{"id":1091,"date":"2017-03-25T14:05:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T21:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/linrobinson.com\/home\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2017-03-28T23:33:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T06:33:04","slug":"april-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/linrobinson.com\/home\/april-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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\"facebook\"OLD IS THE NEW NEW<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Yes, I’m finally sending out newsletters. \u00a0Every month, hopefully. \u00a0Little sunbeams of writing and offers and general bonhomie for people who must be pretty cool because you like my writing. \u00a0And compiling them here on my site.
\nStarting off with a special event–enter for a chance to get a whole bunch of free humor books. \u00a0How great is that? \u00a0And some other goodies I tossed in. \u00a0Enjoy, stick around… see you next month. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you’re seeing this here, but didn’t get the mailing, but would like to get them in the future, just click on this little graphic and sign up. \u00a0Your address won’t be shared and you can unsubscribe any time you want.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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GRAB BAG OF FUNNY BOOKS!<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

<\/a>As I mentioned, the big feature this month (for me, anyway) is something I’ve never done before–a give-away drawing. \u00a0With a twist: sign up and you have a chance to pick up humor books from several dozen writers. \u00a0So give it a shot: click the monkey pic or THIS LINK<\/a> to go to the site where the bonanzaroo is going on. \u00a0Best of luck. \u00a0<\/strong>
\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>My contribution to the prize basket is the notorious “Weekend Warrior”–a novel based in San Diego media (such as it is) and woven around humor columns from my beloved\/dreaded, award-winning syndicated column of the same name.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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FREE Best-Selling Medical Humor Collection<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

\"FREE<\/a>Contests are fun, but here\u2019s a freebie that\u2019s guaranteed. If you don\u2019t have this collection of hospital\/medical humor, remember what the best medicine is. Product of some very gifted humorists, it\u2019s major therapy and a great gift for anybody to you know who works in the healing arts.
\nWARNING: the humor here (from a stellar collection of writers, including syndicated columnists) is what you might call dry or noir, not Readers Digest Giggle Medicine. It\u2019s even been described as \u201csick\u201d which is kind of ironic. Just saying. I have faith that you\u2019ll get some guffaws out of this book, as will anybody you show\/gift\/inflict it to.
\nAnd if you like it, slap up a review\u2014these are some great writers and deserve accolades.
\nPick it up RIGHT HERE<\/a>, For FREE April 4-8.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“TOUGH FUNNY” FROM A GAL PAL
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\"Shhoting<\/a>If healing isn\u2019t your thing, you might get a charge out of this April Deal, a book that is on the opposite side of making people all better. My friend and sometime collaborator Cammy May Hunnicutt brings her delightful southern wit and appalling homicidal tendencies to bear on the problems of inferior boyfriends and her remedial approach. Along with handy tips for deciding, execution, and choice of best shootin\u2019 irons.
\nDOUBLE WARNING on this one. NOT, as you might have gathered, your typical chick-lit chucklebook. Look at the cover, for Pete\u2019s sake. If you are a prude, or insecure in your masculinity, might best pass.
\nSmall but deadly, a major crack-up for a mere<\/strong> 99 cents<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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FREE BOOTY SAMPLER!<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

This\"Lin<\/a> is my standard introductory freebie, but if you haven\u2019t you might want to browse it: the price is
\ncertainly right. An eclectic sampler of various forms of my work, from stand-alone novel chapters to short stories and articles to poems and even song lyrics. And all, amazingly enough, somewhat thematic to Piotr\u2019s great image of a cute pirate lass tossing a pot and amassing booty.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Asides for April: <\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

The Menace of the Undefined<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

It\u2019s a wonder I became a writer. I went to three schools in third grade and therefore never mastered more than an infantile scrawl for cursive writing and even my signature. Then I flunked typing in high school. (A bad rap, actually, but there it is.) But the worst of it was the way my parents (both educated and articulate) warred against words. I had a hard time keeping track of all the words I couldn\u2019t \"Pistolero\"<\/a>use without Wrath of the Gods punishments. But looking back on it, what really gets me is that we couldn\u2019t use the nonsense words \u201cMad\u201d magazine coined. (I was not allowed to read \u201cMad\u201d, either, but sneaked copies from by buddy\u2019s big brother.) You remember the ones I mean: \u201cfurshlugginer\u201d, \u201cfarshimet\u201d\u2026 words dripping with wacko invective, but bereft of meaning. Which didn\u2019t matter to the parents: they\u2019d ask if I knew what the words meant, and when I shook my resigned little head, said the MIGHT be bad words and were thus verboten.<\/em> Now think about that\u2026 this unknown word MIGHT be a bad one, so don\u2019t ever use it. I think you can understand why I react so strongly against people who advise writers to avoid adverbs, alternatives to \u201csaid\u201d, passive verbs\u2026 or ANY word in the English language, which was create by writers for writers to frolic in. It\u2019s a bad day when you can\u2019t blame something on your fushlugginer parents.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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COMING IN MAY<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Continuing the Borderland series… but with an exciting change of direction. This story will tune in the beautiful, combative Officer Novena Rosas for you in a big way. Stay tuned.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Oh, and the bear art? My lifelong totem and spirit animal. Probably from being born on Hokkaido with the whole Ainu bear reverence that set the island solidly in the Circumpolar Bear Cult. \u00a0But anyway… if you have really cool bear art, send it to me and I’ll flash the best of them to my cult of rabid fans and followers. Click Here<\/span><\/a>
\nAnd of course if you aren’t getting this stuff mailed to you monthly, sign up right here–
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