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Read this before you email me for the first time. Personal mail only. No spam. No mean people. If you can't say something nice, I'm not interested. Recent entries my amazon reviews for "alex and me" and "a crack in space" - 2012-04-04 goals and resolutions quarterly check-up - 2012-04-03 i'm number one and modest too - 2012-04-02 now available for nooks, wheeeeee! - 2012-04-01 petoskey - 2012-03-31 INTRO OFFER: Read my new book, The 10 Best Things You Can Do For Your Bird, on your Kindle, PC, or smartphone by purchasing directly from Amazon. It's on the Nook, from Barnes & Noble too, so click right here if you've got a Nook or Nook app. It's specialized information for pet bird owners, so the price can only go up... Drool on my personal collection of stones by clicking right here. By public demand, and after a delay of an embarrassing number of years, I've finally put my notorious essay, Ender and Hitler: Sympathy for the Superman, free on the fabulous internets. A bibliography of my published books and stories. Here's a simple card-counting FAQ to get you up to speed on the basics. Here's the true story of the notorious DD' blackjack team, told for the first time on the fabulous internets. No other team went from a starting investor's bankroll of zero to winning millions of dollars. A Sadean take on Asimov's classic Three Laws of Robotics can be found in Roger Williams' NOW REVIEWED ON SLASHDOT!!! The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. Adult readers only please -- explicit sex and violence. For updates on the "Dead Tree Project" and other topics, you may visit the localroger diary. Visit Peachfront's Cookbook, for recipes that are fast, cheap, and good. A work in progress. My Bird Lists -- My Louisiana State Life List, My Yard List and, tah dah, My World Life List. HEY! What happened to the Peachfront Conure Files? My wordpress site now features free peachfront conure coverage, including a brief Intro to Conures previously published in American Cage-Bird Magazine, now free on the web. I offer the best free Peachfront Conure information on the internet. If you have great Peachfront Conure info, stories, or photos to share, contact me so I can publicize your pet, your breeding success, your great photograph, etc. on my site. Thanks.

an incomplete bibliography of my published work 2003-02-16 - 3:30 p.m. Books, all published by T.F.H. Publications A Complete Introduction to Cockatiels, 1987. A Step-By-Step Book About Parrots, 1988. A Step-By-Step Book About Finches, 1988. A Step-By-Step Book About Lovebirds by Arnold Weston, 1988. I was the ghost-writer for this book and provided the entire text. A Step-By-Step Book About Cockatiels, 1990. Parakeets Today, 1997. Teaching a Parrot to Talk, 2001. I don't have enough of these books left to sell but you can find them at amazon.com if you do a search for Elaine Radford. I've also written scadzillion articles for oodles of magazines. I'm not even going to try to provide a list here, other than to note that I was a regular contributor of articles and photographs for Bird Talk for many years in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I do have one article so far online on this site, where I can be sure the link will remain good. It's a very short piece, called The Christmas Chicks, from the 1986 Bird Talk. I wouldn't call it representative of my work, which leans toward the how-to side, but if you want a sappy true Christmas story, go for it. Published Science Fiction Stories "Breeding the Bald, Plastic-working Ape at the Tau Ceti IV Planetary Zoo," in The Journal of Irreproducible Results. Vol. 30 # 1. Nov/Dec. 1984. Pg. 31. "The Northern Giants," in Pandora #13, 1985, pg. 19. "The Ramsey Gryphon," in Amazing Stories, May 1986, pg. 114. "En Route," in Far Frontiers, Fall 1986, pg. 213. "Dancing in the Dark," in Night Cry, Fall 1986, pg. 150. "Passing," in Aboriginal SF, May/June 1987, pg. 56. Also selected for The Best of Aboriginal Science Fiction: 1988 Annual Anthology, pg. 72. "Another Crow's Eyes," in Amazing Stories, Nov. 1987, pg. 28. "Letting Go," in Aboriginal SF, Jan./Feb. 1988, pg. 41. "To Be An Auk" in Aboriginal SF, March/April 1988, pg 9. Voted by reader poll to be one of the favorite stories published in ASF in 1988. "The Double-Yolked Egg," in Amazing Stories, May 1989, pg. 96. "Birdbrain," in Aboriginal SF, Jul./Aug. 1990, pg. 18. I still own the rights to these stories, and if I ever figure out how to scan them into the old computer, I'll probably post some of them online. In 1991, I bought a house and got involved in other things and pretty much lost interest in writing SF or even in thinking up SF ideas. This is probably a good thing. The market for written SF today is a fraction of what it was in the 1980s, which in turn was a fraction of what it was in the heyday of the pulps. The present and future of science fiction is comic books/graphic novels, television, and of course film, all collaborative efforts that don't personally interest me. A note on why I feel it's dishonest to teach "creative writing" classes in today's market Unsolicited work is no longer read. The Writer's Market tells you otherwise in order to sell you a new book (or twelve) every year. Because writers are so ill-paid, many do teach these courses to put food on the table, and I can understand that if the choice is to teach "creative writing" or starve. But I'm not at that point, so I do not read unpublished fiction by anyone except the BF, and I no longer offer writing seminars or advice. back - next All Rights Reserved, Copyright © 2002-2012 by Elaine Radford