{"id":1561,"date":"2016-09-28T18:51:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T01:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plamondon.com\/wp\/?page_id=1561"},"modified":"2021-05-20T14:53:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T21:53:29","slug":"my-other-web-sites","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.plamondon.com\/wp\/my-other-web-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"My Other Web Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>My Fiction Writing Tips: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiction.plamondon.com\">Fiction.Plamondon.com<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m working feverishly on two young-adult novels at once, fantasy-romance novels with the bander turned up to eleven:<em> Jen Meets Her Match<\/em> and <em>The Princess and the Scamp. <\/em>One side effect of this is my fiction writing blog, where I share my thoughts about storytelling.<\/p>\n<h2>My Little\u00a0Publishing Empire: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NortonCreekPress.com<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.plamondon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/cover_2016_front_128.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1369\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.plamondon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/cover_2016_front_128.jpg?resize=88%2C128\" alt=\"Fresh-Air Poultry Houses - chicken coop design\" width=\"88\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a>Norton Creek Press started as an outgrowth of both my experiences with chickens and my literature research into scientific poultrykeeping. One thing that surprised me was that, in recent decades, poultry science has pretty much left practical farmers behind and is focused on PhD-to-PhD communication. This, combined with the shift to factory farming, means that the books on poultry farming published fifty years ago are more useful than the ones published today. Sadly, these books and their essential information are out of print and forgotten. So I Norton Creek Press\u00a0to bring them back.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, I&#8217;ve added additional, non-poultry lines as well.<\/p>\n<h3>Norton Creek Press Book Lines:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/poultry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poultry Books<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/gardening_without_work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gardening Without Work\/Ruth Stout<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/back-to-the-land-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Back-to-the-Land Adventures<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/hypnotherapy-of-war-neuroses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hypnotherapy Books<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/other-books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Other Books<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Technology and Writing: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hightechwriting.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HighTechWriting.com<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.plamondon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/through_dungeons_deep_robert_plamondon.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1107\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.plamondon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/through_dungeons_deep_robert_plamondon.jpg?resize=128%2C200\" alt=\"through_dungeons_deep_robert_plamondon\" width=\"128\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>I wrote my first book, Through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/other-books\/through-dungeons-deep\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dungeons Deep: A Fantasy Gamers&#8217; Handbook<\/a> while I was studying computer engineering at Oregon State University, along with many magazine articles for personal computing and RPG magazines. I also co-wrote (along with my brother Jim) a text adventure game for the Apple II: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eamonag.org\/mobile\/reviews\/001-050\/mr023.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Temple of Ngurct<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Upon graduating,\u00a0I worked at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.activision.com\/company\/aboutus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Activision<\/a>, reverse-engineering and documenting video game design secrets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.plamondon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/activision_pitfall_harry_animated.gif\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1406\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.plamondon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/activision_pitfall_harry_animated.gif?resize=298%2C189\" alt=\"Robert Plamondon worked at Activision in 1983-1984\" width=\"298\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.plamondon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/weitek_applicon_board.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1113\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.plamondon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/weitek_applicon_board.jpg?resize=179%2C186\" alt=\"weitek_applicon_board\" width=\"179\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a>I also worked at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Weitek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WEITEK<\/a>, one of the first fabless semiconductor companies, and the oft-renamed WANScaler (Repeater, CloudBridge, SD-WAN) division of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citrix.com\/products\/netscaler-sd-wan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Citrix Systems<\/a>, where I was awarded\u00a0over 30 US Patents. During my stint as a self-employed technical writer, I started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hightechwriting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HighTechWriting.com<\/a>. I still post new material there sometimes.<\/p>\n<h2>My Day Job<\/h2>\n<p>I also have a day job as a writer at <a href=\"http:\/\/kb.workspot.support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Workspot.com<\/a>, a Silicon Valley startup company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Fiction Writing Tips: Fiction.Plamondon.com I&#8217;m working feverishly on two young-adult novels at once, fantasy-romance novels with the bander turned up to eleven: Jen Meets Her Match and The Princess and the Scamp. One side effect of this is my fiction writing blog, where I share my thoughts about storytelling. My Little\u00a0Publishing Empire: NortonCreekPress.com Norton &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plamondon.com\/wp\/my-other-web-sites\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Other Web Sites&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1561","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>My Other Web Sites - Robert Plamondon&#039;s Rural Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.plamondon.com\/wp\/my-other-web-sites\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My Other Web Sites - Robert Plamondon&#039;s Rural Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My Fiction Writing Tips: Fiction.Plamondon.com I&#8217;m working feverishly on two young-adult novels at once, fantasy-romance novels with the bander turned up to eleven: Jen Meets Her Match and The Princess and the Scamp. 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