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Salacious Sydney sells stuff
This website’s vast editorial staff is joining the debate very late, but we still want to express our admiration for actress Sydney Sweeney’s business model – using salacious pictures of herself to sell products, with the added marketing advantage of the pictures also annoying feminists.
Those outraged feminists then rush onto social media to condemn Sweeney, thereby obligingly drawing attention to the advertisements, greatly increasing their coverage and effect. Very few people, particularly the guys, will care what feminists think about the ads, but they are more likely to hear about them thanks to the many additional posts on social media debating the issue.
Sweeney may well have discovered the business model by accident when she did a jeans ad for American Eagle with the tagline “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans”. Various elements of the left somehow managed to find a white supremacist message in that, with the resulting outrage boosting sales and American Eagle’s share price.
Sydney, rightly, ignored the fuss to the point where she has launched a new campaign featuring salacious pictures of herself for the sports betting site Novig in which she also invested (one is shown left). Feminists obligingly decided that the pictures had something to do with women in sport and, again, roundly castigated the actress. As the site’s user base would be overwhelmingly male, they paid no attention to the condemnation but a lot of attention to the pictures. Good one Sweeney.
The Tunnels of Rasand
Yes, I have released another book. Although I still haven't managed to get it published on all the sites I use, a free download is just a Google search away. Or just click the button below. Here is the teaser.
Patrol Officer Nathan Olsen's work is risky enough patrolling the desert around the Earth colony of Rasand, as he is in a perpetual war with the creatures he calls Morlocks, named after the tunnel dwellers in the classic H. G. Wells story. But then the discovery of a ruined city draws the attention of Rasand City's glamorous chancellor, who wants to be taken to the site, with both unaware that the city holds the key to the origin of the Morlocks.
No Wolves in Los Angeles - audio book
An audio version of my book No Wolves in Los Angeles is now available, narrated by professional voice actor David Tredinnick. Unlike the print version, there is a small charge for it. The link below is to the book on Google Play. A link to the free text version is further down this page.
When top Hollywood star and bad girl Clarise Chalmers met a writer of trashy military science fiction William Moreland by chance in a bar she knew he was not her type at all. Anyway, she had a boyfriend - another top star and heart throb for millions of female fans. But Will made a lot of sense suggesting solutions to problems that had been plaguing her so she hired him as a business consultant warning him that their relationship would be strictly professional. But Clarise should have taken more trouble to warn herself.
Hidden City
Hiding out in a remote part of the empire, working as a mechanic, Alf is recruited to fix a spaceship off the books. Instead, he ends up in a gigantic alien facility fighting for his life, with one of his few allies being a female police sergeant who keeps calling him scum.
Click the link for your free download.
Inclusion in fantasy?
The fantasy book I'm reading has a love affair between a female Orc and a female Dwarf. Yep, a lesbian Orc-Dwarf connection. I won't mention the title or author, but I will complain. Whatever happened to the willowy Elvish princesses (Welsh actress Morfydd Clark as Galadriel in the Rings of Power series, pictured left, is a good example) and lusty swordsmen I read about in fantasy as a youth? This inclusion business has gone too far.
Mobile phones will dominate
After an unfortunate episode in which I managed to lose my mobile phone, I have concluded that our phones will soon become the dominant life force. Being without a phone for a few hours and then having to buy a pre-paid device was horrible. My phone has since been returned to me, but the episode made me realise that it owns me. Soon the hive intelligence that is the Earth's phone network will rule. Wait, I hear my phone calling me.
No Wolves in Los Angeles
My new book is out but this time I've written a romance. Weird, I know but I couldn't help it. Don't blame me I'm just the writer. Here is the description.
When top Hollywood star and bad girl Clarise Chalmers met a writer of trashy military science fiction William Moreland by chance in a bar she knew he was not her type at all. He was good looking but not of the film star standard she had come to expect. Anyway, she had a boyfriend - another top star and heart throb for millions of female fans. But Will made a lot of sense suggesting solutions to problems that had been plaguing her so she hired him as a business consultant warning him that their relationship would be strictly professional. Fresh from a disastrous relationship with an aspiring actress Will was happy to take the star at her word, but Clarise should have taken more trouble to warn herself.
My new book is out but this time it's non-fiction. The book discusses efforts by state governments and activists to destroy the fossil fuel generating capacity of the Eastern Australian grid in the vain hope that renewables will take the place of coal and gas-fired plants. As the book points out there is now considerable evidence that renewables cannot provide the 24/7 power which is essential to any modern grid.
Instead of acknowledging this reality, those involved descend into madness - insisting that Hydrogen is the new LNG or that offshore wind generators can somehow be made economic. For those interested in the debate, click the link below. Published by Connor Court
The wait is over. The next chapter in the adventures of Gellibrand Obsidian has arrived. In this book, Gel goes on a dangerous mission to find out more about the alien Gagrim, but there is even more danger at home. His glamorous sex worker girlfriend has a deadly secret and he is drawn to a nightclub singer with a hitman boyfriend and a crime boss admirer who will stop at nothing to possess her.
Hit the button below to download the book for free.
This web site showcases an alternate view of fiction, where the black-hearted villains - the one that the James Bonds and Luke Skywalkers of fiction regularly defeat and kill - may have their own side to tell. Vader was just trying to hold the empire together, Blofield was simply a businessman and James Bond breaks the law constantly. And what was so wrong with Dicken's Ebenezer Scrooge that required such drastic spiritual intervention?
Read on.
