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The Ned Note is a monthly missive that highlights the curious and interesting, from books on writing craft to discerning updates on smartphone design and artificial intelligence. You will find notes on new novels as well as eclectic thoughts on board game design and insights into technology that may help us re-think the future of humanity. I also include items of personal interest, such as my favorite bookstores and new book releases. Over 4,000 people currently subscribe to the monthly Ned Note.
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Past Ned Notes
- Flight: New Novel (Preview)
- The October Country
- Poem: New Year (Rosh Hashanah)
- The Hobbit (published 87 years ago today!)
- RIP: My friend Steve Silberman
- Italy - A Summer Reverie
- Willow Springs: Short Fiction Prize Winner
- Seven Deaths: Memoir In Progress
- Book Review: Tomorrow, Tomorrow & Tomorrow
- 2024: New Year
- 2023: The Reading Challenge
- ArtsWatch: Profile of Charles Grant - Director of Christmas Carol
- The Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens
- Poem: Letter to the Person Who Carved His Initials into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America
- Poem: New Year (Rosh Hashanah)
- AI - Thoughts and Speculations regarding Books & Copyright (by Adam Neville)
- In Memoriam: Cormac McCarthy
- Poem: May, by Mary Oliver
- Poem: Spring, by Mary Oliver
- On Romance
- Poem & Eulogy: Charles Simic
- Hamlet as a Christmas Play
- Poem: Good Bones by Maggie Smith
- Supporting Clarion West with a Book Edit
- Art: Local Artists inspired by The Eagle Tree in White Salmon
- Poem: New Year (Rosh Hashanah)
- Everybody Reads: The Eagle Tree in White Salmon Valley Community Library System
- Poem: Blackberry-Picking, by Seamus Heaney
- Anthology: Holy Trinity
- Books: The Best Outsider Books
- Theater: Exodus Easter Vigil
- Poem: The Well Rising, William Stafford
- MLK Day: A Langston Hughes Poem
- A Solstice Note
- Poem: In Memoriam, bell hooks
- Poem: Thanks - W.S. Merwin
- Halloween: Twelve Terrifying Two Sentence Horror Stories
- Review: The Eagle Tree -- Donvé Lee
- Poem: New Year (Rosh Hashanah)
- Poem: Do You Consider Writing to be Therapeutic?
- Poem: August, Mary Oliver
- Poem: George Floyd -- by Terrance Hayes
- The Eagle Tree: Kindle April Sale
- Whale Songs: Eagle Tree as Featured Audiobook
- Poem: The Hill We Climb, Amanda Gorman
- MLK Day: A Langston Hughes Poem
- The Eagle Tree: Review by Grace Twomey
- Poem: Journey of the Magi (Read by T.S. Eliot)
- On Writing: Technique & Characterization in John le Carré
- The Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens
- Remembering Brian Doyle
- Poem: Invictus
- Poem: Good Bones by Maggie Smith
- Twelve Terrifying Two Sentence Stories
- Bookstores: Denver's Delicious BookBar
- The October Country
- Poem: New Year
- Nabakov's Writing Process
- KING DONALD: a comedy?
- Eagle Tree Book Review: Dragonfly
- Poem: Darkness
- Song: Build A House -- Juneteenth Song from Rhiannon Giddens featuring Yo-Yo Ma
- Poem: George Floyd -- by Terrance Hayes
- Poem: Bouquet by Lucille Clifton
- New Author Interview: The Washington Talking Book & Braille Library
- Poem: what they did yesterday afternoon, by Warsan Shire
- Easter Vigil: River of Words
- Poem: A Litany in Time of Plague
- Poem: Full Moon, March 2020
- THIS SIDE OF PARADISE: A LETTER FROM F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, QUARANTINED IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE
- 365 Books by Women Authors
- The Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens
- Poem: Journey of the Magi (Read by T.S. Eliot)
- Poem: America, I Sing Back
- Bookstores: Shakespeare & Company in Paris
- Shakespeare's Witches for Halloween
- On Writing: Technique & Characterization in John le Carré
- The October Country
- Poem: New Year
- Margaret Atwood's "The Testaments"
- In Memoriam: Poet Jane Mead
- THE MUELLER REPORT - Live On Stage
- Mueller Report: Art Tells The Truth
- The Washington Center to host live 8-hour reading of the Mueller Report
- In Memoriam: Toni Morrison
- Shakespeare's The Tempest Storms Into Olympia's Port Plaza
- The Tempest at the Port Plaza
- The Tempest at Olympia's Port Plaza: Announcing Cast and Crew
- Book Recommendation: The Gifts We Keep
- History of the Space Shuttle - Development
- The Day Jobs of 10 Famous Writers
- Independence Day, a Family Story
- Greta Thunberg became a climate activist not in spite of her autism, but because of it
- Special Preview of a New Novel: The Real World of Jasper Hunter
- Defending Biometric Security - Gluecon 2019
- Greta Thunberg — Teen Autistic Activist — Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
- Sinful Folk: Spanish Language Edition
- Poem: The Present, W.S. Merwin
- How to Use Biometrics to Ensure Security: An Interview with Ned Hayes of SureID -- Toolbox Interview
- Taking ethical action in identity: 5 steps for better biometrics
- Intel Context Sensing: Wins CES 2019 Innovation Award
- MLK Day: A Langston Hughes Poem
- In Memory of Mary Oliver
- Book Recommendation: If We Were Villains, by M.L. Rio
- Context Sensing in the Wild - New Proximity Awareness on Dell Laptops
- Beat Box Breakdown: New Board Game
- How to be Smarter about Biometrics
- The Iraq Incantation -- An excerpt from the novel Wilderness of Mirrors
- Beating the DeepMaster Print Exploit
- The Biometric Threat - Some Preventative Measures
- Announcement: New Commemorative Edition of The Eagle Tree
- New Tana French Book Review
- Halloween: Twelve Terrifying Two Sentence Horror Stories
- Launch to Exit: The Oly Arts Success Story
- Poem: American Journal
- Washington Post Interview
- Poem: The Trees, Philip Larkin
- The Writing Sings
- Close Amazon And Buy Everyone A Library Card with Unlimited Subscription
- Poem: Night In The Gardens Of Port Of Spain
- Poem: Forgotten
- Poem: If You Forget Me, Pablo Neruda
- Top Actors to Perform The Eagle Tree on Stage at Lakewood Playhouse
- On Writing: Where And How I Write
- Poem: Bumblebees Are Made of Ash
- Marvel 1602 -- Gaiman's masterwork in superhero time travel
- Poem: Ligament
- Bookstores: Next Chapter in St. Paul
- On Writing: About Moral Gravity and Pleasure and "Comfortable" Writing (and Stephen King)
- Bookstores: Ada's Technical Books in Seattle
- Poem: Station
- In Search of Doors: V.E. Schwab
- Kindle Scout Success Story: Ned Hayes
- Bookstores: Amazon's Bookstores
- Poem: The Trees
- Arbor Day Note: Books about Trees
- The Procession of the Species
- On Writing: What We Talk About When We Talk About Genre
- Poem: Don't Go Into the Library
- Bookstores: Eagle Harbor Book Company
- Poem: The Continuous Life, Mark Strand
- Left Hand of Darkness: A Room
- Bookstores: Kepler's Books
- On Writing: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
- Bookstores: Literati in Anne Arbor
- On Writing: Telling a Story
- Poem: My Story in a Late Style of Fire
- Bookstores: Borderlands in San Francisco
- Can Art Save a Life? (Rothko and Pollock)
- Poem: Hibernation, Warming
- Bookstores: Elliott Bay Book Company
- Poem: Let America Be America Again
- Ira Glass on Inspiration
- Celebrating Tim Powers
- Poem: A Woman Speaks
- Bookstores: Village Books
- On Writing: Withholding the “True” Story in Toni Morrison's Beloved
- Poem: won’t you celebrate with me
- Bookstores: Powell's in Portland
- Poem: For My People
- On Writing: Becoming a Deeper Reader
- Bookstores: Auntie's Books
- Poem: Middle Passage
- Poem: Lyric for a day like today
- Poem: Phenomenal Woman
- Bookstores: Vroman's in Pasadena
- Ursula Le Guin
- Poem: Love after Love
- New Chinese Book Translation: The Eagle Tree
- On Writing: Realistic Magic in Tim Powers & John Bellairs
- Bookstores: Browsers Bookstore in Olympia
- A Tree -- at the Seattle Art Museum
- Bookstores: The Strand in New York City
- A New Year's Day Note
- Christmas Chuckle
- Cambridge Key
- Winter Reading
- Classified: Operation Sleigh Ride
- Poem: Mercy
- Huffington Post - Winter Reading (Sinful Folk)
- How to Get a Signed, Personalized Copy of Any of My Books, Shipped Anywhere in the World!
- The Eagle Tree
- Storytelling as a Calling: A Book Love Note
- TED Talk: Balancing Life in Writing and Tech
- Was Hemingway Right? Write Drunk, Edit Sober
- The Wonder of Lichens: A Resource List
- Holy Trinity: An Eagle Tree Story
- New SINFUL FOLK book translations - in French, German, Italian
- Book Club Guide
- Feature on Ned Hayes and The Eagle Tree - Amazon Transformations
- Words Matter: 15 Seconds of Truth
- Eagle Tree On Stage: An Interactive Evening with Author Ned Hayes and Actor Friends
- An Interactive Evening with Ned Hayes and Friends
- Endorsements - The Eagle Tree
- A Narrator with an Unusual Voice - An Interview with Author Ned Hayes
- The Eagle Tree
- Inventing the Future: Everything Old is New Again (iPhone edition)
- The Annihilation Score -- Charles Stross
- The Accidental Empress -- Allison Pataki
- History of the Rain -- Niall Williams
- A Strangeness in my Mind -- Orhan Pamuk
- The Mirage -- Matt Ruff
- Trigger Warning -- Neil Gaiman
- The Heart Goes Last -- Margaret Atwood
- Hyperion -- Dan Simmons
- Drive -- James Sallis
- Avenue of Mysteries -- John Irving
- The Witch's Daughter -- Paula Brackston
- Her Fearful Symmetry -- Audrey Niffenegger
- Lexicon -- Max Barry
- The Paper Magician -- Charlie N. Holmberg
- Golden Age -- Jane Smiley
- Mistress of the Art of Death -- Ariana Franklin
- Make Me -- Lee Child
- At the Mountains of Madness -- H.P. Lovecraft (for Halloween)
- The Stand -- Stephen King
- Bride of the Rat God -- Barbara Hambly
- Death of the Necromancer -- Martha Wells
- Horns -- Joe Hill
- Carrie -- Stephen King
- Last Days -- Adam Nevill
- God and the Robots
- The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
- Poem: New Year
- The Beautiful Thing that Awaits Us All -- Laird Barron
- Heart-Shaped Box - Joe Hill
- Research - New Novel
- Happy Hour of the Damned - Mark Henry
- President Obama and Marilynne Robinson
- The Ruins - Scott Smith
- Salem's Lot - Stephen King (classic horror)
- Shadowland - Peter Straub
- The Necromancer's House -- Christopher Buehlman
- The Ritual - Adam Nevill
- How to get Books onto your e-reader
- The Martian - Andy Weir
- Lincoln's Dreams - Connie Willis
- The Secret Chord - Geraldine Brooks
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time -- Mark Haddon
- Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore -- Robin Sloan
- The Children of Húrin -- J.R.R. Tolkien (Happy Hobbit Day!)
- Among Others - Jo Walton
- The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
- Rewired - Greg Dragon (featuring Dyane Forde)
- Author Reading - THE EAGLE TREE
- SevenEves - Neal Stephenson
- Cannonbridge -- Jonathan Barnes -- One Breath Books
- Paris Trout - Pete Dexter - One Breath Books
- Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
- China Miéville -- Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories
- Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley - Ann Pancake
- Birdbox -- Josh Malerman
- If Then -- Matthew De Abaitua
- A Spool of Blue Thread - Anne Tyler - One Breath Book Reviews
- Time Salvager - Wesley Chu - One Breath Book Review
- A Reader's Manifesto
- The House of Shattered Wings -- Aliette de Bodard
- Go Set a Watchman - Harper Lee - One Breath Books
- The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah - One Breath Books
- A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson - One Breath Book Reviews
- Covers for THE EAGLE TREE -- Readers pick!
- Salvage the Bones - Jesmyn Ward (Hurricane Katrina Edition) - One Breath Books
- Purity, Jonathan Franzen - One Breath Book Review
- Armada, Ernest Cline -- One Breath Books
- Hild, by Nicola Griffith, One Breath Book Review
- The Teller, Jonathan Stone - One Breath Book Review
- Stress of Her Regard - Tim Powers - One Breath Book Review
- The Secret Place - Tana French - One Breath Book Review
- Nexus - Ramez Naam - One Breath Book Review
- Alif the Unseen - G. Willow Wilson - One Breath Book Review
- Winter Range - Claire Davis - One Breath Book Review
- Cry the Beloved Country - Alan Paton - One Breath Review
- Sisters Brothers, by Patrick deWitt - One Breath Review
- Eagle Tree - Research
- Review -- BIRD BOX by Josh Malerman
- Citations for Writing Fantasy Series
- Review - Ready Player One
- On Writing: All Topics Must Converge -- (Part 6 - How to Write Fantasy Fiction)
- Review -- The Ritual
- On Writing: Working Magic by Implication -- (Part 5 - How to Write Fantasy Fiction)
- On Writing: The Sorcery of Withholding -- (Part 4 - How to Write Fantasy Fiction)
- Wilderness of Mirrors - David Huddle Endorsement
- On Writing: Grounding Magic in Reality -- (Part 3 - How to Write Fantasy Fiction)
- On Writing: Character Matters in Fantasy -- (Part 2 - How to Write Fantasy Fiction)
- On Writing: An Introduction & Techniques -- (Part 1 - How to Write Fantasy Fiction)
- Review - Mistress of the Art of Death
- New TCTV Interview
- Advertising for Indie Authors (Amazon KDP)
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