggernaut of a book. It picks up from where JET 8 left off, and follows our hero from Colombia, to Venezuela, to Cuba, as she and the family dodge villainous hit men out for blood.
JET is always a hoot to write, and this one has been no different. I hope you enjoy it.
Here's a cover reveal. I liked the woman from the old JET 6 cover, so used her for this with the new background treatment.
I read a post by Hugh on his blog, and felt compelled to add my spin on KB – my first post in a year.
I'm linking it because it states my view of the author/self-publisher duality that self-pubbed authors face, and addresses complaints from those who are finding it to be barren economic soil.
Rather than repeating it, here's the post (scroll down): http://www.kboards.com/index.php/topic,211162.150.html
Much has changed in the market over the last year, but my view of the best approach for authors to take, that of two separate disciplines recognized as such, hasn't. Like a student attending a bilingual curriculum, part of your studies will be in one language, the rest in the other. They are different languages, so excelling in one is unlikely to do much for your success in the other.
Many authors dislike my take. That's fine. There are many ways to skin a cat.
Every author I know who is operating a financially successful self-publishing venture does so as both author, and publisher, and they've all developed the business skills to make the book selling business work for them, while honing the book writing skills necessary to create compelling, and more importantly, commercially successful, content.
Anyone who believes this is an easy way to make any kind of a living knows little or nothing about it. Those entering into it with the idea they're going to earn money at it would be best advised to consider my post, and the merits of my argument, and prepare for a butt-load of thankless hard work in one of the most competitive endeavors I know of.
On the new release front, I have the second JET – Ops Files novel going live at the end of March, and my first installment in my new series, Ramsey's Gold, at the end of May. I'm currently writing the final JET novel, JET – Escape, which will go out in June, and will be available for pre-order shortly.
Next up you can expect the second installment in the Drake Ramsey series around Sept, the final Assassin in Oct, a BLACK in Nov, and TBD in December. Maybe another Ops Files. Dunno.
Now back to work for me. Damned books don't write themselves…
I have a new series that will launch at the end of May. The first installment, titled Ramsey's Gold, is a rollicking adventure yarn that fans of Raiders of the Lost Ark are sure to enjoy.
The story chronicles the adventures of twenty-something Drake, who decides to follow his deceased father's footsteps into the Amazon rainforest when a journal comes to light that describes his father Ford Ramsey's search for the lost jungle metropolis of Paititi – the legendary Inca city of gold.
It's a fun action romp that moves like a freight train, and features wheels within wheels, villainous baddies, morally ambiguous good guys, a love interest that scorches the page, and a denouement that is one of my favorites to date. I foresee it as episodic, one or two installments per year, with the gang embarking on a new adventure in exotic locales whenever the call of the wild sounds.
It's available right now for pre-order through Amazon, and within a few more days, on B&N and Apple.
Here's the cover. I'm super excited over this new series, and already have the second one outlined and scheduled for Fall release. Tell me this cover doesn't say action adventure in a big, big way!
And for a sneak preview of what the book reads like, well, look no further than here. I've posted a few sample chapters for your amusement.
I have another bundle going on that's a no-brainer buy – it features six outstanding novels for .99, and is in Kindle Unlimited, so can be read basically for free. The books include novels by not only yours truly (BLACK), but NY Times and USA Today bestselling authors like Diane Capri, Cheryl Bradshaw, Jack Patterson, Mark Dawson, and Emma Jameson.
The bundle's called Six Feet Under, and should be on everyone's must-read list.
Download it if you're in Kindle Unlimited, and read the books for free. A deal like this only comes along about once a century, which may be a slight exaggeration, but only a slight one. It's an incredible deal. If you love your country, care about puppies, kitties, or the warm smiles of newborns, want to deal a body blow to those who would crush our way of life beneath their sandals or boots or whatnot, you'll download it without hesitation. If you have any sort of faith or belief in a higher power, whatever it might be, you will download this bundle. If you want to change the world in small increments and build a better future for everyone, you'll download it – a portion of its earnings goes toward my bar tab, which should be reason enough to read at least 10%, as though any more reasons were necessary.
Just do it. You'll be glad you did.