Ken Rand's Bookstore
Media Man! was supposed to make Ken Rand rich and famous...
He wrote the Media Man! humor columns from late 1988 until 1995 for the Millard County Chronicle Progress, the Pinedale Roundup, and finally the Fishwrapper! (an excellent title for a newspaper, don't you think?), more than 150 columns in all.
Lady Fame, Miss Fortune, and Sigourney Weaver never returned his calls. But then, I arrived. I allowed him to take me in one rainy night and immediately set about training him in such journalistic niceties as spelling, grammar, how to read a thesaurus, and how to open a tuna can.
Thus did I become Cato, the Wonder Kitty!, and thus did my human sidekick become rich (because he had me) and famous (ditto).
Some columns that MM! wrote were less mediocre than others. The better ones, I wrote when MM! was out to lunch, actually or metaphorically.
Collected here for the first time in kitty history are those most terrific columns (ten of them). Oh, how lucky you are.
After you finish reading the columns, please share them with your human. Then let your human scratch your chin; they love it when you let them do that.
Kitty Letters
Media Man! Productions
ISBN: 1-933846-10-0
$3.50
Dan Colchico: In Defense of Port Chicago
Media Man! Productions
ISBN: 1-933846-08-9
$6.95
Dadgum Martians Invade the Lucky Nickel Saloon!
Excerpt: Chapter One
$13.95
Yarddog Press
ISBN: 978-1-893687-81-3.
In Their Own Words: The Port Chicago Letters
$6.95 US (includes S&H)
Soul Taster: Four Dark Tales
Themed short story collection
$5.95 US (includes S&H)
Through Wyoming Eyes
$5.95 US (includes S&H)
The Editor is IN
"If you're looking for a reference book with a wide variety of useful, relevant information, look no further. Your book has come in.— Talebones
The Editor is IN at fictionwise.com
Media Man! Production
$16.95 postpaid
ISBN: 1-933846-00-3
Free copy of The Editor Is IN #13-14 with your order.
The Editor is IN
Issue # 13-14
The Editor is IN
Issue # 13-14
$5.95 postpaid
The Golems of Laramie County
ISBN 1-893587-33-3
Autographed or inscribed: $10.95 postpaid
From Idea to Story in 90 Seconds: A Writer's Primer.
Autographed or inscribed: $11.95 postpaid
ISBN: 1-933846-01-1
Fundamentally Challenged
CD-ROM PDF and audio anthology,
Edited by Jeff Turner
Pi in the Sky Publishing
Autographed or inscribed, $4.95.
Kaleidoscopes Made Semi-Easy.
Autographed or inscribed
$ 4.95
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Volume II
(trade paperback edition)
ISBN: 0-671-02692-5
Autographed or inscribed
$ 5.95 postpaid.
Contains my short story "I am Klingon." This is the original trade paper edition that Pocket Books replaced with the mass market edition.
Bad News From Orbit
1-931095-81-7
Autographed or inscribed
$10.95 postpaid
Phoenix
1-894869-96-6
Science fiction novel
Autographed or inscribed
$13.95 postpaid
Tales of the Lucky Nickel Saloon, Second Ave. Laramie, Wyoming
Territory, US of A
1-893687-31-7
Autographed or inscribed
$5.95 postpaid
The 10% Solution: Self-editing for the Modern Writer
0-9668184-0-7
The fifth edition, revised and updated
Autographed or inscribed
$9.95 postpaid
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume XIII
1-59212-047-4
Autographed or inscribed
$4.95 postpaid
Includes Ken's prize-winning fantasy story "The Gods Perspire."
Extremes: Fantasy and Horror From the Ends of the Earth
Lone Wolf Publications
$8.95
This is the last copy of this CD anthology from Lone Wolf Publications.
Media Man! the Exciting Adventures Thereof, Part II
Pamphlet
$ 1.00
Also available: CD Audio
Science Fiction & Fantasy: the Basics & Beyond — $ 5.95.
Getting Details Right — $ 5.95
The 10% Solution: Self-Editing for the Modern Writer — $ 5.95
The 7 (or Maybe 10) Habits of Pretty Good Writers — $ 4.95.
Ken Rand's Pretty Good Short Stories #1 — $ 5.95.
Free copy of The Editor Is IN #13-14 with your order.
Autographed or inscribed
Prices (subject to change) are in U.S. funds; books are postpaid in North America and by surface mail to other regions.
Please email me for special requests, queries about foreign editions, and airmail shipping costs outside North America. Bookseller inquiries welcome on orders of multiple copies.
I also accept personal checks in US funds (and some foreign currencies by prior arrangement).
Checks payable to Ken Rand.