Musings

I am having the best time editing A Shadow of Time. (Thanks Lyn) I'm a little late on getting it back to Crescent Moon Press, but you can blame that on my editor. She has giving me so many great ideas, that we'll, I've rewritten the book. No one has been so lucky to have Lyn and Hannah as editors. They are awesome, professional, uplifing, and instructive. 

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To top it all off, I got a Kindle for my birthday! Do I have awesome kids or what? PLUS, I can e-mail my manuscript to my Kindle address and read the darn thing just like a book you buy off Amazon. This has been a fantastic experience.

Last night I started reading Gone by Jonathan Kellerman. Sucked me in on the first page. He writes using incomplete sentences and while at first this kinda bothered me, by the second chapter it didn't matter.

When I checked the book's rating on Amazon I was surprised to see two stars. I guess this doesn't bode well for the end of book. As I've just started, I plan on finishing it.  

Novel Works by Jerri Hines at
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Novel-Works-by-Jerri-Hines/112059205487095
was such a fun experience. I haven't had the pleasure of visitng her facebook page before. She does an awesome job.

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The 99%ers. What a concept. Reminds me of the sixties. Expecially the long hair and music. What makes me happy is  our younger generation is becoming involved in politics. 

What they need to understand is the dynamics at work. It isn't all the bank's fault (though they are complicit) and they need to look and REALLY see what else is going on.  Key words: Sarbanes-Oxley and Mark to Market. What a nightmare.  Other key words: Liar loans, credit quality and subprime mortgages.Then there's Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Barney Frank and the rest. I've spent years sudying the meltdown and the only way you will truly understand what happened is to research it yourself. Do NOT fall into repeating what other people say--that's ignorant. Educate yourself.

A simple analogy: You work at Walmart. Your wages are low but the product is cheap. Unions are protesting Walmart for being a non-union house. So, workers unionize. Their wages go up by 20-25%. Do you think Walmart will eat those costs? No, the consumer will. Every time you raise the price of doing business it falls back on the consumer. And if you think unions aren't corrupt, Just Google unions and educate yourself.

Is this right? That costs fall back onto the consumer? It's business plain and simple. Do we really need the costs of goods escalating right now? When people are out of work? Losing their health insurance? Having their hours cut back?

I'm tired of watching people suffer. I live in Grass Valley, it hurt to see our hometown bank bite the dust and close their doors. I know these people on the board. They are good people. They did nothing other than what Bank of America did, yet, they went under. They weren't big enough to survive. 

My rant is done.  

Have a wonderful weekend! A better week next week. And happy reading, book or Kindle.

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