Deb Houdek Rule - D. A. Houdek
PUBLICATIONS
Published in Civil War non-fiction as D. H. Rule, in science fiction and fantasy as Deb Houdek Rule and D. A. Houdek.
Deb & Geo
Deb & Geo hither and yon
Photos
Deb’s nature photos: Dragonflies, damselflies, owls, flowers, and more.
Family History
Houdek, Sauter, Kotek, Kinzel, Picha, Lee, Lie, Dahl, Hegge, Rask, and more
Cats, Cats, and More Cats
Cat-Mama, I am!
Articles & Commentary
Articles, book reviews, thoughts, memories, and this-n-that.
Tales of Television
What is it I’ve done for 30+ years in television? I’ve arranged electrons into interesting patterns, flung them into the ether, and seen them vanish. Here’s pulling back the tales behind some of those electrons in Tales of Television.
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein, science fiction author, mentor, and the reason Geo and I met.
Websites
Creating popular and award-winning websites since 1997, I have done website work covering a wide range. I created first websites for numerous clients, and developed groundbreaking sites like the online Heinlein Archives. The Heinlein Archives is a groundbreaking website in many ways. I was given the job of building this site in 2005 with no more instruction than, “make an archive with document security.” I had 200,000 pages of scanned images piled into unordered, unindexed pdf files, delivered to me on a dozen CD ROMS. From this unstructured conglomeration of material I became the online archivist, creating the indexing patterns, the category structure, breaking apart the pdfs, processing and indexing each individual page to make a coherent, searchable structure for the Archives. Civil War St. Louis (2001-2013) This award-winning site features original research into the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi. This website began as a way to share research Geo and I have done into this rarely-explored, yet important, area of U.S. Civil War history. The site is linked from, and cited by, numerous universities and scholars. We’re even linked from the CIA’s website. Because of the respect the site has, it has gathered original articles and reprints from top authors and scholars. My work in this area even led to my appearance in a documentary on the History Channel in “Civil War Terror”. Civil War St. Louis passed one million visitors long ago.
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Civil War St. Louis
Award-winning site online since 1997
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Variations on a Theme Publishing
Publishing fiction and non-fiction
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
Popular website about Laura, her family, and friends
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Sheba, Queen of
Because Sheba is Glorious
Publications

SULTANA: A CASE FOR SABOTAGE

STARS THAT SING THE REQUIEM

SEASON OF MARVELS: VIKING TALES
