We’re trying something a little different at Crazy 8: we’re rolling out “The Hidden Earth” books in progression.

For the first month, the electronic edition of “Hidden Earth: Darkness of the Light” will be available exclusively at Barnes & Noble via the Nook. You can find it here . As an incentive, it’s priced at $2.99 (since it’s reprinting previously published material.)

At the end of the first thirty days, we’ll be making it available through Amazon and as a trade paperback. At that point we will also be giving you the long-awaited sequel, “Height of the Depths.” Watch this space for further details.

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On Monday I’ll be hitting the road, driving down to Jacksonville to be there on the 21st during the official inaugural week of the movie theater my daughter, Shana, and her husband Tim are opening in Jacksonville. Be sure to swing by if you’re anywhere in the area. They’re running “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.”

More info at Sun-Ray Cinema

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So we should put poor children to work as janitors. What a crying shame that Jonathan Swift managed to beat Newt to the punch by several centuries with his even more ambitious notion about what to do with poor children.

Personally, I think Swift got it backwards. If anyone is going to be eaten in order to solve hunger, it should be the wealthy. Why? Because everyone knows that 1% is more slimming.

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Thrill to Emma Peel beating the living šhìŧ out of Simon Cowell.

Come on. You know you’d pay to see that.

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