All posts by Eric Robert Nolan

Eric Robert Nolan graduated from Mary Washington College in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. He spent several years a news reporter and editorial writer for the Culpeper Star Exponent in Culpeper, Virginia. His work has also appeared on the front pages of numerous newspapers in Virginia, including The Free Lance – Star and The Daily Progress. Eric entered the field of philanthropy in 1996, as a grant writer for nonprofit healthcare organizations. Eric’s poetry has been featured by Dead Beats Literary Blog, Dagda Publishing, The International War Veterans’ Poetry Archive, and elsewhere. His poetry will also be published by Illumen Magazine in its Spring 2014 issue.

I want to join the Lunar Independence League!!!

Because, dammit, that’s the kind of rebel I am.

Which side will you pick?  Service? Then this blog might not be the best place for you, because I have some authority issues.

The universe of J.S. Collyer’s upcoming “Zero” sounds downright intriguing — it’s got an interesting and well constructed setup, and what sounds like a hell of a lot of great world-building and complex character interaction, not to mention a troubled hero that is precisely the kind of protagonist that I like to read about.  Jex has a real corker of a story for her debut science fiction novel.

Meet her at the link below, where she talks about her new book, and Dagda Publishing’s new marketing campaign to give “Zero” the visibility it deserves.

Seriously, it sounds like pure fun.  If you’re a Battlestar Galactica fan like me, you might be jonesing for some fallible heroes and complex political and military crises.

There are also some wonderfully creative goodies that Dagda is giving away, as well.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/zero-the-debut-novel-by-j-s-collyer-marketing-campaign

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THIS VIDEO CHANGED MY LIFE. (And it can change yours too.)

It’s only nine seconds long, and yet … it re-instilled a sense of joy and wonder that has been absent in me since boyhood.  It is a pleasure to behold, or even contemplate.

Play it.  Make sure the sound is turned on.  And watch the cat.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/scottybryan/a-cat-ran-into-a-door-during-a-french-tv-baking-show-and-it

“Cycle of the Werewolf,” by Stephen King

There was a time in Stephen King’s career when he focused on familiar movie monsters (vampires, werewolves, blobs and boogeymen), instead of more abstract horrors.  “Cycle of the Werewolf” is an example of that, and it’s great fun — perfect for a late night horror fix that appeals to the kid at heart.  If you’re a fan of King’s work in books like “Salem’s Lot” or “Night Shift,” you ought to enjoy this.

It IS more of a long story than a novel or a novella — it’s brief.  The illustrations by Berni (Bernie?) Wrightson, of comic book fame, are perfect.

I thought it would be fun to read this and then revisit its 1985 film adaptation, “Silver Bullet,” which I remember loving as a kid.  Gonna have to hunt that one down.

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You know what, Math?! F@‪#‎K‬ YOU TOO.

I m going to be up all night thinking about this video.

See the link:

What’s in a name?

I have been enlisted by my friend Maryanne to find a cool and original name for her new puppy — something with Gaelic, Latin or folklore origins.

I blanked out, but my writer friends came through with flying colors.

Finder-Of-Good-Things Wednesday Lee Friday passed along to me this website, which she said was indispensable for writers.  And, MAN is it cool!  Check it out:

http://www.behindthename.com/

Thanks, Wednesday!

I NEED READING GLASSES.

A friend of mine sent me a note saying she’d be busy today because her children had a “day full of recitals.”

I at first read “a day full of rectals,” and concluded she was being entirely overscrupulous where her children’s health is concerned.

I NEED READING GLASSES.

“Dancers from the iron sky.”

“At last, as the gray November afternoon tightens down toward an early anvil-colored dusk, he bounds into the kitchen, snatches the Volare’s keys from the peg by the door, and almost runs toward the car.  He drives toward Portland fast, smiling, and he does not slow when the season’s first snow skirls into the beams of his headlights, dancers from the iron sky.”

— from Stephen King’s “Cycle of the Werewolf”

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

 

“I just drew a banana that became a boat …”

“Often when I want to work but have nothing specific in mind, I’ll start with a familiar object, begin to draw it, and see what emerges.  I just drew a banana that became a boat (maybe you saw?).  It strikes me as a good diversion to start making a children’s story.  I don’t know the first thing about children, so my story is going to be the one I wanted to see and hear as a child but never did.”

— From “The Golden Mean,” by Nick Bantock

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From The Random House Group, via Facebook.

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