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A Promotional For 55pages From Youtube

Dan — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:51:20 +0000

the 55 pages project

Dan — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:19:43 +0000

Piraterobotpress is promoting Dan Vaughn’s 55pages project. Here is the current list of books he’s working with, all submitted by readers. If you want to add one, email us and we’ll pass it on.

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

The Devil Tree

Diary of a Bad Year

Illusions

The Golden Compass

Ender’s Game

Another Bullshit Night in Suck CIty

Fortress of Solitude

Voices from the Dark Years

Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero

1453

The Birth of Venus

The Stories of Breece

The Nimrod Flipout

Angles and Demons

Men in the Off Hours

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

Child of God

Tree of Smoke

Path of Destruction & Rule of Two

Novel About My Wife

The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril

First Blood

All Families are Psycotic

The World is Flat

The Wolf of Wallstreet

The Shock Doctrine

Predictability Irrational

Ecstasy

Acid House

Jamaica Inn

Snow White

Madame Bovary

Rattlesnakes

The New Journalism

The Political Unconscious

Moby Dick

Crime & Punishment

Black Spring

The Battle of the Books

Henry the VIII the King and HIs Court

The Lovely Bones

I Have Lived a Thousand Years

The Kite Runner

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Kingdom Come

Gates of Rome

Birth of an Empire

The State of the Union

Dan — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:00:40 +0000

Alright, things are on hold for the next month or so. I am incredibly tied up finishing school and that makes for really spotty work time. So for the time being, hold on, we will get back to you. On a side note, I am working on a book idea that will take at least a year to finish. If you are interested in it, check it out at this link . Its open for your participation. See you all soon.

A Bird’s Eye View of a Podcast

Dan — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:58:02 +0000

There is a difference between doing something and doing something well. We at pirate robot press are working our tails off to be professional with everything we do. Upcoming is our second edition of the piraterobotpodcast and we have worked out what we think is the new intro. Please have a listen and let us know what you think.

Friday Update

Dan — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:39:59 +0000

So the end of the weekend is upon us here at Piraterobotpress. Just a quick update on everything that is going on. They’re Bound to Leave some Keepsakes is chugging along, only waiting on the cover art so we can design the cover. I’m thinking within the next two weeks. I will keep you posted. Mystery White Boy is now in the editing phase. In the pipeline for production this summer. An untitled book of essays is still in development but is still in the embryonic phase at this point. Shhhh! It’s a baby!

The Good News…on Carl

Dan — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:49:53 +0000

Carl Vestwebber, famous throughout the RGV for his whimsical and thought-provoking work, has agreed to add his pen to the aid of book publishing. His logo should be on the site within the next couple of days. Carl has always been an encouraging force for the local arts and knowing he is behind this can only mean good things.

Welcome to the New…

Dan — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:59:11 +0000

Out with the old.

This is the new real deal uptodate official piraterobotpress website. Everything thing you could want to know about us, me, our products, snobbery. Keep your nose to the ground as far as what is coming up by checking in. George, the genius that is piraterobot techsupport, has brought along all posts from the old pirate robot blog, so if you are looking for something that got tossed out a while back, check within the site. The old blog will be ignored from this point on, so refer all your websurfing to our new site. Bookmark us and make us smile.

If you have not signed up for the pirate robot email update, email me.

New Story, Book Update

Dan — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 02:54:00 +0000

So all is well, but work and school make for rough going sometime. Just finished a new story “Within the Night”. Its a depressing look at a man out of control. I like it very much. Its to appear soon, and when it does, a link will be supplied. The isbn for the first book on the piraterobot label has been purchased. “They’re Bound to Leave Some Keepsakes” should be published mid to late march. It a collection of short stories by Dan Vaughn. When more happens, you’ll be the first to know.

Middlemarch

Dan — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:08:00 +0000

Well, the printer is on board and the ship has officially begun to move. Books, books, books by midmarch.

Beginning of a Short Story…unfinished

Dan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:25:00 +0000

The morning calm, sun dripping over the edge of the roof next door, pearly sunlight between the edges of shingles, butted together like repelling magnets, forced apart by the heat of a thousand mornings like this one. The dog wandered back and forth across the sidewalk, nose to the earth, tail to the sky, searching for the path of her most recent relative, who also searched for a precursor’s path, till the timeline stretched back to wolves and coyotes howling outside the light of campfires and smoldering kills. Her ears popped up and she settled on the spot and released her morning’s urgency into the grass, while I stood and watched the road, the neighborhood, the morning, sunlight.

A car passed and then another, until it became a procession of makes and models, every color of Detroit’s rainbow flowing, bumper to bumper traffic in the neighborhood. One horn went off and set off a symphony of blaring, tinny horns, accompanied with a shaking fist and a screamed obscenity. The procession slowed its pace, as they cars bottlenecked at the stop sign, which only increased the volume until my ears could no longer process the sound, a humming feedback. I looked down at the dog, her squatting down, looking up at me, a tiny speck of sleep cradled in the corner of her eye, ears up. She stood, shook herself and led the way back towards the door.

The sound ceased.

Work would be later in the day, so I sprawled across the couch, cradling the dog, sleepy and dozing on and off, a constant eclipsing of consciousness like a view through a spinning fan blade. I slept.