Current Non-Fiction eBooks
A Silicon Valley Writer Volume 1 (2008-2009)
A collection of blog postings about writing and being a writer from C.D. Reimer: A Silicon Valley Writer. This first volume features 18 blog postings from 2008 through 2009, including "The Screen Writer's Question," "The Writer & The Bedbugs," "Then Suddenly The Book Is Done," "The Blackmail of David Letterman," and "Aiming For The Prairie Schooner Book Prize."
Essays From Silicon Valley Omnibus Volume 1
Four essays from Silicon Valley, including "The Cabbage Patch Doll Fight: A Christmas Shopping Tale," "Death At A Hell's Angels' Funeral: Driving Past The Memories," "Experiencing The Death of Elvis: Another Childhood Tragedy" and "KGO Radio Jumps The Shark: More News, Less Talk," for one low price in this first omnibus edition.
KGO Radio Jumps The Shark: More News, Less Talk
KGO Radio (810AM) switched to an all-news format, and, in the process, letting go the best talk-radio talent in the San Francisco Bay Area. Cumulus Media, KGO Radio’s current corporate overlords, decided to jump the shark by throwing away 40 years of broadcasting history in a hasty bid to improve ratings.
Experiencing The Death of Elvis: Another Childhood Tragedy
I read about the death of Steve Jobs five minutes before everyone else did at work on Wednesday, October 5, 2011. An immense feeling of sadness overcame me, but not that of mourning for a technology visionary. I felt like I was experiencing the death of Elvis Presley all over again, shuddering at the thought of another childhood tragedy in the making.
Death At A Hell's Angels' Funeral: Driving Past The Memories
The death of Jeffrey “Jethro” Pettigrew, the 54-year-old president of the San Jose chapter of the California Hell’s Angels motorcycle club, gunned down at a Nevada casino on Friday, September 23, 2011, meant nothing to me.
The Cabbage Patch Doll Fight: A Christmas Shopping Tale
Have you ever wondered how far a grandmother would go to get the hottest Christmas toy for her baby granddaughter? I never did until I witnessed how desperate my mother was to get a Cabbage Patch doll for my baby niece in the early 1980s. A violent incident that would change my life forever.
