The technical hassles in so doing are bigger than they should be, although most of the problems are perhaps more in my head than in the format-conversion technology.

Mainly, I'm trying to convert PDF versions of my book to MS Word .doc format. 

Your help in making me un-stupid in this process would be much appreciated.

I got up and found a shirt & some socks and my coat & slippers & headed for the car. Pager said "Roger 651 you're on the air 1:08" so I knew my truck was already rolling & I should head right for the fire.

The first part concerned some militant lesbian Roman Catholic nuns in the 1960's who blew up a few munitions factories and an NFL stadium (they were never caught). There was some discussion of feminist theology, and something also about a hormonal potion they drank which increased the intensity of their orgasms.

The second part of the novel concerned some of these same woman years later; some of them had remained in the convent, some hadn't. A detective who looked & sounded a lot like Christopher Walken was investigating a recent bombing that bore a striking resemblance to those 40 years ago.

Also, a pot-luck dinner tonight at Martha's Vineyard Portuguese-American club for a happy-sad occasion, and a Creation Science update.

I set a goal of raising $5k in 30 days. That's not enough to sustain me to write a book, but it is a good amount of dough. My final pledge tally was $8,060. I won't collect that much, since some credit card charges bounced (including 1 big one), plus, Amazon & kickstarter take cuts. Still, I'll get a nice chunk of $$ when the account settles in about two weeks.

A few brief observations about the process follow.

Who knows, maybe there are some people over there who are not jerks who have not yet been subjected to the Paddy One-Tune routine because they were not around when Paddy & I were K5 regulars. If any of you guys still have accounts there & have any interest in what I've learned about self-publishing over the last 10 years, you can go check it out.

Other observations below.

UPDATE I substantially revised the K5 article, posted it there, then added a new section "my biggest mistake" and posted it on Wetmachine.

But Paddy is undead, after all, and zombies cannot be denied. So, if you dare, leap below the fold to read Paddy's earnest entreaty for advice about how to proceed with johnny's latest project, Creation Science, "a geekoid novel for smart people". He & I would appreciate your insights. BONUS: if you click on that link you can see a little video of me in all my bald glory, chanelling Ben Stein, droning in my New Jersey accent.

Wait till you meet me!

I finally got around to writing a blog post about how my youngest daughter was molested for a long time & raped as a child, how she concealed that fact from me and Dear Wife for nine years, and what that cost her, and how, at age 17, she worked with law enforcement people to get her rapist arrested & brought to trial & sent to jail, & how she got herself a nifty glow-in-the-dark tattoo to commemerate her "victory". I hesitated a long time before writing that post, for reasons that I suspect are obvious to most decent human beings. But the Roman Polanski story kind of kicked me in the vital regions, and the result was the above-linked post. Not the most eloquent or compelling story I ever wrote--sputtering rage & guilt can diminish my command of tone & style-- but it's all earnest & true, which counts for something. At least among my friends here. I should hope.

Kind of depressing that it got no comments on my website. But oh well. I didn't write that story to get comments, I wrote it to write it. Mission Accomplished, as they say.