Interesting Authors Blog

Yappy Dogs and Second Hand Smoke

Featured image by Pezibear from Pixabay Seriously. Can there be anything which flies in the face of Darwin’s “Survival of the Fittest” more than a yappy dog? Don’t get me wrong. I love dogs. I even love cats. Over the years I’ve had many pets and stayed at many places…

Roland HughesApril 22, 2019February 10, 2021

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Why Do You Tip So Much

Featured image by thinkingmancreative from Pixabay Why do you tip so much? I get that question a lot. If I’m in a particularly pissy mood my response resembles a line from “Heathers”, “Because I can.” The truth is a bit more moderated. “Because those who can should.” Some might say…

Roland HughesApril 21, 2019February 10, 2021

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Why I Don’t Show Books at Library Fairs Anymore

It appears to be that time of the year. Emails and cold calls from people looking to show your books for a fee at various library book fairs. There was a time during the beginning of my authoring days where I bought into that scam. I sent copies of books…

Roland HughesApril 20, 2019April 13, 2019

Reviews

Review – Begin Again

★★★★★ Begin Again may well be the definition of a perfect movie. It is such a feel good movie! One can almost forgive it being set in New York. So many people have short bits in this film you see all kinds of faces you know but just can’t quite…

Roland HughesApril 19, 2019February 6, 2021

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Your Airbag May Not Deploy

A neighbor stopped by the other day since he saw my brother and I tugging the lawn mower out of the mud. I hadn’t seen this neighbor in quite a few years. When you live rural a neighbor is miles away. During our conversation he related the story about an…

Roland HughesApril 18, 2019April 13, 2019

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Watch Dewey Do-er

Featured image by Amber Avalona from Pixabay It’s funny how stories from one’s childhood pop up at odd times. Almost as funny as how most ten minute small talk conversations hop through at least seven topics before they end. Nobody knows why, they just do. During a recent small talk…

Roland HughesApril 17, 2019February 9, 2021

Reviews

Review – Beautiful Creatures

★★★★☆ Beautiful Creatures deserves a place on everybody’s rental list. Great acting, nice story line and the cast seems to have chemistry. For techies there is even this well done glove slap to the face of Google with sprinklings of “you can google it” . . . ah, you have…

Roland HughesApril 16, 2019February 8, 2021