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It is still an awfully long time away from the 2010 Kansas general election, and wild speculation about who will run for what without any shred of evidence is, well, wild and speculative, but, still, it's fun, so why not?We've been hearing mutters that radical conservative nutbar State Rep. Lance Kinzer might just find himself tapped by fellow radical conservative nutbar Sam Brownback to serve as

Three individuals who purchased anabolic steroids with a prescription for their own personal use were indicted on steroid possession charges. Cleveland Police Lieutenant Anthony Tuleta, former firefighter Craig Romey and former EMS paramedic Angel Otero purchased various anabolic steroids and human growth hormone with prescriptions obtained over the Internet from California-based physician Ramon S

Démagogique plus que nul autre dans son parti, monsieur Christian Paradis s’est fait connaître en chambre, pour lancer des attaques non-sensées, vide d’argumentaire envers ses rivaux. Aux questions pertinentes de ces derniers lors des deux dernières années, il répondait en les envoyant paître. Mais comme le soulignent les maires Tremblay de Montréal et Vaillancourt de Laval, [.

I just finished listening to a teleseminar (the first in a series) about book marketing sponsored by www.AuthorSmart.com. One of the guests on the teleseminar was Penny C. Sansevieri, author of the book RED HOT INTERNET PUBLICITY. Penny said that people don’t buy your book to buy your book (except maybe your mother). People buy your book for the benefits that reading your book will bring t

I want to share the interview of me that appeared on the book blog “Diary of An Eccentric.” Here’s the beginning of the interview: As you can tell by my review, Phyllis Zimbler Miller's Mrs. Lieutenant: A Sharon Gold Novel is among the best books I've read in a long time, and it ranks up there with my all-time favorite books. Normally, I read only one book at a time (not counting the bo

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Racial prejudice is a theme in MRS. LIEUTENANT, which takes place in 1970 only six years after the Civil Rights Act became law in the U.S. and only 20 years after the U.S. Army was integrated in the Korean War in 1950. Racial prejudice is also the theme of the 2006 movie AMAZING GRACE, which my husband and I just watched on Netflix. Although I knew that the song “Amazing Grace” was writte

Director Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man) has signed on to helm a remake of the 1992 Harvey Keitel cult classic Bad Lieutenant. Nicolas Cage will play the corrupt policeman made famous by Keitel in Abel Ferrara's original, while Val Kilmer will portray Cage's partner and rapper Xzibit will play a villain. Also in the cast are Eva Mendez, Fairuza Balk, Jennifer Coolidge and Brad Dourif. Can't anybody,

My last post featured the beginning of a guest post I wrote for the blog Books on the Brain, which is having a book giveaway for MRS. LIEUTENANT with the deadline of June 30. Here are four other book blogs having a giveaway of MRS. LIEUTENANT in connection with a book review or guest post: June 30th deadlines: An Army Wife’s Life at -officer-wifes-first-day.html She Is Too Fond o

I have a guest post on Books on the Brain in connection with a book giveaway. Here’s the beginning of this guest post about authors promoting their books: I’m reading Stephanie Chandler’s new book “The Author’s Guide to Building an Online Platform” with the subtitle “Leveraging the Internet to Sell More Books.” It’s one of several such books I’ve read as well as numerous

I haven’t left my computer while taking a virtual book tour for MRS. LIEUTENANT, yet I feel as buoyant and frazzled as if I were on a real book tour. Buoyant – because I’ve “met” such nice book reviewers and readers. Frazzled – because in addition to writing guest posts I’ve been responding to comments to these guest posts and to comments to reviews of MRS. LIEUTENANT. And I

Watching the book trailer for MRS. LIEUTENANT –- – brings back the memories of those turbulent times at the end of the ‘60s and the start of the ‘70s. Theresa Chaze did such a terrific job of capturing that time that I asked her to write a guest post describing how she chose the elements for the trailer. (FYI – She graduated from Michigan State University a little over a decade af

Eva Mendes has joined Nicolas Cage have been in another movie called Ghost Rider and I can tell you that was worth watching if you have nothing and I mean nothing like you are strap to a bed and the girl you brought back to your hotel room steal all your stuff and leave you there and you are waiting for the hotel staff to find you. Then it is not too bad to watch. Now the two have teamed up for a

As explained in the introduction to Part I, the following Amazon review was written by Diana Faillace Von Behren (“reneofc”), an Amazon Top 500 reviewer, and posted here with her permission. In this, her first Sharon Gold novel, Miller addresses the concerns of this era in American history. Written perhaps as a part memoir – Miller was herself a `Mrs. Lieutenant' – the story is cleverly

The following Amazon review was written by Diana Faillace Von Behren (“reneofc”), an Amazon Top 500 reviewer. I asked her permission to post this review on my blog because I love the way she talks about the Vietnam War era. My only changes were to break up long paragraphs into shorter ones. So, without further ado, here’s Diana: When I was a girl in middle school, my homework assignme

My virtual book tour stop for today is at -lieutenant.html. This is a truly delightful book review even though the reviewer is nervous about writing this particular review. Read the review to find out what made her nervous. And I just got an email from a book reviewer in Okinawa who has graciously agreed to write a guest post about the U.S. military presence there. I’ve very excited to br

Some time ago, it was announced that director Werner Herzog (Rescue Dawn) was going to remake the 1992 thriller BAD LIEUTENANT. The original movie starred Harvey Keitel, and we saw too much of him in that movie… for those of you who’ve seen it knows what I’m talking about. Nevertheless, I thought it was a [...]

The moral of today’s boomer chick guest post (www.overthehillchick.blogspot.com) is: If you’re waiting for someone to say yes to you for whatever it is, at this age look around and see if, instead, you can say yes to yourself! And I share the saga of the long journey to publication for MRS. LIEUTENANT: A SHARON GOLD NOVEL in order to encourage other boomer chicks. Here’s an excerpt fro

Today I start my month-long virtual book tour with a stop at Book Marketing Buzz: Book Marketing & Promotion Tips, where authors write guest blogs about the marketing strategies for their books. My post begins: “My main book marketing plan is to become the queen of internet marketers for the promotion of my book MRS. LIEUTENANT: A SHARON GOLD NOVEL. “When friends ask if I’m

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I'm very pleased to announce that the first book trailer for MRS. LIEUTENANT is now on YouTube at the following link: Nancy Brown of www.yourmilitary.com liked the trailer and put it up on www.yourmilitaryspace.com. Let me know what you think of it.

Tomorrow, May 26, my husband Mitch will fly the American flag from the front of our house. As a former ROTC officer in the U. S. Army during the Vietnam War, Mitch always flies the flag on Memorial Day, July 4th and Veterans Day. In anticipation of Memorial Day this year, I read the May 24th “Cross Country” article in The Wall Street Journal by Kevin Ferris titled “Protesting the Anti

MRS. LIEUTENANT: A SHARON GOLD NOVEL is about to embark on a virtual book tour around the blogosphere.What is a virtual book tour? Instead of book authors flying from city to city and staying in hotels (and shlepping their luggage), book authors sit in the comfort of their own homes and write guest blogs that are featured on different people’s book-related blogs.I’m doing my virtual book tour

Remember this movie starring Harvey Keitel? Well, Nicolas Cage wants to remake it. Variety says the Celebrity Outhouse cheerleader will star in an updated version of 1992's The Bad Lieutenant with Werner Herzog directing, Edward R. Pressman producing and Avi Lerner's Nu Image/Millenium Films financing. The original film, also produced by Pressman, starred Harvey Keitel and was directed by Abel Fer

Nicolas Cage will help Werner Herzog with his remake of the 1992 cult hit ‘Bad Lieutenant.’ Originally played by Harvey Keitel, he will play a corrupt cop who spends most of his time doing drugs and having sex. Doesn’t sound too bad right? Pressman Film Corp. will produce the new picture for financier Nu Image / [...]

An odd mix of talent is set to remake an unusual and graphic film from the early 1990s. Nicolas Cage and director Werner Herzog will tackle the Abel Ferrara movie, 'Bad Lieutenant,' which starred Harvey Keitel as a crooked, drug addled, sex addicted cop.

I had planned to write this post about my interview yesterday by Anita Rufus of the Anita Rufus Show, KNewsRadio, Palm Springs. (And I will get to that interview.) Yet, as I typed today’s date for my own records, I realized that my husband officially began active army duty 38 years ago today. After all this time I can’t remember how I felt the first time Mitch left our furnished apartment in Muldraugh, Kentucky, to be officially on active duty. Instead, here’s what Sharon Gold thinks of her husband Robert’s first day of Armor Officers Basic (AOB) on May 13, 1970, in my book MRS. LIEUTENANT: A SHARON GOLD NOVEL: He'll be putting on his uniform, checking one last time, she knows, that his boots are shined, his insignia pinned on correctly. She’ll write in her jou

When my Jewish holiday book SEASONS FOR CELEBRATION written with Rabbi Karen L. Fox first came out in 1992, Karen and I conducted a traditional book marketing campaign. We did book signings and sent postcards all over the U.S. Never in our wildest dreams would we have imagined that in 2008 the cutting edge of book marketing would be on the internet. Three months ago, after I accidentally learned this thanks to MRS. LIEUTENANT being a semi-finalist in the recent Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, I set out to become an “expert” on internet marketing. This quest has included reading several books – bought on Amazon – about, among other things, helping a book get noticed on Amazon. MRS. LIEUTENANT: A SHARON GOLD NOVEL has been out on Amazon for two weeks and, as yet, there ar

I read Tanya Biank’s column “Rank, Wives and Friendship: Can They Mix?” on Milspouse.com with appreciation for how things have changed in 38 years. (FYI – Biank is the author of the non-fiction book ARMY WIVES: THE UNWRITTEN CODE OF MILITARY MARRIAGE. The hugely popular Lifetime television series “Army Wives” is based on this book.) Biank reported, in their own words, the wives of officers and the wives of enlisted men describing forming close friendships among themselves. In 1970, when I was a Mrs. Lieutenant, we wives of officers wouldn’t have considered being friends with the wives of enlisted men. In those days we understood that it was a class (or maybe caste) system, and we were at the bottom rung of the elite. I clearly remember that, for our gra

Yesterday I was actually nostalgic for a time when I was a “Mrs. Lieutenant.” That time was the first week of May in 1972 right before my husband got out of the army. Before leaving our three-bedroom quarters in the U.S. Army’s Perlacher Forst housing section of Munich, Germany, we had to pass inspection for our quarters. This meant that everything – and I mean everything – had to be spotless. Not just spotless on the outside, but spotless on the inside too. We did what most officers did – hired a special cleaning team to ensure that we would pass inspection. The team descended like a host of locusts – and our quarters easily passed inspection. Worth every penny, and I’ve never again seen anyone clean that thoroughly. I thought of the cleaning team yesterday

Whenever I write about preparing for college applications, I stress that the most important activity during the high school years is to follow your passion. And by passion I mean doing something or learning to do something or learning about something that you truly love. I coach high school students to follow their passion without worrying about the passion’s career potential. And I coach parents of high school students about facilitating the passion of their children. Today the result of following my passion for many years is on Amazon. Almost 20 years ago two women producers optioned my story about my first weeks as a new army officer’s wife in the spring of 1970. When they couldn’t “sell” the idea, they told me I had to write a book. By the time the first draft of the

Whenever I write about preparing for college applications, I stress that the most important activity during the high school years is to follow your passion. And by passion I mean doing something or learning to do something or learning about something that you truly love. I coach high school students to follow their passion without worrying about the passion’s career potential. And I coach parents of high school students about facilitating the passion of their children. For example, if a high school student wants to option a book for a possible movie, her parent does NOT say: “But, dear, you’re way too young to do this.” Instead her parent helps find out how to do this and to follow through. The knowledge learned from doing this project can be quite valuable regardless o

Imagine my surprise when I walked into a friend’s home for a dinner party on April 13th to be greeted by a large crowd of guests for my 60th birthday and launch of MRS. LIEUTENANT. And there on a table waiting to be signed were several stacks of my novel – and this when April, my publisher’s rep, had told me a few days before that there were no books printed yet! My older daughter Rachel – the producer – had produced this surprise birthday party and launch. And she and April had worked together to deceive me about the books. And the surprise got better. My 83-year-old mother, who doesn’t like to fly, had flown in from Chicago with my sister. My youngest brother, who lives in LA, was there with his wife, two daughters and mother-in-law. My dear friend had driven in

The April 14th New Yorker in “The Talk of the Town” section under the heading “The Canon: Still Flying” had a short piece by Rebecca Mead about a recent conference sponsored by Columbia University to celebrate Erica Jong’s 1973 novel FEAR OF FLYING “as a feminist classic.” Apparently many women in the audience agreed with this designation, and some did not. I fall squarely in the group of those who do believe it is a feminist classic. In fact, as I write this, a 1973 copy of the book sits only a few feet away from me in a plastic box with other mementoes of my 20 months of living in Munich, Germany, as the wife of an army officer. Why is a book published in 1973 part of my mementoes for the time period from September 1970 to May 1972? It’s because of Jong

I’ve just seen the terrific production of “Othello” by the Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company. The playbill notes of producing artistic director Lisa Wolpe state: “(T)he story is not just about racism, but also classism, sexism – and even heroism.” She believes Iago’s motivation for what he does to Othello comes from being a working-class career soldier whose deserved promotion goes to someone else who has “advantages of breeding, position, and class, regardless of his inexperience in the field.” In my opinion, Shakespeare wrote this play about one primary human emotion – jealousy. Shakespeare dramatically portrays how jealousy provokes even leaders of men to easily believe the worse without seeking any contrary opinions. In my forthcoming no

Ever since my husband finished two years of active army duty in the spring of 1972, I've wanted to tell the story of our two years in the army during the Vietnam War. I say "our time" because the army considers an officer's wife also in the military.Over the years I've told pieces of the story to people, and many of them have said "that's a movie" or "that's a book." And over those same years I've been working on crafting a fiction story that would reveal what life was like in that distant past of a universal draft for all American men.Ultimately I've divided the story up -- with the first part being a fictional telling of my first nine weeks as a new army officer's wife in the spring of 1970 at Ft. Knox, Kentucky. And this "Mrs. Lieutenant: A Sharon Gold Novel" will be available on Ama

~Snooper~You won't want to miss this show, folks. A snippet from William Russell's Campaign site:My name is William T Russell. I am running for Congress against John Murtha as a Republican in the 12th Congressional District of Pennsylvania in the November 2008 election.I would like to introduce myself to you. I am a family man, a husband, and a father. I am also a small business owner and entrepreneur, as well as an American Soldier. [...][...] I grew up in the shadow of the US defeat in Vietnam. On an intellectual level, I have long understood that a war may be lost politically, in spite of military victories. But seeing those Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, and Airmen who have given so much to this nation, both enraged and saddened me. It also forced me to recognize that the United States is now engaged in a great political battle to determine whether this nation, founded in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, can maintain the political resolve in

Caricature of Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo. Columbo is an American crime fiction TV series starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show popularized the inverted detective story format; each episode began by showing the commission of the crime and the perpetrator. The character first appeared in an 1960 episode of the anthology series The Chevy Mystery Show (later to be adapted into a stage play). A pilot movie was broadcast in 1968; the series aired regularly from 1971 to 1978, and later, sporadically from 1989 to 2003, when the last episode was broadcast.The character of Columbo was created by Richard Levinson and William Link, who claimed that Columbo was partially inspired by the Crime and Punishment character, Porfiry Petrovich, as well as G. K. Chesterton's humble clerical detective Father Brown. Other sources claim Columbo's character is based on Inspector Fichet from the classic French suspense-thriller L

Via the Weatherford Democrat, Carolyn Boyle’s Parent PAC is hard at work tying to convince former Weatherford ISD Superintendent and Weatherford Mayor Joe Tison to run against Craddick lieutenant Rep. Phil King (R-Weatherford): Though Tison wasn’t ready to name the organization that called him, Carolyn Boyle, director of the statewide political action committee, Texas Parent PAC, confirmed she has been talking to the mayor of Weatherford. Boyle said she learned about Tison when several parents living in Weatherford contacted her organization. After getting to know him, she said Tison is the kind of leader Texas deserves. “He has terrific experience and abilities,” she said. “A person who has served as mayor as well as school superintendent has dealt with many public policy issues. He’s also a true leader; he brings people together.” All of the pro-public school incumbent candidates receiving Texas Parent PAC contributions and/or an endorsement won their general el

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Nov. 2, 2007) - First Lt. Walter B. Jackson became the seventh Soldier since the Vietnam War ended in 1975 to receive the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism in action. A google news search shows that not one media outlet other than the Army Times has published the story. Happy Veteran's Day Everyone

My son was clearing out some of his GCSE history books and I started browsing through one of them.Although I was growing up during the time of the Vietnam War and remember the TV pictures, I'm fairly vague when it comesto the detail. However among the iconic names fixed in my mind is the Mylai (or My Lai) massacre. As with most war crimes by the US, it was followed with clockwork regularity by the My Lai coverup by the US army.It seems (and I'm only going from secondary sources I read yesterday) that although William Calley certainly had his hands deep in the blood of the events, he had the honour of being the US Army scapegoat. Of all the people in the chain of command, he was on the only one who was found guilty and sentence. Subsequent events suggest there was a deal struck long before the trial came to a conclusion. How does a man who is found guilty of 22 murders (and if there were any justice he would have been tried for war crimes, rather than just murder) and is sentenc

For Immediate Release: August 10,2007 Lieutenant Paul D. Kvasnicka Jr. Promoted To Captain by State PoliceAPPOMATTOX: Effective August 10th 2007, Lieutenant Paul D. Kvasnicka Jr. of Division Three in Appomattox County is promoted to the rank of Captain and will remain at this location as the Division Three Commander.Kvasnicka, 53, recently served as the Headquarters Lieutenant of Division Three in Appomattox. A native of Prince George County, Kvasnicka joined theState Police in 1973 as a Dispatcher and was assigned to State Police Headquarters in Richmond. On November 1, 1975, he was transferred to the position of Trooper, graduated from the State Police Academy on July 2, 1976 and was assigned to Chesterfield County. Captain Kvasnicka has served the State Police for 33 years and was assigned as a supervisor to several locations around the State including the State Police Academy, Lexington, and Appomattox. In addition to his n

Pendant qu’on discute ouvertement d’une modification du rôle et du mode de nomination du lieutenant-gouverneur, Le Soleil nous apprend ce matin que M. Pierre Duchesne succèdera incessamment à Mme Lise Thibault au poste de lieutenant-gouverneur du Québec. Toujours selon Le Soleil, le gouvernement Harper devrait faire l’annonce officielle aujourd’hui. M. Duchesne a été secrétaire général de l’Assemblée nationale (autrement dit, le plus haut fonctionnaire ou le “sous-ministre” du Parlement québécois) de 1984 à 2001. À titre de secrétaire général de l’Assemblée nationale, il a notamment piloté la publication des ouvrages La procédure parlementaire du Québec (format pdf) et du Recueil de décisions concernant la procédure parlementaire (pour l’Assemblée et les commissions; format pdf), publications que nous consultons et citons abondamment ces temps-ci. Bref, c’est une personne drôlement ferrée en matière

CHARGES ANNOUNCED Release Date: 4/26/2007 Release Number: 07-01-03P Description: Baghdad, Iraq- Lt. Col. William H. Steele has been charged with offenses under the provisions of the Uniformed Code of Military Justice. These charges are merely an accusation of wrongdoing. Lt. Col. Steele is presumed innocent unless and until he his proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of any alleged offense. CHARGE I: Violation of the UCMJ, Article 104 Specification: In that Lieutenant Colonel William H. Steele, did, between on or about 1 October 2005 and 31 October 2006, aid the enemy by providing an unmonitored cellular phone to detainees. CHARGE II: Violation of the UCMJ, Article 134 Specification: In that Lieutenant Colonel William H. Steele, did between on or about 31 October 2006 and 22 February 2007, having unauthorized possession of classified information, violate Title 18, United States Code, Section 793(e), by knowingly and willfully retaining the same and failing to deliver i

UPDATE: Freedom Journal Iraq - FULL STREAMING VIDEO, A daily news program produced by American Forces Network Iraq. The program focuses on military missions, operations and U.S. military forces in Iraq. Lieutenant General David H. Petraeus, Commanding General, U.S. Army, Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth.Commandant, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Deputy Commanding General for Combined Arms, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command. Director, Joint Center for International Security Force Assistance.Lieutenant General David H. Petraeus assumed command of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth on October 20th, 2005 following deployment in Iraq as the first commander of the Multi-National Security Transition Command - Iraq, which he led from June 2004 to September 2005, and the NATO Training Mission - Iraq, which he commanded from October 2004 to September 2005. Prior to that deployment, he commanded the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), leadi

There is nothing fishy about this, not at all.Airport tape of Vick ditching bottle erased (AJC)Miami-Dade police have erased the airport security video showing Falcons quarterback Michael Vick disposing of a water bottle at the airport after it was requested by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution under Florida's public records law. The video, made on Jan. 17, was part of the investigation into the water bottle with a hidden compartment that an initial police report said contained "a small amount of a dark particulant and a pungent aroma closely associated with marijuana."The Atlanta Journal-Constitution requested a copy of the video on Jan. 18 from the Miami-Dade Police Department, under the state's public records law. Police spokesman Robert Williams confirmed that the department was the custodian of the video. When told that the AJC wanted a copy of the electronic video, Williams said police had already decided they would not release it because it was part of an open investigation. Th