Latest shipment of Dead Tree Readers

Sails on the Horizon: A Novel of the Napoleonic Wars

The Photographer's Eye Field Guide: The essential handbook for traveling with your digital SLR camera 

The above is a pocket book sized format. I admit I did not pay enough attention and did not expect that!

Blackcollar: The Judas Solution 

Cobra Alliance: Cobra War: Book I  

  Writing Dialogue 

  Guidebook to the Historic Sites of the War of 1812: 2nd Edition, Revised and Updated 

Any Approaching Enemy: A Novel of the Napoleonic Wars 



 That ought to cover most of the low-hanging fruit that was easily available on my Amazon wish-list. And add to the never-ending queue of unread books. I am working through Horse Soldiers. This is a good novel about the initial movement of US SF into Afghanistan at the start of the current conflict. 

An interesting article on the progress of E-books and book pricing

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703838004576274813963609784.html

It is interesting that the self-published authors are now getting more attention as the consumers decide whose works they enjoy and are willing to pay for. I suppose this could reduce the standards of literature, but I don't really fear for the 'good book'. They'll still exist even in the new world of digital production and distribution.

Fun Quotes

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Peter Marshall

A true friend stabs you in the front.
Oscar Wilde

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Thomas Jefferson

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.
Arnold Schwarzenegger


The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
Lord Byron


At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
Woodrow Wilson

 You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Laurence J. Peter

 The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
Doug Larson

 Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Mark Twain

Beware of the person of one book.
Thomas Aquinas

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
Ray Bradbury 

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward Gibbon

A nice quote....

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)