Once the winter holidays had passed and a new year had begun, I set about my goal of publishing my book It Was a Magical Place. There was one publisher that was guaranteed to not turn down the chance to publish my book: me. As you will read below, I did many of the things…
I could have labeled my previous two blog entries with Roman numerals I & II and this one as Roman numeral III. This is the third blog post about my publishing odyssey for It Was a Magical Place. To pick up where I left off, I waited patiently for a response from Karen Kingsbury’s…
I couldn’t tell how I got my book written and published in one article last month, so I am continuing to explain now and probably again next month. I will now talk about a writer’s conference that played a pivotal role in the development of my latest book. The conference was a “writing intensive”…
To say that it has been a journey would be trite. It would be better to use different word. Perhaps the word “odyssey” would do. Whatever we call it, it’s over. I have reached the finish line. My book It Was a Magical Place is ready for distribution and will soon be for sale. At…
It has been said, and I don’t know who said it, that what was old is new again. I was reminded of that when I visited a local pizza place and saw the video games most of which were created in the early 1980’s. This gave me something to do while I waited for my…
A child’s mind is a powerful thing. It enables the child to constantly gather information from his/her environment. Soon the child is able to remember truths that their parents and others tell him/her. Next, a child learns that some stories are not true but are still worth telling, seeing, hearing, and reading. A child is…
Television commercials are already featuring Santa Claus, saying “this holiday season” and having jingle music in the background. A small shopping center in my neighborhood is having a Christmas themed event today. A radio station in my market started playing wall-to-wall Christmas music over a week ago. Yet all of this is out of season….
Taking sides on politics is generally not a good idea for a business. When a business comes out with a statement regarding civil rights, freedom, foreign policy, etc., it offends roughly half of its customer base. On the other hand, businesses in the entertainment and media sector of the economy have reason to be…
All day when I have been filling in today’s date on Microsoft Excel with “9/11”, I have been reminded of that number-slash combo’s place in our consciousness. I have an uncanny ability to remember distant events from many times in my life. But even those of us who do not have that gift are able…
It would be a cliché’ to say that it is every author’s dream to see their story on the big screen. I will just say that getting a book adapted into a movie is a big positive step in a book author’s career. Not all books are stories that should be made into movies. However,…