Those Big Ass Lego Things And Girl Scout Cookies on today's, I REALLY DON'T BLOG THAT MUCH ANYMORE

    And this is really a cheat blog because it's going to be a picture blog entry.

I started the day with bad hair and writing a poem on a bank deposit envelope.

Mar found a big bag of cool at the Goodwill for the library.

I found Goosbumps books for myself. Can someone tell me why this collection doesn't contain the first three but 1, 2, and 4? I must know why....WHY? So I bought the first two individually also... because 50 cents for greatness.

And then we spotted signs for Girl Scout cookies. And now we have Girl Scout cookies.

Those Big Ass Lego Things And Girl Scout Cookies on today's, I REALLY DON'T BLOG THAT MUCH ANYMORE

Fenric

Bloodwaste Books Presents #8 FENRIC, a poetry collection, You Pick The Price!

Fenric

Tis The Season For Horrible Writing To Be Shared

     To celebrate Halloween I have two new releases,

Bloodwaste Books Presents #8 FENRIC

October 30th

a poetry collection

Tin Universe Monthly? #18

October 31st

Tis The Season For Horrible Writing To Be Shared

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Tin Universe Monthly #17

Coming June 22nd 2014

Interview with Brian C. Williams and Stephanie Hamlin, 

Tin Universe #17 And The Covers Of The Tin Universe

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NEW!! 99CENTS OF FAITH

A Poetry Collection

You Set The Price!

     15 poems and 2 hints at a story written.

     "They have taken words of love, 

Turned it into images of hate, 

Faith of the foolishly blind, 

Burn the ugly at the stake."

Tin Universe, Middle Grade Series #1
$1.00

     Someone is zombifying athletes at Clear Cut High School in Utah. Lucky the school has its own young superhero in the person of Mildred Betbeze to try and figure out what's going on. Pep rallies, cheerleaders, new kids in the neighborhood are just some of things our hero and her sidekick slash best friend Aisha have to deal with in the first book in Tin Universe's new middle grade series.

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Tin Universe Monthly #17

Coming June 22nd 2014

Interview with Brian C. Williams and Stephanie Hamlin, 

Tin Universe #17 And The Covers Of The Tin Universe

you might also want to check out,

NEW!! 99CENTS OF FAITH

A Poetry Collection

You Set The Price!

     15 poems and 2 hints at a story written.

     "They have taken words of love, 

Turned it into images of hate, 

Faith of the foolishly blind, 

Burn the ugly at the stake."

Tin Universe, Middle Grade Series #1
$1.00

     Someone is zombifying athletes at Clear Cut High School in Utah. Lucky the school has its own young superhero in the person of Mildred Betbeze to try and figure out what's going on. Pep rallies, cheerleaders, new kids in the neighborhood are just some of things our hero and her sidekick slash best friend Aisha have to deal with in the first book in Tin Universe's new middle grade series.

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NEW!! 99cents Of Faith

NEW!! 99CENTS OF FAITH: A Poetry Collection, You Set The Price!

     15 poems and 2 hints at a story written as thoughts dance through the news, the internet, and the past.

     "They have taken words of love, 

Turned it into images of hate, 

Faith of the foolishly blind, 

Burn the ugly at the stake."

you might also want to check out,

Tin Universe Monthly #17

Coming June 22nd 2014

Tin Universe, Middle Grade Series #1
$1.00

     Someone is zombifying athletes at Clear Cut High School in Utah. Lucky the school has its own young superhero in the person of Mildred Betbeze to try and figure out what's going on. Pep rallies, cheerleaders, new kids in the neighborhood are just some of things our hero and her sidekick slash best friend Aisha have to deal with in the first book in Tin Universe's new middle grade series.

NEW!! 99cents Of Faith

NEW!! No Truth In Talking

99cents Of Faith
COMING JUNE 15TH 2004

     The world has turned eternal faiths into penny religions with hatred; so with ancient strong words forever spoiled by skull cracking and chest pounding the best words now are being found on 99 cent street corners.

     

     But until then here's a new poem for your enjoyment:

NO TRUTH IN TALKING

(c)2014 brian c. williams/System*Productions

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Tin Universe Monthly #17

Coming June 22nd 2014

     Introducing The Grandfather Pipes Of Odin in a story with blood all over it as you are shown a very dark side of the Tin Universe. "In many circles trying to do anything about them would be a poking of a bees nest they would rather not get involved with."

Tin Universe, Middle Grade Series #1
$1.00

     Someone is zombifying athletes at Clear Cut High School in Utah. Lucky the school has its own young superhero in the person of Mildred Betbeze to try and figure out what's going on. Pep rallies, cheerleaders, new kids in the neighborhood are just some of things our hero and her sidekick slash best friend Aisha have to deal with in the first book in Tin Universe's new middle grade series.

NEW!! No Truth In Talking

NEW!! Part Of The Hell

99cents Of Faith
COMING JUNE 15TH 2004

     The world has turned eternal faiths into penny religions with hatred; so with ancient strong words forever spoiled by skull cracking and chest pounding the best words now on being found on 99 cent street corners.

     But until then here's a new poem for your enjoyment:

PART OF THE HELL

(c)2014 brian c. williams/System*Productions

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Tin Universe Monthly #17

Coming June 22nd 2014

     Introducing The Grandfather Pipes Of Odin in a story with blood all over it as you are shown a very dark side of the Tin Universe. "In many circles trying to do anything about them would be a poking of a bees nest they would rather not get involved with."

Tin Universe, Middle Grade Series #1
$1.00

     Someone is zombifying athletes at Clear Cut High School in Utah. Lucky the school has its own young superhero in the person of Mildred Betbeze to try and figure out what's going on. Pep rallies, cheerleaders, new kids in the neighborhood are just some of things our hero and her sidekick slash best friend Aisha have to deal with in the first book in Tin Universe's new middle grade series.

NEW!! Part Of The Hell

Tin Universe Monthly #17 and 99cents Of Faith

Tin Universe Monthly #17

Coming June 22nd 2014

     Introducing The Grandfather Pipes Of Odin in a story with blood all over it as you are shown a very dark side of the Tin Universe. "In many circles trying to do anything about them would be a poking of a bees nest they would rather not get involved with."

99cents Of FaithCOMING JUNE 15TH 2004

     The world has turned eternal faiths into penny religions with hatred; so with ancient strong words forever spoiled by skull cracking and chest pounding the best words now on being found on 99 cent street corners.

you might also want to check out,

Tin Universe, Middle Grade Series #1
$1.00

     Someone is zombifying athletes at Clear Cut High School in Utah. Lucky the school has its own young superhero in the person of Mildred Betbeze to try and figure out what's going on. Pep rallies, cheerleaders, new kids in the neighborhood are just some of things our hero and her sidekick slash best friend Aisha have to deal with in the first book in Tin Universe's new middle grade series.

Tin Universe Monthly #17 and 99cents Of Faith

NEW!! Freal

COMING JUNE 15TH 2004

A POETRY COLLECTION

until then how about a something new for today,

FREAL

(c)brian c. williams/System Productions

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Tin Universe Monthly #17

Coming June 22nd 2014

Tin Universe, Middle Grade Series #1
$1.00

     Someone is zombifying athletes at Clear Cut High School in Utah. Lucky the school has its own young superhero in the person of Mildred Betbeze to try and figure out what's going on. Pep rallies, cheerleaders, new kids in the neighborhood are just some of things our hero and her sidekick slash best friend Aisha have to deal with in the first book in Tin Universe's new middle grade series.

NEW!! Freal

NEW!! Jericho Wall

COMING JUNE 15TH 2004

A POETRY COLLECTION

until then how about a something new just for today,

JERICHO WALL

(c)brian c. williams/System Productions

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Tin Universe Monthly #17

Coming June 22nd 2014

Tin Universe, Middle Grade Series #1
$1.00

     Someone is zombifying athletes at Clear Cut High School in Utah. Lucky the school has its own young superhero in the person of Mildred Betbeze to try and figure out what's going on. Pep rallies, cheerleaders, new kids in the neighborhood are just some of things our hero and her sidekick slash best friend Aisha have to deal with in the first book in Tin Universe's new middle grade series.

NEW!! Jericho Wall

NEW!! Ducks

COMING JUNE 15TH 2004

A POETRY COLLECTION

until then how about a something new just for today,

DUCKS

NEW!! Ducks

NEW!! BLACK SNOW

COMING JUNE 15TH 2004

A POETRY COLLECTION

until then how about a something new just for today,

BLACK SNOW

NEW!! BLACK SNOW

NEW!! You Know

     I have a new ebook poetry collection coming out on June 15th. Leading up to the release of 99CENTS OF FAITH I will be releasing new poems on my poetry site to promote it.

     Today's new poem is titled YOU KNOW 

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Tin Universe Monthly 2014 Memorial Day Special
Free!

     Introducing The Shaman Of The Earth Maker and the return of The Pearl.

     “Every sentient species has a secret joy in thinking they are the most creative harbingers of death but each and every one cowers in corners to what the natural order of things can do.”

Tin Universe, Middle Grade Series #1
$1.00

     Someone is zombifying athletes at Clear Cut High School in Utah. Lucky the school has its own young superhero in the person of Mildred Betbeze to try and figure out what's going on. Pep rallies, cheerleaders, new kids in the neighborhood are just some of things our hero and her sidekick slash best friend Aisha have to deal with in the first book in Tin Universe's new middle grade series.

NEW!! You Know

2014 Sexual Assault Awareness Month

     This poster is in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Created from poetry written in 2010 by me to draw attention to the issue, it has been paired up with a photo from Stainless Photography. Any profits made from sales of the poster will be donated to a local Melbourne Florida charity that helps people who are dealing with sexual violence issues.

     Here's a link to National Sexual Violence Resource Center

you might want to check out,

Generation Of A God

Monthly Website Chapter/Page Releases

Coming April 22nd 2014

Tin Universe Monthly #15

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Coming May 26th 2014

Tin Universe Monthly 2014 Memorial Day Special

FREE

Tin Universe, Middle Grade Series #1
$1.00

     Someone is zombifying athletes at Clear Cut High School in Utah. Lucky the school has its own young superhero in the person of Mildred Betbeze to try and figure out what's going on. Pep rallies, cheerleaders, new kids in the neighborhood are just some of things our hero and her sidekick slash best friend Aisha have to deal with in the first book in Tin Universe's new middle grade series.

2014 Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Where I Talk About Being Not Ready To Rewrite and Ebook Pricing

 

Reading a Justine Larbalestier blog entry on rewrites helped me to see I'm not at the rewrite or revision or rewhatever stage yet. I'm still writing my first look at the stories I'm working on. I was stressing about what to do with rewrites, like really stressing on how to do them, and on and on and on about all the words used by writers I admire and those I'm not fond of. Everything I'd ever learned about rewriting and revising was dancing through my head all day once.
Then I read her entry which triggered in my head the truth that this draft is still me writing my first thoughts at the stories hitting the page and it still wasn't the time for me to think about revision or rewrites. Next draft should be where rewrites start but not this draft. It's funny as a writer how you come to things.
  Maybe I should also read one of her books since I like her blog so much?

Onto something else. This morning, well this morning for me, my friend Damon and I had a conversation on Twitter that went from me talking about Netflix needing a playlist function to book pricing and a few things in-between. Later in thie entry will be the best I could cut and paste the conversation. Since I was replying by computer, my phone, and the Nook it didn't end up all in one conversation on the site.
The thing I love about conversations on Twitter isn't that you can have a deep discussion on a subject, because its hard to do that, what I love is how you can have mini conversations and also how you can talk about things that get the gears of the brain going.
 

But before showing you that I will rant about publishers and right away have emails telling me how stupid this stuff is for me to say, and my replies will be that I'm not walking their roads, and people will only say that's because I'm not good enough to get published, and I will say that's not totally truth but Fuck You for saying it.
Or I'll just go off on a rant about how in my native language merry, marry, and mary are pronounced the same.
A long time ago, when I was in college people were asking about digital distribution of books and music and films and TV. There really wasn't much of it then. There was a few books on CD Rom and Napster started right as I was leaving the college world but it was a time of people asking for this.
The companies that controlled and are struggling to continue to control the distribution were hiding from the internet and the digital future like a religious person scared of someone for simply believing different than them which is one of the most illogical ways of living. Also produces pretty harmful results for both parties.
You see this thing today where publishers act like Amazon is Lucifer with his hand up your husbands ass making him do evil works, when in fact Amazon is the symbol and big sign that screams daily about how stupid publishers have been in the past, and continue to be.
Amazon isn't a golden child. I hate that they don't allow You Pick The Price or Free as options in their ebook stores. And a number of their practices make Wal-Mart look like community partners.
But it's fucking laughable when big publishers and big book chains and yes a lot of writers go after Amazon. Really? Really? Here's the deal, if any of those publishers and book chains would have had a lick of forward thinking they would have created a Amazon but no, instead they feed, feed,and feed a system that created the huge piracy black market that exists now online.
Big bookstore chains say Amazon is hurting them. You mean like how small business have always went after you?
Big publisher say Amazon is pricing them out of business. You mean how you have always used pricing to control stocking in bookstores? How you have pushed away unique voices to keep a status of "Whats Hot" going?
And its a real shame to see so many really intelligent writers going after Amazon as The Great Satan. Again not saying Amazon is pure but unless you are just sucking a company dick, which I can understand, how can you honestly do that. Publisher have ripped off artist and writers for years and now you are defended them like they are Mother Teresa.
Though she was kind of a prick from what I've read so maybe that's a correct notion.
The truly amazing grill of stupidity that the entertainment industry is cooking itself on is how they are still stuck in those days when I was in college. They still see themselves split in publishing regions, release regions, pricing regions. They still haven't even gotten past the fucking ideas of lower ebook pricing or even for some day to print digital.
I'd like to talk about this for a lot more and I could easily but I have stories of my own to work on and isn't that one of the biggest fears that a lot of publishers, record companies, and film companies have in common. They are scared that we all do have stories to do and now there is a platform for that. That we are might want to work to tell those stories. Team up with others to create art. Team up with writers, artists, editors, actors, directors, and they will be standing there wondering what to do with their paperclips.

Here is the conversation that took place on Twitter I spoke of. Talking with Damon always gets my mind going for the good ideas and sometimes bad:) It's always been that way. Again maybe not a great cut and paste job to represent the conversation but I wanted to put it here anyways:

Brian Williams ‏Need to get a lot of writing done with storms keeping me off the laptop yesterday. Enterprise will be my background noise

Brian Williams ‏I wish Netflix had a play list function or would that be only useful to writers watching tons of stuff at once while writing?

damon ‏I wish Netflix would be willing to (easily) take $100 a year from me for their service. Oh well. #freetvinstead

Brian Williams ‏Don't they have Netflix where you live or just hard to pay for it from there?

damon ‏No official Netflix here, but then, I'm old school, don't mind paying for stuff (as thanks) that I already get free anyway.

damon ‏generally, a US issued credit card is needed for paid subscriptions, but, for eg, Hulu (basic) under VPN works fine.

Brian Williams ‏Sounds like another company not taking full advantage of the market that's out there. Then again its been that way all along...

Brian Williams ‏with the internet. Companies stuck in past ways of doing things, not able to move forward, because of stupidity and fear.

damon ‏And yes, if you're TRULY motivated to WANT to pay for content ... there are workarounds ... but why would you bother.

damon ‏the mantra 'content wants to be free' is only truly applicable when there's no (easy) paid alternative.

Brian Williams ‏Everyone knows I'm anti-piracy, mainly because of peoples lack of admitting its stealing, ...

Brian Williams ‏but companies created that black market and made it so strong through lack of foresight, courage, and creative thinking.

Brian Williams ‏Oops, I mentioned piracy online. Great way to lose followers and get a ton of direct mess about how stupid I am :)

damon ‏I'm more than happy to pay for content. But at the moment I can't. So I don't. And I still watch what I want. So who wins ?

damon ‏Case in point : Kindle book prices vary on geography, but i can import a print copy freely from anywhere, at local price.

damon ‏For me, it's the "local publisher sets the price" disclaimer that Amazon give - and often higher than a print version !

Brian Williams ‏Pricing on ebooks is a mess all over and hurts the progress. I don't think all should be free or $1 but overpricing and the like is stupid.

Brian Williams ‏Well the mindset of region pricing and region copyrights is hurting progress a lot too. Need to go or be reformed.

damon ‏and for me it's a motivator. if someone wants to charge me more for a product based on location, it's a deal breaker.

Brian Williams ‏Dvd released a year before in one region there will be piracy and if a book is priced higher in one region there will be piracy.

Brian Williams ‏I don't want them on places like Amazon, not because they are the great evil, they don't allow pay what you want and free pricing

Brian Williams ‏I meant to say I don't want my books on places like Amazon.

damon ‏and that's fair enough too - fortunately, we all have a choice where we buy / distribute. it should always be thus.

When asking Damon if it was ok to use his posts in a blog entry, something he correctly said we'd be seen as old fogeys for doing. Back in my day the internet....

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The photos are from a recent trip to St. Augustine with Mar and Queen. I took them on a cheap old camera. Queen is a really talented photographer and she was taking shots of everything that day. Since I don't get the chance to do photo blog much of anymore I thought when I do blog entries on anything else I'll add some photos I've taken recently because I enjoy sharing them.

photos by (c)Brian C. Williams,

Where I Talk About Being Not Ready To Rewrite and Ebook Pricing

ELI RECORD, ELI QUEEN

Just for the Hell of it I did a quick edit pass through a old poetry collection and uploaded it to my Smashwords store. It's another You Set The Price release so you can get it for free or drop some dollars my way. 

ELI RECORD ELI QUEEN

ELI RECORD, ELI QUEEN

Where I rerere-release a old poetry collection KILL MACHINE

To celebrate the 4th of July I just uploaded a old poetry collection {KILL MACHINE} I released to my Smashwords store today. It's You Pick The Price! You can download for free and then pay if you liked after.

For more poetry visit the Bloodwaste Books blogger page. I plan to update poetry there on a monthly basis.

Where I rerere-release a old poetry collection KILL MACHINE

Where I talk about redistricting, voting, and licking.

     Sometimes I think laws in this country are enacted by three headed goats who only have the agenda of "I can do stupid" and also, "Look I can lick my own balls and it be his balls too."
     One such salty ball tasting lick is the fact that redistricting is allowed in election years. Now redistricting is a needed thing. It helps set government action into motion in a way that best serves the community as a whole but it has also been used since day one of redistricting to suppress voting, mislead citizens, and control the political structure.
     Redistricting has always been a little powerful tool to be used for racist and classist politics, and that's why !Holy Shit! why are they allowed to redistrict in a election year?
     I had a friend who just registered to vote for the first time in Florida earlier this year. He got his card. It told him where he needed to vote. A few months later he gets another card with different information.
     The confusion that can come from situations like that is on purpose. They know to the word what they are doing. They are hoping a lot of people end up not being able to vote on election day or are so frustrated that they don't vote.
     I got a card like that also. Within a election year my voting location changed. You might not think that sort of thing is much but that's why most of America is walking around like the sheep we are. We are just thinking like complete dipshits.
     In the past I voted a number of times absentee ballot because I was either in another state or country at the time of elections. I learned a lesson from that when it turned out a number of cases of absentee votes in Virginia didn't turn up until after the election. They were mainly from military citizens but who knows, mine could have been in there also. I learned this was something I needed as a citizen to watch out for. Something everyone should be doing but it seems just like myself it takes a personal attack on your voting rights for Americans to give a damn.
     I live in a state that is the current model and the front lines of voter purges. Florida you are always so not unchanging in your ability to head desk so many people by your fuckwank actions.
     I'll here end this with a little lesson on redistricting and voting suppression in general. Now I'm not a teacher or anything, I'm not even that bright, but I can do a Google search. I can read. I can use my eyes, ears, and brain to see what is going on and so unless you like the way voters are being suppressed and voting rights are being stripped then you should be educated to issues like how other states are taking Florida's lead, what gerrymandering is besides a strange word used on Fox News and MSNBC, here's a video about several voter issues, know your voter rights in your state, a report on voting rights in Indian Country, all of that "fraud" thats happening, and state felony voting laws. Those are just a few hairs on that ass of your of issues that you need to address. You son have a very hairy ass so there is a lot more we all need to take notice of and educate ourselves about.
     How about this. How about us as a nation care about voting rights. How about us as a nation have a backbone, because if we don't, how about us as a nation stop pretending we are a nation. In time those who are being suppressed will get angry enough to change things in different ways.

Cool links to check out:

     I re-re-released a old poetry collection on Friday NEW EPISODE if anyone is interested. It's on the You Pick The Price! pricing method so it's free or if you enjoy it or anything else at my Smashwords store or like what I write here on the blog you can pay what you want for it.

     Time for some learning with some Crash Course and SciShow: The Renaissance: Was it a Thing? - Crash Course World History #22 and Absolute Zero: Absolute Awesome.

     This webseries is slowly growing on me. The Lizzie Bennet Diaries My Parents: Opposingly Supportive - EP: 3

And I bought a few copies of THIS IS NOT A TEST by Courtney Summers to use for gifts Sunday at B&N. You should get yourself a copy. It's a great book. I gave it 5stars when I read the ARC I got through Netgalley and I'm not really much of a zombie fan.

Rants and screams:

     Don't fuck with Librarians period. I respect them a lot more than I do any other form of leadership in this fucked up unreasoning dumb fuck world. Don't Fire Gay Tenured Librarian! - The Petition Site

     Soon I think Google will hang a banner that says, "I loves some evil." I use Google a lot from blogger to Gmail to YouTube but have really been disappointed with them the past few years in their piracy of books and their blow jobbing the government against the people that made them what they are. ‘Alarming’ Increase in Google Censorship Requests

Where I talk about redistricting, voting, and licking.