I am entering This Is Fifty-three in the Pulitzer Prize competition! To defray some of the costs of printing the required submission copies, I am soliciting one-time donations. Every donation of $1 or more between now and 9/12/16 will get a link to screen-optimized PDFs of the book for downloading, plus a few extras. To donate via PayPal, click here, or on the Donate button at the bottom of any page on my website, kevinjoconner.com. Thanks!
(2 September 2016)
I have put up a preview edition of This Is Fifty-three on Wattpad. It won’t have all the nifty graphics or meaningful photographs, but it will provide a decent preview of what to expect. Here is the link: https://www.wattpad.com/story/83349244-this-is-fifty-three-excerpts.
(1 September 2016)
I had expected to be out and about tonight—a rare occurrence, to be sure, but not completely out of the question—but a late bedtime last night turned into not enough sleep (aided by my trusty alarm cats), so I am at home instead, watching Young Frankenstein.
August turned out to be quite a month. Though I cannot say that I am ‘I have to check my calendar’ busy by any stretch of the imagination, a lot happened this month: Continue reading
At last, it is done.
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This Is Fifty-three, day 60
If it’s not one thing, it’s something else. Continue reading
This Is Fifty-three, day 59
I still hate Mercury Retrograde. Continue reading
This Is Fifty-three, day 58, part 2
I hate Mercury Retrograde. Continue reading
This Is Fifty-three, day 58
This should really be day 57, part 2, but it’s after midnight. New e-mail from CreateSpace, with yet another ‘problem’ that was never mentioned in any of the previous reviews of my files: Continue reading
This Is Fifty-three, day 57
Made a couple small changes to the full-color edition, after realizing that the last couple of lines I added to the page 104–105 spread were still out of position. Continue reading
This Is Fifty-three, day 56
A day after approving the proof for the Just the Words, Man edition, thereby making it available for purchase…I received the printed proof for the full-color edition. Continue reading
Ordinary Average Thoughts 