Smith Publishes Novel about a Bear and a Spider!

Yes, it's true--I did it; it's my fault!
Anyway, here's the link to Ponty Green Bear and the Storm Machine, which is selling at the price of an app--99 pennies. If you can't send pennies over your Internet connection, you should check the coin wrapper to make sure it's good and tight, or you may be holding the Internet wrong. WrongLY, is more better English, of course, but the language, it is  a-changing.

Here's a magnificent cake loaded with little chocolate bears, in case you just can't get enough of bears and chocolate. And here is the website for Heidelberg Cakes, makers of the splendid Cake of Bears.  Unfortunately for me, these people dwell in Adelaide, Australia, which is a little bit further than I usually trek.

And here is a chocolate Swiss army knife. I can't see any attachments in the picture, so I suppose you'll have to eat it to find out if it has any.  Yodel eee, yodel oooo!

Besides making Swiss army knives, the Swiss have very good trains--here's a picture.

And here's one for Jean-Paul Sartre:
Yippee Ti Yi Yo, get along little dogies
For you know that Wyoming will soon be your home.

That's from the cowboy song, "Get Along Little Dogies."
Hee hee hee.

Earth Stands Still: Smith Publishes Book at Smashwords!

Here's the Smashwords site, where The Prey sells for the astounding price of $1.98USD. Hurry before it goes up a penny, or possibly two pennies--you know what inflation can do!

For those of you contemplating publishing on this site, it's not difficult to meet the formatting requirements--Mark Coker's free ebook explains what you have to do. Basically, it's a matter of simplifying things as much as possible.

The cover, however, was, for me, a different matter, and that's not Smashwords's fault. It was basically the story of an epic battle between me and the gods of pixels, resolution and physical dimensions on Photoshop. I ate an entire bag of chocolate-covered almonds while trying to work this one out. It took hours and hours. At one point I had to take a break from pulling my hair out and relax for awhile by watching a documentary on tanks in the Battle of the Bulge.

Anyway, it's over, and I found this intriguing site, which features chocolate airplanes. And for those of you who insist on being healthy, here on the Stephen Cooks! site is a recipe for buttered rutabagas, complete with a picture of the end product.

And here is a book about freight trains to while away the boring hours while your rutabagas cook and butter themselves.

If you have any questions about the universe, ask a rutabaga. Or go and find a rare and radiant maiden, and ask her to cast some light on the subject.

Nevermore!