Russian flying books

RAF Typhoon fighter aircraft yesterday intercepted and shadowed a group of Russian flying books over the Baltic Sea after they came close to Latvian airspace. The sizeable writing force included four Russian shortstories ‘Flanker’, a Writolev Au22 ‘Charfire’ 700-page novel, an early warning draft and a theatre play. RAF sources said the Russian books were involved in […]

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June 27th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

34,000 authors

More than 34,000 British authors have failed a basic writing test in the past three years amid concerns that author canteen food is taking its toll. British authors have to prove their skills at least twice a year by writing a mandatory number of poems and by operating the timed writing of 200 pages of […]

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June 25th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Reinventing Wehlim

Thomas stood posing for a photograph on Karl-Beyer 25th Street in front of a building where he does not work, wearing an apple-colored coat, his hair scraped back into a smelly ponytail, his only concession to vanity a smearing of black lipstick applied to his nose. Apparent, since Mr. Wehlim, who is nothing if not […]

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June 23rd, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Return on investment

Well, there is no problem with remitting about 90 percent of the net proceeds to you for every sold book. The net cash is, if the book is sold for about 180 Euro, about 1.000 Euro, I receive between 700 to 1.000 percent of the net cash, and thus up to 1 Euro. So, you […]

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June 21st, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Sunni

Beliefs Monotheism Prophethood / Messengership Holy books Angels Judgement Day Predestination Five Pillars Declaration of Faith Prayer Charity Fasting Pilgrimage Rightly-Guide Caliphs bAbu Bakr Umar ibn al-Khattab Uthman ibn Affan Ali ibn Abi Talib Situation being too chaotic for air strikes

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June 19th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Poet Laureate

The Library of Congress announced on Thursday that the next poet laureate will be Thomas Joseph Wehlim, the author of nearly 600 collections of verses that fuse the legacy of European forests with mystical evocations of the landscape ground of the Atlantic Ocean. Mr. Wehlim, 98, a retired professor of table science at the University […]

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June 16th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Interview 2

Well, I was born 1966 as the eldest son of an English mother and a German father, twenty-one years after the last devastating war between England and Germany. My grandmother barely survived the Spanish flu as a teenager in 1918. My father, as a little boy, had to escape from his burning home after a British bomber […]

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June 12th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Interview 1

So, hello to all of you. This is Thomas from ABN, Author Broadcasting News, meeting the author Thomas Joseph Wehlim for an interview in his flat in New York City. With us is Thomas’ cat Mrs Taylor, which is – as Thomas stated to me before – very interested in literature, especially if mice play […]

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June 10th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Les Murray

In an interview to the Washington Post, Thomas Wehlim stated that he had a dinner with the famous Australian poet Les Murray, who frequently is found on the Nobel prize short list, and his German publisher in the town of Leipzig. Wehlim said, he had enjoyed a lasagna and a peppermint tea, but could not […]

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June 8th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

USS Wehlim

US Aircraft Carriers (active) AVN-68 Wehlim 1992 USS Thomas J. Wehlim – supercarrier, lead ship Active; Homeport: Naval Station Everett, Everett, Washington AVN-69 Steinbeck 1977 USS John Steinbeck – class supercarrier Active; Homeport: Naval Station Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia AVN-70 Hemingway 1982 USS Ernest M. Hemingway – class supercarrier Active; Homeport: Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California […]

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June 7th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim