BOOKS I HAVE WRITTEN

IN THE 11 SPANISH TITLES HERE, THERE ARE 266 CHAPTERS
By the Same Author pdf file
Del Mismo Autor Pages O9.pages

IN SPANISH

1. Las misteriosas noches de antaño/The Mysterious Nights of Yesteryear, CreateSpace, 2012.
2. Recuerdo de Amnesia/Memory of Amnesia, CreateSpace, 2014.
3. Parece que fuera ayer/It Seems Like Only Yesterday, CreateSpace, 2017.
4. The Grass on the Hill Grows Green/El pasto en la colina crece verde, CreateSpace, 2017.
5. Over a City Bridge/Sobre un puente de la ciudad, CreateSpace, 2018.
6. Gone are the Days/Se han ido los días, Amazon Direct 2019
7. Escrituras y locuras/Writings and Rantings, Amazon Direct 2020
8. The Javelina Man/El hombre pécari, Amazon Direct 2020
9. Todavía verdes están mis recuerdos/Still Green Are My Memories, Amazon Direct 2021
10. The Red Hot Rooster/El gallo al rojo vivo, Amazon Direct 2021
11. Solo en sueños de noche/Only in Dreams at Night, In Press, Amazon Direct 2023

IN ENGLISH

1. The Article Book, Simon & Schuster/Prentice Hall/Regents, 1996, University of Michigan Press, 2000, Japanese edition
2. The Preposition Book, University of Michigan Press, 2006, Ann Arbor, MI 48104.
3. Grammar/Writing Connections, University of Michigan Press, 2009, Ann Arbor, MI 48104.
4. The Sands of Pima Arroyo, CreateSpace, 2011.
5. The Intersection, Seventeen Years of Bird Processing on One Street Corner of the World, CreateSpace, 2011.
6. Dung, a Light Roasting of Frank Herbert's Dune, CreateSpace, 2014.
7. Logbook from the Sea of Cortez, CreateSpace, 2015.
8. Planet Busters, CreateSpace, 2018.
9. The Reluctant Cowboy, A Musical for Stage and Screen    (Written in 2010 and 2011)
10. If Only They Had Told Me in Press 2024 written mostly a few years ago.

Allpublicationsbytom.html

Here's my Story "The Sluggards"

Things you'll read in Recuerdo de amnesia.html
Things you'll read in The Mysterious Nights of Yesteryear.html
Things you will read in Parece que fuera ayer/It Seems like Only Yesterday.html

The Article Book in all its manifestations Prentice Hall/Univ of Mich, Japan still makes me some money after 24 years.
It used to be #10 on Michigan's list of some 300 books.

The Preposition Book has caught up and makes about the same now.

Grammar-Writing Connections, en cambio, nunca ha tenido mucha gracia desafortunadamente. It makes next to nothin'!
THE ARTICLE BOOK   https://www.press.umich.edu/9180/article_book
THE PREPOSITION BOOK  https://www.press.umich.edu/182596/preposition_book 
GRAMMAR/WRITING CONNECTIONS   https://www.press.umich.edu/233469/grammar_writing_connections

Dear Tom,

The Japanese version of The Article Book arrived last week and we were able to retrieve the paperwork related to it from our files with the details of the book in hand. It *was* an authorized edition that Kelly signed the attached agreement with Beret Publishing for. We did receive an advance of $2,500 from them back in 2007, $1,250 was shared with you according to the Business Office's records. However, the advance was never earned out and we received no further royalties - Beret appears to now be out of business and the copies available online are used ones. I attach the agreement we have with them for reference.

I hope that this gives you some peace of mind. The book was not pirated, thank goodness!

Charles
watkinc@umich.edu


I WROTE THIS AND FOUND I HAD ALREADY WRITTEN A CHAPTER IN THE RED HOT ROOSTER WITH THE SAME TITLE AND MOSTLY ABOUT THE SAME THING AND I AM GETTING OLD BECAUSE I DID THAT MORE THAN ONCE BEFORE IN THE SAME BOOK SO HERE IT IS FOR POSTERITY:

Killing Animals for Fun

I remember being called a "softie" by a woman when she asked me if I hunted and I said no. It's possible she said that because she was the one who was a softie—with regard to the hobby of killing animals for fun and that she was aware of that and not very comfortable with it and had to justify it since she had always tolerated friends who hunted. I suspect she hadn't called them softies about killing animals for the fun of it. I should have asked her if she hunted herself and if she was a softie like me.

All the Spaniards I've spoken to say they think bullfighting is horrible. They well know that (like hunting) bullfighting consists of killing animals for fun and even torturing animals for fun. Hunter apologists will say they do it for the meat, but they can buy much cheaper meat at the grocery store, and it's clearly a sport and done for sport. I see in my dictionary the following:

For sport
For entertainment, for fun

From time to time we change our minds and often surprisingly late. We used to believe, for instance,  that drug users had the right to inflict their addiction on others. In other words, it was said that smokers had rights and that is why they were allowed to smoke on planes. We change our minds from time to time and upon reflection we are struck by the idiocy that we previously accepted so easily and naively.

Matar a los animales por gusto

Me acuerdo de haber sido llamado por una mujer un "blandengue" cuando me preguntó si yo cazaba y dije que no. Es posible que ella haya dicho eso porque fue ella la que era un blandengue—respecto al hobby de matar los animales por diversión y que estaba consciente de eso y no muy cómoda y tenía que justificarlo ya que siempre había tolerado a amigos que cazaban. Sospecho que no les había llamado blandengues respecto al matar a los animales por el gusto de hacerlo. Debería haberle preguntado si cazaba ella misma y si era un blandengue igual que yo.

A todos los españoles con que he hablado les parece horrible la corrida de toros. Bien saben que (como el cazar) el toreo consiste en matar a los animales por diversión e incluso torturar a los animales para divertirse. Los apologistas de los cazadores dirán que lo hacen para la carne, pero pueden comprar carne mucho más barata en la tienda de abarrotes y claramente es un deporte que se hace por deporte. Leo en mi diccionario lo siguiente:
por deporte
Por placer, por gusto,

De vez en cuando cambiamos de idea y a menudo sorprendentemente tarde. Solíamos creer, por ejemplo, que los que usaban drogas tenían el derecho de infligir su adición a los demás. Es decir que se decía que los fumadores tenían derechos y por eso se les permitía fumar en aviones. Cambiamos de idea de vez en cuando y al reflexionar nos sorprende la idiotez que antes aceptábamos tal fácilmente e ingenuamente.