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About Lloydville

I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from.

HARD COPY

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Sure, you’ve bought this as an e-book. You’ve probably sent a few copies out as gifts to your friends. But it’s just not the same as placing a real book version on your coffee table, to impress visitors, or reading a real book version in Starbucks, where it’s sure to start up conversations with attractive strangers.

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Well, things are about to change — a hard copy version of the book will soon be available, thanks to the miracle of Amazon’s CreateSpace. If you can figure out how to format a text to the CreateSpace guidelines, and design a (somewhat) respectable cover on your own, Amazon will offer the book as a print-on-demand title, a real tome, with real pages you can flip through with your fingers!

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It costs the author nothing but a little time (o. k., a lot of time), and will cost you only $6.99 — $6.99 to hold this amazing book in your hands, and show the world what kind of taste as a reader you have.

Most importantly, the standard trade-paperback size of 6 x 9 means it will fit in all standard saddlebags! Wherever you and your horse can go, this book can go!

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HUSTLE

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ObamaHustler

Barack Obama has been the most relentless enemy of the Constitution in American history — there won’t be much of it left when he leaves office — so I found it hard to take anything he said today seriously after he perjured himself before God and man by swearing to preserve, protect and defend that document. He is the great Used Car Salesman of American Presidents.

ON GOODREADS

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LloydPigglyWiggly

. . . Trav S. D. reviews my book Fourteen Western Stories:

Really enjoyable — Fonvielle’s prose is lean and spare, but laden with the occasional archaism or folk idiom that give it a ring of authenticity. Especially loved the dialogue, the characters are all faintly well-mannered in a way that is both characteristic of the west and the 19th century. Reminded me of Charles Portis. And the yarns themselves are all gripping, although some end kind of abruptly. Also a couple of the tales contain appalling incidents not for the easily shocked

If you don’t know know, Trav S. D. is the author of the best (and most entertaining) modern history of vaudeville — No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous. If you have even the vaguest interest in the subject, you’ll enjoy it immensely.

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Also on Goodreads Shelley Dell writes of the book:

story telling is an art. Lloyd Fonvielle tells a great story.

. . . and Bryan Castañeda gives it a five-star rating.

I’m very grateful to them all for taking the time to rate and review the book.

GIRLS

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LenaDunham

As I was channel surfing last night I chanced upon the opening credits for an episode of Girls, the HBO series that just won a couple of Golden Globes. I’d never seen it before so decided to give it a try.

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It immediately reminded me of Seinfeld — clever, funny, sharply observed stuff about vapid, self-absorbed losers. Watching Girls I had the same feeling I used to have watching Seinfeld (in the rare times I did watch it) — that if I ever recognized myself or any of my friends in the characters on the show I would have to change my life radically or commit suicide.

Do the people who enjoy shows like this identify with the people depicted in them, or do they revel in feeling superior to and laughing at them?  Hard to decide which would be worse.

WHAT EARL SAID

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EarlWeaver

You can’t sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You’ve got to throw the ball over the god-damn plate and give the other man his chance. That’s why baseball is the greatest game of them all.