After working on it for almost 3 years, I have finally published my first book.
Some background: I used to write a weekly (then monthly, then sporadic as my life changed) "diary" over on the Daily Kos website. Yes, that's a liberal political site but the articles (known as "diaries") cover every subject one can imagine. There are diaries about music, horticulture, animals, history, books... just about anything you can imagine. Yes, even cats.
So I decided -- back in 2009 -- to carve myself a niche there. I settled on words. I am a word nut. I own dozens of dictionaries and books about jargon and slang. I called my diary The Mad Logophile; why "mad?" Well, I rebuke normalcy. If you know me, you'll understand.
My first topic was political words, that being primarily a political website, and I published it on November 1, 2009. Eventually, I stopped writing these diaries because, well, life. My last posting was in April of 2011.
A few years ago, my daughter suggested that I edit, add to and retool my old diaries into short e-books. It's taken this long to do that. Thursday, I published the first in a series (I hope) on words.
So, if you're a logophile, too, I hope you'll take a look and, if you like it, maybe buy a copy. It's less than 2 bucks -- a great deal, if you ask me.
Some background: I used to write a weekly (then monthly, then sporadic as my life changed) "diary" over on the Daily Kos website. Yes, that's a liberal political site but the articles (known as "diaries") cover every subject one can imagine. There are diaries about music, horticulture, animals, history, books... just about anything you can imagine. Yes, even cats.
So I decided -- back in 2009 -- to carve myself a niche there. I settled on words. I am a word nut. I own dozens of dictionaries and books about jargon and slang. I called my diary The Mad Logophile; why "mad?" Well, I rebuke normalcy. If you know me, you'll understand.
My first topic was political words, that being primarily a political website, and I published it on November 1, 2009. Eventually, I stopped writing these diaries because, well, life. My last posting was in April of 2011.
A few years ago, my daughter suggested that I edit, add to and retool my old diaries into short e-books. It's taken this long to do that. Thursday, I published the first in a series (I hope) on words.
So, if you're a logophile, too, I hope you'll take a look and, if you like it, maybe buy a copy. It's less than 2 bucks -- a great deal, if you ask me.
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