Tag: publishing

Here I sit! 11/9/2025

Yes, it’s been a while since I updated last. Indeed, much has occurred in my life. While I’m sitting on a couch in Sanborondon, Ecuador, I’m also working on a wealth creation project, among other things. I know exactly what I must do, and I literally could go from zero to a quarter mill in a month or so, but I have yet to make a move. I went from zero to twenty thousand in cash relatively fast. That was good for a fifty-six-year-old, don’t you think? The wonderful how-to specifics are already catalogued for future readers. No other author anywhere is offering doable direct how-to specifics like I am. Most of these people who do this type of writing and video production, are putting out non-specific material, giving ready and ever willing activators such as I presently am, inconsistent, often low-perfuming results.

Maybe soon, you too can ride out with me in my writing and activate your own plan for wealth building as I activate mine. What has stymied me, however, is the fact that my last two jobs shut down, and my long bouts of unemployment. I blame myself for that part, however. I love to travel, party, and play. If I have no job, then why not, when the opportunity presents itself? What if I die tomorrow? A one-and-a-half-week cruise down to the islands, six months in Ecuador, where a 3-thousand-dollar savings goes really far, rambling into tropical beaches, Andean towns, while roaming around at liberty in ancient Incan temples to the sun– I want to do it all, to be honest! When my project is complete, while I had to fumble, jumble, and stagger around like a drunk man on the seas exploring foreign islands, fighting monsters, demons, giant ten headed snakes, and more to find my own way; readers will know exactly what to do with my own handy, dandy personal wealth building guide like no other ever written, in hand. Would you like that?

Much in the name of publishing success has happened since I wrote last on here. I’ve had short stories and poems published in maybe 20 different journals, anthologies, magazines, and zines. I also had a very unique novel and a short story collection published. I have lived with family, in hotel rooms, and in a foreign country for months on end. I worked inside school at a unique orphanage for adopted girls from mega wealthy families. I also worked at a school for struggling high school students in an entirely different town. Now I’m in Ecuador again.

It’s all up in the air, but I’m trying to land employment as an instructor at a large English academy opening up in maybe 3 weeks next door to the community here. I know where I can get a MA here for $3500.00 that is good all over the world, including in the USA. If this all goes through, then I’m not returning to the USA on January 22. I may remain here for another year. Anyway, stay tuned here for more live action in one author’s life!

Some of My Latest Publishing Success Stories

https://www.amazon.in/Flummox-Dazzling-motivating-Sensation-Running/dp/9371826452

https://www.amazon.in/Confessions-Child-Horky-burning-parade/dp/9371821078

https://mybook.to/BeautifulTragedies4

Book-toking for pleasure and accommodation!

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Feel another move coming on, my book loving fans and family. Florida DON’T cut it. If you are not retired or in possession of a portable income, do yourself a favor and forbear on coming here thinking you’ll ease into something real and solid. The odds here are highly against it. Don’t vote for any political candidate who isn’t making the employment situation first and foremost in his campaign. Idealism left or right, ain’t gonna cut it here in the real world, where us real folks are scratching in the dirt with the chickens.

Saying hello

Well, we’re thirteen days into 2023. The Pale Rider is said to sit upon a green horse. How are we in our own time, to interpret this realization? This year, if I understand the information correctly, a green comet will be seen passing through the midnight sky. The color green can symbolize pestilence, but it can also symbolize money, in my own categorization. This comet has not been seen since the age of Astraea, and her return back into the heavens for the purpose of escaping the corruption of mankind. She promised to return one day in the distant future, when all of planet earth would be consumed by chaos. https://www.ancientpages.com/2020/08/01/will-star-goddess-astraea-return-to-earth-with-second-golden-age-or-apocalypse/

Already on day twelfth of this year, the much-aged uncle of my wife who we were living with, was cremated. He actually died on the second day, if I am correct in saying so. Many people had deaths occur in their own families during this time period. Might there be some sort of connection here? I’ve never noticed so much death before so early on, and I’ve lived through many a planting season already. The so-called financial experts do not paint a nice picture for the economy this year, but I like to think positive.

To me green means money accompanied by great success in all endeavors, and I want my share! Green can also mean collard and mustard greens, my favorite dishes when served with a wedge of freshly prepared cornbread. Say it out loud here to summons all of the positive spirits. I’m going to HIT IT BIG TIME, boys! I want a New York Times best seller, a literary work of long-lasting renown. I want a novel with a front paid out to me equal to no less than a fifty-thousand-dollar years’ salary. I’m trying, but one cannot accomplish such a thing without going through an agent. Landing an agent is no lean feat, to say the least. I’ve been trying for years and still have not succeeded. Its far easier to become traditionally published than to land an agent.

I have three publishers looking over some of my manuscripts. One has already accepted, and I’ve signed the contract. It’s called “The 10 Best Survival Jobs, how to get them, how to keep them.” It’s been published before but the publisher fell on hard times and had to neutralize the manuscript, and it’s based on my real-life experiences I have lived, and still am living. This is a great beginning for the year, from my own perspective. My Newyear’s resolution is to secure a dynamite career job. I have an in-person interview Monday. It’s for an entry level account manager at an insurance company. I can’t wait to work there! After 90 days or so I can make my move on starting up a true profit generating business.

Whatever value we take a calculated risk on, will be where our potential future wealth lies. If we want millions, sometimes we must commence with hundreds of thousands in potential wealth, then work our way up. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, pure and simple. Noting occurs without calculated risk. Relationships, marriage, college, cruises, writing and publishing a book for crying out loud here, driving or even walking down the highway, you name it. It’s all a hedged bet and a calculated gamble.

Don’t like your present job? Find out what you want to do, then make your move, relocate or whatever it takes to get it. Want to take a trip or live a certain lifestyle, then the perfect day and time is right now. There will never be a day in the hazy distant future when everything is nailed down perfectly. Something totally unforeseen and unexpected will always crop up, it seems. Do it now, when the possibility presents itself. That’s my motto. These are the words I speak aloud. Only 13 days have passed in the first month of 2023. Focus on the positives transpiring already.

Another success!

In daily living our successes often seem small and insignificant. When we maintain a journal, we can clearly see where much more occurred to our good credit than we might have been aware of. We have many adventures, I am telling all of you, throughout the day. Your surroundings are like a stage or a story plot, with you in the center! In the end, when everything else around me crumbles into dust, I still have my writing. That why I am a firm believer in everybody developing some sort of artistic talent, be it whatever it may. When all else crashes one may then throw himself into his creation.

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A few more words in passing

It’s been a little while since I’ve written. Here we are wallowing around in central Western Florida for the time being. I expected loads of real employment opportunity here. Man, how I can never go wrong! They have a grand horse and pony show, so let me tell you all about it. You can just see the loving emperor’s great Thanksgiving and Christmas cornucopia of genuine middleclass opportunity all around you. This place really puts the magnificent city of OZ to shame! Although to be perfectly honest, I will say that I have yet to meet a tin man. All of you should come check it all out! Everything is so inexpensive here. I mean, single apples for only two dollars apiece, whole cartons of eggs by the dozen for only five dollars, men’s basic haircuts for $60.00, a price so low it will make you want to cut your own! Gas is a measly 3.60 a gallon, for crying out loud around here! When it increases its only by 10 to 20 cents a week. This place is an American heaven, especially if you originate from somewhere in California or Boston, Mas’.

Anyway, I am working at Labor Finders for the time being now. I can get buy on this and still take time when I choose to live an adventurer’s life. The beach area here really is fun. There is so much to do here, festivities going on, nice live band clubs by the beach to visit. This area has many book launches going on, and literary events. These are my favorite parts about it. I prefer the beachside dive bars, with the two-dollar draft and the 3-dollar hotdogs and hamburgers I can load down with slaw, pickles, hot sauce and onions. So, it is when one lives his life on the edge!

A few more titles

Please take a glance at these titles. There are great bulk rate discounts. Sales have been decent, since everybody loves an unusual read. Be sure to share them, and any others on this blog. Be sure to share the blog link and post it anywhere books are sold, and readers gather! Purchase copies and place them inside the Little Free Library in your areas, donate them to libraries, drop them in distribution bins that service libraries, request them at your local bookstores and county libraries, distribute them in your classrooms, carry them and display them at local festivity events! In short, feel free to leave them laying around or display them anywhere literature loving people gather!

The work below is an anthology of many stories published by CC&D Magazine. Be sure to notice the work by H.L. Dowless! Following this will be several more anthologies published by CC&D Magazine. Notice my name and story, then purchase your bulk rate discounted copies today! This story is a quasi-true deer hunting story, many years old. “A “Fine Day Inside My Hole in the Wall”

Here is another CC&D anthology with a vendetta-story I wrote about an interesting person and situation that may or may not be true. I’ll let the reader decide the fate of this one. Get your bulk rate discounted copies today! Be sure to share these links far and wide! “La Vendetta Di Le Sournois”

Here is an outstanding Christmas story written by H.L. Dowless. This anthology carries part one, it seems. “The Tale of Gringo El Loco.” Get your bulk rate discounted copies today!

This anthology contains the second part of “The Tale of Gringo El Loco, a Christmas Saga.” Get your bulk rate discounted copies today! Be sure to share and like, when possible. Periodically, I offer works at no charge to frequent repetitive customers. Specific information available upon request.

Here is another anthology published by CC&D Magazine with part one of “The Tale of Gringo El Loco,” by guess who? How or why part one is published inside two separate anthologies by the same company, I haven’t a clue! Get your bulk rate discounted copies today!

Stay in touch with the publishing and ever-growing bookstore branch of SR&H Enterprises. Check out our company logo! The photograph is very real. The publishing company’s name is Rowdy Living Press. We have plans to make the bookstore an actual brick and mortar business catering to adventurers and artists as no other anywhere does, but can’t do so without you, our customer and fan base! As always, a big THANKS for all that you’ve done for us thus far. We live to take the grim falls, the hard rolls, and the brutal punches life on the edge throws at us, so you won’t have to! While all of you-kind folks, have the luxury of easing back into your comfortable beach cottage chairs and reading about our spaghetti piles and grand spider webs, we have to unwind from around us. You deserve all of the pleasure without the pain, would you not agree? Come on now! Cheers, and happy reading.

Titles on sale now!

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Demand has been very high on the book below. It was selling for a mere ten dollars, but it’s still much lower than it has been. To prevent tyranny, we must always be aware of the possibility existing for it. It’s not a criticism of America, but a warning for remaining at attention, and soon. Get the bulk rate deals while you can!

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Another collection of children’s stories below! All of these stories are some passed down by elders, and others born from the imagination.

The book below has an interesting history. More than 20 years ago I was employed in the Carolinas as an EC teacher for three years. The department head at the school I was employed at was known as the Witch of Drowning Creek, respectively. Without a doubt, she had a foul, bitter personality, and hated her job. Nobody understood how or why she chose to or even managed to remain employed.

On that note, my first day she seized me by the left arm, marched me down the hall to an empty classroom, rudely shoved me toward the teacher’s desk; then informed me that no materials existed, to include books, yet I was expected to instruct the students in all subjects or endure termination for nonperformance of assigned duties. I had five days to come up with something, she told me, and no materials could be purchased, since the school had no funds to do so with.

So, I did all that I knew to do, and began writing. I took children’s stories I had written for my own children, and crafted exercises from them. I got a week ahead of myself during these five days without students. When the year ended, I had organized them into this book. Not only were these stories and exercises used in EC classes, I also used them during my days as an international ESL teacher. One four-month summer abroad the wife and I traveled throughout Ecuador and Peru, giving lectures and selling copies of this book. It sold like hotcakes, we made it into the local news, and we recouped all of our traveling expenses in so doing. This work still has decent sales to this very day. Get your own copies in bulk for the discount, while it’s still possible!

Since I Last Wrote

My dear reading family,

I do apologize for not writing more frequently. Must of late, has been happening in my living and writing world. For one thing, I quit my work at the property I was employed at. The company I was employed with sold out three times during the year and a half I was there. This busted my retirement and my benefits back to the start. I also never received any raise. My pay was 16.50 at the end, as it was when I hired in.

My dear wife wanted to relocate back to Ecuador, since she retired in January of this year. I was game. I had nothing to lose, since my job was playing out anyway. I put in my notice, and away we flew. I think I made detail specific notes in regard to this earlier on. We stayed there for three months. We hooped a plane to Florida, hopped another to San Francisco, then hopped a ship to Hawaii, and had a blast the entire time! I won’t shoot anybody any twisted lines; we had a grand time!

Once everything settled down, we visited children and my parents for three weeks or so, then we motored down to Florida. We’ve settled in for the time being around central Florida. Come February, we shall glance backward, and if we are not contented with our lives, then we’ll jet back down to Ecuador. I know I can land employment at the best of academies then. Check my latest books out! I used a new pseudonym.

Traveling Spain On A Pauper’s Dime With A Purpose

We both arose from the Burger King and began walking around checking out our surroundings. Malaga is nice and very antique. The city is 2800 years old, and one of the longest continually inhabited places on earth. The Phonetician, a tribe of Canaanites just as the Hebrew were, began the city. It was a place of import/export commerce, since the Phoneticians build an empire on trade and business negotiation.

The Malaga exalt their history, not discard it simply because it might not fit into some sort of present day political agenda being forced upon its citizens. That is what I mean when I say that a place has soul. I found Naples, Italy, to be in the same category, as is Charleston, SC, and S.T. Augustine, Florida, back in the US. Atlanta is an entirely different story, however, but enough on that. I think that readers get the picture by now.

The City From Its Bastille Wall

We found a hostel for 70 euros a night, where we book up for the next two days. Here we place our suitcases and bags, only to hit the town walking around. We both had slept on the all night bus ride and felt fit as a fiddle, being completely rested. We hopped a city bus and rode all over the town, getting off at a few places here and there along the beach. Throughout Spain the city buses only cost 1.5 euros. Along the way we also purchase a hop on and off bus ticket for thirty euros a ticket. This ticket includes a free pass to eight different museums, a boat ride around the harbor, and a Flaminco show. We hopped the bus and spent the remainder of the day partying and strolling around in the city. The Flaminco show was excellent. We made it back to the hostel at 2130 that evening, and were exhausted by then.

The Last Fandago

The wife is talking about going to Morrocco, but the travel agency was closed by the time we made it. The deal seemed really good, with a bus tour, three meals included, and a return trip. We will see how everything turns out today.

We completed out bus tour, then hit the beach, where we walked around in the sun and sand all day long. From the knees down and on my arms half way up between my elbows and shoulders, not to mention my face and neck, I really have a good tan. We ate lamb, rice, salad, and french fries for only 7 euros at one of the beach cafes. This dish included the drink of our choice, from water, to juice, to whatever. We are back in our room now at 2205. We showered and are resting a bit, where we might go back out later on.

The Bull Fighting Ring, A Must See!