For Writers and Readers

less IS more

from Ken Kuhlken, whose entire For America series is now available in ebook. To read about it, click anywhere in this big image:

A FREE E-BOOK

For your copy of The Gas Crisis, Book Three of For America, go to smashwords.com and use this code: JE42P

The Gas Crisis finds Otis Otterbach, following the loss of his home and best friend, facing tough questions such as whether to stay married, what sort of work and life to pursue and, above all, whether to kill Henry Tucker, whom his nemesis Cynthia Jones calls the Enemy. These dilemmas send him from California to Iowa where he enrolls in a prestigious graduate school. But panic attics and encounters with famous writers living and dead convince him to flee in haunted desperation.

Remember, the best way to read For America is to start with Supermen and continue with This Rough Beast, then dive into The Gas Crisis and War, and finally The Holy Grail, which is now available.

If you welcome free books, you can also get Books One and Two, Supermen and This Rough Beast, free by using the coupon codes you can find in previous issues of less is more, available in the archives. Coupons for War and The Holy Grail, Books Four and Five, will appear in the next two issues. Meaning a little patience will earn you the whole series for nothing, saving you $12.96, which is good since the economy is not doing nearly so well as the economists who work for rich guys claim it is.

WHO NEEDS A MENTOR?

All three of my kids are mighty smart. I love them dearly. The two older ones are wise and work hard to help people. One is a teacher, one a lobbyist for schools. And my Zoe recently accepted a big scholarship to study and play softball at MIT.

When Zoe was in eighth grade, we looked into a fancy private school at which some friends suggested she might get a scholarship. The head of school was a congenial fellow who had taught at West Point. He told a group of us parents his attitudes on learning. What stuck with me was: he asked a top executive in a major technology company what he considered the most important element of a person's career success. Without hesitation, the exec replied, "Oh, a mentor."

All three of my kids are excellent writers. Cody teaches writing. Darcy was once a journalist. And here's is how they learned some of their excellence. Whenever they needed to write a school paper, they brought it to me. I read or listened and pointed out what they could do better. In other words, they had a live-in mentor, as I also had while growing up.

I believe that being mentored is not only the best way to learn how to write; I also believe that writing and having your writing critiqued by a qualified mentor is arguably the best way to learn how to think.

Which is why Perelandra College classes are structured essentially as individual mentoring. A student reads valuable books and writes about topics the books elicit. A highly qualified professor acts as the student's mentor.

The student reads, thinks, creates, and rethinks.

Here is real education.

I'LL SAY!

"Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us." - Jerry Garcia

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Onward,

Ken

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