SARAH PIMPS MORE WRITER FRIENDS YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE HEARD OF: Yesterday I mentioned my friend Amanda Green writing as Sam Schall in Vengeance from Ashes which reads like David Weber, but has been living under her bed with the dust-bunnies for twenty years.  If you prefer fantasy adventure, my friend Cedar Sanderson has Pixie Noir and its sequel Trickster Noir out.  It’s sort of what would happen if Larry Correia and Georgette Heyer had a torrid love affair.  Then there’s the classic space opera of Peter Grant.  And so no one accuses me of too much altruism, have I mentioned A Few Good Men is a finalist for the Prometheus Award, and that I have had my first indie novel, Witchfinder, out for less than a month?

OF COURSE NEVER MENTION THAT ALL THE “EXPERTS” LEARNED MARXISM IN SCHOOL: Review: ‘The Tyranny of Experts’ by William Easterly, on global development’s errors.

CUTTING OFF OUR NOSE: Clapper’s gag order could hurt intelligence analysts more than journalists.

IT NEVER WORKED ANYWHERE, LET’S GIVE IT ANOTHER TRY: In Great Britain Ed Miliband suggests re-nationalizing railways.

IT MIGHT WORK BETTER IF OUR “BEST AND BRIGHTEST” BELIEVED IN IT: As is what we’re promoting abroad is not exactly democracy but hatred of America/Western civilization.  Note the thing about the so called Arab Spring.  But of course what they ask is Is Democracy Promotion a Failed Policy?   (Also, democracy as such was always a bad idea. Maybe we should try a democratic republic.  Let’s start here.)

AND SPEAKING OF ENERGY: Japan exploring new ways to power civilization.

AND WHILE WE’RE GIVING YOU FREE STUFF: I have a free short story for another couple of days.  It’s called Where Horse and Hero Fell.  I wrote it eleven years ago, a week after getting severe concussion.  It’s the only story of mine I read as a total stranger, because I have no memory of writing it.  It’s not half bad.

GET THE LIFEBOAT FOUNDATION’S FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK: “The Human Race to the Future and What to Do” for free from May 4 to May 5.

OR WE COULD CONTINUE WITH EARNEST DISAPPROVAL: Can the West find the energy to deter Russia?

SARAH PIMPS WRITING FRIENDS: My friend Amanda Green had this book and its sequels under her bed for twenty years.  I finally convinced her to publish it.  Reminiscent of David Weber.  Vengeance From Ashes. (Under a pen name because under her own name Amanda writes Shape Shifters and such.)

THIS IS WHAT I ALWAYS THOUGHT: Inequality isn’t a problem: it’s a driver of progress. After all, places in which everyone is equally poor are hardly earthly paradises, or fountains of innovation.  I grow tired of the latest media/left manufactured crisis.

DID YOU TAKE THE RED PILL: Seeing red? The mind-bending power of color.

I’VE BEEN MORE AFRAID OF WHAT HAPPENED IN BESLAN: I suppose, given other efforts by the new colonials in Europe this was inevitable, though. Head teachers raise ‘serious concerns’ over Islamic school take-over.

MY PUBLISHER IS RUNNING A FANTASY STORY CONTEST: Larry Correia is judging the contest for “action fantasy” for Baen Books.  Details at the link, but the gist of it is below.

What we want to see: Adventure fantasy with heroes you want to root for. Warriors either modern or medieval, who solve problems with their wits or with their sword–and we have nothing against dragons, elves, dwarves, castles under siege, urban fantasy, damsels in distress, or damsels who can’t be bothered to be distressed.

NEXT THEY’LL WANT TRIGGER WARNINGS: All I have to say is that anyone who attends Titus Andronicus expecting it to be a gentle comedy or even one of the normal Shakespearean tragedies gets what’s coming to them. After all, it is the best Kit Marlowe play Shakespeare ever wrote.