Saturday, November 25, 2023

Harvardinates

The truth, only the truth, nothing but the truth - Harvardinates - The Life and Times of John Leverett, first secular President of Harvard - got its first review today (below). Story of the earliest days of Harvard Law, before law was even a profession. John Leverett made it through those days and brought it into the modern era.
















Harvardinates
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CND89PZS

Goodreads Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5984223531

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Harvardinates

Harvardinates (Har-VAR-di-NAH-tays): The Life and Times of John Leverett, first secular President of Harvard.

This guy was the same age as Cotton Mather, and went to school with him, both to Boston Latin School, and to Harvard. Cotton's father Increase was President of Harvard in the 1690s, before the witch trials, and hired John to be a tutor. But Increase got called away and in his absence Cotton got carried away up in Salem. John, our hero, said nothing; Increase was his boss. He was writing Logic textbooks in Latin at the time; he later became President of Harvard, much to Cotton Mather's chagrin.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CND89PZS

#harvard #biography #history #kindleunlimited

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Harvardinates

Harvardinates (Har-VAR-di-NAH-tays): The Life and Times of John Leverett, first secular President of Harvard 1708-1724

Paperback (Amazon) $7.10 + postage
On Kindle $2.99
Free on Kindle Unlimited
Hardback $14.70 (coming)
On ACX (coming)

This book is a biography of John Leverett (1662-1724), first secular President of Harvard, who kept Harvard from becoming a Puritan Divinity School when that was what Cotton Mather and orthodox Puritans wanted. It was a very divided time in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and Mather had seen his unquestioned support fade after the witch trials of 1692. The story gives an overview of his illustrious grandfather, Governor of the Colony, a father who had trouble making a living, and deaths in the family, one after another, as was usual in a time of smallpox and other diseases, hard winters, inadequate water, and various other problems. Leverett designed Massachusetts Hall, which survives today as Harvard's oldest building, and holds its President.

Friday, November 3, 2023

Feast on

Short Stories

Devour that Spaghetti
& 22 other short stories
Kindle Special
FRI - SUN Nov. 3-5 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BF4KRQLR

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Monday, August 21, 2023

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Look quickly!

Epiphany Coup Haiku is #9 in Japanese Poetry and Haiku as I write this. If you download/buy and read it, maybe it'll get #1!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/digital-text/7588868011

Thursday, July 27, 2023

Tall Corn State

An Iowa Story
Tall Corn State - lively personal novel with actualist poetry, jumping trains, & unrequited love
Kindle Special TH-SAT July 27-29
on Amazon


Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Friday, June 9, 2023

Ten Quaker Closet Plays



For reflection and discernment
and for adult education and quarantine zooms...
read about Fox, Nayler, Rufus Jones, Hoover, Nixon, and even Smedley Butler (Nixon and Butler grew up Quaker, but weren't Quakers as adults).

On Amazon
Paperback $5.40 + shipping
Kindle $1.99, or free on Kindle Unlimited
Hardcover $12.80 + shipping

Monday, May 8, 2023

#8 Japanese Poetry & Haiku

This may be outdated by the time you read this, but the fact that this book got #8 in its Japanese Poetry & Haiku category at least for part of a day is worthy of note.

I was horrified to see that haiku written by Chat GPT was #4 in the same list. It's probably higher now, since, out of curiosity I downloaded it; it like mine is on Kindle Unlimited. It's terrible though. It's not even really haiku, although, hey, maybe I'm the wrong person to be drawing this line.

Follow the links and take a look at mine, if you have the chance. It's worth it, just to beat the Chat GPT version. Your download will make a difference!

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Tall Corn State

Tall Corn State
lively personal novel with Actualist poets, jumping trains & unrequited love
Kindle Special FRI-SUN Apr. 22-24
https://www.amazon.com/Tall-Corn-State-Iowa-Story-ebook/dp/B08XQ9612R/

Friday, April 14, 2023

Five Second Rule

20 short stories to pick up
Kindle Special
FRI-SUN Apr. 14-Apr. 16
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XPUT9I6
#shortstories #kindle


Tuesday, January 24, 2023






















Devour that Spaghetti


And 22 other short stories
Available in paperback $5.25 * shipping on Amazon
Available in Kindle $3.99 on Amazon
Free on Kindle Unlimited
ACX coming

prices subject to change



















Comin' 'Round to Lovin' It

22 short stories out of 99 billion served
Paperback $4.89 + shipping on Amazon
Kindle $3.99, also available on #kdpselect
ACX - narrated by C. Nathan Bennett - here

prices are subject to change





















Hands Off That Pear



& 23 other short stories
Available on Amazon $5.29 + shipping
Available on Kindle $3.79
On ACX, narrated by Jordan Lewis





















Free Range Flash Fiction



30 stories a thousand words or less



Available on Amazon $5.99 + shipping
Available on Kindle $3.00
Now available on Audiobook, narrated by Steve Bulls!












Mannequin Challenge



& 20 short stories you can't put down

Available on Amazon
$5.50 + shipping

Available on Kindle for $2.99, also on Kindle Select

Available in Audiobook, at ACX, $13.08, narrated by Greta Gorsuch











Do Unto
A short story and twenty others




Available on Amazon $6 + shipping

Available on Kindle $2.99

Available on audiobook, narrated by Greta Gorsuch
















Five Second Rule
20 Short stories to pick up



Available from Amazon ($4.59 + shipping)

Available on Kindle $2.99

Available on audiobook $5.95, narrated by Greta Gorsuch





















A Dozen Crime Stories
from a well-known, big-box discount retail chain

12 Short Stories




Available from Amazon ($4.27 + shipping)

Available on Kindle $2.99

Available on Audiobook! Narrated by Greta Gorsuch

"Americana at its best"....Greta Gorsuch Griffee









Pile of Leaves:
Stories of a rake

17 Short stories



Available at Amazon $4.29 + shipping

Available on Kindle $2.99

Now available on Audiobook, narrated by Greg Nelson!



















Unloading: The early ESL stories



Available at Amazon $5.49 + shipping
Available on Kindle $1.99
On ACX narrated by David Parker