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Today's Edition of Poplitiko
By Alex Ness
October 9, 2024

RECENT EVENTS

I received both good news and bad healthwise, but I am more interested in focusing on the good stuff. Fortunately I have the world's greatest G/P Dr. at Stellis Health Buffalo, MN-- Dr. Teresa Wrobbel. She has saved my life more than a couple times.  I am posting this so I'll never forget to mention her.

ATTENTION AUTHORS!

Are you writing and receiving no reviews and no attention to works that you feel are great?  Do you want reviews from a person of interesting personality, beauty, intelligence, and insight? My new friend Nicole accepts works for review, and goes to Goodreads to leave her review. She is bright, ambitious, interesting, and worth considering for her work. She is on the former twitter, now X, so you might not think to look there, but she leaves numerous reviews there as well. Oh did I mention, she is also a fashion model, and has aspirations to go far into many different fields?  I recommend her as a reviewer because I find her to be honest, straight forward and could help most authors expand their presence online and their works receive more attention as well. If you want to help her expand her reach too but you aren't a writer, she takes donations, and I am sure has a good purpose for them.

For now, she is hoping you will contact her and contribute to keep her work afloat, her numbers are $1500, but if that doesn't work, she will perhaps find crowdfunding options available.

Find Nicole at: https://x.com/Efobiii  Contact Nicole by clicking this phrase

REASONS TO SMILE

This might sound silly but, as a person who has worked in the field of Politics, briefly, I am grateful the mudslinging orgy of hate formerly known as the Presidential election is in its final days. I had chosen to not vote, but after a series of what I consider vulgar and foolish statements (not mine, the candidates) I am able to vote without a reason to feel forced into that particular vote.

RECENT READS/TASTE IS THE THING

Since I've been sick rececntly, I've been in a recliner trying not to vomit or run to restroom. With the time now used but not free to do other things, I reread two more series that makes my heart happy. 

Alan Dean Foster's Icerigger Series
Dennis McKiernan's Iron Tower series

Not in regard to these authors, but whenever I mention who I like, I'm insulted by people when I mention specific people and I find it rather foolish. 1) We all have our own taste, why does it matter what someone else likes? 2 ) Do you make less of an income if someone reads or watches something you dislike? How does it impact your life? 3 ) If I like it, and receive pleasure from it, I've not announced it is the greatest work of all time, why not shrug your shoulders and say, good for him.

The Icerigger series was a cold world with pirates medieval warfare and space ship ports. It mixed wonderful components, it had humor, and the lead male was easily my mediocre self. Intelligent but not a heroic archetype, yet still devoted to the cause. Alan Dean Foster is an author who has written many great books, but is remembered for adapting movies into novels. Icerigger would make a fantastic movie.

The Iron Tower series, was written during a time of being laid up with a broken body. Initially it was the second series written in that fantasy world, but the publisher pulled the 3 books that made homage to a Tolkienesque epic. It is enjoyable on many levels, and it is a work by an author I like very much.

LOCAL GEM FOUND

SPEED PRINT INC saved my bacon. After dealing with many weasels while searching for a printer, Jen Bateman an artist and member of MnCBA (Fall and Spring Con folks) led me to Matt from Speed Print Inc. Many printers I dealt with supposedly local, had 800 numbers, fake store fronts, and printed from Asia and demanded 80 dollar shipping after you signed the contract. That is not cool.

Find the good guys at https://speedprint.net/

Instead I went with Speed Print INC and for fair prices, quick service, and kind dialogue, I was very pleased with every thing!

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