Today I got 20 queries all prepped for mailing tomorrow. I’m doing publishers initially, will focus on agents later in the week.
I took a year off from work and wrote two books, one a children’s book, the other this book on atheism, with the working title “Blue Collar Atheist.”
Anyone who’s read my various blog incarnations over the years has probably read some of my essays; the atheism book is about half those, half new stuff, with cool chapter titles like “Batman Almighty,” “The Wellspring of the Gods,” “Sucking Up to the Virgin Mary,” “The Evidence of True Things,” “Hello Mr. Death” and “The Headwaters of Reality.” More obvious titles are “Why Beliefs Matter,” “Good Without Gods,” “On Being An Unbeliever,” and “Saying Goodbye to Gods.”
If I had to describe the basic idea of the book in one sentence, it would be “You don’t have to be a highly-educated intellectual to free yourself from religion.”
And IF IF IF the thing sells, you might get to read it in, oh, a year or so.
Argh. Should’ve started five years ago.
I just yesterday finally bit the bullet and learned how RSS works. Damn! Why didn’t somebody TELL me!?
For a guy who gets nervous when he has to call in to work and tell somebody he’s going to be five minutes late, I have a hard time even imagining what it’s like for a doctor to tell a patient he has cancer.
I contributed to several of the first-ever Carnivals of the Godless, but then got sidetracked onto a number of other matters, and have been a very minor part of it since.
In most dog-related things, I was a fairly indulgent dad. But having my four-leggers roll in dead stuff, or go off into the brush and bring back something rotten, I had a hard time with that.
Manny the Mammoth, talking about Sid the Sloth, Ice Age 2: 
I’ll be hosting the June 22 issue of COTG.
This story is so funny it’s useless for me to comment on it. I’ll just post a few bits of it.
I’m conflicted.
