Jamie Freeman's Blog, page 11

When I first read Shakespeare, I was fourteen.  My freshman year in high school we read Romeo and Juliet and Julius Ceasar.  Over the next four years I read Twelfth Night, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing and the Sonnets. 
Okay, so here's the punchline:  I attended a public high school in North Florida.  Go figure. We read a lot of great stuff; all that great stuff we read kept me from becoming a high school dropo...

Coming May 10, 2010My story "The Thank You Note" will be included in this anthology.  Necking will be released in ebook formats from Dreamspinner Press.

Available for Pre-Order Now.
"66 Hours in the Devils House" will be included in this 2010 Daily Dose Collection.  A story a day for the entire month of June will be delivered to your Dreamspinner ebookshelf.  Some of the best authors in the industry are writing about summer hauntings and summer lovin'.  Special pricing is in effect for April.  ...

Disclaimer:  This is not me.  This is a random hottie from Guys With iPhones.
I brought home an iPhone today and I have spent the last four hours playing with the apps and loading all kinds of useless toys.  Thus far I have avoided taking nude photos of myself, but then I don't look like this guy either.  What is it about boys and their iPhones that makes them want to strip down and share their bounty with the world?
I must put the toy down.
I must get back to work.

As a Southern boy, I grew up around women like Julia Sugarbaker, strong-willed Southern women with lots of opinions, fierce family loyalties and good old fasioned Southern charm.  Manners are important to these women as surely as the rules of engagement are to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  You've heard all the stereotypes; some of them are true, even here in the New South.
My mother is, in her way, one of these women.  She claims a Yankee lineage, but she and the women in her family relocated...

I know it makes me a total dork, but I love this show.  As you may have gathered from my writing, I am a total show tune queen and this show speaks to my soul.  Can't wait for the next episode.

This cracks me up every single year.(Sad but true.)
Happy Easter to those of you who celebrate it and to those of you who tag along for the candy.

This cracks me up every single year.(Sad but true.)
Happy Easter to those of you who celebrate it and to those of you who tag along for the candy.

His tattoo matches the chalkware lamp on my bar.Makes me thirsty.

I've been working hard the past couple of weeks and I've got a list of publishing updates for you.

Nathan Burgoine posted a review of I Do Two! in which he had some nice things to say about my story "Ships That Pass."  This anthology is available in e-format, Kindle and paperback from amazon.com.  Here's the text of the review:  "Keeping the sweet in bittersweet, this genuinely moving story has more than a little heartache to it, but has such a pair of strong characters at its core that it lef...