Where I'll be on September 15-17. 2023

APPEARING
By Alex Ness
September 1, 2023

CHANGES

With my oft writing partner Joe Monks having passed away, I asked my sponsor Hot Comics if they still saw my being present at Crypticon MN worthwhile. They said yes of course. I will be tabled with my son, who originally was going to be the fellow to assist Joe in the crowds, but he is also an artist, and creative talent. Thank you to Hot Comics, and Crypticon.

Also, perhaps it would be important to mention a book by Joe Monks and me, about dark, dangerous happenings in Minnesota, was specifically created for the event of Crypticon, September 15-17, 2023. My half of the book involves winter, and beasts who frolic when it is far too cold and dangerous for human activity. I'll be tabled near Hot Comics, who are quite the awesome store, with three locations. I've 36 books out in my name or as a guest on a book.  I've done comics, prose and poetry.  My goal in appearing is to perhaps find a tribe of my own. Hot Comics is sort of family, comic conventions are great but few people give sh!t about poetry. This will allow me to measure if I should keep writing books, chapbooks and comics or focus on what I want to do outside of my writing of books.

My son gave me a microphone, the sort often used in Pod casts, and one of the show surprises was to perhaps announce that Joe and I were going to start a horror, books, comics, and current world news Pod Cast.  We'd do it for our own work, but not in any way do I mean only that.  However, with Joe passing, that plan ended.  If you are reading this and you are wondering what Crypticon is, check the link below this paragraph. It is a horror and all things weird and strange convention.

Two Links for the show:
Hot Comics
Crypticon

APPEARING

My son Jonathan is a highly talented photographer, and he will be at the table and is bringing many prints he has taken for sale. He is a fine writer,  and future film maker or a famous photographer.  On his instagram account and on Facebook, he writes a story about his images.  I'd be as old as I am stupid if I weren't so very proud of his success. Feel free to check his pages and send him and inquiry for any particular sci fi oriented work he has adapted, modified, and often created from various
items he paints, adapts, and creates.

Find him at: Instagram, FB and more


PUMP IT UP

Mike Baron "Pat Broderick has penciled and inked 26 pages of our supernatural Western, Bronze Star. This is the best work of Pat's career. It will blow your mind." Check it out, please. It is a crowdfunded work that deserves more coverage and engagement. And I like Mike. He's a kind often mis-perceived fellow, who is unafraid to use his free speech. When I began interviewing talents in comics and Spec Fiction and more, I found it really odd that he was referred to by many different people from different political outlooks as a mentor, or helper for guidance in their written work. And at the time, the creatives who said this were about 50% Conservatives and 50% Liberals. The political divide of the present has widened so compared to 20 years back, now Liberals dislike him, despite his stories being quite wonderful and thoughtful. He is a good man, and he writes good comics. Support this wonderful work.

A PLACE TO VISIT

Split Rock Lighthouse is a reason to visit Minnesota's North Shore and soon, a place to catch the glory of the changing of seasons and the beauty of Minnesota's so-called Arrowhead region. I've been there more than a few times, and Lake Superior is my choice for beauty, and power. You might remember that the Edmund Fitzgerald sank during rough waters in a storm upon it.  

REVIEWS AND STUFF

I can be found on Facebook, Twitter or through email Alexanderness63@gmail.com. I accept hard copies, so when you inquire at any of these places, I'll follow through by telling you my street address.If you send hard copies for review I will try to always review them, but if you prefer to send pdf or ebooks to my email, I will review these at my discretion. I don't share my pdf/ebooks, so you can avoid worry that I'd dispense them for free to others.

My Creative Blogs:

5k poem blog         AlexNessPoetry.Blogspot.Com

Published works   AlexNessPoetry.Blogspot.Com/2007/01/My-Work.html

All images are copyright © their respective owners, use is simply as fair use and no ownership rights asserted.

“Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different
than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”  Edward Snowden

A Remembrance of a Moment of Music & More

My Musical Journey
By Alex Ness
August 25, 2023

INTRO: I am losing my memory rather quickly. It might mean something awful, or a recoverable health issue that was caused by having covid three times. Or it might mean I have something far worse.  I am not going to give a blow by blow account of my decay. If it is one thing, I won't keep writing, I won't be able to do so.  If it is another,  I won't be able for a different reason. In any event, you'll find out here.

1967 or thereabouts The scene is Port Edwards, a small paper mill town next to another but bigger paper mill town, Wisconsin Rapids, 1966.

This is isn't, because it can't be, be a year by year account. I've little to remember from the earliest times, while I liked music, I wasn't altogether unique in taste, for a kid born in 1963, I liked mostly what I was allowed to listen to.

Mostly, the earliest times I remember, I was listening to music at night before my brother and I would fall asleep in the second floor shared bedroom of our modest home in the middle of Wisconsin. The local station WWRW (now /WGLX-FM) would play contemporary hits, and my mom would come up and turn off the music when we were asleep. But I waited for her her to come upstairs and creep into our room. She'd turn off the radio, and I knew she was still awake. I was comforted by her there, I knew we weren't alone when we fell asleep.

Mostly though, what I remember about music pales in comparison to the stories, mostly fables, my story telling brother would tell me about his adventures with his friends. They were far better than the reality I am sure. And I was comforted by the sound of the nightly train going by and rumbling and whistling.  It sounded like my mother's heart beating, in a way. I remember my brother and I had a record album that had all the theme songs to superheroes on tv and radio. I remember the album by the Royal Guardsmen of Snoopy versus the Red Baron. But there wasn't music I remember well, as in, affectionately.

Well, except, ... one hot as hell summer mid day, I was getting undressed from church, and it was so hot it was going slow, and we heard a song at church How Great Thou Art, that spoke of hearing God's voice in the rumble of the thunder of storms. It'd been sung that day, and whether I was 4 years old or not, and in my underwear or not, the summer afternoon offered hope as I now loudly heard the thunder of an approaching storm, with jet black clouds forming. I thought to myself, I am hearing God. And it moved me spiritually. The rain storm was huge, and it would drop the temps from miserably hot and sticky, to refreshingly cool and gently warm.  It was a spiritual moment in song.

1972 I discovered Cat Stevens, and my world was instantly cool and musically beautiful. His stories and songs spoke of a day of victory, an elder's memories, hope for the future, wonders about the reasons for this life. And I found in his words a search for meaning, a desire to know the answers to eternal questions, thoughts about who we are compared to the great mystery of life. And I understood what he was seeking.  I was also seeking.

1975 I liked a lot of stuff but not enough to buy it. I liked country rock, I liked pop, I liked classical and opera (yes, really) and folk rock. The hard stuff was fine, but I think for me the Eagles were the style of the moment I liked, but I didn't collect their albums. Who I did collect was QUEEN and Freddie Mercury. It was rock but it was classical, it was pop but it had opera. It was an amazing music to drop upon a kid who was really bored of the loud crap, the pop that talked about stupid crap, and old people's crap. (For a purpose, I am writing of it all like I thought of it all as a kid. I do not still think this way).

I enjoyed the idea of KISS but less their music. I didn't like the more popular music. But, I did like the Eagles. But still, sorry for their wallets, never bought their albums. 

1978 When I was 14-15 I understood the appeal of all sorts of music. But the band that changed it all for me was the CLASH. It was angry but had a rhythm and beat. It was smart but had a flavor that the rest of the world seemed to be upset by. I LIKED IT a lot. Joe Strummer especially but the band was rebellious for good reasons, it was almost hopeful rebels rather than senseless nihilism. I collected music, by then, and along with British rock, punk and such, I looooved Motown. It wasn't like there were rules about it, music was a way I could express myself, with the words of others. And I wanted to be a lyricist. But even then I was aware, I wasn't talented enough to do anything artistically.

1982 By the time I left for college, I knew exactly what I liked, and thought my taste would only deviate to include new great music in the genres I liked. I never thought I could evolve in taste, or even opinions. And for years that was true. But just as I took a long ass time getting through college, my long climb from provincialist or sectarian divides of music, Pop, rock, punk, alt, classical music, opera, were all shaken when I woke up. The Smiths changed me, the Waterboys changed me by speaking to me about my wife, without me knowing it, and so so much more, all cracked open my vault of taste.

1988 My marriage also changed me, and Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Puccini, Orff, Wagner, Mozart, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, and Talking Heads were the soundtrack of my search for meaning, love and purpose. Some of it had to do with my wife, but mostly, our search in music form dovetailed together.  And we took a moment for country, but I loved the Mavericks and really tired of the rest of it.  Until I discovered Waylon, Willie, Johnny and Kris. 

AND THEN...

I have much more that I'll address in the future, if I address more in the future. I hope to keep writing... but for now all I can say, is that I am worried about the future, but not fearful. The only thing I fear is large dogs who are angry, redheads who are pissed off, and the consequences of human stupidity and the health of the planet. I don't have as much hope for the planet as I do my physical being. And I have no hope for my physical being.  So there you are.

But I hope you are happy and have a great future. Whatever this old fart thinks or feels.

A SPECIAL BOOK:
SACRIFICIAL LAMB CLUB 

Kim Cormack has written a multi part series of books, and did interviews with me, and she lives in a most beautiful part of the world, one that is now burning now with fires of horrible devastating hunger for land.

Her series of stories feature a clan of vampires, sort of, or beasts of legend that battle between beings who live young and die quickly... seemingly a blip upon the screen of reality. Then, only to find that eternity means something entirely different to those chosen for the battles between the clans and tribes. Love for an eternal being means something quite different than to a mortal.

But in this tale, eternal life has changed in meaning... In order to be with her chosen, she must allow her soul's self to be nude before her enemies and intimates, her flaws and all, while she is given the choice of love or death, life or loneliness, a solitude and pure emptiness. She must choose to be or allow others to make her a sacrifice for all of that form of eternity.

 What will she do?

Please order it here

A KICKSTARTER OF NOTE

Remember my interviews with Ken St. Andre? Well he created Tunnels & Trolls, and then, shifted gears and created Monsters! Monsters! a way to RPG as the so called bad guys.

Interview 1, Interview 2

Here is a kickstarter that gets you an original version of Monsters! Monsters! a new wirebound edition, and more.

SUPPORT IT HERE

OTHER NOTES

My son and I went to an animal shelter as his little wild cat is growing mad without having a partner in crime, and he is about to enter the world of full time business, and life away from an apartment or dorm room. We went to the same shelter that my family went to when we started our new cat entries into our family in 2008. Crossroads Animal Shelter.  I was in tears mostly, all these beautiful creatures, who are full of and in need of love just cracked my heart wide open.

Whatever my current health issues are, I know we won't get more cats unless I suddenly become rich and health issues deeply improve. But my current two are old, and if I die soon, that is fine, but I don't want to die after they pass. I thought though, how wonderful it would be to have a house full of love. So please check out Crossroads if you live nearby, or support their work with a donation, they are fantastic at what they do.

REVIEWS AND STUFF

FINALLY...  I can be found on Facebook, Twitter or through email Alexanderness63@gmail.com. I accept hard copies, so when you inquire at any of these places, I'll follow through by telling you my street address.If you send hard copies for review I will try to always review them, but if you prefer to send pdf or ebooks to my email, I will review these at my discretion. I don't share my pdf/ebooks, so you can avoid worry that I'd dispense them for free to others.

My Creative Blogs:

5k poem blog         AlexNessPoetry.Blogspot.Com

Published works   AlexNessPoetry.Blogspot.Com/2007/01/My-Work.html

All images are copyright © their respective owners, use is simply as fair use and no ownership rights asserted.

Catastrophic Loss

 I lost my partner in various projects, Joe Monks. Along with his wife Pamela, we went on an epic adventure in 2009. Ever since he has been a presence in my writing life, generous, bright and able.

I will miss him forever. And I love him a great deal, this adds to the pain of an already miserable last 4 years.

FrightUnseen.com

Je ne te quitterais jamais

Je ne te quitterais jamais
By Alex Ness
August 18, 2023

TODAY IS A NEW DAY

I realize that by now that you've likely felt when is this meathead ever going to ever stop talking about himself and all his plans and troubles. But no life is ever going to end up with anyone escaping alive at the end. My health is never going to return to be that of a 20 year dork I used to be. I'm never going to escape the maze of obstacles that life offered. But I'm not worried about that. 

Why do I mention it then? What I learned was that I am not alone in my world. My writing and art is not going on in a vacuum of human achievement or consumption. Everyone creating art, is likely to feel like it is being done in a vacuum, without interconnection with others. But my recent year long health crisis allowed me to see that who I am, and what I am, is not anonymous, I have people who appreciate who and what I am. And I want to live, as opposed to most of my life, whenever I faced lethal crises my first instinct was to assume, it would be easier to simply die. But I've learned, some people if not all, would have a response, and sadness should that be the case. I want to survive more than ever.

I'm going to keep writing. I'm also going to never stop wanting to create works in poetry, non fiction, and other aspects of creative life. Right now my focus is upon chapbooks, and a weird fascination with creating my own oil and watercolor paintings. Am I talented enough to create such projects? I did get invited to contribute a watercolor painting to art show when I was 19. It wasn't beautiful, but it did offer an unusual and new look at an event. There is an important point to be made. That art show happened 40 years ago and I didn't win or get notice. My lack of constant practice probably has led to a loss of whatever talent and level of craft efforts that my former self achieved. Let me just say, perhaps I will do it, and it will be crap, or it will surprise folks and not be complete crap. We'll see.

I HAVE GOALS

I do have plans to release many books over the next two years. I've also completed most of my work on the 10 CDs that Aaron Kerr and I created. I will need a way to fund the projects.  I will have 4 larger than normal books of poetry and prose, and some as anthologies with others, and maybe I'll find a way to pay for them otherwise.

SOME RECENT MOVIES I'VE WATCHED OF AN UNUSUAL NATURE

Now, don't hate me for mentioning this, but The Most Dangerous Game was said to be the motivation for the Zodiac Killer. A millionaire owns an island and he hunts people who crash upon the shore, or accept invites to visit. It was a book read by many in high school of the 40s-60s. I am not a fan of that, but I did think the movie was fine, if also rather disturbing for how it inspired an evil spate of killings.

A Kiss of Death is a multiple Oscar nominated film, that features an ex con, and several demented acts.  There is a suicide of a woman, a woman cast down stairs, and even more horrendous violent actions.  It was written by Eleazar Lipsky.  The work inspired numerous comparisons to Batman or other popular media due to the villains and their symbiotic type relations to the lead good guy.  It was an unusual choice for me, but it was rather good.

RE: The Face of Another. I LOVED Woman of the Dunes by Hiroshi Teshigahara, so tried this. In this film, a beautiful woman is disfigured by an industrial accident. She is given a prosthetic face, in an experimental attempt to return her to feeling human. But what is really being told and referred to, is the scars left by Hiroshima, Nagasaki and all of the scarred from the recent war.  How can a person recover their wounds, that are permanent, due to things they can never forget, no matter how one looks. It was thought by some critics internationally to be hyper self introspective.  I disagree. It asked vital questions and offered answers.

SOME ART BOOKS I'VE ENJOYED

Brom's work moves me.
I spoke to MWKaluta for 20 minutes at SDCC 2003.
And Jeffrey Jones was a good friend who sadly passed away far too early in life.

SOME LOVELY AND FUN SCIENCE FICTION RPG GAMES

GURPS offers a game system that works beautifully with all settings. And this game and setting is one that works perfectly. Gurps works well on numerous fronts, but in this case, it isn't far from the world in which we face in a few decades for real.

I am a fan of the ocean and planets in sci fi based upon them.  This game has mechanics that are a wee bit clunky, but offers adventures and ideas of development that are inspiring.

Star Frontiers is about 40 years old I think. It is more space adventure than science fiction, and more rpg friendly than many of the more hard science fiction based settings.  But for my money, to stay in TSR's realm, give me early Gamma World.

COMICS ARE AWESOME

 Works by Mike Grell, Timothy Truman, Mike Baron and Steven Grant kick much ass.

MY FINAL COMMENTS

I offer thanks to all of the readers of my work.  I ask, humbly, if you might support my work, through book sales, or by whatever other means you can imagine. And also, please seek the works I mention, that are not offered for any simple reason of compensation for me.  I greatly appreciate them, and offer them to support the creators of them.

FINALLY...  I can be found on Facebook, Twitter or through email Alexanderness63@gmail.com. I accept hard copies, so when you inquire at any of these places, I'll follow through by telling you my street address.If you send hard copies for review I will try to always review them, but if you prefer to send pdf or ebooks to my email, I will review these at my discretion. I don't share my pdf/ebooks, so you can avoid worry that I'd dispense them for free to others.

My Creative Blogs:

5k poem blog         AlexNessPoetry.Blogspot.Com

Published works   AlexNessPoetry.Blogspot.Com/2007/01/My-Work.html

All images are copyright © their respective owners, use is simply as fair use and no ownership rights asserted.

Remembering a Friend: Norm Breyfogle

NORM BREYFOGLE
By Alex Ness
August 15, 2023

I was fortunate to become a friend with Norm Breyfogle. He'd allowed me to interview him, but there was far more discussion going on than just that which appeared upon the page. Almost all of the discussions outside of the interview were questions and/or further depth of answers, came from Norm. It was rather exciting to have an interview subject who wanted to know more about me, than I had been in the reverse.  Now, that isn't to say I wasn't interested or excited to interview him, but he seemed more interested in me than I was of him. He was curious, kind, bright and well informed upon many different areas of interest.

He was greatly talented, and famed for his work on Batman, one of the most important characters in the world of American comic books. Although he worked with Steven Grant on First Comics Whisper, Norm was to become one of the most dominant artists of the look of DC's flagship character. Eventually, DC editors thought that Norm dominated the look of Batman, and they wanted to change things up, and modernize the image of their flagship character. So Norm was moved around to fill ins, and ended up working for other publishers, Malibu, Valiant, Markosia and more.

Norm suffered a major stroke in 2014, and passed in 2018. He is someone I miss. When he saw that I'd had some big names on my book A Life of Ravens he wanted to trade stuff for it, I wanted to give him a copy, but we did a trade. He looked at it and said, I don't know why you didn't ask me to be a part of this. I said, so many people had said no, I was a bit gun shy. He said if you do a book 2, let me be on it. His support and kindness were immense. I miss him a great deal.

FINALLY...  I can be found on Facebook, Twitter or through email Alexanderness63@gmail.com. I accept hard copies, so when you inquire at any of these places, I'll follow through by telling you my street address.If you send hard copies for review I will try to always review them, but if you prefer to send pdf or ebooks to my email, I will review these at my discretion. I don't share my pdf/ebooks, so you can avoid worry that I'd dispense them for free to others.

My Creative Blogs:

5k poem blog         AlexNessPoetry.Blogspot.Com

Published works   AlexNessPoetry.Blogspot.Com/2007/01/My-Work.html
All images are copyright © their respective owners, use is simply as fair use and no ownership rights asserted.

ORDER IT... ORDER IT NOW!

I've reviewed, interviewed, written commentary about the work and person of Erik Larsen. I obviously love his work, but what I also love about his work is that in the areas that are not purely his own, he offers homage to great artists, with great love. He has reached 30 years of comics with Savage Dragon, arriving in triple sized issue #267. I appreciate how hard it is to keep at a single intellectual property. (I am not good at that, being was told by my co-writer Michael May, you have to stop killing your main characters!) To keep a character's story, and living legacy alive for 360 months, it requires a love of the character.  It requires a talent to evolve a story to tell. It requires craft and practice that most creatives do not themselves have. 

An example of the hard work outlook, is that Dave Sim with Cerebus from his imprint Aardvark-Vanaheim was the first or one of the first to achieve such a number, with issue 300 of Cerebus. An independent comic book requires a sort of diligence and determination to achieve accomplishments like 30 years or 300 comics. It doesn't rely upon others to take the wheel and drive. It doesn't depend upon other talents to fill in the blanks, or aim at smaller stories to get to a number but with fewer pages. In fact, Larsen created more than one triple sized works within his runs.

His character may not be the  highest selling character at IMAGE (frankly speaking I have no idea why or why not), but in my humble opinion, it isn't due to quality or taste. It is better than most of what is on the stands on a ongoing basis. Other comics utilize hot talents, big names, various gimmicks. The only thing I see as a gimmick is nonetheless original. His take on Savage Dragon using parody and satirical versions of comics and Sunday newspaper cartoons, was a gimmick, and I bought and gave away so many, that it ended up leaving me with no issue of SD 252. It was an amazing product, created with love and homage at heart, and it was well worth the cost. If I were a kid, I'd have read my issue to threads by now.

So look in previews or go to your retailer, and order it. You won't be disappointed, and the quality alone is the reason. My sentimental heart appreciates his blood, sweat and labors. But Savage Dragon goes well beyond the common product on the stands. It is consistent, intelligent, distinctly different and fun.  How many comics can you really say that about?

Not many for me, frankly.

 
FINALLY...  I can be found on Facebook, Twitter or through email Alexanderness63@gmail.com. I accept hard copies, so when you inquire at any of these places, I'll follow through by telling you my street address.If you send hard copies for review I will try to always review them, but if you prefer to send pdf or ebooks to my email, I will review these at my discretion. I don't share my pdf/ebooks, so you can avoid worry that I'd dispense them for free to others.

My Creative Blogs:

5k poem blog         AlexNessPoetry.Blogspot.Com

Published works   AlexNessPoetry.Blogspot.Com/2007/01/My-Work.html

All images are copyright © their respective owners, use
is simply as fair use and no ownership rights asserted.

Farewell Pee Wee Herman: Paul Ruebens passes away

I have been a fan of Pee Wee's humor since first seeing him on David Letterman's Late Night show.  I saw him have unfortunate bumps in the road, but always thought him funny, unique, and worth watching.

Farewell Pee Wee

OBIT: Phillippe Curval

 French Sci Fi writer (as well as other literature forms and genres)

The Tangled Mess of My Life and Work

NEWS OF THE WORLD
By Alex Ness
August 2, 2023

I am not the most important person in this article. I wrote it, but I also have personal news. I won't be writing new articles for a short while. For personal reasons and health issues I can't come back for full articles for a while, perhaps a long while, despite having a great deal to say about what is going on in my life, life is a changing sort of thing. Some good, some bad, life is not inflexible, nor solid.

My son is featured artist upon the artist wall of the Black Coffee and Waffle Bar in one of my favorite cities anywhere, Fargo, North Dakota. Buy an artwork or two from a young artist, encourage someone's visions. And have some coffee and waffles from the friendly service staff and the cool ambiance there.

Over September, 15-17 will arrive Crypticon is a convention that features horror and spec fiction talents, products. Two attendees, Joe Monks, great friend and colleague, and I, are appearing, courtesy of Hot Comics in Minneapolis, Richfield and Jordan. I offer their link as the first comic shop that supported my work, since as far back as 2003. I am deeply grateful to Manager Mike Harmon, and the crew.

Reznor & Ross Illuminate our fears and desires, potentially to be cut short... 

AI STRIKES AGAIN: Screenwriters and Actors go on Strike

I am not an I told you so person, but when I asked dozens of people to answer 3-4 questions about Artificial Intelligence and the impact it would have upon their world, industry and employment, some were rude to me, for bothering them to answer such a question. Since the Hollywood strikes, fighting for human products to be labeled as such more, than 10 different creatives, including those who acted like I was a fool to worry or wonder, asked me to gather a new mass interview. Well, no.

Those who came back and asked, can sit and wait for their questions from someone else. I do not wish anything foul to occur, it is that I did it already, and, that was enough for me.

FIND THE ORIGINAL HERE: http://poplitiko.blogspot.com/2023/01/artificial-intelligence-and-arts.html

DIEDRA DRAKE:

In 2021 through the power of the internet, primarily twitter and direct messages, I met the author and kind soul Diedra Drake. The time that has passed led me to a feeling of awe.

She owned her own business, a printing company, that she ran well. I interviewed her, I reviewed her works, I previewed her works, and felt a warmth towards her that wasn't sexual, but I stood in awe of the person I thought she must be. I was moved by her mind, her spirit, her kindness, her generosity and more. And then her Covid turned into long Covid. She had some other health issues, but all things combined led to her stroke, and death. People don't realize when many die, the resources of wisdom and knowledge lost. People assume if they didn't know a person, they couldn't have meant as much as it feels to the others. But Diedra, however true to whatever extent you believe it to be, was someone I am wounded by never meeting her, and give voice to her words on the page. She was a bright woman, and imagined human mythic beings, like elves and dwarves, and plenty of other monsters and legends into a world, with generational rise and fall, of houses of trade and expertise.

And now she is gone.

GO find her go fund me to support her family in the transition they face.

FINALLY...  I can be found on Facebook, Twitter or through email Alexanderness63@gmail.com. I accept hard copies, so when you inquire at any of these places, I'll follow through by telling you my street address.If you send hard copies for review I will try to always review them, but if you prefer to send pdf or ebooks to my email, I will review these at my discretion. I don't share my pdf/ebooks, so you can avoid worry that I'd dispense them for free to others.

My Creative Blogs:

5k poem blog         AlexNessPoetry.Blogspot.Com

Published works   AlexNessPoetry.Blogspot.Com/2007/01/My-Work.html

All images are copyright © their respective owners, use
is simply as fair use and no ownership rights asserted.