Interesting Authors Blog

Challenge Your Beliefs – Pt 6 – Al Gore Milton Syndrome

Please read Part 5 first So, you toiled away writing your book, had it professionally edited, and it bombed. I don’t mean it only sold 10 copies because your marketing effort was worthless, I mean you sent it out for review and they emptied their colon on it. Your book…

Roland HughesAugust 7, 2016September 11, 2017

Reviews

Wild Child

Oddly enough “Wild Child” is a truly rewarding movie to watch. Given the non-existent description found on CafeDVD site, I have to believe I added it to my list because I recognized some names. What? You don’t decide at the moment and stream them instantly. Nope. Streaming is for losers.…

Roland HughesAugust 4, 2016September 11, 2017

Finance Thank You Sir May I Have Another

The Debacle Which is Yahoo Finance

In the annals of Web design mistakes the recent redesign of Yahoo Finance deserves its own History Channel episode in their “Engineering Disasters” series. Granted Yahoo’s troubles are no secret in the financial world. To some it appeared management was trying to whittle the value of the company so low…

Roland HughesAugust 2, 2016September 11, 2017

Experience Fiction Technology

Challenge Your Beliefs – Pt. 5 – Failure is Success Waiting to Happen

There have been quite a few news stories over the past year. Mainly interviews with billionaires who have taken the Warren Buffet pledge. They focus on the differences between MBAs and Entrepreneurs. An MBA is a short sighted creature, dim of wit and, with the help of good glasses, can…

Roland HughesJuly 31, 2016September 10, 2017

Finance Stories Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Challenge Your Beliefs – Pt. 5a

Your greatest tool as a writer is the ability to seek out the odd and absurd. Great stories don’t come from an ordinary life, but the extraordinary things that happen yet seem like nothing at the time. This weekend a combination of that “toe tucking” commercial and someone’s comment had…

Roland HughesJuly 25, 2016September 10, 2017

Fiction Society Technology

Challenge Your Beliefs – Pt. 4 – The Water Powered Car

Ah, you saw that title and instantly thought of people wearing Armadillo hats and putting tin foil in the roof of their vehicles/homes “to keep the spy signals out” didn’t you? Admit it. Culturally we’ve been conditioned to associate that topic with such people. Heck, it was even on an…

Roland HughesJuly 24, 2016September 9, 2017

Stories Technology

Flaws Can Pull Audience In

This is really a follow up post to the Leviathan post. After most of you read that post you probably wondered why I watched the entire thing. Basically, it had some issues. Yes the town and buildings looked like the run down things we all expect to see in Russian…

Roland HughesJuly 21, 2016September 9, 2017