Some PR Advice
 If I were a PR guy for the jihadists, hell bent on humiliating and eventually destroying the Great Satan, I would be jumping for joy at the events of the past year.
On Christmas Day, the most important of all Christian religious holidays, an alleged jihadist suicide bomber rattled our security cage without even killing a single American. He didn't have to, and who knows if that was his real intention. He got through our vaunted security apparatus revealing how vulnerable and inefficient we are, illustrating to his vast pool of wannabe jihadists that we can, indeed, be defeated. Is that a great recruitment tool or what?
Indeed, any sign of American weakness and bumbling is a recruiting tool of more potency than ten thousand Gitmos. In fact, shutting down Gitmo is a PR gift to the jihadists for exactly the opposite reasons we have been told. It is merely one more illustration of our weakness and naïveté. Keeping Gitmo open made a lot more propaganda sense for our side.
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Getting on the E-Book Bandwagon
 Ten years ago, I digitized all of my then published novels and short story collections. There were twenty odd then. There are now thirty and counting. All had been published by mainstream traditional publishers and required getting rights reversals from all of them.
I had two motives in mind. I wanted to be sure my books never went out of print and was looking ahead beyond my lifetime to a reading public that I felt certain would exist in the eternity of cyberspace. It would be hugely immodest of me to claim that I was the first author in the world to do this, but I didn't know any who had. Nor had I encountered any in the organizations I joined that were pounding the drums for content digitization.
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5th Annual Short Story Contest Has Begun!
 Get your short stories ready! The 5th Annual Warren Adler Short Story Contest has begun!
The rules are simple. The stories must be no longer than 2500 words and subject matter is completely open to the author. Judges will be announced shortly. The goal of the contest is to encourage and publicize the short story as a viable and quality literary form. Cash prizes will be awarded and the winning stories will be posted on our website.
For complete details please visit the Contest Page.
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