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Fun on the 4th!

by M. L. Buchman Who doesn't love the 4th!  Well, okay, the bad, bad aliens in Independence Day for one. And maybe, just maybe they blew up the White House before being destroyed, but as I said, bad, bad aliens. And after all, they were trounced so thoroughly that it took them 20 years to come back for a sequel (which we'd like to think was a record for Hollywood, but sadly it isn't even close. I just saw the trailer for the remake of The Magnificent Seven... which I can't wait to see.) Of course it is hard to complain about Hollywood filming in series when I write in series. Especially when I have so much fun doing it! I counted today and in my Night Stalkers series alone, there are four main series and a couple of minor ones. Uh-huh! Uh-huh! The reason this is cool is that one of my series within the Night Stalkers series is the Night Stalkers White House Holiday series. (If this isn't making sense, you can always check it out on my newly rebuilt w...

Happy Independence Day Weekend! Savage Hunger Audio Rights Sold! To Tantor!!!

I was surprised when I was a Girl Scout Troop Leader and my troop didn't know the meaning of the 4th of July. So we did a study unit on what it was all about. Then years later when my son was in college, taking a first year American history class, the teacher was mentioning Independence Day and one girl raised her hand and said, "Cool that it happened on a holiday." This was foooor real. Really. Truly. Real. I would have felt sorry for her had I been there, except that it's really sad. Really. Seriously. What are we teaching our kids anyway? Okay, so it's also really, really funny. Too. Hey, I don't need to make up stories. It's all just...out there. Back to writing! What? You think I'm off to celebrate?? I am, when I write. :) Oh, and take pictures. This is a baby bunny. Isn't he adorable? I scared him when I was watering. And a dragonfly on a pyracantha that was blowing hard in the wind, and the dragonfly was flapping his ...