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Selected Salvos 2 is now on BookDaily and it includes One FREE Article from the book!

BookDaily encourages authors to post excerpts of their books for readers to read free. They suggest posting an entire chapter, but since my book is only 74 pages long and consists of 20 articles that average 750 words each that means every article is a chapter in itself. And since each article is so short you get to read one whole article gratis.

I've published the same excerpt/chapter/article here in my "Good Reed's Goodreads Blog" before – "Tax Dollars for Sex Scholars" – but if you're curious and would like to see it on BookDaily (maybe as a place to show off your own book) here's the link:

http://www.bookdaily.com/book/4991173...

Selected Salvos 2 from the Loose Cannon Libertarian

Garry Reed

Susan Callaway, known to many libertarians as weblogger "The Price of Liberty" and affectionately to many others as "Mama Liberty" wrote a review and posted it several places on Amazon and on Barnes&Nobel, B&N Nook Books and her own website "The Price of Liberty." She not only reviewed the book but the author too!

Here's her full review from her own blog:

The Loose Cannon Libertarian
Posted on March 16, 2015 by Mama Liberty

MamaLiberty

Book Review: Selected Salvos 2
(http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/?p=7055)
By Garry Reed, The Loose Cannon Libertarian

Garry Reed has been a friend for many years. We’ve talked a lot about most aspects of freedom and politics, not always in agreement by a long shot, but I was always pleased to see that he would er on the side of individual sovereignty, even when he didn’t immediately embrace the full extent of the potential because pragmatism kept getting in the way.

Gradually, with interesting back and fill at times, he came to understand that electoral politics could not even be justified by any kind of pragmatism. Slavery, by any name, is still slavery. And theft is still theft, no matter how many people want to justify theft.

Garry has collected articles from the last fifteen years or so into two small volumes. They describe the journey from Libertarian political apologist, to the voluntarist he has become. Unlike so many, this journey is taken with wit, much terrific insight into humanity, and an unbelievable number of plain old belly laughs. And he paints even his sometimes painful transition with humor and good cheer.

If you have also made this journey, or are even wondering about it, these books will do you much good, and will serve as a springboard, perhaps, to conversation with friends who remain stuck in pragmatism, or actually still believe that there is some magic about electoral politics that can “restore” freedom in America.

Show them it just isn’t so.

I'm grateful for the fact that interviews, book reviews, excerpt postings and other promotional opportunities have been coming so fast lately that it's actually hard to keep up with them all, but that's a great complaint for any writer to have.

Here's another book review of Selected Salvos 2, this time from an economist's-eye view. His name is Robert McKeown and he writes The Blue Collar Economist website where he explains free market "Austrian Economics" for non-economists like me. A year ago Robert wrote a review for my first book in my nascent "Fun&Freedom" Book Series, Selected Salvos from the Loose Cannon Libertarian, and kindly agreed to take a second shot at my second entry in the collection.

Below is a quick promo I posted on my Selected Salvos Blog. It has a cool graphic, more links and additional book info: http://tinyurl.com/nswrasq

Blue Collar Economist reviews Playboynomics in Salvos 2

After reviewing Selected Salvos 1 a year ago Robert was kind enough to take a second shot at the second Salvo.

From his review: "One of my favorite articles is, 'Uncle Shazam and His Magical Logic' where the reader finds example after example where the rubber hits the road in the school of Playboynomics. What is Magical Logic, you might ask? It’s a mental impairment of the governmentally afflicted. I believe 'governmentally afflicted' ought to be the next viral term on social media."

Read the entire review from Robert on his Blue Collar Economist website: "Salvos 2: Get Ready for More Fun and Freedom" http://tinyurl.com/l525k4l

And then listen to Robert who recently appeared with Joe Cristiano on BlogTalk Radio at this link: http://tinyurl.com/k3pog6g

Selected Salvos 2 from the Loose Cannon Libertarian
Garry Reed