Effacement RONE Voting begins April 25th!
Monday April 11, 2022 | By Hieronymus Hawkes | Novel Publicity | Leave Comments
2022 RONE Awards, Week Three: April 25 - May 1
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Science Fiction/Time Travel - RONE 2022
This poll will open on Monday, April 25, 2022 - 00:00.
Read MoreTremonti Sings Sinatra and Kills it!
Sunday March 27, 2022 | By Hieronymus Hawkes | music | Leave Comments
He did this for charity and I hope he does more of this! Take a Chance on Charity
He is raising money for Down's Syndrome, which his daughter has. The album comes out 27 May 2022, he is singing Sinatra and recording it with Frank's band! How cool! I can't wait.
I love this so much!
Read MoreMarketing Fail
Sunday March 27, 2022 | By Hieronymus Hawkes | Writer's life | Leave Comments
I get emails all the time trying to get me to spend money on a fruitless ad campaign. I've learned a lot in the last year about marketing but this is a great example of how not to do it:
Hi Effacement,
I hope you are doing well, we came across your book "Hieronymus Hawkes", it seems fantastic. Would you like to promote your book?
If you want the massive views, exposure and targeted traffic then you can definitely choose our services. We have 16k Subscribers. And we get 20K to 30K visitors per month.
What will we do for you?
• We will promote your book on our various social media platforms.
• We will send 3 promotional tweets per day to our Twitter followers.
• We send our subscribers weekly newspapers on Monday, in which we will include your book.
Know more & submit your book here:- XXXXXXXXX
Thank You
Team XXXXXXXX
I redacted the the names and link.
Did you see what they did?
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Tremonti in Concert!
Wednesday March 9, 2022 | By Hieronymus Hawkes | music | Leave Comments
COVID put this show on hold from last fall, but finally it happened. It was cool seeing him do a new song during the sound check, that we were the first to hear.
The concert was awesome. Loud as hell, and Mark and his other guitarist, Eric Friedman, were in great voice. I love Mark's voice. It is deep and resonant, like his music.

And yes, our seats were great!
Oh and Chris Daughtry came on after. It was a fantastic show. Good to see live music again. And if anyone is concerned, we are both triple vaccinated. They required a proof of vaccination or a negative test to get in.
Read MoreNew Glasses
Wednesday January 19, 2022 | By Hieronymus Hawkes | Photos | Leave Comments


So, I just got my new glasses. I love them! What do you think?
I can see quite well through them, which is the entire point, but I think they look cool. Can we still say that? Anyway, I saw the sunglasses on the shelf, they were blue-tinted with a mirror finish and I was instantly drawn to them. They are prescription glasses, so I can read on the beach if the situation presents itself. They don't look as blue in the office light of this picture, but trust me they are blue and dark tinted. Both pair are Oakleys, which I have a penchant for.
The last time I got prescription sunglasses the store told me that they couldn't do mirror finish or really make them very dark with a prescription. I'm not sure why they told me that unless they were completely ignorant or dishonest with me. But it was a couple of years ago and maybe tech has improved since then, sure. Well, we found a store not far from our house that not only has an incredible selection of frames and finishes, but they could do real sunglasses, in store. I got both pair back in 8 days to boot. Al I can say is wow!
NeoVision Optical, you are awesome and I will shop nowhere else for my glasses as long as I live in Indiana!
Read MoreThe Case Against Dark Matter
Monday January 10, 2022 | By Hieronymus Hawkes | Science | Leave Comments
I've been arguing since the Aughts that Dark Matter is not a real thing. Scientists have been looking for decades and have found nothing to substantiate its existence, other than their theory fits how things work. This seems to be working backwards, to make a theory fit the data, instead of investigating and discovery the theory naturally. Occum's Razor implies that the simplest idea is probably the right one, and trying to make up matter that we can see or detect in any way disputes the Dark Matter theories in my mind.
Verlinde is not new to radical theories and in this new one he combines quantum entanglement and holographic space-time representation to show how dark matter is simply a false manifestation of quantum interplay with dark energy. Still some more work to be done on testing the hypothesis but it looks very intriguing. You can read more about it here: https://www.quantamagazine.org/erik-verlindes-gravity-minus-dark-matter-20161129
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