Well I guess that makes it official: got the first book order in the mail yesterday, the check now pinned on the cork board, waiting on the actual books to arrive. Of course, I’m still working 24/7 to get the files off to the printer, deadline not later than April 1. So far, still seems … Read more
Okay, I’m trying to do this book by the book. At some point, there’s supposed to be a big “LOOK @ ME!” piece of promotion called a press release. And it needs to be in place before there is actually a book at all–a leap of faith! [Don’t like pdf files? Go to Scribd and … Read more
The book that has almost taken its final form consists of folk writing for folk. So to seek endorsements from academics or “known” writers should mean less to me–and more importantly, to a potential reader–than the testimonies of regular readers like you. I’m getting back mostly short snippets of response to the book–gratifyingly positive–but want … Read more
I lowered my distraction shields for a while yesterday and got pulled into a black hole of pleasant wandering. So I have a list of to-blog clips now over in my google-document catch-all for this purpose. Oh, and a few more pictures from the snow, like the one of Mole-ester Dog above that has nothing … Read more
Actually, the presses are still six weeks off (hopefully not more, so I can have books for the Mt Rogers Naturalist Rally May 8.) But I’ve changed the structure from “categorized” to “clustered”. I was able to sort 96 personal essays (not all are essays but we’ll use that terminology) into eight areas of subject … Read more
