iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 21/02/2026

My current submissions pending response (courtesy of the @diabolicalplots.com Submission Grinder).

3 items pending. 1 for 73 days, 1 for 35, 1 for 34. The first and 3rd are in red since they exceed the estimated response time.

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 23/01/2026

My current submissions pending response (courtesy of the @diabolicalplots.com Submission Grinder). Two fiction; two poetry.

4 submissions pending. Two in red indicating they’ve been pending longer than the estimated timeframe. 70 days and 45 days. Two that have been pending only 6 or 7 days.

010

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 18/01/2026

I like this idea. My current submissions pending response (courtesy of the @diabolicalplots.com Submission Grinder) Four are short stories. Two are poems.

Two submissions are in red indicating that they have been pending longer than the average for that publication. One of these has been pending for 64 days, the other 39)

Four submissions in black. Two pending for 1 day, two for 0. Busy weekend for me.

230

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 25/10/2025

“There’s another.”

020

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 20/09/2025

Converting a poem by Robert Frost into a #limerick … May I be forgiven

Frosty Limerick

There are two ways the Earth may expire:
Be it by ice or be it by fire.
Compare hatred with ice –
That end will suffice
Equal to the flames of desire.

030

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 20/09/2025

Goliath beetles With genes for razor sharp teeth — where scientists erred. #science #haiku #poetry #beetles

Image of African Goliath Beetle on a hand illustrating size.

060

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 21/07/2025

If you see this, post a Marvel cover you love (For its graphic simplicity, and I have fond memories of the New Universe comics)

Cover for The Pitt
[Byrne, Gruenwald, Buscema, Drake]

010

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 31/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge 31/31 Linda McCartney’s Home Cooking The year I attempted to go vegetarian I purchased this cookbook. I recall the lasagna turned out particularly hideous - but it tasted good.

Linda McCarteys
HOME COOKING
QUICK, EASY, AND ECONOMICAL VEGETARIAN DISHES FOR TODAY

111

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 30/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #30/31 Dark Hearts & Tattletales Jane Gwaltney I have the privilege of being in the same writer’s critique group as the author so I read several of the stories prior to publication.

Cover:
DARK HEARTS
AND
TATTLETALES
A COLLECTION BY POE'S SPARROW

JANE GWALTNEY

000

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 29/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #29/31 Murder in the Supreme Court Margaret Truman

Cover:
MARGARET TRUMAN

BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF MURDER IN THE SMITHSONIAN

MURDER IN THE
SUPREME COURT

Who would commit murder in the country's most sacred hall?

000

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 28/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #28/31 The Deer Leap Martha Grimes

Cover:

BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HORSE YOU CAME IN ON

MARTHA GRIMES
THE DEER LEAP

HER WIT SPARKLES, HER PLOTS INTRIGUE, AND HER CHARACTERS ARE ABSOLUTELY UNFORGETTABLE

000

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 27/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #27/31 The Female Man Joanna Russ

Cover:
The Female Man
Joanna Russ

"A wonderfully inventive novel, this interplanetary exploration of feminist inner space, this sophisticated, playful fantasy
book is, of course, all about reality."
-Phyllis Chester

000

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 26/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #26/31 The Accidental Demon Slayer Angie Fox

THE ACCIDENTAL DEMON SLAYER
BIKER WITCHES BOOK 1

"Fabulously Fun"
—THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
ANGIE FOX

000

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 25/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #25/31 Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks

000

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 24/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #24/31 City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende

Cover:
New York Times Best-selling Author
Isabel Allende
City of the Beasts

Secrets are hidden in the heart of the Amazon..

000

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 23/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #23/31 The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

Book Cover
Penguin Classics
EDITH WHARTON
The Custom of the Country

021

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 22/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #22/31 George Washington’s Breakfast By Jean Fritz I read over 1,000 books in first grade in a reading competition. This is one of only a handful I recall reading 50 years later.

JEAN FRITZ
George Washington's
Breakfast

000

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 21/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #21/31 Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Cover:
LAURA INGALLS WILDER
Little House in the Big Woods

000

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 20/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #EvenInAustralia #20/31 Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - by Judith Viorst

Cover: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst

000

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 19/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #ComicsCount #19/31 Birds of Prey #67 Sensei and Student (part 6 of 6) July 2004 by Gail Simone

Cover for Birds of Prey #67
“Girls Rule & Boys Drool”

010

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 18/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #18/31 Star Trek: TNG - The Devil’s Heart by Carmen Carter

Cover
Star Trek The Next Generation
The Devil’s Heart
A NOVEL BY CARMEN CARTER

010

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 17/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #17/31 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Book cover
Signet Classics
Frankenstein
MARY SHELLEY

010

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 16/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #16/31 The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

Cover for:
THE HUNGER GAMES
New York Times Bestselling Author
SUZANNE COLLINS

010

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 15/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #15/31 Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. By Judy Blume

A DELL YEARLING BOOK

Are You There God?
It's Me, Margaret.
Judy Blume

000

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 14/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #14/31 By The Pricking of my Thumbs Agatha Christie A Tommy & Tuppence mystery

Cover:

TOMMY & TUPPENCE
THE QUEEN OF MYSTERY
Agatha Christie
BY THE
PRICKING
OF MY THUMBS

000

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 13/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #13/31 Molly Ivins Can’t Say That, Can She?

Cover for Molly Ivins Can’t Say That, Can She?

000

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 12/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #12/31 Wise Blood - by Flannery O’Connor

Book cover for Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor

010

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 11/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #11/31 The Mummy by Anne Rice

000

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 11/03/2025

“Cover looks perfect. Let’s run with it.”

Catholic magazine cover promoting “Saint of the Week” St. Francis Xavier.

Letters SFX in background with image of St Francis centered covering some of the F. It’s impossible to tell if it’s an F or E.

110

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 10/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #10/31 Deryni Magic by Katherine Kurtz (Though I could have picked any of the books in the series)

Cover for Deryni Magic by Katherine Kurtz

010

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 09/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #9/31 The Host by Selina Rosen I am now caught up. I will continue tomorrow.

000

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 09/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #8 People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

010

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 09/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #7 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

010

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 09/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #6 The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

000

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 09/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #5 Goblin Market - A Tale of Two Sisters by Christina Rossetti

000

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 09/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #4 The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

000

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 09/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #3/31 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle

000

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 09/03/2025

31 books by women authors I have read and either enjoyed and/or learned something from. #BookChallenge #2/31 Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

010

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 09/03/2025

For National Women’s month others are listing one woman author a day featuring a book that they have read and either enjoyed and:or learned something from. Catch up time. #BookChallenge #1/31 China Mountain Zhang by Maureen McHugh (Assigned college reading I enjoyed)

Book cover of China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F McHugh

000

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 06/02/2025

Micah 6:8 It hath been told thee, O man, what is good, And what the LORD doth require of thee: Only to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.

DO NOT BE DAUNTED BY THE ENORMITY OF THE WORLD'S GRIEF.

DO JUSTLY NOW.
LOVE MERCY NOW.
WALK HUMBLY NOW.

YOU ARE NOT OBLIGATED TO COMPLETE THE WORK, BUT NEITHER ARE YOU FREE TO ABANDON IT.

Pirkei Avot

000

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 01/02/2025

Freedom Langston Hughes (Feb 1, 1901 - 1967) #poetry #langstonhughes #freedom

Freedom
BY LANGSTON HUGHES
Freedom will not come
Today, this year
Nor ever
Through compromise and fear.
I have as much right
As the other fellow has
To stand
On my two feet
And own the land.
I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course.
Tomorrow is another day.
I do not need my freedom when I'm dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.
Freedom
Is a strong seed
Planted
In a great need.
I live here, too.
I want my freedom
Just as you.

250

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 01/02/2025

Now We Are Six AA Milne (1882-Jan 31, 1956) #poetry #milne

Now we Are Six
when I was one, I had just begun.
when I was Two, I was nearly new.
when I was Three,
I was hardly me.
when I was Four, I was not much more.
when I was Five, I was just alive.
But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever.
So I think Ill be Six now
For ever and ever.

030

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 28/01/2025

Like many I recall where I was when I heard. 5th floor of St. Louis Children’s Hospital Rehabilitation room. Age 17. Recovering from Guillain Barre Syndrome.

ON THIS DAY: JAN. 28, 1986
THE SPACE SHUTTLE CHALLENGER EXPLODED 73 SECONDS AFTER LIFTOFF FROM CAPE CANAVERAL, KILLING ALL SEVEN CREW MEMBERS

110

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 25/01/2025

A Red, Red Rose Robert Burns (Jan 25, 1759-1796) Happy #BurnsDay #Poetry #Burns

O my Luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June;
O my Luve's like the melodie That's sweetly play'd in tune.
As fair are thou, my bonie lass, So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my Dear, Till a'the seas gang dry.
Till a'the seas gang dry, my Dear, And the rocks melt wi' the sun:
I will luve thee still, my dear, While the sands o' life shall run.
And fare thee weel, my only Luve!
And fare thee weel, a while!
And I will come again, my Luve, Tho' it were ten thousand mile!

020

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 24/01/2025

My Alt Text rating is 100% (but I have to restrict the analysis to the last 90 days.)

My Alt Text rating is 100%
From the last 90 days
110 posts analyzed
13 contain images
0 are replies
13 posts have alt text

010

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 23/01/2025

Politics by William Butler Yeats

How can I, that girl standing there,
My attention fix
On Roman or on Russian
Or on Spanish politics,
Yet here's a travelled man that knows What he talks about,
And there's a politician
That has both read and thought,
And maybe what they say is true
Of war and war's alarms,
But O that I were young again
And held her in my arms.

000

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 22/01/2025

As I understand it - all embryos are female until about 2 months after conception. So Trump’s executive order essentially makes everyone female in the eyes of the government. This is what happens when people ignorant in science try to legislate science.

1
THE WHITE HOUSE
(d) "Female" means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.

030

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 22/01/2025

To an Undiscerning Critic Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

To an Undiscerning Critic
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sure, there are times when one cries with acidity,
'Where are the limits of human stupidity?' Here is a critic who says as a platitude, That I am guilty because 'in ingratitude, Sherlock, the sleuth hound, with motives ulterior, Sneers at Poe's Dupin as very "inferior"'
Have you not learned, my esteemed commentator, That the created is not the creator?
As the creator l've praised to satiety
Poe's Monsieur Dupin, his skill and variety, And have admitted that in my detective work, I owe to my model a deal of selective work.
But is it not on the verge of inanity
To put down to me my creation's crude vanity?
He, the created, the puppet of fiction, Would not brook rivals nor stand contradiction, He, the created, would scoff and would sneer, Where I, the Creator, would bow and revere.
So please grip this fact with your cerebral tentacle, The doll and its maker are never identical.

000

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 21/01/2025

Good Bones by Maggie Smith (2016)

Good Bones
Maggie Smith

Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I've shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I'll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that's a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children.
For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.
For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.

020

John Newmark @gavroche.org · 18/01/2025

This sounds like an “In Soviet Russia” joke, but it’s so true.

Social Media post:

Neil Renic
NC_Renic
Writing a book is just like reading a book except the book hates you
1:28 PM - 10/8/24

010