The Little Red Hen, She Ain’t What She Used to Be

(Can you hear that song running through your head?)

I mentioned the story of The Little Red Hen recently to someone and was surprised that they didn’t seem to have heard of it (this is what happens when you decide to diversify your culture – the underpinning values of your society unravel because the common touch-points that help preserve those values are disappeared from the next generation’s education.)
For those of you who also don’t know it, here’s my fast summary: The Little Red Hen (LRH) finds a grain of wheat, and asks for help from various farmyard neighbors at each stage (planting, harvesting, threshing, milling, baking) as she tries to create a loaf of bread, and at each stage NO ONE is willing to pitch in and help. Finally, the LRH shows off the fruits of her labor (a loaf of bread) and asks who will help eat the bread, and all who refused to help before now volunteer to eat with her. But they’re disappointed when LRH declares that since NO ONE helped her, NO ONE will get to eat other than the LRH’s chicks.
If you notice, this story has a moral – if you aren’t willing to work or contribute to an endeavor, you don’t deserve a reward from that endeavor. Additionally – those who are willing to work deserve to enjoy the fruit of their labor. This is a VERY capitalist moral – perhaps that’s part of the reason it’s disappearing from our cultural literacy.
We live in a society that seems to be increasingly filled with people who think that work is a bad thing, and that NO ONE should be FORCED to labor for anything. These people think they are ENTITLED to any number of things that are PROGRESSIVEly labeled as a right (food, healthcare, cell phones, transportation, a “living wage”,…)
Here’s an excellent blog posting by Amanda Green – http://accordingtohoyt.com/2014/02/24/you-are-not-entitled-a-guest-post-by-amanda-green/  (thank you, Sarah Hoyt for this post appearing on your site.)
Amanda’s post is in relation to the publishing industry and discusses the feeling of entitlement expressed by newbie amateurs trying to break into the stratosphere, but it APPLIES TO EVERYTHING else in the land of those who work and the people who want what they have without having to.
I wouldn’t be surprised if The Little Red Hen were to resurface, only in a politically correct form:
The LRH decides because she has nothing better to do that she will go about creating a loaf of bread. She asks the other animals to help, but they are all busy freeing themselves from the jail of labor (so they can be artists?), and refuse.  The fateful day comes when the bread comes out of the oven, and the EVIL LRH refuses to share what all the animals have a God given right to. This is unthinkable. Did the LRH make the sunlight? The water? The planet earth that the wheat grows on? No of course not – the LRH DIDN’T BUILD THAT, and yet she thinks she has authority to decide who she will share with. The grumbling animals appeal to the Farmer, who chastises the LRH, confiscates the bread, takes away her chicks so they can be taught to be less selfish, and to make sure that no one goes hungry, buries the hatchet by having the LRH over for dinner. (The self-satisfied complainers probably don’t notice that the LRH has disappeared, and won’t care until they receive their turn at the Farmer’s table.)
All creatures have needs, and drives to support those needs, but they can be retrained and redirected. It used to be that hard work was rewarded – now it seems that we are attempting to devalue that hard work by taking from those who produce and giving to those who refuse to participate. Eventually, the producers will realize how foolish they are being, and that it’s easier to just climb aboard the gravy train with everyone else.
But if the producers do this – if there is no advantage to producing – who will produce? With the incentive to work removed, the system either collapses, or changes into one where everyone is a slave, forced to work for the distant, mysterious “all.”
Think people – where is the magic box out of which all the food, ipads, healthcare flow? There is no money tree. What is taken away from others now for your benefit can (and will) be taken away from you and your children.
Don’t take what isn’t yours. If you want to get ahead, stop complaining about what other people have -get on out there and WORK for it.
Just saying…

<<<>>> 

"In a Flash", my first Jimmy Delaney story, will be FREE on Smashwords for ONE MORE WEEK – here’s the smashwords link:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/120247?ref=notimetothink

Check it out! Give it a read, and then rate and review it, and tell your friends. If you like it, continue with "Mixed Signals" and "The Right Idea."  Thanx!

<<<>>> 

William Mangieri’s writing can be found in many places, including:

·         His Amazon Author page: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B008O8CBDY

·         Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/william-mangieri?store=book&keyword=william+mangieri

·         Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/NoTimeToThink

Connect with him on Facebook at:   http://www.facebook.com/NoTimeToThink

What is Survival?

What does it mean to survive? Is it to be free? Rich? Breathing? Just short of starving? Not dead yet?
How do you see things? Is the glass:

a.    half full?

b.    half empty?

c.    too big? (thank you, George Carlin)

Survival metrics aren’t just about optimism vs. pessimism – it’s a matter of perspective. We all have our own unique frame of reference. What for one person is intolerable might be like paradise for another. A matter of degrees - speaking of degrees, I’m almost like the frog in boiling water – I stay in the cauldron far longer than I should. BUT I do manage to get out, although it seems to be by the hand of some invisible benefactor (who may have put me in there in the first place – no, that was my responsibility. Even though it is fashionable nowadays and play the victim, blaming ANYONE ELSE for your own problems, I will own mine. There but for the grace of God…)
Some people don’t tolerate things for as long as I do. Where are you? Finish this statement: That which doesn’t kill me

a.    will next time.

b.    isn’t worth worrying about.

c.    was sloppy and won’t survive the night.

d.    makes me stronger.

Some dictators and bullies rely on an ability to over-power your resistance. Some are craftier, and learn how to keep you on the edge. This is hard to do with huge masses of a pluralistic society, dealing with the differing values of the individuals. It’s easier if they wipe out those values, redefine the survival metric - lower the bar.
We all have a survival instinct. What’s your limit – the thing that registers a perceived threat and makes your instinct kick in for either fight or flight.
What’s your comfort level? What is an acceptable Quality of Life? Have you allowed someone else to lower your expectations? Have you been putting up with things that you could change? Then it’s time to raise the bar on your survival.
Just saying… 

<<<>>> 

"In a Flash", my first Jimmy Delaney story, will be FREE on Smashwords for another two weeks – here’s the smashwords link:   https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/120247?ref=notimetothink 

Check it out! Give it a read, and then rate and review it, and tell your friends. If you like it, continue with "Mixed Signals" and "The Right Idea."  Thanx!

<<<>>> 

William Mangieri’s writing can be found in many places, including:

·         His Amazon Author page: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B008O8CBDY

·         Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/william-mangieri?store=book&keyword=william+mangieri

·         Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/NoTimeToThink

Connect with him on Facebook at:   http://www.facebook.com/NoTimeToThink

Give Up! Surrender

That’s the message we get from liberals. Excuse me – PROGRESSIVES.

·         It’s too complicated to improve your own lot in life; SURRENDER and we’ll give you FOOD STAMPS.

·         All those choices can be confusing; SURRENDER and let US make your decisions for you.

·         Freedom and Liberty are wonderful concepts, but they are really hard to live by; SURRENDER yours and we’ll take care of you.

·         It isn’t fair that anyone should have to WORK for a living; SURRENDER your ambition and you can have welfare.

·         Getting old is a burden; SURRENDER your right to decide your own HEALTHCARE and we’ll give you a pill. For FREE!

·         Don’t fight us or disagree with us; SURRENDER to us or we’ll sick the IRS on you.

·         Why should you have to do without? SURRENDER your children’s future to our MASSIVE DEBT and we’ll let you have some of their money.

·         It’s impossible to stop terrorist regimes from getting Weapons of Mass Destruction (besides, what right do we have?); it’s easier to JUST SURRENDER.

Conservatives should have a different message – it’s about PERSERVERANCE. It’s been the AMERICAN WAY since its founding, and what’s made this country the greatest the world has ever seen.

·         You CAN improve your lot in life; work hard and we’ll get out of your way.

·         You have a right to make your own decisions; if you make a mistake, get back up and try again.

·         Freedom and Liberty are what give you opportunity; we don’t want to take yours from you.

·         WORK is what you do with your own time and energy, and you deserve the fruits of that effort.

·         You have a right to make your own healthcare decisions without a bureaucrat telling you what you can or CAN’T do.

·         You have a right to your opinion; we will use the government to uphold that right EVEN IF YOU DISAGREE WITH US.

·         It is immoral to cripple our children’s future to prevent our own financial discomfort; we WILL NOT SPEND THIS COUNTRY INTO OBLIVION.

·         One of the few legitimate duties of the government is to protect its citizens from those who would do it harm – we have EVERY RIGHT to protect ourselves; WE WILL NOT SURRENDER.

Conservatives need to pound this message home. Government isn’t the solution – it skims off the top and produces nothing while demonizing and shackling the true producers.
It’s time to stand up. You think life isn’t fair? You’re right, Virginia, but no man can make it otherwise. Get over it – dig in and do your part – you’ll be better for it. We all will.

<<<>>> 

In a Flash, my first Jimmy Delaney story, will be FREE on Smashwords for another three weeks – here’s the smashwords link:   https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/120247?ref=notimetothink 

Check it out! Give it a read, and then rate and review it, and tell your friends. Thanx!

<<<>>> 

William Mangieri’s writing can be found in many places, including:

·         His Amazon Author page: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B008O8CBDY

·         Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/william-mangieri?store=book&keyword=william+mangieri

·         Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/NoTimeToThink

Connect with him on Facebook at:   http://www.facebook.com/NoTimeToThink

The B.I.T. Experiment Ends – In a Flash

Last night I ended my 2-week experiment of making B.I.T. a free book – it is now back up to $.99 on smashwords. I will republish it on Amazon and B&N once the FREE has gone away at the retailers that smashwords distributes to (otherwise, I’d be in violation of Amazon and B&N’s policies.)
So, after putting B.I.T. out for free for 2 weeks, what do I see?
There were 12 downloads of the free story on Smashwords (the story has been sitting there for 2 YEARS without a single sale, so that one stat improved. However, I had anticipated that a number of things would happen as a result of the inevitable downloads (because free, is, after all, FREE):

1.     Increased traffic to my other stories (not that I can tell)

2.    Increased sales of my other stories (I didn’t sell anything during the 2 weeks of free B.I.T.)

3.    The people who downloaded the story would rate it (12 downloads, NOT A SINGLE RATING)

4.    The people who downloaded B.I.T. would review it (Nope – same results as in #3 above)

Did I gain anything? Not that I can see? Of course, I didn’t lose anything either (if a story sold 0 in 2 years, the average sales for 2 weeks is …0, off of which I made… $0.)
There is something more that needs to be done here. I need to get the word out – increase my visibility on the internet. BUT HOW?
I will continue to research this…
It is also possible that:

1.     People who get things for free are looking for them to be TOTALLY FREE. Why should they have to put in the HARD work of clicking a STAR rating? Or typing actual WORDS in a review? Free stories are an ENTITLEMENT, aren’t they? Shows you how inspirational free stuff can be, doesn’t it?

2.    The story just wasn’t good enough (or bad enough) to bother commenting on.

3.    The story wasn’t interesting enough to cause people to download it for FREE like maniacs.

4.    I dunno what went wrong.

So, now what do I do? I’m inclined to try the experiment again, to make sure the results on B.I.T. weren’t an aberration. (That’s right, Bill – double down, you fool.)
I’ve made In a Flash FREE on smashwords and its retailers (see link in the section below.) This is the first story in my Detective Jimmy Delaney series, and in addition to the other benefits I had hoped to see in a FREE promotion, people who read it (and like it) may be more inclined to read (and maybe even PAY for) the other stories in the series.
Let’s see what happens with this one…

 <<<>>> 

In a Flash, my first Jimmy Delaney story, will be FREE on Smashwords for the next four weeks – here’s the smashwords link:   https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/120247?ref=notimetothink 

Check it out! Give it a read, and then rate and review it, and tell your friends. Thanx!

<<<>>> 

William Mangieri’s writing can be found in many places, including:

·          His Amazon Author page: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B008O8CBDY

·          Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/william-mangieri?store=book&keyword=william+mangieri

·          Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/NoTimeToThink

Connect with him on Facebook at:   http://www.facebook.com/NoTimeToThink

That Thing That Happens While We’re Making Plans

I’m not the greatest when it comes to organization of any sort.
I’ve spent the last 10 years trying to convert(via Franklin-Covey), and my wife says she’s seen a marked improvement in that now I write things down that need to be done so I don’t forget about them. But my list was still more reactive than proactive – more tasks than goals. I knew certain things needed to be done on a schedule, so I’d schedule them. When new tasks came along that required attention, I added them to my list.
Every once in a while I would look at that list and see how many times tasks were sliding into tomorrow and despair. Well, no, I really didn’t care enough about it to despair. I just shook my head in frustration and wrote them on tomorrow’s list, until I decided I needed to do something about the colossal waste of time of manually rewrite those tasks into the future in my planner. I solved that by switching to software so all the things I failed to get done automatically moved to the next day.
I could solve the task problem if I just had someone else to do it all. Still, we’re talking tasks – not goals.
I’m a late-comer to goal-setting. I realized after 5-1/2 years of saying I wanted to be a writer (meaning actually writing stories, having people read them, AND get paid for it) that the only way it was going to happen was for me to stop saying it and just do it (thanx, Nike.) I set myself some goals (words per week, number of stories per year, how fast I had to get a rejected story to another traditional market, an ePublishing schedule), and “suddenly, overnight” I was producing stories in the double-digits (instead of 1 story in 2 years.)
The frustrating thing is, there’s this thing called life, and it keeps happening no matter how many times I try to avoid it. I look in my resolutions, goals, and schedule, and even though I never wrote down “Get rear-ended at a red light,” it still happened.
Planning is good for laying out the things you want to do, but who puts on the calendar: “Here is the week that my child will be sick?” Or sets aside time for a string of accidents that seem to come along so regularly that it make me wonder if they really are accidents, or if FATE just has it out for us.
I suppose you could block time in anticipation of this – leave yourself a contingency gap to cover when these things happen. But do people in Tornado Alley block off a couple of months in the spring and say “I won’t be doing anything here because there will be weather?” No – I don’t (although sometimes it makes me want to fold up and quit because I already (in JANUARY) see this year’s goals slipping under a barrage of illness, accidents, and other pleasantries.
You can’t get things done if you have to wait for all the lights to be green before you do anything. You have to do what you can, when you can. If you’re a blogger, maybe you wind up writing a post about the futility of trying to keep a schedule under a barrage of life. If you write longer works, maybe there’s a story in there.
Don’t let Life’s interruptions get to you. When you get back to your plans, you may find that what you just went through adds to your accomplishments rather than reduces them. And for a writer, all this living, ESPECIALLY the kind you didn’t choose to do because it was too difficult or because you didn’t have time for it in your schedule – all this living somehow adds gravitas to your writing that might have been missing without it.

What doesn’t kill me…
I’m not the greatest when it comes to organization of any sort.
I’ve spent the last 10 years trying to convert(via Franklin-Covey), and my wife says she’s seen a marked improvement in that now I write things down that need to be done so I don’t forget about them. But my list was still more reactive than proactive – more tasks than goals. I knew certain things needed to be done on a schedule, so I’d schedule them. When new tasks came along that required attention, I added them to my list.
Every once in a while I would look at that list and see how many times tasks were sliding into tomorrow and despair. Well, no, I really didn’t care enough about it to despair. I just shook my head in frustration and wrote them on tomorrow’s list, until I decided I needed to do something about the colossal waste of time of manually rewrite those tasks into the future in my planner. I solved that by switching to software so all the things I failed to get done automatically moved to the next day.
I could solve the task problem if I just had someone else to do it all. Still, we’re talking tasks – not goals.
I’m a late-comer to goal-setting. I realized after 5-1/2 years of saying I wanted to be a writer (meaning actually writing stories, having people read them, AND get paid for it) that the only way it was going to happen was for me to stop saying it and just do it (thanx, Nike.) I set myself some goals (words per week, number of stories per year, how fast I had to get a rejected story to another traditional market, an ePublishing schedule), and “suddenly, overnight” I was producing stories in the double-digits (instead of 1 story in 2 years.)
The frustrating thing is, there’s this thing called life, and it keeps happening no matter how many times I try to avoid it. I look in my resolutions, goals, and schedule, and even though I never wrote down “Get rear-ended at a red light,” it still happened.
Planning is good for laying out the things you want to do, but who puts on the calendar: “Here is the week that my child will be sick?” Or sets aside time for a string of accidents that seem to come along so regularly that it make me wonder if they really are accidents, or if FATE just has it out for us.
I suppose you could block time in anticipation of this – leave yourself a contingency gap to cover when these things happen. But do people in Tornado Alley block off a couple of months in the spring and say “I won’t be doing anything here because there will be weather?” No – I don’t (although sometimes it makes me want to fold up and quit because I already (in JANUARY) see this year’s goals slipping under a barrage of illness, accidents, and other pleasantries.
You can’t get things done if you have to wait for all the lights to be green before you do anything. You have to do what you can, when you can. If you’re a blogger, maybe you wind up writing a post about the futility of trying to keep a schedule under a barrage of life. If you write longer works, maybe there’s a story in there.
Don’t let Life’s interruptions get to you. When you get back to your plans, you may find that what you just went through adds to your accomplishments rather than reduces them. And for a writer, all this living, ESPECIALLY the kind you didn’t choose to do because it was too difficult or because you didn’t have time for it in your schedule – all this living somehow adds gravitas to your writing that might have been missing without it.
What doesn’t kill me…

 <<<>>> 

My story experiment with making my story B.I.T. free on Smashwords will last one more week at:  https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/134102?ref=notimetothink 

Check it out! Give it a read, and then rate and review it, and tell your friends. Thanx!

<<<>>> 

William Mangieri’s writing can be found in many places, including:

·          His Amazon Author page: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B008O8CBDY

·          Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/william-mangieri?store=book&keyword=william+mangieri

·          Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/NoTimeToThink

Connect with him on Facebook at:   http://www.facebook.com/NoTimeToThink

Free Dumb? Let’s Try It for (a) B.I.T.

<<free eBook notice at the end of this posting>>

So. I’ve been at this ePublishing thing now for two years. I’m proud of the fact that I’ve been meeting my writing and publishing goals (the things I can control.) On the other hand, I am PAINFULLY AWARE of my deficiencies when it comes to self-promoting and marketing. My sales so far amount to less than 2 per month, so one of my new goals is to research what I need to do to PUMP UP THE VOLUME.
I’m done reading, and the one thing that comes closest to guaranteeing me a boost in my sales is: GIVING MY WRITING AWAY FOR FREE.
This seemed totally counterintuitive to me at first, but the more I looked at it, the more I thought about it (I spend entirely too much time thinking), the more sense it made. Here’s the idea:

1.      If you give away your book, more people will read it.

2.     The more people who download it, the higher you go in the volume rankings, which makes your book show up in higher in the searches.

3.     The more people who read your book, the more reviews you’ll get, and getting more reviews will also increase your search ranking.

4.     The more people who read your book, the more likely it will be recommended to others.

5.     People who read your free book (and enjoy it) will now be more likely to pay to read another.

And of course, you can always go back to charging for your book once it’s built up some reviews and recommendations.
Be aware of how alien this is to me. How many of us with a NORMAL job would say: “Hey! I think I’ll go into work today and not charge my employer for my time”? I know I wouldn’t – I’m not into slave labor, and it might even be illegal for my employer to let me do it. Well, my stories take me a lot of TIME (the only truly nonrenewable resource), and as much as I enjoy the creative process, I don’t do it so I can give it away.
Still, I thought it through enough that I’m willing to try it. I’d pick a story, make it FREE at all my retailers, announce it to the world, and study the results to see if it really is as good as they say.
But I can’t do that, because I am being thwarted by vendors who don’t want to give me the FREEdom to set my books FREE.
I publish through 3 venues:

·          Barnes & Noble, which won’t let me price below 99 cents, and I can’t let the list price be greater on B&N than at any other retailer,

·          Amazon (which will only let me make my book FREE for a limited amount of time, and then ONLY if I sign up with Kindle Select, which means I can ONLY sell my book through Amazon.) They also dictate that the price on Amazon not be greater than at my other retailers.

·          Smashwords, which not only allows me to make my book FREE, but encourages it.

So it won’t be the pure give-away that I had hoped. If I want to make a book FREE, it can only be published on Smashwords. If it’s a new book, I’ll have to publish on Smashwords only, then when I’m ready to end the FREE promotion, I can add it to Amazon & Barnes & Noble. A FREE promotion for an eBook I’ve already published will require that I withdraw the book from sale at those two retailers while the promo runs. Hopefully, this will increase my volume and visibility on Smashwords, and eventually bleed over into increased sales on the other two sites via increased word of mouth. Let’s see if it works…

<<<>>> 

For the next two weeks, I will be experimenting with the concept of FREE: My story B.I.T. will be withdrawn from Amazon and B&N so it can be FREE at Smashwords at: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/134102?ref=notimetothink 

Check it out! Give it a read, and then rate and review it, and tell your friends. Thanx!

<<<>>> 

William Mangieri’s writing can be found in many places, including:

·          His Amazon Author page: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B008O8CBDY

·          Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/william-mangieri?store=book&keyword=william+mangieri

·          Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/NoTimeToThink

Connect with him on Facebook at:   http://www.facebook.com/NoTimeToThink

Who Am I, and How Did I Get Here?

When I was five, I wanted to be a fire fighter (or a soldier; I know I wanted to fight something…) Then as I progressed through school, I decided I wanted to be an oceanographer (this is WAY BACK when Jacques Cousteau was cool.) All of these professions had one thing in common – they had nothing to do with my experience, they were just something I thought I’d like to do, with no connection to my reality.

I read all about snakes and insects when I was under 12, I caught snakes and watched ant colonies battle with each other whenever I could, but neither one called to me as a profession. I loved math when I was in grade school and junior high (not so much now) - enough that it carried me through getting my Computer Science degree when I went back to school the second time. Although I did have a passion about these things, they were all more interesting than occupational.

I started playing brass instruments in 4^th grade – trumpet, French horn, E-flat horn, alto horn, trombone. Played around with piano and guitar a little. Over the last thirty years, almost all of my musical endeavors went away from instrumentals and into singing (karaoke and grocery stores – listen for me.) For the first time in decades, I knocked the rust off my trumpet and my lip last week, and was surprised how much I remember. This year, I hope to teach myself the harmonica (thank you, Taylor Hicks.)

I actually thought I might become a professional musician until the acting bug caught hold in 9^th grade. That dream carried me through a couple of years with the Tewksbury Teen Theatre Workshop, high school and my first three years at Richland College for thirty shows or so. I think I was pretty good, but didn’t have enough determination to continue auditioning beyond college (you may be able to play a 60-year old when everyone in school is your age, but when you’re out in the real world, you’re competing against REAL 60-year olds. Come to think of it, I’m almost one of them now; I wonder…)   

Throughout my life I’ve been a dilettante – a jack-of-all-trades (and master of none. I’ve made a shirt and pants, costumes, designed a set, directed a couple of times, decorated a goose egg, done some non-competitive distance running, war gamed, played indoor soccer (I wish THAT had been non-competitive), cooked, wrote music, sketched, juggled, and done countless things well enough to say I have without doing them well enough to get paid, Learned some French and a smattering of Russian, but don’t remember either anymore.

I’ve been in I.T. for a quarter of a century now. I didn’t start out trying to get there, and I did go back to school for some of it, but strangely, I can find ways that almost everything I’ve listed above has come into play in my current occupation, either by directly contributing to my skills, or giving me a different way of looking at things that let me see patterns others didn’t, and added to my personal value on the job and what I can contribute to a team.

None of us knew when we were born what we would become. We don’t decide at age five what we’ll be doing at age thirty (I think most of us don’t know the answer much better when we graduate from college.) And yet, somehow, we get there – and everything we have been informs what we are.

I’ve been writing (seriously) for at least a couple of years now. Lots of odd things come out on my pages, and all of these things had to have come from SOMEWHERE. Alien abductions, ghosts, mutations, murders, extra-dimensional hitchhikers… everything in them came into my mind somehow. You be the judge…

William Mangieri’s writing can be found many places, including:

•           His Amazon Author page: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B008O8CBDY
•           Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/william-mangieri?store=book&keyword=william+mangieri
•           Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/NoTimeToThink

Connect with him on Facebook at:   http://www.facebook.com/NoTimeToThink