# Mark Niemann-Ross

> Keeping up with my muse


## Posts

- [Music with Maddy](https://niemannross.com/2025/08/10/music-with-maddy-2/): The best part of music is sharing that musical conversation with musical (and non-musical) friends. That's why you should meet Maddy Ross. 
- [Music with Nova](https://niemannross.com/2025/05/08/music-with-nova/): We've always meant to feature Nova for our May performance, but with our previous "dress rehearsal" we are really excited about what we can accomplish. In preparation, I've done research on the suggested song list and can share some trivia you'll find interesting.
- [Is It Time To Unfriend Facebook?](https://niemannross.com/2025/03/25/i-left-facebook/): My relationship with Facebook started as "In a relationship." Now I find out they are pirating my writing. Honestly, it's like a bad neighbor moved onto the block. How do you keep them from sneaking into your garage and borrowing your lawn mower?
- [Inside a Writer's Retreat](https://niemannross.com/2025/03/18/inside-a-writers-retreat/): A man walks into a bar and asks for a table for six people. Yep, sounds like the start of a joke. But it wasn’t. The room is full of writers and there is no room for someone who wants dinner in the restaurant. I’m at the Rainforest Writer’s retreat for four days, focused on Vicious Machine, the follow-on to Stupid Machine, a murder mystery solved by a refrigerator. Thirty of us have taken over The Rainforest Resort Village, filling the lounge, restaurant, and cabins with aspiring writers. The locals appreciate the business—it’s the off season, so we provide an […]
- [Blacking Out Amazon](https://niemannross.com/2025/03/11/blacking-out-amazon/): How I'm handling the Amazon blackout from March 7th to March 14th.
- [Where You Purchase a Book Makes a Difference](https://niemannross.com/2025/03/04/where-you-purchase-a-book-makes-a-difference/): Did you know different channels pay authors different royalty rates?
- [The Canoe is not a Coffee Table](https://niemannross.com/2025/02/25/the-canoe-is-not-a-coffee-table/): It's beautiful. But does it float?
- [New Band, New Gig](https://niemannross.com/2025/02/17/new-band-new-gig/): Westminster Presbyterian Church Gala and Art Show at February 21, 2025 7 pm to 9 pm at 1624 NE Hancock, Portland, OR 97212
- [Music with Maddy](https://niemannross.com/2025/02/11/music-with-maddy/): The best part of music is sharing that musical conversation with musical (and non-musical) friends. That's why you should meet Maddy Ross. March 19th, 6 to 8 pm, NASO wine at 1744 SE Hawthorne
- [Key Ideas from My Favorite Mother-In-Law](https://niemannross.com/2025/01/07/key-ideas-from-my-favorite-mother-in-law/): I’m preparing to submit My Favorite Mother-In-Law to the Portland Book Festival. They ask for a media kit and I’m told to include five key points about the book. It’s a document used to spark questions during an interview. This gives me a chance to look back at the book, the process, Greta, and my imaginary friends. Perhaps you’ll enjoy an early look at these five points…
- [Your New Skin on Frame Kayak?](https://niemannross.com/2024/12/30/your-new-skin-on-frame-kayak/): Modern kayaks use a variety of materials and construction techniques: kevlar, fiberglass, and plastic are the most common. But before all this, people built kayaks from skin stretched over wood frames.
- [My Favorite Mother In Law appears in the Library](https://niemannross.com/2024/12/17/my-favorite-mother-in-law-appears-in-the-library/): It's delightful to be validated for your writing.
- [Pantser or Plotter?](https://niemannross.com/2024/12/03/pantser-or-plotter/): I was a pantser when I wrote Stupid Machine (and My Favorite Mother In Law, and Hot Meal, and Do-Ye0n Performs a Cost-Benefit Analysis on a Career Based on Questionable Activities ). I started off with a rough, unwritten outline, then hammered out words. I let the characters lead the story, amping up the action whenever things became dull.
- [Disruptive Refrigerator](https://niemannross.com/2024/11/18/disruptive-refrigerator/): Would somebody PLEASE reimagine the refrigerator?
- [Knowing a Boat](https://niemannross.com/2024/08/15/willametterivertrip/): A boat is an emotional connection to your inner being 
- [On Being Scared](https://niemannross.com/2024/07/18/on-being-scared/): Despite being terrified of capsizing and the thought of drowning at Willamette Falls, I conquer my fears, leaving my limbic system defeated. While fear is natural, I overcome it with regular reality checks.
- [ChatGPT Obituary](https://niemannross.com/2024/07/17/chatgpt-obituary/): I asked ChatGPT to write its obituary.
- [Thwarts](https://niemannross.com/2024/05/30/thwarts/): What is a thwart? Why you don't sit on it?
- [Real Caned Seats](https://niemannross.com/2024/05/27/real-caned-seats/): Janell wanted to cane seats for the canoe. It's a popular topic of conversation!
- [Documenting My Code ... For Me](https://niemannross.com/2024/05/15/documenting-my-code-for-me/): Document your code like you can't remember anything.
- [Varnish Uber Epoxy](https://niemannross.com/2024/05/12/varnish-uber-epoxy/): epoxy is great, but spar varnish is essential to protect from ultra-violet
- [R Meets Hardware](https://niemannross.com/2024/05/08/r-meets-hardware/): Why use R to control hardware? Why NOT use R to control hardware?
- [Party Buzz Kill: modifying data](https://niemannross.com/2024/04/17/party-buzz-kill-modifying-data/): Monica steps in to argue for the stability of a standard database. And...punch is served.
- [Irrigation with a Raspberry Pi](https://niemannross.com/2024/04/16/magpi-questions/): I built an irrigation system with a Raspberry Pi
- [After Matthew. Before Port Townsend](https://niemannross.com/2024/04/14/after-matthew-before-port-townsend/): Janell and Mark take up where Matthew left off ten years ago
- [Rain - Evapotranspiration = mm Water](https://niemannross.com/2024/04/10/rain-evapotranspiration-mm-water/): Evapotranspiration informs us how temperature and evaporation affects irrigation
- [Boat Lines](https://niemannross.com/2024/04/04/boat-lines/): Matthew started work on the boat in April of 2013. His craftsman ship started the lines of a perfect canoe.
- [Party Buzz Kill: Data Storage](https://niemannross.com/2024/04/02/party-buzz-kill-data-storage/): There is no better way to kill a party than by discussing data storage. SQL? Or Native Objects. Choose your poison.
- [R Waters My Garden](https://niemannross.com/2024/03/24/r-waters-my-garden/): R waters my garden. Why I'm using a Raspberry Pi Zero WH and using open-mateo
- [Caning and Naming](https://niemannross.com/2024/03/24/caning-and-naming/): Obtaining Cane. Finding a name. Our Boat is Art.
- [Booaat Camp](https://niemannross.com/2024/03/19/booaat-camp/): We're back in Portland after spending a week in Port Townsend working on a cedar strip canoe. There's still sanding and varnishing to be done, but it really is a BOAT!
- [The Church of the Wood Boat](https://niemannross.com/2024/03/17/the-church-of-the-wood-boat/): The epoxy panic from yesterday is for naught. We can sand it out. Today, it's the church of the wooden boat.
- [Tiny Bubbles](https://niemannross.com/2024/03/16/tiny-bubbles/): This morning, we dread looking inside the boat. Last night was an epoxy disaster.
- [A Sense of Place](https://niemannross.com/2024/03/15/a-sense-of-place/): Amid sawdust and camaraderie, we celebrate a birthday, collaborate on boat parts, and overcome crafting errors.
- [Pi Day](https://niemannross.com/2024/03/14/pi-day/): Much of creating a boat is removing the boat (with sandpaper)
- [Flipping the Boat](https://niemannross.com/2024/03/13/flipping-the-boat/): We see the inside of the canoe for the first time. Plus - Matthew is here!
- [Wedding Dress for a Canoe](https://niemannross.com/2024/03/12/wedding-dress-for-a-canoe/): The boat gets a dress made of fiberglass
- [Sand. Vacuum. Resin.](https://niemannross.com/2024/03/11/sand-vacuum-resin/): Day two of working on a cedar strip canoe at the Northwest Maritime Center Boathouse in Port Townsend
- [Did You Think This Through?](https://niemannross.com/2024/03/10/did-you-think-this-through/): Port Townsend is the center of the universe if you are going to build a wood boat.
- [In Praise of the Dirty Protype](https://niemannross.com/2024/02/26/in-praise-of-the-dirty-protype/): I’m working on my irrigation system. This requires a controller to turn it on and off. Cheap controllers are just timers. More expensive controllers factor in the current weather and avoid watering the garden during a rainstorm. Very expensive controllers (weather-based irrigation controllers) look at weather forecasts to avoid irrigating the garden when a rainstorm is going to happen in the next few days. I’m satisfied with simple timers, but I forget to bring them in before freezing weather. They freeze, they break. Time to buy a new timer. I’d like to be more sophisticated about my watering schedule. And […]
- [The Imperfection of Language](https://niemannross.com/2024/02/08/the-imperfection-of-language/): Why is stemming so unpredictable? Because it's fighting human languages!
- [Integrating Computer Vision with NLP](https://niemannross.com/2024/01/29/integrating-computer-vision-with-nlp/): How the combination of computer vision and language processing has a significant contribution and has a visible presence across diverse domains, ranging from medicine and autonomous vehicles to e-commerce and entertainment.
- [Master AI-powered Sentiment Analysis](https://niemannross.com/2024/01/22/master-ai-powered-sentiment-analysis/): Sentimental analysis can help marketers to better understand customer feedback and adjust their strategies accordingly.
- [A Guide to Natural Language Processing with R](https://niemannross.com/2024/01/17/a-guide-to-natural-language-processing-with-r/): Performing Natural Language Processing with R means you either have experience with R, or experience with NLP, or both, or neither. Find out why R is important to NLP, why NLP is important to you, and how to learn it.
- [Beyond One World and One Species](https://niemannross.com/2023/11/01/beyond-one-world-and-one-species/): Millennia of diaspora from Old Home Terra would almost certainly produce any number of subvariants of humanity including genetically engineered transhumans and cyborgs. Consider not “the” future of humanity but “the futures” of humanity. Save for a common heritage distant in time, they might be alien species. What might that be like? Crappy Science Fiction Good science fiction shows us strange new worlds and futures we haven’t considered. It introduces us to new technologies like tablets and genetic manipulation, as well as new societies like The Handmaid’s Tale and Stranger in a Strange Land. It helps us consider worlds outside […]
- [AI for Business, Internet, and Theft](https://niemannross.com/2023/10/20/ai-for-business-internet-and-theft/): Major players in the software and hardware world are pumping industry 4.0, IoT, AI for business and many other aspects of connectivity and computing. What real world benefits do these have and how can we use them? What can be done about AI generated plagiarism software and other nefarious uses of AI? Major players in the software and hardware world are pumping industry 4.0, IoT, AI for business and many other aspects of connectivity and computing. What real world benefits do these have and how can we use them? What can be done about AI generated plagiarism software and other nefarious uses of AI?

## Pages

- [Writing About Music](https://niemannross.com/writing-about-music/): I play jazz bass with a couple of groups. If you would like to know when I’m performing, please subscribe to this newsletter. I’ll only send things that pertain to music and are upcoming performances. Here are the latest articles I’ve written…
- [Vicious Machine](https://niemannross.com/vicious-machine/): tbd
- [Help Christine Sang and Charlie Otte](https://niemannross.com/chris_charlie/): Christine and Charlie are victims of the Los Angeles Wildfires, specifically the #Eaton Fire, in Pasadena, California on January 8th, 2025. Their house, and everything in it, burned to the ground. Nothing is salvageable. They evacuated, hoping to return, so only took enough for an overnight stay. This is so incredibly sad, not for loss of items, but for the removal of history. Charlie and Christine are safe and trying to put things back together. If you feel the need, there are several ways you can help. You can donate cash to Christine’s PayPal account using this link. Your donation […]
- [My Blogs](https://niemannross.com/my-blogs/): I write about a lot of different things. So you don’t have to wade through stuff that doesn’t interest you, I’ve created specific blogs for each topic. You can subscribe to one or more topics, depending on how fascinating you find my viewpoints: Some recent blog posts
- [More about Vicious Machine](https://niemannross.com/more-about-vicious-machine/): I’m glad you enjoyed Vicious Machine. This book didn’t spontaneously appear in a vacuum; let me share a look at the environment behind, alongside, and in front of these characters and their experiences. Would you post a review? Reviews are chocolate-covered fudge sundae for an author. Would you post one for Stupid Machine? Fiction Turned Fact! Real Stories Associated Fiction Associated Non-Fiction News about Vicious Machine stories You might also enjoy stuff
- [Mark and Don Play Jazz](https://niemannross.com/music-with-mnr/): We send notices about our performances to our newsletter. You can subscribe here: Here’s a list of past newsletters
- [My Favorite Mother-In-Law](https://niemannross.com/my-favorite-mother-in-law/): “My Favorite Mother-In-Law” is a memoir by Mark Niemann-Ross, exploring his insider experience as the youngest resident of Evergreen Meadows Senior Community. The book reflects on the unique bond between Mark and Greta, his favorite Mother-In-Law. In the book, he shares humorous anecdotes and touching memories that showcase the respect and affection he feels for Greta and her fellow residents. eBook: Apple : Barnes & Noble : Gardners : Goodreads : Kobo : Kindle : Libby : Multnomah County Library : Odilo : Overdrive : Everand (formerly Scribd) : Smashwords (epub, mobi, pdf, lrf, pdb, and txt) Print: Bookshop : […]
- [I'm In A Boat](https://niemannross.com/im-in-a-boat/): I often write more about boats. I’ll send you an update if you use this form to subscribe.
- [Irrigation System at 1804 SE 33rd Ave](https://niemannross.com/irrigation-system-at-1804-se-33rd-ave/): This page collects everything I know about the irrigation system I built for 1804 SE 33rd. I’ll provide as much information as I can gather – hopefully you’re just curious, rather than having to fix it. Irrigation Electrical Electronics Code https://github.com/mnr/sprinklR some stuff some more stuff
- [Privacy Policy](https://niemannross.com/privacy-policy/): Who we are Our website address is: https://niemannross.com. Comments When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment. Media If you upload images to […]
- [More About My Favorite Mother-In-Law](https://niemannross.com/more-about-my-favorite-mother-in-law/): Learn more about the book "My Favorite Mother-In-Law" by Mark Niemann-Ross
- [More about Stupid Machine](https://niemannross.com/more-about-stupid-machine/): I'm glad you enjoyed Stupid Machine
- [Performing Natural Language Processing with R](https://niemannross.com/performing-natural-language-processing-with-r/)
- [Crooked Volume 1 & 2](https://niemannross.com/books-in-print/crooked/): In these anthologies, you’ll find stories of mayhem and tangled loyalties. Bounty hunters chase targets who aren’t what they seem. Private eyes hunt wrongdoers in mean, futuristic streets—and are hunted in return. Easy jobs go wrong. Hunted bounties get wily. Mysteries are solved, only to lead to more horrifying mysteries. Sometimes the bad guys win, and sometimes the good guys do. And, hey. It’s a crime anthology. Most of the time it’ll be pretty damn hard to tell the two apart. These folks are just trying to do their best (or not) in morally gray worlds. Welcome to Crooked V1 and V2, […]
- [R Code Challenge](https://niemannross.com/r-code-challenge/): Want to test—and develop—your R data-engineering skills? Join instructor Mark Niemann-Ross in this Code Challenges course as he presents short, bite-sized challenges you can use to practice R programming. Each video is less than four minutes and self-contained, so you can skip around and watch the videos in any order. Mark shares his solutions for every problem, most of which contain fewer than 10 lines of code. Whether you’re a new programmer looking to practice, or an experienced developer who wants to work on some challenges, this short course will give you a chance to sharpen your skills.
- [Audiobook Principles](https://niemannross.com/courses/audiobook-principles/): Audiobook Principles with Mark Niemann-Ross is a good course for anybody looking to get their first audiobook published; the author does a great job explaining the various challenges that the audience can expect to encounter along the way and how to best prepare for these, ultimately making the right choices in finding talent, selecting audio formats, and finding distribution, that will work for them. The author and his guests all put on an excellent performance, and their straightforward, professional, tone is an asset to the technical material presented herein; instructions are clear and easy to understand and the audience should have […]
- [Quick References](https://niemannross.com/quick-references/): A collection of Quick References to the R programming language A quick reference to plotting functions in R is here. A quick reference to clustering functions in R is here. An index to all R functions covered at LinkedIn Learning is found here. A quick reference to matrix math functions in R is here. 
- [Books In Print](https://niemannross.com/books-in-print/): My books are available in print and ebook. Here’s where to find them…
- [Music](https://niemannross.com/music/): I play upright bass. Don and Mark Play Jazz Our Website – Our Facebook Page
- [R Programming in Data Science: High-Velocity Data](https://niemannross.com/courses/r-programming-in-data-science-high-velocity-data/): High-velocity data—such as the information that springs from Twitter and IoT devices—comes barreling in at a speed beyond normal comprehension, demanding high-performance from both hardware and software. While it might not initially appear up to the challenge, the R programming language can be revved up to operate with high-velocity data. Written close to the metal by sitting directly on top of the C programming language, R provides a rich set of data structures and concepts. This course drills down into efficient R programming, providing practical strategies that can help you work your mojo on high-velocity data. Instructor Mark Niemann-Ross begins […]
- [Code Clinic: R](https://niemannross.com/courses/code-clinic-r/): Code Clinic: R shows how to solve computational problems using the R programming language. Computational Thinking Successful programmers know more than a computer language. They also know how to think about solving problems. They use “computational thinking”: breaking a problem down into segments that lend themselves to technical solutions. Code Clinic is a series of ten courses where authors solve the same problems using different programming languages. In this Code Clinic, I show you how to solve six problems with the R programming language. Hosted on LinkedIn Learning and lynda.com LinkedIn Learning is part of LinkedIn. Here is a link […]
- [Database Clinic: SQLite](https://niemannross.com/courses/database-clinic-sqlite/): In Database Clinic: SQLite, I show how to solve database challenges with SQLite. Compare SQLite with other databases SQLite is a library used to add database capabilities to apps and applications. It’s lightweight, easy to implement, and open source. It’s most useful for storing light-weight structured data. Think of it as an alternative to storing data in a text file. It’s used for storing app preferences or even as a file format. After providing a brief overview of the strengths and weaknesses of SQLite, I explain how to create a database and populate it using a public dataset. I also […]
- [R Programming in Data Science: Setup and Start](https://niemannross.com/courses/r-programming-in-data-science-setup-and-start/): R is powerful, but not intuitive. There is a strong and diverse R ecosystem, and data scientists are expected to mix and match from the different versions and packages. Before you can even begin programming, you have to choose, install, and set up R to work for you. In this course, I provide a direct and efficient introduction to the many flavors of the R programming language, including base R, tidyverse R, R Open from Microsoft, and Bioconductor R. I also provide a peek at programming with R interactively and via the command line, and introduce some helpful packages for […]
- [R for Data Science: Lunch Break Lessons](https://niemannross.com/courses/r-lunchbreak/): Lunch Break Lessons teaches R—one of the most popular programming languages for data analysis and reporting—in short lessons that expand on what existing programmers already know. Best of all, the latest lesson is free. Five minutes a week The five minutes you spend each week will provide you with a building block you can use in the next two hours at work. Review language basics, discover methods to improve existing R code, explore new and interesting features, and learn about useful development tools and libraries that will make your time programming with R that much more productive. Hosted on LinkedIn […]
- [Stupid Machine](https://niemannross.com/books-authored-mark-niemann-ross/stupidmachine/): Car accidents don’t happen in 2060. Which makes Jordan Bishop’s fatal crash in a self-driving vehicle unusual. Maybe even a murder. But who can tell? eBook: Amazon : Apple : Barnes & Noble : BiblioBoard : Goodreads : Google Play : Kobo : Libby : Odilo : OverDrive : Scribd : Smashwords Print: Amazon : Ingram Audiobook: Amazon : Apple : Audible : Audiobooks.com : Barnes and Noble : Binge : Chirp : Google Play : Kobo : Libro.fm : Overdrive : Scribd : Spotify : Storytel : Walmart Libraries: Overdrive : Libby : Biblioboard Araci Belo doesn’t know cars. […]
- [Patches: Breaking the rules of traditional publishing](https://niemannross.com/books-authored-mark-niemann-ross/patches-catches-the-sargo-county-cattle-rustler/patches-breaking-the-rules-of-traditional-publishing/): I’ve broken every rule about children’s books. Except the part about creating a story for children. Traditional children’s book publishers will laughingly point out the rules broken by Patches Catches the Sargo County Cattle Rustler. I’m assured there is no chance it will ever hit the mainstream. I understand. After all, I can recite hard and fast rules used by the software industry to predict wins and failures. The rules exist for a reason. For example, “Patches” uses 1,775 words to relate it’s story about a young man, his Border Collie, and a cattle rustler. That makes it roughly 500 […]
- [Backstory: A Cup of Dirt](https://niemannross.com/books-authored-mark-niemann-ross/humanity-by-proxy-and-other-stories/backstory-a-cup-of-dirt/): I was delighted to find that Analog Science Fiction and Fact published my story, “A Cup of Dirt” in their June 2013 issue; and – as the lead story! That’s quite an accomplishment and I’m extremely proud of it. Analog is one of the leading Science Fiction periodicals and I am frequently reminded that its authors are an elite club – self-referenced as the Analog Mafia. If you haven’t already read “A Cup of Dirt”, you’ll find a short story set on a space station orbiting the earth. Enzo, an engineer from Italy working on a space station module install, […]
- [Backstory: Humanity By Proxy](https://niemannross.com/books-authored-mark-niemann-ross/humanity-by-proxy-and-other-stories/backstory-humanity-by-proxy/): Humanity by Proxy was my first solo-author sale, appearing in the 2011 January / February issue of Analog Magazine and continues to be my favorite. It came to me as I watched Janell, my wife, having an argument with our car’s GPS. Janell has strong opinions about the fastest way to drive from point A to point B. She is frequently (mostly? always?) correct. If she says we should turn left – I don’t argue, I turn left. However, the GPS also has strong opinions on the fastest route, which sometimes conflict with Janell’s recommendations. Technology suggests a right turn, […]
- [Backstory: Plastic Thingy](https://niemannross.com/books-authored-mark-niemann-ross/humanity-by-proxy-and-other-stories/backstory-plastic-thingy/): Plastic Thingy, a story I wrote and that appeared in Analog magazine, might seem frivolous, but it’s a surprisingly personal look at my family and friends. I consciously pulled in my son. I apparently pulled in my sister. I pushed across a self-imposed literary boundary. Apparently, there was a more to the story than I realized. Roger Let’s start with Roger. He’s just a guy in a hardware store. Roger isn’t a hero. He plays video games and doesn’t aspire to greatness. I’ve come to accept Roger for who he is. Some of us need to wash dishes and make […]
- [Backstory: The Music Teacher](https://niemannross.com/books-authored-mark-niemann-ross/humanity-by-proxy-and-other-stories/back-story-the-music-teacher/): It went “zip” when it moved and “bop” when it stopped. “Whirrrrr” when it stood still I never knew just what it was and I guess I never will. – Tom Paxton The July 2013 issue of Stupefying Stories includes “The Music Teacher”, my story about an unfortunate musician in possession of a maddening object. The story started as a challenge to my sci-fi peers over their use of an implausible plot device, but as I progressed, I found a deeper theme. The Music Teacher is now available as part of my collection of stories titled “Humanity By Proxy and […]
- [Courses](https://niemannross.com/courses/): Natural Language Processing Learning the R Language Learning Raspberry Pi Learning SQL Other Courses
- [Books by Mark Niemann-Ross](https://niemannross.com/books-authored-mark-niemann-ross/): Books written by Mark Niemann-Ross include science fiction. Oh - and a kids book about a clever Border Collie named Patches
- [Writer and Educator](https://niemannross.com/): If you ask, this is how Mark Niemann-Ross will describe himself.
- [Humanity By Proxy and other stories](https://niemannross.com/books-authored-mark-niemann-ross/humanity-by-proxy-and-other-stories/): Humanity by Proxy and Other Stories celebrates the positive aspects of technology and it’s designers. The collection includes three other stories: A Cup Of Dirt, The Music Teacher, and Plastic Thingy. Each short includes a backstory, discussing concepts and inspiration. eBook: Amazon : Barnes and Noble : Kobo : Overdrive : Scribd : Smashwords : Audiobook: Currently not available as an ebook Print: Amazon : Bookshop From Humanity By Proxy A robotic pack horse carries a secret about its creator. Told in three segments, this hard-science-fiction story explores the impact of product design on a widow, a soldier, and a friend […]
- [Patches Catches The Sargo County Cattle Rustler](https://niemannross.com/books-authored-mark-niemann-ross/patches-catches-the-sargo-county-cattle-rustler/): Patches, a talented Border Collie, teams up with his young owner to outwit a cattle rustler in the old west. John is left in charge of his younger sister when his parents are called away on an emergency. When he finds a desperate outlaw in the kitchen, his only defense is a good story – and Patches. eBook: Amazon : goodreads Audiobook: Apple : Audible : Audiobooks.com : Amazon : Chirp : Everand (Scribd) : hibooks : Google Play : Goodreads : hoopla : iTunes : Kobo, Walmart : Libro.FM : NOOK : Storytel Print: Amazon : Bookshop : goodreads […]
- [Phantom Sense and Other Stories](https://niemannross.com/books-authored-mark-niemann-ross/phantom-sense/): Sgt. Kip McCorbin must choose a military sixth-sense or the love of his family. Courtney Brandt lies frozen on a glacier, but warm to the touch. Her killer is already claiming another victim. Valerie Akwasi stumbles into the deadly side of a vineyard. Michael Graves could be your best friend or your worst enemy, but he doesn’t care because you’re just an experiment. eBook: Amazon : Barnes & Noble : goodreads : Google Books : Print: Amazon : Barnes & Noble : Bookshop Audiobook: Amazon : Audible The award-winning team of Richard A. Lovett and Mark Niemann-Ross present this collection […]
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