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  • At Long Last: The Forgotten Masterpieces of Old Time Radio

    by David Macpherson ...
    The world of old time radio is a fantasy land where you take the voices and make an entire world. Nothing is better.This collects six forgotten masterpieces. And yes. They are real. Why would you even think to say that we made this shit up? We would never write something ourselves and call it masterpieces. We are too humble for that.Six masterpieces. Well, you can decide.There is the episode of ... Read more

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  • FAQ for the Monsters, Fiends and Abominations Website (now defunct)

    by David Macpherson ...
    There was a website about monsters. It was all about monsters.Sounds fun. But don't bother looking for it. It's gone.The internet is like that.The website is gone but we have the FAQ page. And in honor of anyone who remembers that there used to be a monster website that didn't completely suck, we are publishing this relic of an older internet.The FAQ is a strange thing. Does it really answer the ... Read more

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  • Fuck Up Your Title: The Bad Writer's Guide to Using Fuck in the Title of Your Book

    by David Macpherson ...
    What's the secret of writing the killer book title? We know, but we can't tell you. Sorry. Sworn to secrecy. But we can give you one thing that can work for a while. There is a trend that is selling books. But like all book trends, it will not last for long. So you better buy this book, like now, and learn all the secrets to this trend.We probably shouldn't tell you, but hey, we're friends and I ... Read more

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  • The Hook Book and Its Friends

    Comic Book Hinterlands, #16

    by David Macpherson ...
    Series Book 16 - Comic Book Hinterlands
    A gathering of Anti-Drug comic books. They get together on occasion to bask in each other's brilliance. And like in most parties, they all talk about themselves.Ten anti-drug comics explain why they are so important. They are different from one another, except for their antipathy for drugs. There are the ones where computer kids stop drug dealers. We have the ones with superheroes stopping the ... Read more

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  • The North Pole Hotline

    by David Macpherson ...
    Wouldn't it be cool to call up Santa and find out what's going on up in the North Pole?You bet it would. And thanks to pay call system you were able to call up Santa and see how the preparation for Christmas will be. It cost fifty cents a minute, but it was worth it to get the skinny from Santa and the gang.But what would happen iif you called after Christmas? What would you hear? Would you hear ... Read more

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  • I Kind of Knew Edward Gorey

    by David Macpherson ...
    David Macpherson knew the artist Edward Gorey. Well, he knew him a little bit. When David was a young man, he volunteered in the same place Edward Gorey did. This book is a memoir of that time in Cape Cod. It is also a meditation on the people we remember and the people we name drop. What makes a person worth name dropping? Is it acceptable to name drop an artist that you barely knew? ... Read more

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  • Where is Fancy Bread

    by David Macpherson ...
    Where is Fancy Bread?There was a seminar on how to write the best book copy and one of the main rules is to get the potential reader's attention by a quick and pertinent question. Ask a question. Grab them. Drag them along to the rest of the ad copy.And this question is the best one yet. Where is Fancy Bread? Not only is it the title of the book, it is everything in the book. Every chapter is ... Read more

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  • Yesterday's Stack: Reading the Comics I Read When I Was Fifteen

    by David Macpherson ...
    In 2019, I was going to turn fifty and had my midlife crisis by wallowing in the comic books I loved as a kid.I started buying comic books again. Not new comics. Hell no. I was keyed into old comics.The shit I read when I was a kid.When I was a teenager in the 1980s, I spent all my money on comic books. I would go to the local shop on Saturdays and buy a large wedge of books and spend the next ... Read more

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  • 100 Heroes

    by David Macpherson ...
    Who did you idolize as a kid? Who did you see as a hero?David Macpherson has asked that question to himself and assembled 100 heroes of his from before he was 13. When you are a kid, you are the most open to having a hero.Each hero gets a little essay describing why they mattered. Some of these are funny and absurd. Some are moving. There are a good deal of comic book and television heroes, but ... Read more

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  • The Three Pig Variations: 27 Tiny Plays About Talking Animals and Real Estate

    by David Macpherson ...
    You know the story. Three pigs build three houses. One is of straw. One is of sticks. One is of bricks. A wolf comes around and tests the strength of the houses against his breath. He fails against the house of bricks.That's the motif.What can we do with variations of that theme? We present 27 little plays that take this motif and run with it.We look at aspects of the plot. We put different people ... Read more

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  • The Bad Writer's Guide to Cheating on Your NaNoWriMo Book

    by David Macpherson ...
    Can you join the National Novel Writing Challenge and cheat your way to success?Well, what do you think? Read the title. You totally can cheat your way to finishing a book in a month.Every November, thousands of people attempt to write a novel in one month. It's a big thing. Lots of people struggle to write a 50,000 word book in that short time.Such dedication. You know what we call such focused ... Read more

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  • Are You a True Life Form?: Some Thoughts on Perry Rhodan

    by David Macpherson ...
    A lot of people read Perry Rhodan novels. Just not here in the English speaking world. In Germany, the science fiction novels about Perry Rhodan are published once a week. They are rip roaring space operas.There is nearly sixty years of Perry Rhodan novels. But they never took off in America.David Macpherson picked up a bunch of Perry Rhodan novels that were translated and published in the 1970s. ... Read more

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