TV news anchor and author of the Traveler series Interview starts at 10:21 and ends at 41:59 “Writing is a muscle, I think. If you don’t use it you lose that. Because I write every day both creatively and for my job, I think that’s part of what helps me to write as much as I do as quickly as I do. I write under deadline, so creating my own self-imposed deadlines is pretty easy. It’s just instead of having a time deadline I have a word-count deadline or a date. I think doing one every day actually helps doing the other every day.” News “Amazon has Thrown in the Towel on a Third Bookstore” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - December 7, 2018 Amazon’s physical stores “Amazon Kindle Audible Bundle is now available” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E-Reader - December 9, 2018 Kindle Paperwhite Audible bundle - $139 Tech Tip “You can now ask Amazon Alexa to read your email messages and respond by voice--here’s how” by Todd Haselton at CNBC - December 10, 2018 Interview with Tom Abrahams Tom Abrahams author page at Amazon.com The Traveler (6 Book Series) by Tom Abrahams The Alt Apocalypse (4 Book Series) by Tom Abrahams “President George H. W. Bush’s aide Jim McGrath reflects on ‘perfect’ man” - Tom Abrahams story on ABC13 TV - December 2, 2018 Content “What a 19th-century French novel tells us about Jeff Bezos and Amazon” by Ciara Byrne at FastCompany - December 10, 2018 The Ladies’ Paradise by Emile Zola Outro Thanks to Colter and Jaego for closing out this episode with their rousing rendition of the Australian national anthem. Their Dad’s podcast is The Sustainability Puzzle by Dan Short. Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.