Category Archives: eReaders

April 1, 2013 · 5:35 am

Interesting Aircraft — The ???


Last Friday I showed you an interesting aircraft that calls El Paso ‘home.”    That was the Super Guppy.

Here’s another.  Let’s see just how good your aircraft recognition is.

And the first person to correctly identify this aircraft will receive for their Kindle, Nook, or device using the free Kindle or Nook reading App, copies of my two murder mysteries Decisions and The Globe.

The Catch:  Exempted from this contest are current or former air traffic controllers (or other FAA employees) from either El Paso or Albuquerque (for obvious reasons, guys and gals).  Persons who already own these books are asked to pass on the prize (should they guess correctly) so that the second correct guesser may have the chance to enjoy them.  Persons too young to attend unaccompanied an R Rated motion picture will be ineligible to receive either book.  The winner is requested (but by no means required) to post reviews of both books on both Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

The Clues:  This is the only example ever made of this particular aircraft.  It was originally designed for the military, but later offered to the civilian market as a business jet.  Lockheed won the contract for which this aircraft was originally designed.  This prototype originally flew when Dwight Eisenhower was president.

Here you go (the registration number has been digitally removed to prevent cheating):

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February 27, 2013 · 1:23 pm

Author’s Interview Announcement


Fellow blogger/author Scott Marlowe has posted today an interview he conducted a few weeks back with me via eMail.  If you’re so inclined, please take a minute out of your busy schedule and take a look at this link:  Author Interview: R. Doug Wicker

As for Scott, he has two books out in the Fantasy genre:  The Five Elements and The Hall of the Wood.  Looking at the Amazon sales ranking for the former, Scott must be doing something right.  Whatever it is, these books are also obviously bargain priced.  So, if you’re into Fantasy, then I encourage you to take a peek and see if either is to your liking.  If they are, you can’t argue that 99¢ isn’t well worth a few hours of reading pleasure.

If nothing else, please drop in on Scott and leave a little comment for him at the link above.  I’m sure he’ll appreciate the traffic and the message.

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December 22, 2012 · 10:12 am

The Brag Blog


The following is not one of my thrice-weekly regularly scheduled blogs:

I haven’t been writing much lately, and that’s unfortunate because I have three suspense novels originally written back in the 1990s on which I need to complete editing and get out for sale to keep up that name-recognition thing that is so important to an author’s success.

But even so, I still manage to receive every now and again a little surprise from an unexpected source.  The latest surprise came from R.W. Bennett, a fellow author about whom I knew nothing before yesterday, when he published on his blog a very complimentary review of The Globe.  Mr. Bennett gave The Globe his highest rating — five stars.

The Globe — a Murder Mystery set in Luxury

I’ve not yet made contact with Mr. Bennett to thank him (although I have subsequently sent to him an eMail and posted a comment on his review), but here’s what I’ve discovered about him so far:

Robert (RW) Bennett is the author of the book Love.com, available for the Amazon Kindle or the Barnes & Noble Nook or on any device using free, downloadable Kindle or Nook reading application.  It’s also available in paperback.  Mr. Bennett also maintains his own blog, the cleverly named Robert’s Rules of Order .

I’ve not read Love.com, but Mr. Bennett’s site tells us that it is, “. . . my first novel, published in April, 2011. It’s a fresh look at the internet dating scene, and contains romance, murder, mystery and suspense. Parts are laugh out loud funny.”

And while I’m in brag mode (sorry about that), there are the latest figures for this blog.  Last month RDougWicker.com shattered the previous monthly hit record (6,211 set back in April 2011) by over 1,800 hits.  This month appears on track to shatter even last month’s record, having surpassed 6,200 hits yesterday!

To all my blog readers — thank you so very much for your continued support.  And to readers and fans of my novels, hang in there; I’ll get back to work soon, and I’m certain you’ll find that your patience will have been aptly rewarded with these upcoming gems (the Ian Drake trilogy — investigations of  aircraft sabotage):

  • An On-Time Departure
  • And the Games Begin
  • Grand Slam

For those who’ve not yet read my novels, they’re still available on both Amazon and Barnes & Noble.  If you love mysteries with a touch of comic absurdity, give Decisions a try.  If you’re more into the hard-boiled type, get The Globe.  Just click on the links below:

 

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