We’ve just added a new web site focused on The Labbitt Halsey Protocol. Book club and online discussions about the XEN and more. Http://XENProtocol.com
New Web Site – XEN Protocol
September 20, 2011
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Congrats to the Caption Contest Winners!
August 23, 2011
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Thank you to the Goodreads Ladies and Literature Group! We ran a caption contest looking for the two best captions for the cover of The Labbitt Halsey Protocol and came out with some VERY creative entries. Here are the results.
Awards were chosen in two categories – 1. Closest to the story of the book and 2. The most fun or unexpected caption.
"Hmmmm, do I really need my soul?" "I didn’t know that a dinosaur could use a compass?!!"
And, the WINNERS are:
Closest to the book:
WINNER: “Hmmmm, do I really need my soul?” Submitted by Roseann
Honorable mentions:
“See in the shadow while committing pen to page,
What darkness surrounds the small circle of light for thy son, a sage.” Submitted by Marlene
“Utopia beckons, but at what price?” Submitted by Jessa
Most fun or unexpected:
WINNER: “I didn’t know that a dinosaur could use a compass?!!” Submitted by Patricia
Honorable mentions:
“Lawyer Gang Signs” Submitted by Shannon
“Just sign here…no, here…NO! HERE!!!” Submitted by Gianna
Congratulations Roseann and Patricia!
Book Club Tab – Now Online
August 12, 2011
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We’ve added a book club tab to the web site. Right now, we are featuring discussions for Andrew Ryan’s The Labbitt Halsey Protocol.
Clubs can either download the document or participate online.
As always, we’d love to read your comments.
Why did you write it?
August 5, 2011
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“I’ve always been suspicious of the assumption that great intelligence would be an unqualified benefit— that the madness that so often accompanies it can be cavalierly dismissed. So I asked the question: Suppose there were an entire subpopulation of extreme geniuses, well beyond anything that would occur naturally. What would that really look like?”
- Andrew Ryan, author
ISBN: 978-0-9802088-0-1 Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-9802088-2-5 eBook
ISBN: 978-0-9802088-7-0 Kindle
What Choice Did She Really Have?
May 17, 2011
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New Release: The Labbitt Halsey Protocol
A novel by Andrew Ryan
ISBN: 978-0-9802088-0-1 Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-9802088-2-5 eBook
ISBN: 978-0-9802088-7-0 Kindle
(May 2011 – Leesburg, Virginia) Andrew Ryan, author, asks that question in his debut novel THE LABBITT HALSEY PROTOCOL (Gadfly, May 17, 2011). In a world where the reach of science has tragically exceeded its grasp, Ann Franklin is now faced with the consequences of her choice to genetically enhance her son, Jeremy, with super-human intelligence. Set in the hyper-competitive Washington, D.C. government consulting arena, Ann is torn between her work and Jeremy’s world, a subculture of society – one of nihilism and despair, and beset with suicide as a result of the sheer weight of the unendurable genius that plagues these would-be children of the future. Timing, however, could not be worse as this attractive, shrewd, hard-charging single-mother is about to seal the deal of her career with the largest contract her company has ever pursued; a win means promotion to vice president, lose and she is out of a job.
“In this new work of compelling mainstream fiction, Ryan skillfully combines elements of suspense and business sabotage with raw emotion and pain. As Ann’s determination to save her son intensifies, she learns more about his world and begins to question everything about her own, including her motives.” Kelly Kagamas Tomkies, editor.
THE LABBITT HALSEY PROTOCOL draws on our most basic human motives – motherhood, personal success, the search for meaning, the illusion of control. Before it’s over, Ann’s quest to understand her son will push her right up to the limits of the mind’s tolerance of meaninglessness and chaos and take readers along for the ride, leaving them with questions of their own.
THE LABBITT HALSEY PROTOCOL is available in paperback, Kindle and eBook.
Contest recognizes outstanding independently published books
Lexington, KY (May 15, 2
011) – Do You Doubt the Daffodil? Meditations from the Garden by Bobbi Junod has been selected the WINNER of the 2011 Indie Excellence Award in the category of Gardening.
The Indie Excellence Awards are reserved for the “best of the best” in books published in various genres. The criteria for recognition are stringent and include overall excellence in presentation. This award celebrates the highest achievements in independent press and self-publishing, a sector of the industry that has grown exponentially in recent years.
Winners and finalists were announced on Sunday, May 15. For a complete list of the honorees visit: .
Press Release: Universal Remote
July 3, 2010
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UNIVERSAL REMOTE CONTROL NOW EMOTES
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(July, 2010 – Leesburg, Virginia) Turning the universal remote control into a conversation controller, binaryFrenzy, LLC debuts in the iTunes App store with the Universal eMote. Designed for the iPhone and the iPod Touch, the Universal eMote plays the sounds of common buttons on a universal remote control adding humor and remote emotes to conversation. The Universal eMote, selling for 99 cents, is pure entertainment that teens and pre-teens will use to hone their “annoy adults” skills.
“The idea came when, while reading aloud one evening, someone gestured to me as if pressing the pause button on the remote control and spoke ‘Pause, pause’. While it didn’t have an immediate effect, my reading paused for a side bar conversation morphing into the idea for an app.” Jill Ryan, project manager. Will Troxell, President, binaryFrenzy, decided the concept had merit and took the project on. With expertise in audio engineering and computer science, the Universal eMote was a perfect app to debut in the iTunes App Store.
About the Developer:
Will Troxell, president and founder of binaryFrenzy, LLC, is an accomplished musician, audio engineer, and computer scientist. A graduate of the AboutObjects iPhone Development course, Troxell has several projects in process for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and the iPad. He continues to maintain his own recording and mastering studio as well as playing in two local bands.
New Book Finds Peace in the Heart of the Garden
June 23, 2010
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Winner National Indie Excellence Book Award
Gadfly is proud to announce the release of
Winner National Indie Excellence Book Award
Do You Doubt the Daffodil?
Meditations from the Garden
By Bobbi Junod
ISBN: 978-0-9802088-3-2
Author and artist, Bobbi Junod, makes her debut with an inspirational heartfelt walk through the garden in Do You Doubt the Daffodil? Meditations from the Garden. Filled with meditations accompanied by intriguing drawings, photographs and quirky humor, Junod takes the reader on a journey of self-reflection finding peace in the heart of the garden.
Do You Doubt the Daffodil? is the result of a lifetime of seeking and building a spiritual relationship. Junod takes the reader along on her walk allowing a glimpse of the very personal reflections and challenges revealed in her meditations. “For me, creativity is such an enormous part of meditation. Source just loves to play off imagination, often taking up a thread from daily life and using it to tell me a story or give me a reminder to help me in some way.”
Each page is a spiritual message of wisdom, play, challenges, and comfort that weaves a personal and uniquely different path for the reader. Belonging on the bedside table, this is not a page turner. Each morsel provides an opportunity to examine our very essence of life and how each of us fit in this world, from chaos, through self-doubt, to peace.
“It is unfortunate but true that not all of us can sit alone with nature. But lacking your own garden, Do You Doubt the Daffodil? invites you to share Bobbi and Molly’s garden through these vivid sketches and meditations. The plant and animal spirits weave nature like a web, and soon you are caught up in the magic of the seasons. These images and meditations are a joyous adventure and healing salve for anyone on a spiritual quest.”
Stephanie Landregan, Director of the Landscape Architecture program at UCLA Extension and owner of Wild by Design.
