tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56842684587254846152024-03-13T13:05:35.235-04:00JASON JACK MILLERJason Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13095882670283762866noreply@blogger.comBlogger401125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684268458725484615.post-64709689973481966802021-03-23T11:54:00.003-04:002021-03-23T12:01:32.390-04:00COVER REVEAL: LIKE SUNSHINE AFTER RAIN<b>A CHARITY ANTHOLOGY FROM RDSP </b><div><br /></div><div>Raw Dog Screaming Press and international award-winning editor Heidi Ruby Miller are taking pre-orders for the charity anthology LIKE SUNSHINE AFTER RAIN. Proceeds benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The beautiful cover is by Brad Sharp. Interior illustrations by Sharon A. Ruby. </div><div><br /></div><div>This limited edition anthology is available in lettered hardcover and numbered paperback editions. It hosts short stories, poems, and essays from 82 authors, including: </div><div><br /></div><div>New York Times bestsellers Jonathan Maberry and Maria V. Snyder </div><div>USA Today bestseller Annette Dashofy </div><div>International bestseller Liz Coley </div><div>Amazon Charts bestsellers Cary Caffrey, Sasha Dawn, and Jennifer Foehner Wells </div><div>Drue Heinz Literature Prize winner Randall Silvis </div><div>Bram Stoker Award winners Lee Murray, Christina Sng, Lucy A. Snyder, Sara Tantlinger, and Tim Waggoner </div><div>International Horror Guild Award winners Michael A. Arnzen and Gary Braunbeck </div><div>Asimov’s Readers Award winner Timons Esaias </div><div>Arthur J. Rooney Award winner Jason Jack Miller </div><div>Pittsburgh City Paper Best Local Writer winner Brian Butko </div><div>American Library Association Notable Book Award winner Lynn Salsi</div><div>Eugene V. Debs Foundation Literature Prize winner Eric Leif Davin</div><div><br /> <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SenyfRuocek/YFoOhCfpxYI/AAAAAAAAYCg/49zv6jFqVKshBeOhhcMvRYl9_sec0epxgCLcBGAsYHQ/s649/Like-Sunshine-After-Rain-web.jpg" style="display: inline !important; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="649" data-original-width="432" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SenyfRuocek/YFoOhCfpxYI/AAAAAAAAYCg/49zv6jFqVKshBeOhhcMvRYl9_sec0epxgCLcBGAsYHQ/w426-h640/Like-Sunshine-After-Rain-web.jpg" width="426" /></a><br />
This is a limited edition anthology which will be available in two different bindings: a $100 lettered hardcover with dust jacket and a $30 paperback limited to 300 copies. All proceeds minus production costs will be donated to LLS. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.paypal.com/instantcommerce/checkout/AQF72K9P3E242">Preorder</a> the hardcover for $100 </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.paypal.com/instantcommerce/checkout/8TF7AT93J9J6L">Preorder</a> the paperback for $30</div><div><br /></div><div><b>FROM THE FOREWORD BY HEIDI RUBY MILLER: </b></div><div><br /></div><div>“When someone I loved was diagnosed with stage 4 leukemia in the middle of the pandemic, I spiraled into an existential disquiet. Everything was going wrong everywhere, and I felt helpless. The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society was there for my family in so many ways, including guidance and emotional support. I wanted to help them and also give myself purpose. I did what I do best, I wrote…and I asked others for their writing with only two requests:</div><div><br /></div><div>It must be upbeat. </div><div><br /></div><div>It must be under 1500 words. </div><div><br /></div><div>I heard the groans right through my email. That’s a pretty tight word limit. And, even those writers who weren’t part of the horror scene said they didn’t exactly go for upbeat in their projects. But they all agreed to try. And something unforeseen happened. My writing friends were experimenting with forms and genres, writing out of their comfort zones, sharing personal connections to cancer, to fear, to overcoming their sadness, and they thanked me for it. </div><div><br /></div><div>Their willingness to search for the positive became an unexpected time capsule of perseverance and pushing onward when so many of us struggled to make it through one day at a time.” </div><div><br /></div><div>To reserve your copy of LIKE SUNSHINE AFTER RAIN, visit <a href="http://rawdogscreaming.com/books/like-sunshine-after-rain/">http://rawdogscreaming.com/books/like-sunshine-after-rain</a>/. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>ABOUT THE EDITOR </b></div><div><br /></div><div>Heidi Ruby Miller is a travel writer turned novelist. She uses research for her stories as an excuse to roam the globe. Her books include the popular Ambasadora series, Man of War, which is a sequel to Science Fiction Grandmaster Philip José Farmer’s novel Two Hawks from Earth, and the international award-winning writing guide Many Genres, One Craft. In between trips, Heidi teaches creative writing at Seton Hill University, where she graduated from their Writing Popular Fiction graduate program the same month she appeared on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Follow Heidi’s writing journey with her husband, Jason Jack Miller, and their two cats in the newsletter Small Space Big Life and find her online everywhere as Heidi Ruby Miller. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>LLS MISSION </b></div><div><br /></div><div>“Cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.” </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://donate.lls.org/lls/donate">https://donate.lls.org/lls/donate</a></div>Jason Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10377023057390296820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684268458725484615.post-30712783552389978392019-05-24T08:19:00.001-04:002019-05-24T08:23:58.393-04:00WHAT WRITERS MAKE (With apologies to Taylor Mali) <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tOo1gX1eCw8" width="520"></iframe><br />
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On Friday, August 16, at 11 AM, join five writers from <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://rawdogscreaming.com/&source=gmail&ust=1557336359524000&usg=AFQjCNGoie8J0-3RiAiic85kYhKdzDEV6g" href="http://rawdogscreaming.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #00b7f3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Raw Dog Screaming Press</a> for a Rapid-Fire Read and Sweet Sixteen Celebration. It will be hosted by publisher Jennifer Barnes. Raw Dog Screaming Press has carved a niche for themselves as the specialty house for offbeat, dark, deviant, thought-provoking fiction. They were the recipient of the 2018 Horror Writers Association Specialty Press Award for outstanding horror, dark fantasy, and weird fiction. Their critically acclaimed publications are attracting mainstream attention with Ridley Scott recently optioning one of their titles as a major motion picture for Twentieth Century Fox.</div>
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Readings on Friday morning will be given by author/poet Michael A. Arnzen (four-time winner of The Bram Stoker Award); fantasy and science fiction author Carrie Gessner; author and founding editor of Raw Dog Screaming Press John Edward Lawson; novelist and journalist Jason Jack Miller; and Bram Stoker Award-winning poet and novelist Stephanie Wytovich.</div>
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On Saturday, August 17, at 11 AM, join six writers from <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://rawdogscreaming.com/&source=gmail&ust=1557336359524000&usg=AFQjCNGoie8J0-3RiAiic85kYhKdzDEV6g" href="http://rawdogscreaming.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #00b7f3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Dog Star Books</a> for a second Rapid-Fire Read for <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PulpFest</em>. It will be hosted by publisher John Edward Lawson. Dog Star Books is the new Raw Dog Screaming Press imprint for Science Fiction Adventure titles. It is the specialty house for edgy, evocative, thought-provoking sci-fi and adventure fiction from new and established authors who shine among the best in their field today.</div>
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Readings on Saturday morning will be given by author and poet Matt Betts; editor and author J. L. Gribble; Dog Star Books founder/managing editor and science fiction and thriller author Heidi Ruby Miller; science fiction and urban fantasy author K. W. Taylor; science fiction author and poet Albert Wendland; and science fiction author, editor, and poet K. Ceres Wright.</div>
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We’ll also be showcasing <span class="m_-8370860136217801417gmail-s1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Popular Fiction from Seton Hill</em> prior to the Dog Star Celebration. Join Dog Star Books founder and author Heidi Ruby Miller and three writers from Seton Hill University’s <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.setonhill.edu/academics/graduate-programs/writing-popular-fiction-mfa/&source=gmail&ust=1557336359524000&usg=AFQjCNG-7OQe_3sr7vJfRIM1Lrz4BV84YQ" href="https://www.setonhill.edu/academics/graduate-programs/writing-popular-fiction-mfa/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #00b7f3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Writing Popular Fiction Master’s Program</a> at 10 AM Saturday morning, August 17th at <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PulpFest</em> in the convention’s programming hall. Horror and fantasy author Jeremiah Dylan Cook; author and screenwriter E. C. Skowronski,; and horror author, poet, and editor Sara Tantlinger will be reading from their work.</span></div>
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Coffee, tea, and sweets — celebrating sixteen years of high quality Raw Dog fiction — will also be available both days, compliments of the publisher.</div>
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Jason Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10377023057390296820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684268458725484615.post-39397977030825790272019-04-05T14:28:00.000-04:002019-04-05T14:28:44.395-04:00Man of War by Heidi Ruby Miller as E-book<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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Since all the <b><a href="http://meteorhousepress.com/man-of-war/">special edition hardcovers of Man of War</a></b> are almost sold out, <b><a href="http://meteorhousepress.com/bi-weekly-sale/">Meteor House</a></b> has the paperback on sale at <b><big><a href="http://meteorhousepress.com/bi-weekly-sale/">$5 off for the next two weeks</a></big></b> and they've released the <b>e-book</b> on <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Man-War-Hawks-Adventure-Earth-ebook/dp/B07Q5DDGP1/ref=as_li_tf_cw?&linkCode=waf&tag=heirubmil-20">Kindle</a></b> and <b><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1029118221?ean=2940161510780">Nook</a></b>! <br />
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<center><b><big><big>Registration for the 32nd Annual Pennwriters Conference in Pittsburgh is now open: <a href="http://bit.ly/pennwriters2019">http://bit.ly/pennwriters2019</a>.</big></big></b></center><br />
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JESSICA STRAWSER AND JASON JACK MILLER</big></big></big></b></center></div><br />
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Timons Esaias - The Crafts of Fiction: The Nuts, the Bolts, and Hoisting the Girders into Place<br />
Deborah Riley-Magnus - Author Marketing Master Class<br />
Coroner Lyell P. Cook - Coroners: Their history, What they do, What they see<br />
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<b><big>Friday Networking Luncheon Speaker</big></b><br />
JD Dunbar - Listen for the Lyrics<br />
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<b><big>Friday Published Penns Luncheon Speaker</big></b><br />
Siobhan Vivian - Your Next Big Idea: Developing and Heightening the Plot of Your WIP<br />
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<b><big>Agents, Editors, Publisher</big></b><br />
Kaitlyn Johnson, agent, Corvisiero Literacy Agency<br />
Amy Bishop, Agent – Dystel, Goderich & Bourret LLC<br />
Bibi Lewis, Agent – Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency<br />
Danielle Dieterich, Editor – G. P. Putnam’s Sons, a division of Penguin Random House<br />
Rhonda Penders – The Wild Rose Press<br />
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<b>32nd Annual Pennwriters Conference<br />
Friday, May 17, 2019 9:00 AM - Sunday, May 19, 2019 1:00 PM (Eastern Time)</b><br />
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Pittsburgh Airport Marriott <br />
777 Aten Road<br />
Coraopolis, Pennsylvania 15108<br />
United States <br />
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Conference Coordinators: Pauline Drozeski & Hilary Hauck, <b>ConferenceCoordinator@pennwriters.org</b><br />
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Registration Coordinator: Cathy Seckman, <b>ConferenceRegistration@pennwriters.org</b> </div>Jason Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10377023057390296820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684268458725484615.post-25765264735714001332019-02-27T11:38:00.000-05:002019-02-27T11:38:38.133-05:00EVENT: Jason Jack Miller at PARSEC<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><big>I'll be giving a talk at PARSEC on St. Paddy's Day, so if you're in the Burgh from 1:30-4:30, stop by the Squirrel Hill Library and say hi.</big><br />
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<center>If you're in the Lake Jackson area of Texas on April 1, come and visit us at the <b><a href="https://brazosport.edu/">Brazosport College Library</a></b>. We'll be discussing what it's like to collaborate as authors and also reading from our work. <br />
Note: This is not an April Fool's Day joke! :D</center><br />
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</div>Jason Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10377023057390296820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684268458725484615.post-2816434857299757262019-02-06T08:01:00.000-05:002019-02-06T08:01:21.886-05:00Christopher Paul Carey is the New Director of Publishing at ERB, Inc.<b><big>Congratulations to good friend and <b><a href="https://www.setonhill.edu/academics/graduate-programs/writing-popular-fiction-mfa/">SHU WPF alum</a></b> <b><a href="http://cpcarey.com/">Christopher Paul Carey</a></b> for becoming the new Director of Publishing at <b><a href="https://www.edgarriceburroughs.com/">Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc</a></b>. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy.</big></b><br />
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Christopher Paul Carey, as the new Director of Publishing, will work closely with Jim Sullos, President, and Cathy Wilbanks, Vice President of Operations, on all aspects of the company’s publishing division, including exciting new initiatives to be announced in the future.<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.edgarriceburroughs.com/?cat=3">Read more here.</a></b><br />
Jason Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10377023057390296820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684268458725484615.post-66982173176207145312018-03-02T14:17:00.000-05:002018-03-02T14:17:39.516-05:00THE BIG THRILL!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Many thanks to Derek Gunn for some great questions and to THE BIG THRILL for the opportunity!<br />
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Read the interview here: <a href="http://www.thebigthrill.org/2018/02/all-saints-by-jason-jack-miller/">http://www.thebigthrill.org/2018/02/all-saints-by-jason-jack-miller/</a>Jason Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10377023057390296820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684268458725484615.post-57662644671627108272018-03-02T14:10:00.000-05:002018-03-02T14:12:01.366-05:00Monessen Public Library, Saturday, March 3!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Deets: <span style="background-color: white; color: #464d56;">326 Donner Ave</span></span><br />
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I'd missed a few interview opportunities, had a plan to countdown here on my blog and on Instagram, had a few videos I wanted to make. But that's not how it happened.<br />
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So here's what I would've said about the book in the weeks leading up to the release:<br />
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<li>It's bigger and more ambitious than anything else I'd ever attempted. </li>
<li>The Maya cosmology is based on years of study I did while considering a run at grad school the year before I married Heidi. </li>
<li>An early draft of this was the first thing I'd ever written. In the original version, Henry Collin runs away to Mexico after a horrible rafting accident that leaves two girls dead. Once I decided to put this book away I immediately began HELLBENDER. </li>
<li>I think a book should be re-readable, and this feels like one of the most re-readable things I've ever written. It's got layers.</li>
<li>The yellow dog was in that old first draft, and there were two boys instead of three--Paco and Trejo.</li>
<li>At the moment, Danicka is my favorite character. So much so that I have started writing a <i>historical urban fantasy</i> series to show what she's been up to for the last 100 years. </li>
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The book is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/All-Saints-Murder-Ballads-Whiskey/dp/1935738992/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1518140804&sr=8-1&keywords=all+saints+jason" target="_blank">available for order</a> and should ship soon.</div>
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Here's the trailer in case you missed it the first time around:<br />
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Jason Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10377023057390296820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684268458725484615.post-1253523403625502152017-12-31T10:46:00.001-05:002017-12-31T10:46:10.808-05:00SMALL SPACE BIG LIFE YEAR IN REVIEW 2017 Travel to Portugal, Toronto, Walt Disney World<iframe allow="encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" gesture="media" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vk56UY2z0NU" width="560"></iframe><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is a collection of clips we put together to remind us of some of the things we want to hang onto as we roll into 2018. Scenes include shots from Lisbon, Nazaré, Óbidos, and Berlengas, Portugal, the Rock and Roll Hallof of Fame in Cleveland, Toronto, Broadkill Beach, Delaware, and Melbourne Beach and the Walt Disney World resort in Florida.
On the day we returned from Portugal, we lost Francesca, our cat of thirteen years. The experience cast a dark shadow over the following months, and we vowed to wait until the end of 2018 to discuss getting another.
As you can see, that didn't happen. On a random trip to Petsmart we saw Amélie and Madeline, the sisters we adopted from the Animal Friends of Barbour County, WV. Though they didn't erase the sting of our loss, they reminded us that life does indeed go on. </span>Jason Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10377023057390296820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684268458725484615.post-20638725436711561902017-05-14T08:59:00.003-04:002017-05-14T09:04:52.247-04:00ART CRITICISM FOR AMATEURS 101<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Then this came along:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">High art needs all the friends it can get. Museum attendance is dropping all over the world, and earnest attempts to court the young and identify with the new are clearly not working. Something more eloquent is needed: unequivocal enthusiasm for great art in a language people in the 21st century understand.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">How about a Louis Vuitton bag with RUBENS written on it in big gold letters over a reproduction of that 17th-century painter’s violent, exuberant and gorgeous work Tiger, Lion and the Leopard Hunt?" From <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2017/apr/12/jeff-koons-louis-vuitton-bags-fashion-fragonard-rubens-titian#_=_" target="_blank">JEFF KOONS' LOUIS VUITTON BAGS: A JOYOUS ART HISTORY LESSON</a>, Jonathan Jones, The Guardian, 12 April 2017</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Kind of gross, if you ask me. But a critic doesn't produce--he just takes. He isn't even accountable for his own contradictions because opinions are an ephemeral commodity. Cultural toilet paper. An artist or writer takes real risks, and the mistakes they make may linger for generations, if they're lucky.</span></span></div>
Jason Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10377023057390296820noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684268458725484615.post-57613426175185130792017-03-28T20:18:00.000-04:002017-03-28T20:25:24.842-04:00 Michael A. Arnzen: HUMOR IN WRITING Saturday, April 1, 4-6pm<div style="text-align: center;">
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Just wanted to post the video I made for our little Arno River cruise from last August. Heidi and I have been sharing some of our travel videos over at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPeKwWd2nVYEJPQh9cxRN6g" target="_blank">Small Space Big Life</a>. It's been a fun way to share our travels in a slightly different way, and it allows to get a little creative without worrying about word count or dangling participles. Jason Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10377023057390296820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684268458725484615.post-25194687386940078972016-12-30T14:14:00.000-05:002016-12-30T14:14:09.746-05:00SMALL SPACE BIG LIFE YEAR IN REVIEW 2016 <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Wr8ggT45ChU" width="560"></iframe><br />
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Earlier this year, Heidi and I started a YouTube channel as a place to share our travel videos. It's been rewarding and a lot of fun, and we hope to vlog more frequently next year.<br />
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This is a highlight clips from some of the amazing things we got to see and do this year. If you want to see more, check out our YouTube channel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPeKwWd2nVYEJPQh9cxRN6g" target="_blank">SMALL SPACE BIG LIFE</a>. Jason Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10377023057390296820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684268458725484615.post-20247800579399372142016-10-27T18:45:00.002-04:002016-10-27T18:47:19.195-04:00UNIONTOWN AREA HIGH SCHOOL TOMAHAWK TALK 2ND ANNUAL LIP SYNC BATTLE is here!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Many thanks to Jordan Coddington for setting this up and many, many thanks to Patrick Quinn for bringing it like a true pro! (You can tell one of us practiced.)<br />
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Poll is here, in the POLLS section: <a href="http://tomahawktalk.co/">http://tomahawktalk.co/</a> (Right side, near bottom of column.)Jason Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10377023057390296820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684268458725484615.post-23862604718987686042016-10-11T07:49:00.002-04:002016-10-11T07:51:25.056-04:00You're Invited to a night of Whiskey and Words!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Jason Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10377023057390296820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684268458725484615.post-15131917103859890982016-09-25T18:09:00.000-04:002016-09-25T18:11:38.330-04:00Next up--BOOKtober!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>DogCon is a big shindig RDSP holds every year to celebrate books, authors and all our supporters. It’s a chance for the RDSP family to get together, meet each other, show off the latest works and begin new creative ventures.</i><br />
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<i>Book and author vendors signing autograph and selling their books, Whiskey and Words will have lectures taking place inside the barrelhouse throughout the evening. Wigle Whiskey will also be dishing out a bevy of delectable drinks, a traveling food truck (TBD) will be slinging eclectic eats and there will be live outdoor musical entertainment during the evening’s soiree.</i><br />
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Details can be found here: <a href="http://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/whiskey-and-words/Event?oid=1950438">http://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/whiskey-and-words/Event?oid=1950438</a><br />
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<i>The Frostburg State University Center for Creative Writing, in partnership with the Allegany County Library System, is excited to announce that the ninth annual Western Maryland Indie Lit Festival is scheduled for Oct. 14 & 15 at Main Street, Frostburg. The event brings together editors and publishers with writers and educators of the local community. Panel discussions and roundtable sessions include topics on various creative genres, DIY publishing, self-publishing, promotion and marketing, writing local, and reading and writing online.</i><br />
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August 27, 1991.<br />
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Starting my senior year of high school as the world around me smoldered in the wake of what had been a rough year-and-a-half. My parents divorced and I tumbled down a rabbit hole of depression that led to a month in rehab and the subsequent deletion of everything I loved and knew from my life.<br />
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My friends in high school had been replaced by the people at AA meetings. Older men and women who'd lost jobs and homes. People who'd done hard time in federal penitentiaries.<br />
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I left my childhood home to move into an apartment my dad shared with a recovering addict, a terrible decision based on guilt and shame. That was the last time I ever saw a lot of my old stuff. Magazines and posters and hundreds of cassette tapes. A large collection of fantasy and Stephen King novels and DUNGEONS & DRAGONS accoutrement. STAR WARS and G.I. JOE actions figures.<br />
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When I left the Adolescent Chemical Dependency unit at old St. Francis in Lawrenceville, they told me to get new clothes. My Metallica and Queensrÿche t-shirts were a sign of the life I was leaving behind. And even though nobody ever came out and said it, I got the impression I was supposed to emerge from all that turmoil like a butterfly out of a cocoon.<br />
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Except it didn't really happen that way. I'm not sure it ever does.<br />
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Pearl Jam's TEN came when I realized maybe I wasn't an addict, but just really, really depressed. The pink album cover represented a change from so many blacks and grays. The lyrics were intellectual in a way Guns and Roses weren't. When I first saw the video for "Even Flow" I realized the band didn't wear a uniform or costumes. They weren't putting on airs. They dressed like I did. And they shared my anger and frustrations and expressed them with more subtlety and nuance than a lot of the bands I listened to before. And they were mine.<br />
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The next year-and-a-half was as monumental as the previous eighteen months had been. I graduated high school and began college at Penn State, Fayette Campus. I started working for Laurel Highlands River Tours in Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania as a whitewater raft guide. When I walked through the parking lot that first morning of Cheat training down in Albright, West Virginia, I heard TEN blasting out of Bo Harshyne's old van. I'd found my new tribe. <br />
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TEN was the bedrock upon which I'd build the life I'd always wanted for myself. It gave me a directive to seek the freedom I'm always wanted to be the person I needed to be. To dress the way I wanted. To read what I wanted. To explore new ideas and philosophies.<br />
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And twenty years later, when my writing career didn't seem to be following the trajectory I'd once hoped it would, Pearl Jam began reflecting on what it meant to be a part of something special for so long. The band and Cameron Crowe released PEARL JAM TWENTY, or PJ20, in 2011, and the retrospective reminded me of their battles with Ticketmaster and their struggles to maintain artistic integrity in spite of so much noise. In that way, the band and their ethos played a massive role in my eventual decision to self-publish a novel, a singular act that virtually every publishing opportunity I have today sprang from. <br />
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So when I saw today was the anniversary of the release, I stopped what I'd been doing to let it soak in. Twenty-five years is a long time ago, and a galaxy far, far away. Lately I've been joking with Heidi that my real birthday was some twenty years after the actual day I was born. I figured summer of 1994, give or take. My reasoning was that the events of the last twenty years have had as large an impact on my life as the events of the first twenty. And if that's the case, then it makes me happy to think that a little bit of August 27, 1991 is in my new DNA. <br />
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The first clip from our Italy trip! This is from our evening cruise along the five villages of the Cinque Terre, courtesy of Angelo's Boat Tours. I'd highly recommend them for anyone visiting the Cinque Terre.<br /><br />We patronized the following businesses while in the Cinque Terre:<br /><a class=" yt-uix-servicelink " data-servicelink="CDQQ6TgiEwid58fVgNDOAhUVipwKHbe3DFco-B0" data-url="http://www.angelosboattours.com/" href="http://www.angelosboattours.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #167ac6; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.angelosboattours.com/</a><br /><a class=" yt-uix-servicelink " data-servicelink="CDQQ6TgiEwid58fVgNDOAhUVipwKHbe3DFco-B0" data-url="http://www.hotelsouvenirmonterosso.it/index.php/en/" href="http://www.hotelsouvenirmonterosso.it/index.php/en/" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #167ac6; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.hotelsouvenirmonterosso.it...</a><br /><a class=" yt-uix-servicelink " data-servicelink="CDQQ6TgiEwid58fVgNDOAhUVipwKHbe3DFco-B0" data-url="http://www.ristorantebelforte.it/it/ristorante-vernazza-cinqueterre-liguria.php" href="http://www.ristorantebelforte.it/it/ristorante-vernazza-cinqueterre-liguria.php" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #167ac6; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.ristorantebelforte.it/it/r...</a><br /><a class=" yt-uix-servicelink " data-servicelink="CDQQ6TgiEwid58fVgNDOAhUVipwKHbe3DFco-B0" data-url="https://www.facebook.com/nessundormacinqueterre/" href="https://www.facebook.com/nessundormacinqueterre/" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #167ac6; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/nessundormac...</a><br /><a class=" yt-uix-servicelink " data-servicelink="CDQQ6TgiEwid58fVgNDOAhUVipwKHbe3DFco-B0" data-url="https://www.facebook.com/Mg5terre/" href="https://www.facebook.com/Mg5terre/" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #167ac6; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/Mg5terre/</a></div>
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Jason Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10377023057390296820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684268458725484615.post-47932833320216616952016-08-14T08:03:00.002-04:002016-08-14T08:05:21.437-04:00SMALL SPACE BIG LIFESo, Heidi and I have recently undertaken a new kind of project. After scrolling through some pictures from a trip we'd taken a few years ago, we decided there had to be a better way for us to view them, and took to putting some to music. And to share them with family, we uploaded a few to YouTube.<br />
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Ultimately, this is a way for us to relive some great moments. Sharing them is more about making them available for anyone who may be interested in seeing them than becoming an <i>internetfamous </i>vlogger or world-class <i>humblebragger</i>. We aren't shilling hotels or restaurants, and we certainty aren't trying to tell anybody what to do with their time or money. At the end of the day this is a way for us to momentarily revisit some places we truly love. <br />
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The YouTube channel can be found here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPeKwWd2nVYEJPQh9cxRN6g">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPeKwWd2nVYEJPQh9cxRN6g</a>Jason Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10377023057390296820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684268458725484615.post-33690272310347607202016-07-31T19:10:00.000-04:002016-07-31T19:10:12.679-04:00Audiovile: The Expanded Digital Edition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I was really happy to have been asked to contribute when Mike Arnzen first put this together. As far as I know, it's the only evidence in existence that proves I've tried to play a banjo. Mike has some great stuff on here, and it's worth a look. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="http://arnzen.bandcamp.com/album/audiovile-the-expanded-digital-edition" target="_blank">Audiovile: The Expanded Digital Edition </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #363636; line-height: 15px;">Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #363636; line-height: 15px;" /><span class="lightweightBreak" style="background-color: white; color: #363636; display: inline-block; height: 0.5em; line-height: 15px; width: 0.5em;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #363636; line-height: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #363636; line-height: 15px;">Audiovile was originally released as a CD in 2007 by Raw Dog Screaming Press, breaking new ground in spoken word horror.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #363636; line-height: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #363636; line-height: 15px;">This newly "Expanded Digital Edition" includes high quality digital versions of all the tracks, and then DOUBLES the size of the original release, featuring EXCLUSIVE performances which were not included with original 16-track CD, most appearing here for the first time. And if you purchase the full album, you get access to BONUS FEATURES: an ebook companion with stories & related articles; printable CD inserts; a photograph gallery; the "Brain Candy" music video (animated by Jennifer Barnes); and a secret bonus audio track to add to your collection!</span></span>Jason Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10377023057390296820noreply@blogger.com1