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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: m25operator on June 17, 2007, 06:49:05 PM
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Ok Michael, I've read the storyline on all night radio (http://www.michaelbane.us/all-night-radio.htm) and I want one, but I want it signed. Is this possible and how. Nice touch making it chicks with guns.
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Ask nicely, and email me your address...
Michael B
PS: Here's a weird thing...from men I heard, "MORE GUNS! MORE GUNS!;" from women I heard, "MORE SEX! MORE SEX!" It's a miracle the species has survived at all. In deference to my friend Terry, who runs the trap magazine, I immediately set about to get my main character, Kashi, laid in the sequel.
PPS: So I'm not home and my Sweetie gets a call from a relatively well known mystery writer...he asks to speak to me; she says I'm not home...he says, "I feel like I know you from Michael's novel..." My Sweetie starts shouting, "That's not me! It's him! All his characters are him!"
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Wow, now I've got to beg for the sequel!!! Press on my man. E mail sent.
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Ask nicely, and email me your address...
Michael B
Is that offer open to the rest of us also 'cause if so; Pretty-please with a 1911 on top with a side of ammo-n-mags ;D
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How about first 10 of you????
mb
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Ok Michael, I've read the storyline on all night radio and I want one, but I want it signed. Is this possible and how. Nice touch making it chicks with guns.
What is this "all night radio" story? I missed it.
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I'll put for the frist ten MB
I think you have my info
Cheers,
tb, AZ
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I immediately set about to get my main character, Kashi, laid in the sequel.
Sequel, sequel...still waiting...did you get yourself out of the box?
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I guess I'm going to have to check in a little more often. All Night Radio ??? It took some looking but I finally found out what you all are talking about, Duh! It looks like a really interesting book. I didn't know you had it in you, Mike. Now I'll have to go out and buy one. :)
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Actually, I did manage to unpaint myself out of the corner...the problem was that I was seeing the timeline cinematically and was focusing on scenes rather than plot development. So I'm still not working on FIVE TO GO a lot, but I am working on it...want me to send you the chapter with the sex in it?
Michael B
PS: If you guys think it's funny that I wrote a novel, consider that there are PhD theses written on my book WHITE BOY SINGING THE BLUES, which is truly building your house on sand! One of those high speed library journals said WHITE BOYS stands as one of the five best books ever written on rock and roll. I once lectured at a University of Colorado class that used WHITE BOYS as a text on American pop culture...I took the test on the book and failed...and that's not even to mention OVER THE EDGE!!!
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So I'm still not working on FIVE TO GO a lot, but I am working on it...want me to send you the chapter with the sex in it?
No. I prefer my sex on screen as opposed to reading about it. :o I'm a visual kind of guy. Glad to hear you got out of the corner. I hope it was because "...women can change their mind".
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I hope it was because "...women can change their mind".
wow man I wouldnt slam the bathroom door that hard. :o
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wow man I wouldnt slam the bathroom door that hard. :o
Inside joke, sorta.
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I guess I'm going to have to check in a little more often. All Night Radio ??? It took some looking but I finally found out what you all are talking about, Duh! It looks like a really interesting book. I didn't know you had it in you, Mike. Now I'll have to go out and buy one. :)
Where? Show me what this is about please.
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Where? Show me what this is about please.
http://www.michaelbane.us/all-night-radio.htm
(http://www.michaelbane.us/images/allnightradiothumb.jpg)
ALL NIGHT RADIO
Paperback: 206 pages
Publisher: Flying Dragon Ltd.; (April 1, 2003)
ISBN: 0972575812
TOUGH. INTELLIGENT. POWERFUL. AND VERY, VERY DANGEROUS!
Kashi Cannon is, in her own words, "a poster girl for chicks with guns" — a lawyer turned firearms instructor, a champion practical pistol shooter and an extremely successful businesswoman. But when she reluctantly agrees to bodyguard country music megastar Clive Carr as a favor to an old friend, she and her former cop partner, Anna, are drawn into a world of stunning violence, where the truth is as elusive as a number one hit and the only common denominator is betrayal. And when Clive’s daughter disappears, Kashi and Anna suddenly find all their options disappearing...
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Thanks Marshal
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All righty....
Just talked to Michael... and.....
He got a few copies left, so he will sign them, send them over to Marshal'ette for distribution and we will just sell them here on DRTV.
No need for these books to collect dust.
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No need for these books to collect dust.
Besides, MB still has to pay for the Sig 556 when it comes in, so a little spare cash from the book sales might come in handy, no??
:D
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Besides, MB still has to pay for the Sig 556 when it comes in, so a little spare cash from the book sales might come in handy, no??
:D
Nah, but he needs ammo though... ;D
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What do you think about making 1 of those books a giveaway?
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This one is a little off the subject but i am wondering if Michael or anyone else has any opinions on post-apocalyptic books. I couldnt believe the response from the information desk at a local book store after i inquired on " ALL NIGHT RADIO ". The chick said "this is a book store not a music, SIR." I informed her 'twas a book I was asking of. She said "right, anything else i could do?" So i asked about the post apocalylptic suggestions and she gave the best advise possible "try the computer" then hit me with another "SIR" so any good suggestions?
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From the Old Days, I loved Steven King's THE STAND...I've probably read it half a dozen times, using when I'm feeling uncharacteristically optimistic. The book would depress a concrete block. Dean Ing's PULLING THROUGH is a well-written instruction manual on surviving a nuclear strike. Of course, Larry Niven's LUCIFER'S HAMMER on big rocks falling out of the sky.UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES goes without saying, of course....you think I have trouble writing a sequel!!!
The first two books of former SEAL Matt Bracken's proposed trilogy, ENEMIES FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC and DOMESTIC ENEMIES; THE RECONQUISTA, are must must reading...and Matt's a totally cool guy, too. DOMESTIC ENEMIES paints a frighteningly realistic picture of an all too possible future and is one of the most original "future history" books I've ever read — besides, I coudln't put the damn thing down!
S.M. Stirling's great trilogy (which he just finished last year) — DIES THE FIRE, A MEETING AT CORVALLIS & THE PROTECTOR'S WAR — is pretty cool...built on the premise of a fundamental reordering of physics, including the fact that explosions no longer work...no electricity, no gunpowder, no engines (even steam won't build up steam) etc. It's a neat trick for casting an alt future novel without having to address the Hurricane Katrina truths we already know...in a social collapse, guns win.
Interesting enough, I just finished reading (yesterday) James Wesley Rawles PATRIOTS: SURVIVING THE COMING COLLAPSE: A NOVEL OF THE TURBULENT NEAR FUTURE. Not, perhaps the world's greatest title. I liked the book, but its overall religiosity weighed on me a bit. Definitely worth reading, because Rawles imbedded real information in the narrative, a la Dean Ing.
I got interested in all this depressing stuff my senior year in high school in Memphis, which happened to be 1968. When Dr, King was killed and the rioting started, being the precicious little idiot I was (and probably still am), I broke the curfew and snuck into the riot zone, which was mostly burning. The PD and the National Guard had triaged the area, essentially allowing huge sections of the city to either burn or sink into open anarchy. I have this memory of a burning apartment building with a sniper on the top floor, and thousands of rounds being poured into the sniper's position. What I took away from this was the sense that the veneer of civilization wasn't nearly as thick as I'd been taught.
I was also a jounalist at the last above-ground action of the Weathermen — the assault on the South Vietnamese embassy on Dupont Circle in D.C. The Waethermen were suing chains to knock cops off motorcycles. I remember rolling under car to get out of the worst of the fighting. Then I saw a car about 50 feet away from me light up. Michael rolled out from under the car quick like bunny! Ah, life's lesons!
Any P/A reading has to be bracketed by two Robert Heinlein short stories...the first bookend is "If This Goes On" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_This_Goes_On—). The closing bookend is, of course, "The Year of the Jackpot" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_of_the_Jackpot), which appleals to my often morbid sense of humor and which I totally, totally love...sometimes you can't beat The House!
Michael B
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Howbout some lighter summer reading involving cowboys and indians? I just finished John Lott's Freedomnomics (recommended if you need/want a refresher on economics - I did because I was out sick the day it was taught in my school).
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Thanks for the great info Michael, some great titles/authors I havent heard of. As for
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES goes without saying, of course....you think I have trouble writing a sequel!!!
.........sequel to All Night Radio or did i misunderstand? By the way I dont know if we would want you spending too much time away from DRTV/Shooting Gallery for that sequel. But I have to read All NIght Radio(signed edition..I hope) first, then i will prob. be crying for it.:'(
tex
P.S. you have a couple of "KICK ARSE" stories yourself it sounds to me! I can already see the autobiography in the works.
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John Lott's Freedomnomics
thanks Don I will look into it .
tex
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Ah, MB, 2 years younger than I, eh?
I remember 68 well, was near a war zone myself, Chicago, Democratic Convention, and chose not to go - had a hunch what was going to happen - the SDS/Weathermen were out for blood and they didn't care whose!
Watching the police action in Chicago, the lines of police in riot gear coming across campus (Washington U in St. Louis), ROTC building torched, fire men and trucks stoned when they came to douse the burning building, etc. proved a bunch of things, namely that
a) the SDS/Weathermen were lawless thugs,
b) indeed the thin veneer is very thin indeed, and
c) sometimes (more often than we are told) it is the gummint that breaches that veneer.
As for the police triaging parts of Memphis, proof yet again that they are not obligated to act on our behalf, only follow orders. Very scary stuff these days, as we witness the abuses every day.
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I can not believe there is a worst state than MA. :o WOW!!!! Old Edward"Teddy"Kennedy is still in the top 5 though. And you all know which list i am reffering to. >:(
Just thinking about it makes me want a shower...BAD. :'(
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"The Stand "iis a favorite. Nothing like the end of humanity to cheer one up. "Life After Doomsday" by Bruce Clayton, although non-fiction and dated, is readable fun. Now if you want a truly depressing end-of-the-world read, try "It Takes a Viillage". Sheer terror there. :o
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+1 on the Matt Bracken books. I've read both of them a couple of times and I believe the third one in the trilogy should be out this year.
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"The Stand "iis a favorite. Nothing like the end of humanity to cheer one up.
I think you hit the nail-on-the-head man.
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It always cheered me up...
Michael B
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Yup the "Trashcan Man" has that soothing effect ya also does he? Prob. one of the most remembered of any of King's Novels. He and "Roland" from the Dark Tower Series
tex
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Michael, thank your, true to your word I recieved my copy of " All night radio" today. In reading your bibliography, I saw you were the interpereter for " You can't miss", I have 2 copies, and I think it is a must read for any beginning competition shooter. I have my issues with John, but that was 20 years ago. I guess you and he dissected the fundamentals of shooting and made the book, it is a great book, and is as valid today as 20 years ago. Does not cover optics but it should'nt. I have not read a better book on mindset, and application, than this. Being in Texas, I've shot with Bill Wilson, John Shaw, J Michael Plaxco, and Jerry Miculek. This was in the old days when rules were more relaxed, and we did dangerous things like, weak hand draws, weak hand reloads, swinging from ropes, shooting over rhodesian walls, shooting from moving somethings, tractors, cars and trailers. My objection to John Shaw is weak, when i first competed with him, God help me, was about 1982, a bowling pin match in Texarkana Texas, present were, Bill Wilson, J Michael, Jerry Miculek, and John Shaw, at that time I was in awe of Bill, J Michael and John, Locals knew Jerry was to be watched. John was a stand offish guy who would not talk to you, I found out later, he needed his space, he did not have the confidence to compete and joke like J Michael, he needed to stay focused, alone. It was not personal.
Several years later I attended one of his classes at our home range, His instructor was Donnie Chaterlain, and he is a talented instructor. He made me into a shotgun shooting machine.
Thank you, Michael, again, time to get reading.
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Michael, thank your, true to your word I recieved my copy of " All night radio" today. In reading your bibliography, I saw you were the interpereter for " You can't miss", I have 2 copies, and I think it is a must read for any beginning competition shooter. I have my issues with John, but that was 20 years ago. I guess you and he dissected the fundamentals of shooting and made the book, it is a great book, and is as valid today as 20 years ago. Does not cover optics but it should'nt. I have not read a better book on mindset, and application, than this. Being in Texas, I've shot with Bill Wilson, John Shaw, J Michael Plaxco, and Jerry Miculek. This was in the old days when rules were more relaxed, and we did dangerous things like, weak hand draws, weak hand reloads, swinging from ropes, shooting over rhodesian walls, shooting from moving somethings, tractors, cars and trailers. My objection to John Shaw is weak, when i first competed with him, God help me, was about 1982, a bowling pin match in Texarkana Texas, present were, Bill Wilson, J Michael, Jerry Miculek, and John Shaw, at that time I was in awe of Bill, J Michael and John, Locals knew Jerry was to be watched. John was a stand offish guy who would not talk to you, I found out later, he needed his space, he did not have the confidence to compete and joke like J Michael, he needed to stay focused, alone. It was not personal.
Several years later I attended one of his classes at our home range, His instructor was Donnie Chaterlain, and he is a talented instructor. He made me into a shotgun shooting machine.
Thank you, Michael, again, time to get reading.
Wow! You have shot with some of the legends. I 'm not sure I envy you shooting against them ;) but I do envy you for meeting them.
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W.E.B. GRIFFIN
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Michael, thank your, true to your word I recieved my copy of " All night radio" today.
great now I have to interogate my Mailman to find out where-in-the-heck mine is. I may have to start a new post abuot extracting info from the captured........unlesssss....... MAAAYBE IS WAS THE UPS GUY!!!! Alright, alright if the UPS guy coulda done it that Fedex guys is getting the thrid-degree as well. AHHH Man I got some work to do. >:(
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great now I have to interogate my Mailman to find out where-in-the-heck mine is. I may have to start a new post abuot extracting info from the captured........unlesssss....... MAAAYBE IS WAS THE UPS GUY!!!! Alright, alright if the UPS guy coulda done it that Fedex guys is getting the thrid-degree as well. AHHH Man I got some work to do. >:(
Lets see lock 'em in a room with an inqusitive 4 year oldWHY....
WHY....
WHY....
WHY....
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Or ..or..how about make him chaparone a 3 grade all girl sleep over :o Or..or..you could be nice and just beat the crap out of 'em! ;D
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Or ..or..how about make him chaparone a 3 grade all girl sleep over Shocked
it would be my luck that the dude was a.... well somethin i would rather not mention having a 4yr old myself. I am thinking of something a little more obscure. Try thinking out side of the box. ??? Maybe setting him up to watch a HIllIary speach and hit chapter repeat or something along those lines. :-\
I kno what my reaction would be..... :'(
tex
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it would be my luck that the dude was a.... well somethin i would rather not mention having a 4yr old myself. I am thinking of something a little more obscure. Try thinking out side of the box. ??? Maybe setting him up to watch a HIllIary speach and hit chapter repeat or something along those lines. :-\
I kno what my reaction would be..... :'(
tex
Well if he's USPS or FEDEX or UPS then he's probably union so Hillary might not be a bad thing.
Out side the box, HMMMMM......I GOT IT! We could make him wear a shirt with a DUCK on it! No, wait. Even I can't be that cruel! ::) ;D
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DUCK on it!
Now i am just confused Hazcat.
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Now i am just confused Hazcat.
Ever notice MB shirts?
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Got it. :D
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Time to reflect on the hole subject has led me to one big oversight..... Maybe i didnt make it into the
How about first 10 of you?Huh
mb
Hmmm? Selfdoubt :(......Naw :-\.....maybe :-[???
stupid plan falling apart...
???Tex ???
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Time to reflect on the hole subject has led me to one big oversight..... Maybe i didnt make it into the
Hmmm? Selfdoubt :(......Naw :-\.....maybe :-[???
stupid plan falling apart...
???Tex ???
NEVER doubt yourself. ;)
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Just FYI, a mysterious package showed up today. Yup all the "hard questions" have been awnsered. And like sooo many mysterious conceptions, I think it was the mailman. :o
All kidding aside, thank you Michael. The girls were impressed that you signed it. 8) Now the Stephen King book is going to get finished ASAP and on to ALL Night Radio. All else can wait...... DOH! one of the girls looked over me shoulder again. :-[
Almost all can wait...... :(
;D Happy Tex ;D
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Just finished ALL NIGHT RADIO , Awsome Michaell, Very Cool and now i cant wait for the next book. For the first time since the "Dark Tower" books by StephenKing and "DEXTER.." series, have I longed for the next reading. I now am seriously bummed that the next book is still a "gleam in its Daddy's eye". :(
JUST SAYIN MAN, GREAT JOB!
Tex
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THANK YOU!
Writing ANR was one of the most fun things I ever did, and I actually like working on the sequel. The hardest thing is that for me to reaslly make it work, I need to devote a bit chunk of time to it where I'm not totally distracted all over the place. I think FIVE TO GO is a better novel for a bunch of reasons, assuming I finally finish the thing. More sex, to be sure.
Michael B
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Due to this thread, I bought ANR as well. I think I got Amazon's last copy. I really enjoyed it as well. The story really flowed well and I liked the fact I didn't have to shake my head at any errors in the gun play like most writers make. The only bad part is having to wait for Five to Go to come out.
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THANK YOU!
Writing ANR was one of the most fun things I ever did, and I actually like working on the sequel. The hardest thing is that for me to reaslly make it work, I need to devote a bit chunk of time to it where I'm not totally distracted all over the place. I think FIVE TO GO is a better novel for a bunch of reasons, assuming I finally finish the thing. More sex, to be sure.
Michael B
What do you need to get it done. You just need to ask, the worst I can do is ignore you and just think of all the pros.