High Fives For Jesus

I saw this guy in Herald Square. I was speechless at the time but now... He will be a character in something soon I'm sure.

On the Other Hand

In other news, the bread knife lost his battle but I am somehow fascinated by stitches and can't stop
Staring at them!

New Crime Confirms Bungler's Identity

Evidence has surfaced today in the bun stealing story that has left Veronians wondering Who Done It!?

While grilling chicken sausages, some whole grain buns were left unattended and partially eaten. The buns were sent to a lab in Bergen County for DNA testing. At that point, scientists confirmed that the thief (currently out on bail) is Seamus "The Stick" Hickory.

Hickory has no comment, no remorse and implied that he was fine framing Rudy Brown for the crime. He would not face the camera.

Mirror Talk: A Conversation with Barbara Alfaro

Hi All,

Click HERE for my interview with amazing indie author Barbara Alfaro. I'm proud to have the opportunity to work with so many great authors! Alfaro is the author of Mirror Talk, a poignant memoir you can get RIGHT HERE I had the pleasure of reviewing Mirror Talk  for Indie Reader, and love love LOVE the book. Pick it up and see what I mean!

Alfaro is also the author of First Kiss, a collection of poetry and is at work on a novel called Roses and Vices. Looking forward to that for sure. Thanks Barbara!

Peace and Memoir
K

Need something new to read?

Hi All,

Just dropping on in to post this week's Alike But Indie so you know what to read when you finish Odd Apocalypse and are looking for your next adventure. I think there are some good ones here & hope that you like them.


Have you checked out this week's Paper Weights by the way? If not, here you go: CLICK ME!!! Thanks again for your column kudos, shares and support!

Speaking of paper weights, I found something really strange. Apparently they are turkeys...uh huh. OK then there you have it.

Creepy right? I know. Eww.


I will now attempt to hit the gym (and stop thinking about those creepolas) as I have a rare Thursday opportunity to do so as my class is schooled in emotional intelligence by a kick ass guest lecturer--what's better than that? Not having to go to Brooklyn today! And ice cream...definitely ice cream...but not having to go to Brooklyn today is better than ice cream for sure. At least to me, and since this would be my blog there ya have it. Happy Thursday!

Enjoy your book with a cone and let me know what you think of this week's Alike But Indie picks.

 

(It's like Chutes and Ladders for people like us!)

 

Peace & Pages,

K

Junot!

Score on the way home-there's a piece on Junot Diaz's upcoming This is How You Lose Her in New York Magazine.
Get it ASAP

Swamped and Loving It!

So this week has been a whirlwind! That's all I keep thinking. Here's what's new with me!

Huffington Post pubb'd my Penis Poll that originally appeared on Indie Reader and Jezebel.com also picked it up and is approaching 50K hits (I know!)

USA TODAY posted my review of Tammara Webber's Easy in Happily Ever After (the go-to spot for indie romance recs)

Those are my feet when I tipped over after all the good stuff I just said.

And things are as lively as ever on the home front at you will see in my upcoming posts. The garden is growing and there are indeed recent developments in the BunGate2012. Stay tuned!!

But I just wanted to say thanks to all  of my readers and supporters--especially now, and encourage all writers to keep going...and going and going and going.....you get the drift-because its so worth it!

Peace and Pubb'd in the Huff Po,
Keri

We take the good with the ouch...

My poor guy! Six stitches from a bread knife! In light o yesterday's awesomeness, we laughed about it and all is well. I gotta say, look at the size o that thing! Impressive.

Blowing up Your Spot

So I wrote an article for Indie Reader (see previous post) and it went to Jezebel.com today. I know! Pretty thrilling right? And THEN... it went to the Huffington Post in the same day.

Excited is now not remotely strong enough to describe this feeling.

As all this occurred I watched the Jezebel article get hit after hit 20K and counting. Woah.

And then I did a little happy dance with my four legged buddies.

Not only has Indie Reader and it's fabulous founder Amy Edelman given me an online voice with Paper Weights, I've now got a whole new list of good things on my resume.

Oh and now I am learning Twitter...immediately.

Follow me: @WriteLoud and I'll follow you back.

Thank you to everyone for their support and awesomeness!

Peace and Pages,
Keri

The Penis Poll: How the Best Selling Erotic Books Measure Up

The Penis Poll: How the Best Selling Erotic Books Measure Up.  

Check out my latest article on Indie Reader. Noticing a sexy trend on the NY Times Bestseller List? So have we. Mommy-Porn is taking over and steaming up the charts!
Want to know just how steamy these books get? Delve on in and see. Some are whips and chains but we've hot everything from MA/New Adult (a new category that caters to more mature YA's) to downright smut. Check it out, read it on your Kindle and no one will know you are looking at penises!

Peace & Penises
K

Recognition Feels Damn Good

So I am looking at the textbook that I use to teach ENG 101: MODELS FOR WRITERS and thinking about how nice the new edition turned out this year. Then I remember that I was part of the review board and I wonder if they happened to say thanks anywhere...like a website, or small tiny print at the bottom of something. And the old familiar feeling came rolling back to see my name in their Acknowledgements. So cool! It's been a while.

So then I download a new book by one of my favorite indie authors (more on that soon) and there I see myself again-quoted! First! In the book itself! Pretty cool. I knew there was something I liked about recognition. In publishing it was something I never took for granted--and I still don't.

I'm also honored to have been asked for a cover endorsement from a fellow author, which I gladly provided and hope that my efforts will help her to promote the pants off her book-baby when it is hatched!

When you realize you haven't had as many kudos in so long, other than what you have created for yourself, in your own work, with your own passion-- it makes you really want to say thanks back when it comes your way. The kudos have been rolling in big-time and I feel like everything is working out just the way it should.

So THANKS to everyone who supports my endeavors. I never forget who got me where I am, and I am doing all I do for all of you.

Peace and Pages
Keri

Counter Strike by The Stick

As "Rudy" Brown implicated Seamus "The Stick" Hickory earlier today, the courtroom was atwitter with gossip about Hickory. The young man was caught with his nose in the fridge of Ms. English, who lost the burger buns to a crafty knave of a bugler last week.

It seems however that Brown is anything but innocent!
We aren't sure what to think now!

New Evidence Presented at Trial

New evidence was presented by the attorney of Reginald "Rudy" Brown today. A photo that Brown had depicts Seamus "The Stick" Hickory involved in foul play...

Nobody Talking in the Land of Burgers

Both suspects taken into custody this week in response to police discoveries of evidence implicating 42 yr old Reginald "Rudy" Brown and the much younger Seamus "The Stick" Hickory have maintained their silence. Neither man has said a word about their involvement in the recent bun theft at a Verona NJ home. It has been revealed however that the men are friends and have been seen consorting in various places, leaving police to speculate that this may have been a two man job.

As you can see in the photos below, Brown and Hickory seem to know each other quite well. Both men have obtained legal assistance and trial status is pending until all witness testimony is collected.

New Lead in Hamburgler Case

Police announced early this morning that they have taken a second man into custody in the case of the missing hamburger buns.

Seamus "The Stick" Hickory was seen drinking in public at Verona Park, and picked up when a passerby noted that he had seen Hickory at local events where food had gone missing. Witnesses corroborate that Hickory was in fact blamed for various thefts in the past; including socks and a baloney sandwich.

Hickory hails from Newark and spent the first part of his life well cared for but was left to fight for his life in a shelter at a shocking one year old. Hickory was adopted by a couple who provide a loving home and do not understand why he would turn to a life of petty crime. Hickory's mother is quoted as saying "He's such a sweet young man. We just don't know what he does with all of it--we feed him well. We are baffled by these recent events." The young man's father says, "Hickory is a bit hyper at times, but never aggressive in a mean way. He is no criminal. They must have the wrong guy."

As the story develops, we will keep you posted. In other developments, Reginald "Rudy" Brown has hired an attorney and plans to plead Not Guilty for all counts against him.

Suspect Photo Released

Suspected burger bun bandit Reginald "Rudy" Brown's photo was released to the public earlier today. Brown was apprehended in Brookdale Park where he was found attempting to infiltrate a family picnic. Brown, shown below, is not unfamilliar with encounters with the law. He was also apprehended in 2007 for stealing a small child's bagel at Minnewaska State Park

If you have any information on "Rudy" Brown, please call our Bun Stoppers Hotline immediately:

1-800-Get-Rudy

Hamburger Burglary Suspect Arrested

Police have arrested a Forty-two year old West Virginia man as a suspect in the recent hamburger bun stealing spree in Verona, New Jersey. Reginald "Rudy" Brown is known as "Boogs" and may have several other aliases.

Brown is twenty one inches tall and is predominantly white with reddish brown hair, and five large distinguishing marks on his back and neck. Known to have ties to street life, he also has lived in Branchburg and has been through the foster system.

Police are working with a sketch artist and will release their findings to the public later today. It is suspected that Brown may have an accomplice.

Hamburger Bandit

In Verona NJ this afternoon, a hamburger bandit struck the home of 35 year old author Keri English. Yet another bizarre crime in a string of food thievery that seems to have been occurring since around April 27th of this year. The thief stole two tops and one bottom of hamburger buns that were briefly left unattended on Ms. English's kitchen counter.

The occupants of the home were baffled and are positive that all doors and windows were locked. If anyone has information about this crime, a reward will be paid in fresh home made pickles.

The homeowners thank you in advance for any information you may have.
K

August 9th

So today I'm sitting in the waiting room at Radiology drinking contrast that tastes like iced tea. In fact, it's labeled as Crystal Light solution and I think it may not be lying to me! Waiting for a stomach CT and required to sit still drinking this for 2 hours I'd say I've had so much worse. Last time it was two liters of chalky white barium solution that I mostly puked right back up. I'm impressed. Go New Jersey.

As I distract myself with the Internet, I see it's Whitney Houston's birthday, R.I.P. Its also the birthday of Kurtis Blow and Gillian Anderson.

"Happy Birthday Scully. I got you a poster."

"Why thank you Mulder. I'm sure there's a scientific explanation for all of this."

   

Oh man I miss the X-Files!

"Hey Scully, These. Are. The Breaks."

Just thinking, David Duchovny spends a lotta time in the sheets doesn't he now...well, hello Fox Mulder and welcome to my stream of consciousness.

God I can't wait to eat something...

Been having delays and problems uploading pics from phone and wondering why. Investigate I will (Wassup Yoda and welcome to my stream of consciousness)

On that note I finished reading Easy by Tamara Webber and am now immersed in Flat Out Love and am ever thankful for my Nook to distract the welling panic of being here. Sigh ok back to reading. Wonder if they'd know if someone added vodka to their CT drinks? Just sayin.

Peace and Radiology

K

More Zucchini? Of course more zucchini!

So I have a fancy shmancy new iPhone right...but I cant get it to blog my pictures. I was trying and failing all day and evening to upload my favorite veggie and couldn't. BOOO. Anyway, here are the favorites that I wanted to share!

1. The intelligent zucchini:

2. Harvest from the garden for the day:

 3. I know I know this isn't zucchini, but it's chard and it came in really nicely and there has been an abundance of it to saute!

 4. And finally, everybody's favorite & most requested photo--The Zucchini King aka Dr. GreenThumb with his prized 4 pounder. Yep we still have a tiny bit of it left! 

Also thanks to Laurel Osterkamp, author extraordinaire for sharing this with me, which has now become my new favorite song! (How perfect is this?!!)

http://youtu.be/QiEnCJ3BEo0

Veg on!
K

Day of Zucchini I'm not even kidding!

If you know me at all, you know that there is one thing I've got in super abundance this summer: ZUCCHINI! Believe it or not, August 8th is National Zucchini Day...also known as "Sneak a Zucchini onto your Neighbor's Porch Day"

I swear I'm not making this up! Click HERE if you don't believe me!

Why, you ask is this so funny? Well, I have been eating this green delight all summer since my green thumbed other half has a knack for growing them. Thankfully we love the little suckers...OK not little actually--we picked one last week that weighed FOUR POUNDS! But wow are they delicious.

Anyway, I have this neighbor; a small, observant, besandled, mustachioed Indian dude. He is very nice when he talks, which is not as often as the rest of us do, and we have come to affectionately know him as Bobogee (See Bend it Like Beckham for explanation)

So every day, our Bobogee walks around slowly, with his hands folded gently behind his back. Sometimes he sits on one of the green benches in our courtyard. Sometimes he pushes his grandson in a stroller. Always wearing a white T-Shirt (HANES TAGLESS--but we will get to that later) and khaki or dark colored pants and brown sandals. He enjoys perusing the gardens we have in little plots around the complex.

One day while typing at my desktop computer which faces a window (or else I'd have less to write about) I hear a loud incantation below the sill.

"Zucchiniiiii"

I stop typing for a sec and think: "No way. I'm hearing things." and I go back to work on my article.

A moment later I hear again, "Zuuuucchhhiiiinnniiii" and this time it has a question mark at the end.

Peering over the window sill I see little Bobogee in my garden looking up at me. He's about five feet tall and the windows are over six off the ground so I didn't even know he was lurking out there. I suppose he could see me though.

Shocked and stifling laughter, I waved and said "Hey how's it going? Are you talking to me...in my house?"  To which he replied "Zucchini?"

What I thought was a language barrier was really bad hearing on his part.  He finally explained this to us directly in decent English about a year later (no really an entire year went by with me thinking all this guy knew in English was names of veggies he spied in the gardens) and now we talk outside and he reads lips and knows a lot about gardening, cooking and all the local gossip.

So that's one of the many Bobogee stories. And TODAY this blog is dedicated to him.

OK, so this is what I've got for you:

Here are some ways to enjoy your ZUCCHINI

Happen to be in NY State? Check this out!

And as a special treat, I will be blogging LIVE ZUCCHINI PICS ALL DAY LONG!

Enjoy Your Zucchini today and always, love your Bobogees and go give your neighbors a treat today!

Peace and Prosperous Produce!
Keri

Sometimes I wonder...

The heat brings out the crazy I think... and the hilarious.
OK I always wonder... about everything really, but some things really make me think. Like THIS

This is a story you have to read to believe, and I think it is totally a topic I would discuss with anyone because I can't stop thinking about it. Guy borrows book from elderly neighbor and throws it in hallway. Elderly neighbor asks why. Guy draws a sword. Perfectly logical. NOT.

What the hell is happening this summer?!

Besides that I am looking forward to reading Odd Apocalypse this week. Snail mail anticipation of the new Odd Thomas book is overtaking me :) Book Nerds unite for Dean Koontz!

Back to work tomorrow with Ridges and rain on the forecast. Good thing I still have zucchini left over for lunch from our ridiculously bountiful harvest. Yes I will eventually post lots of giant zucchini photos but I'm still laughing too hard to do so just now.

As far as the ask and you shall receive bit--its getting kind of scary how that is working out in succession for about a month. I hope nothing breaks the cycle, life might just come full circle again.

Wouldn't that be sweet!

Peas and Cukes!
K