#Keith Mulcahy

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Moulin Rouge 2001

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: November 1, 1982

Lyrics:

Hey-hey

When everything goes wrong

Sometimes it makes no sense

Hey-hey

There once was a time

I should have known better then

Hey-hey

Although you may try

It won't come your way again

Hey, little girl

Where will you hide?

Who can you run to now?

Hey, little girl

Where will you go?

Who can you turn to now?

Hey, hey

So why should I care

If somebody let you down?

Hey, hey

That's nothing new

I know just what that can mean

Hey, hey

Well, the way that they talk

The talk is all over town

Hey, hey

And it's no surprise

Little girls hurt sometimes

Hey, little girl

Where will you hide?

Who can you run to now?

Hey, little girl

Where will you go?

Who can you turn to now? (who can you turn to now?)

Hey, hey

When everything goes wrong

Sometimes it makes no sense

Hey, hey

Hey, little girl

Should have known better

Better

Hey, hey

Songwriter:  Ivor Arthur Davies

Hey, little girl

Where will you hide?

Who can you run to now?

Hey, little girl

Where will you hide?

Who can you run to now?

(Who can you run to now?)

Hey, little girl (little girl)

Where will you go? (will you go?)

SongFacts:

"Hey Little Girl" is a single by Australian band Icehouse, the second single from the band's 1982 album, Primitive Man. The album and single were co-produced by band member and author of the track, Iva Davies, and Keith Forsey. It was released in November 1982 on Regular Records in 7" vinyl single and 12" vinyl single formats. Chrysalis Records' UK and European releases were also in 7" and 12" formats, but with different track listings. The single was then released in the USA in 1983 in the same format. On “Hey Little Girl” Iva Davies uses the Linn drum machine – the first for an Australian recording. It reached No. 7 on the Australian Singles Chart[6] and No. 2 in Switzerland, No. 5 in Germany, Top 20 in the UK, Sweden and the Netherlands, and No. 31 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock charts.

The single's US cover features a still from Russell Mulcahy's music video for "Hey Little Girl".

In 1997, a series of remixes of the song were released in Germany on the Edel Music label. Another remix version of Infusion was released on the Icehouse album Meltdown in 2002.

Homepage:

ICEHOUSE

[oldtimeracing]

Macau GP 2013 - GT 25, Richard MEINS by Keith Mulcahy

[taifunu]

View over Hong Kong by Keith Mulcahy Via Flickr: Sunset over Hong Kong Island

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View from the Harbour by Keith Mulcahy Via Flickr:

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Keith Mulcahy

[writingwithcolor]

Find your next diverse read! #2 (WWC Reader Publications)

We asked you to tell us about your publications, and here they are! 

These are the eleven (11) books submitted to us, written by Writing With Color readers. 

Book Titles

Always Darkest

Commonwealth

Faerie Rising: The First Book of Binding

Fate (The St. Cloud Chronicles) 

A Hero’s Tale

Less than Three

Moonrise

Not So Stories Anthology

OPEN: A Tale of Love, Mermaids, Bassists, & Creepy Dudes

The Path to Dawn

To Whom it Doesn't Concern

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Book Descriptions

Title: Always Darkest

Author: Jess and Keith Flaherty | @demonsrunlit Series: Yes Buy: Amazon Premise:  Supernatural meets Good Omens with a dash of romance and divine chaos.‪ Ben wants a vacation away from Hell, but Mal reveals a path to redemption instead. ‬ On the run from Heaven and Hell, a demon becomes a hero. Themes/Elements: Dark Fantasy, Paranormal Romance MC Race/Ethnicity:  White  Other Characters: White  Other Diversity: LQBTQAI+, Religion

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Title: Commonwealth (Patreon series) 

Author: Adam Lee Series: No Buy: Patreon  Premise: In a near-future U.S. that’s become a hyper-capitalist dystopia of inequality and climate change, a small band of dreamers fight to bring back the vanished era when people worked together and helped each other. Themes/Elements:  Individualism vs. mutuality, capitalism vs. socialism MC Race/Ethnicity: Biracial black/white Other Characters:  Latino (Mexican), Jewish, Japanese/Chinese Other Diversity: Economic and environmental justice, sexism and pregnancy discrimination

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Title: Faerie Rising: The First Book of Binding

Author: A. E. Lowan | @aelowan (multiple authors) Series: Yes Buy: Amazon Premise: 

Winter Mulcahy is the last wizard in the city of Seahaven, WA and all that stands between the fractious preternatural population and total chaos. Holding the city together by the skin of her teeth, the blood of her friends, and an addiction to stimulants that is slowly killing her, the young wizard is approached by a pair of sidhe lords. They claim that her city is harboring a fugitive who has kidnapped a sidhe prince, and that they are on a mission to rescue the boy.

Winter must investigate this fugitive to get to the truth of the kidnapping, discover the cause of the surges of wild magic tearing open rifts between realms across her city, and navigate the deadly waters of preternatural politics before Seahaven both figuratively and literally rips itself apart.

Themes/Elements: Addiction, redemption, found families MC Race/Ethnicity: (multiple POVS)

Young black hero just coming into his powers

Teenage wizard who proves that weight won’t slow her down

Physician at the breaking point who is addicted to stimulants

Two bisexual men in a dance of attraction (one survivor of childhood sexual assault)

Young trans man who will play a larger role in the second book

Gay Viking vampire king and his lover. 

Afro-Latina wolf queen 

Afro-Latino Lion King

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Title: FATE 

Author: Jade Stewart | @j-a-stewart Series: Yes Buy: Amazon Premise:  FATE is a YA fantasy novel about a teenage girl from the Bronx who realizes there’s more to her new home in Buffalo, and herself, than meets the eye. Themes/Elements: Urban fantasy, magic/wizards, werewolves, vampires, benefits of hard work, fate, moving to a new city, romance, revenge MC Race/Ethnicity: African-American Other Characters: Japanese, Jamaican-American and Romanian (mixed race), & American Other Diversity/Topics: Anti-bullying, high school, friendship

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Title: A Hero’s Tale

Author: J. Stern | @theactualjstern Series: No Buy: Amazon Premise: Sam Garrett is determined to be a normal kid in spite of his superpowers, only to have his resolve questioned when his powers are exposed to the world and he becomes the target of a powered villain determined to remove all powered from the world. Themes/Elements:  coming of age, superhero MC Race/Ethnicity: African American Other Characters: Black, mixed race Philipino and Mexican, Greek Other Diversity: queer characters of color (bisexual and trans), queer characters, disability (Deaf), mental illness (PTSD, anxiety), gender parity of characters

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Title: Less than Three

Author:  Téa Belog | @transannabeth Series: No Buy:  Amazon | Books2Read | Goodreads Premise: Ren has been in love with his best friend for the past three years, Calliope has spent most of her life dancing, and Ingrid plans to start over in college, to go beyond what held her back in high school. Less Than Three is a collection of three short stories about a group of friends. Together, they shoulder their way through romance, all-nighters, and the occasional dragon. Themes/Elements: Romance, friendship, coming of age, mental illness, and college MC Race/Ethnicity: Japanese and Black (Calliope and Ingrid respectively, individual POVs) Other Characters: Indian, Vietnamese, and white Other Diversity: LGBTQIA+ (trans and nonbinary characters, gay characters), depression

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Title: Moonrise (interactive novel)

Author: Natalie Cannon Series: No Buy: Choice of Games Premise: You’re here. You’re queer. You’re a werewolf. Who will you kiss under the moonlight? Themes/Elements: queer femme werewolves, fighting for humanity or giving into the beast, romance, aligning with the tradition of the Masquerade or breaking free with the desperate Rogues, found family MC Race/Ethnicity: Intentionally left up to player interpretation Other Characters: Black, Japanese, Mexican, Jewish Other Diversity: Lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, polyamorous, aromantic, trans, nonbinary gender options and/or characters. Amputee character. Mental illness mention

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Title: Not So Stories Anthology

Author: Multiple authors of colour Series: No Buy: Goodreads Premise:  Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories was a timeless classic. It is also deeply rooted in British colonialism. Not So Stories attempts to redress the balance, bringing together new and established writers of colour from around the world to take the Just So Stories back; giving voices to cultures that were long deprived them. Themes/Elements: Fantasy, ghost stories, fairy tales.  MC Race/Ethnicity: Various Other Diversity:  LGBTQIA+ characters

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Title: OPEN: A Tale of Love, Mermaids, Bassists, & Creepy Dudes

Author: Emilie Nantel | @emilienantel Series: No Buy: Emilie Nantel  Premise:  A queer, polyamorous romcom for millennials, OPEN: A Tale of Love, Mermaids, Bassists, & Creepy Dudes is the story of Amy, bi, 25, in an open relationship, navigating the ups – dating gorgeous people – and downs – trying to avoid creeps – of the Montreal dating scene, when she falls in love with a hot bassist. This was not part of the plan. Themes/Elements: Queer found family, polyamorous relationship, friendship breakups MC Race/Ethnicity: White Other Characters: Black endgame love interest; half Filipina/half White best friend Other Diversity: Polyamory, bisexual MC, a cast all across the LGBTQIA+ community, MC is fat and has anxiety.

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Title: The Path to Dawn

Author: Miri Castor | @miricastor Series: Yes Buy: Amazon Premise: Opal Charm is still grieving the loss of her brother when she meets a mysterious student in her class. Through their budding friendship, Opal discovers she has special powers, powers that brother once had. But she must learn how to wield them before an evil force destroys all that she loves. Themes/Elements: PoC kids/teens with superpowers, platonic relationships, family ties, light and darkness MC Race/Ethnicity: Black Other Characters: Filipino Other Diversity: LGBTQIA+ (Book 2) & depression

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Title: To Whom it Doesn't Concern

Author: Wisdom A. Yarborough Series: No Buy:  Amazon | Goodreads Premise: (TW Suicide) 

A kid at Mortimer’s school has thrown himself off the roof. Everyone is freaking out, and trying to deal with the situation, while Mortimer wants this all to just pass as quickly as possible. It wasn’t like he was close to the kid who died, so there’s no reason to be concerned, or to even care? …Right?

Themes/Elements: Dealing with loss/grief, Suicide/Depression/Mental Health & Healing MC Race/Ethnicity: White  Other Characters: Topher, the love interest, is Pakistani-American. Mortimer’s ex girlfriend is black.

Other Diversity: Topher is Canonically Pansexual, Mortimer realizes he’s bisexual throughout the story, Many characters suffer with depression, and depression/suicide/suicidal thoughts are a huge part of the themes of the story, and coping with those feelings.

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WWC Reader Publications - Winter 2019/2020 

[carpr0n]

Starring: Jaguar E-Type

By Keith Mulcahy

[nrwagawat]

View from the rooftop by Keith Mulcahy Via Flickr: A view of Kowloon, in Hong Kong, from Hong Kong Island

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Moulin Rouge 2001

[howaminotinthestrokesyet]

Something To See Here: A Selective Stones Videography

Undercover of the Night… This 1983 video for the album Undercover caused a bit of controversy when it was first released. The video depicts Mick Jagger trying to chase down his girlfriend's kidnappers led by Keith Richards. He is eventually killed by another kidnapper played by himself. MTV would not play the original cut of the video because they felt it was too violent. An alternate video was created to be aired on the network. The band eventually did get MTV to air the edited video one time, but only after 9 PM.

It’s Only Rock and Roll But I Like It...This 1974 video was directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who had directed Rock and Roll Circus in 1968. The band are dressed as sailors playing inside a tent as it fills with bubbles. Mick Jagger later would jokingly lament feeling bad for Charlie Watts because he completely drowns in the video. In 2006, the Strokes made a similar video for their track “You Only Live Once,” where they are drowning in oil, instead of bubbles. This would be one of the final appearances by guitarist Mick Taylor. In the video, he is quite expressively smiling, while in other appearances you simply did not see this.

Love Is Strong...The lead single from the Voodoo Lounge album released in 1994. The video was actually directed by David Fincher, most recently known for the movie, Mank. In the video, band members are seen enlarged walking around New York City as couples embrace each other. The one takeaway from this video is that new bass player Darryl Jones is nowhere to be seen. This became the very first signal that he would not be as visible as the others. At the end of the video, the four establish members of the band can be seen walking off.

Mixed Emotions... This 1989 video shows the band performing and recording the track in the studio. In the video, you can clearly see a very positive and jovial environment as the band jokes around. This was intentional for the most part as a result of the feuding that went on the previous few years between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. They wanted to show that the pair were once again good friends.

Waiting on a Friend ... This 1981 video was once again directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg to appear on MTV. This became one of the most popular videos early on for the channel. The video has Mick Jagger waiting on some steps for Keith Richards, that they both walk to a local bar to meet up with the other band members. Sitting next to Jager on those steps is none other than reggae musician, Peter Tosh. The building he is standing in front of represents the same one used for Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti cover. Jagger’s girlfriend, Jerry Hall, also makes a cameo as she walks by at the beginning of the video.

Harlem Shuffle...This 1986 cover song was the lead single from the album, Dirty Work. The video combined live action and animation, which was directed by Ren & Stimpy creator, John Kricfalusi. As for the video itself, the band is playing in a cityscape background as four animated cats lust after a woman. The one observation I would make comes in the fact that Paula Abdul would also make such a video with an animated cat a few years later that became very popular on MTV. Also, one other note must be made in almost every video the camera will cut to the drummer Charlie Watts, where he has a look on his face that is indescribable. He sometimes looks to be laughing or in shock at the ridiculous nature of each video.

One Hit To The Body... This video accompanied the Dirty Work album as well. The video has the band playing in a warehouse inter-spliced with clips of a boxer throwing punches. The interesting thing about this clip was the fact that towards the end of the video Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trade mock blows to emphasize the chorus of the song. This had been requested by the video’s director, Russell Mulcahy. Yet, one can obviously see in the finished video that they were not pretending.There existed intense animosity between the two as you can look at Keith Richards’ face. The director had to tell the two to calm down due to the intensity in which they were performing.

Plundered My Soul... This video accompanied the re-release of Exile on Main Street in 2010. The song came out as a bonus track because it had not been included on the original album. The video shows clips of the band from 1971 and 1972 inter-spliced with a motif consistent with the cover of the album. The reason so much footage from that time actually exists was because the band had hired a filmmaker to do a documentary on the album and the subsequent tour. They did discover that they could never release some of the footage due to the illegal acts committed on film. Yet, the concert footage was eventually released as Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones. The performance covers four nights live in Texas in 1972.

Sex Drive… This video was released in 1991 as one of the new songs on their live album, Flashpoint. The song did not attain great success and seems to be largely forgotten now. Yet, the video should be remembered because Mick Jagger is a patient undergoing therapy with his psychologist, Charlie Watts. The premise is all the more strange and awkward because the singer once admitted to quitting therapy for sex addiction because he tried to seduce his therapist.

Like a Rolling Stone...This cover song had a video release in 1995 for their album, Stripped Live. The video primarily shows the band hanging out in a restaurant as the main character wanders through the streets of New York City. A starring role in the video was made by actress, Patricia Arquette. For one of the first times, bass player Darryl Jones makes an appearance. Perhaps, this might have been because the band received so many questions about his status within the group. When does notice that Keith Richards seems to be smiling quite a bit with the new bass player in the video. You never saw such a smile when Bill Wyman was in the group. In 1998, Bob Dylan joined the band in New York City for a concert, where they performed the song.

[oldtimeracing]

Racing in Macau by Keith Mulcahy Via Flickr: 4 GT cars nose to tail...awesome!!

[taifunu]

View from the air by Keith Mulcahy Via Flickr: View of home ownership housing in Tin Shui Wai, New Territories, Hong Kong. This area classifies as the 12th most densly populated places. With a population of over 270k people in 4.3 sq km (1.7 sq miles) or 62.8k people per sq km!

[enchantingsharkcreation]

2016…WHY!!?!?!?!

I know this post is coming almost 5 months after 2017 started and actually after the 45th President of the United States has been inaugurated, but I finally had some time to look over what had happened to us and geeks everywhere during the year of 2016.

Truthfully, what the hell happened last year??  Was everything just prearranged that most of the people I either listened to or watched while I was growing up were going to pass away during the same 12 month period?  If you were living in a hole last year like a hermit, or if you just weren’t paying attention to the news at all, I just wanted to post a list of all of the wonderful people that we lost during 2016.

Robert Stigwood – Australian band manager and film producer (Bee Gees, Cream, Grease, Saturday Night Fever)

Nicholas Caldwell – American R&B singer (The Whispers)

Pat Harrington Jr. – Voice, stage, and TV actor (One Day at a Time)

Troy Shondell – singer for Liberty Records (known for “This Time”)

Kitty Kallen – singer from the 1930s to the 1960s

Angus Scrimm – actor and author (played the Tall Man in 1979 horror film “Phantasm”)

David Bowie

David Margulies – American actor

Brian Bedford – Tony award nominated stage actor (Shakespearean work)

Alan Rickman

Rene Angelil – Music producer and married to Celine Dion

Dan Haggerty – American actor (played Grizzly Adams)

Noreen Corcoran – American actress, dancer, and singer (co-starred on “Bachelor Father”)

Glen Frey – American singer and songwriter (founding member of “Eagles)

Abe Vigoda – American character actor (Salvatore Tessil in “The Godfather” and Phil Fish in “Barney Miller”

Paul Kantner – American guitarist, singer, and songwriter (co-found “Jefferson Airplane”)

Mike Minor – American actor (Steve Elliott on “Petticoat Junction”)

Bob Elliot – American actor and comedian (one-half of the comedy duo “Bob and Ray”)

Maurice White – American singer, songwrite, musician (founder of “Earth, Wind & Fire)

Joe Alaskey – American actor, voice artist, and impressionist (successor of Mel Blanc at Warner Bros. Animation)

Joe Dowell – American pop singer

Antonin Scalia – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

George Gaynes – Singe, actor, comedian (Eric Lassard in “Police Academy” series)

Vanity – Canadian singer, songwriter (real name Denise Matthews)(Lead singer of “Vanity 6”)

Tom Mullica – American comedy magician

Harper Lee – American novelist (“To Kill a Mockingbird”)

Yolande Fox – Miss America 1951

Sonny James – American country music singer

Lennie Baker – American singer (saxophone player for “Danny and the Juniors”)

Tony Burton – American actor, boxer, and football player (Tony “Duke” Evers in the Rocky franchise)

George Kennedy – American actor (“Cool Hand Luke”)

Gil Hill – Police Officer, Actor (Beverly Hills Cop)

Joey Martin Feek – American country music singer

Nancy Reagan – American actress and wife of Ronald Reagan

Sir George Martin – English record producer (referred to as the “Fifth Beatle”)

Robert Horton – American TV and stage actor

Keith Emerson – English musician and composer (founding member of “Emerson, Lake & Palmer”)

Frank Sinatra Jr.

Larry Drake – American actor, voice actor, and comedian (Darkman series)

Peter Brown – American actor (ABC’s Lawman)

Rob Ford – 64th Mayor of Toronto

Richard Bradford – American actor (“Man in a Suitcase”)

Joe Garagiola – Baseball player (catcher/announcer)

Ken Howard – American actor, President of SAG

Earl Hamner Jr. – American TV writer/producer (“The Waltons”)

Garry Shandling – American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer

Mother Angelica – founder of EWTN

Merle Haggard – American singer/songwriter (“The Strangers”

Doris Roberts – American actress (“Everybody Loves Raymond”)

Chyna – Professional wrestler

Prince

Lonnie Mack McIntosh – American rock, blues, and country singer/guitarist

Madeleine Sherwood – Canadian actress

William Schallert – American character actor

Morley Safer – Canadian/American broadcast journalist for CBS News

Alan Young – American actor (Wilbur on “Mister Ed”)

Burt Kwouk – British actor (Cato in “Pink Panther”)

Patty Duke – American actress (Helen Keller in “The Miracle Worker”

Muhammad Ali

Gordie Howe

Christina Grimmie – American singer/songwriter (“The Voice”

Michu Meszaros – Hungarian actor (“ALF”)

Ann Guilbert – American actress (“The Dick Van Dyke Show” “The Nanny”)

Ronnie Claire Edwards – American actress (“The Waltons”)

Ron Lester – American actor (“Varsity Blues”)

Anton Yelchin – American actor (Pavel Chekov in “Star Trek” reboot)

Mack Rice – “Mustang Sally”

Buddy Ryan – Football coach

Pat Summitt – Tennessee Lady Vols head coach

Michael Cimino – Film director for “The Deer Hunter”

Elie Wiesel – Romanian-born Jewish writer, Holocause survivor (“Night”)

Noel Neill – American actress (Lois Lane in “Superman” (1948))

Garry Marshall – American actor/director (Creator of “Happy Days”)

Ricci Martin – American musician, son of Dean Martin

John Saunders – Canadian/American sports journalist (ESPN)

Alexis Arquette

Michel Richard

Kenny Baker

Fyvush Finkel

John McLaughlin

James Woolley

Jack Riley

Steven Hill

Jeanne Martin

Marvin Kaplan

Juan Gabriel

Gene Wilder

Jon Polito

Hugh O’Brian

James Stacy

Charmian Carr

Bill Nunn

Jean Shepard

Jose Fernandez

Arnold Palmer

Shimon Peres

Thomas Ford

Kevin Meaney

Pete Burns

Bobby Vee

Tammy Grimes

Kay Starr

Janet Reno

Leonard Cohen

Robert Vaughn

Leon Russell

Gwen Ifill

Holly Dunn

Mose Allison

Sharon Jones

Florence Henderson

Fidel Castro

Ron Glass

Fritz Weaver

Van Williams

Jim Delligatti

Keo Woolford

Grant Tinker

Don Calfa

Billy Chapin

Rashaan Salaam

Greg Lake

Joseph Mascolo

John Glenn

Alan Thicke

Bernard Fox – Welsh actor – “Bewitched”, “Hogan’s Heroes”, “Andy Griffith Show”

Craig Sager

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Gordie Tapp – Canadian entertainer, known as a radio and TV presenter, comedian and a CBS broadcaster

Michele Morgan – French film actress

Rick Parfitt – English musician for band Status Quo

Liz Smith – English character actress (Betty Gleadle, MBE)

Richard Adams – English novelist

George Michael

Vera Rubin – American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates

Alphonse Mouzon – American jazz fusion drummer and owner of Tenacious Records

George S. Irving – American actor, known for character roles on Broadway

Ricky Harris – American producer, actor and comedian

Carrie Fisher

Debbie Reynolds

William Christopher – American actor (Private Lester Hummel on Gomer Pyle and Father Mulcahy on “M*A*S*H”)

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aois21 publishing celebrates 3rd birthday with long list of accomplishments

Key partnerships, new experiences mark publisher’s third year

Mount Vernon, VA – aois21 publishing, LLC celebrated its third birthday on May 8th and looked back at the accomplishments of the past year in an event at Walls of Books in Washington, DC on May 13th. The independent publishing company’s third year included these accomplishments:

·       Released the third aois21 annual. After foregoing another crowdfunding campaign, we elected to make the annual all digital. The new format allowed video and audio inclusion. The launch event was held at Walls of Books in Washington, DC, and broadcast on Periscope and later on YouTube.

·       Signed a new Creative. We announced a moratorium on new Creatives allowing for only those we were currently in negotiations with, including Thomas P. Athridge, author of the forthcoming American Presidents at War.

·       Released new titles. We released Michael B. Judkins’ Interlude to Sentimental Me! poetry collection just after our last birthday. It was followed by Bianca Palmisano’s second poetry collection, Will This Be on the Final?, and the second book in the HIVE series, HIVE: Battle at the Dog Star by James D. King.

·       Launched three new podcast series and joined new networks. We expanded beyond series promoting our authors with the performing arts podcast, Tales From the Old New Land, and the cultural history podcast, It’s Not Even Past. We just recently launched our first partnership podcast, I Stand, produced with host Michael B. Judkins’ OCT14 Publishing. Additionally our podcasts joined the Tune In network and offered more on YouTube.

·       Organized and participated in many events. We hit the road and took part in book fairs in Gaithersburg and Frostburg, MD, and DC Author Fest. We branched out into Comic book conventions by traveling to Richmond Comicon. We also held events such as evenings at Books and Other Found Things in Leesburg, Va, and multiple events through a partnership with Walls of Books in Washington, DC.

·       Hired new staff. Our management team welcomed John Mulcahy as Chief of Visual Design and Zach C. Cohen as Chief of Audio Productions. New support staff include audio consultant Michael B. Judkins and podcast production consultants Evan Tucker and Aylin Vega.

·       Explored new opportunities. We have continually reassessed and refocused our resources in a variety of ways. We have stepped up limited-run print releases through the Lulu.com print on demand service. We sponsored a team to Walk to end Alzheimer’s on the National Mall in October. We tested out new services, websites, vendors, and partnerships, all to help our authors succeed.

"We are constantly moving forward, constantly experimenting, testing, and changing for the better,” said Keith F. Shovlin, aois21’s publisher. "The past year has had its share of success and setbacks and we have learned from them all. We are not above admitting what doesn’t work, as long as we have other options to try."

[carpr0n]

Starring: Holden Commodore

By Keith Mulcahy