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‘Annie’, a Cousin ‘Wild Rumpus’ and the Flip-flop

It was a whirlwind weekend!

First was our visit to Wareham to visit with niece & nephews. Oldest played several different roles in the musical ‘Annie’ put on by ‘A Work in Progress’ Productions.

This was a gang of home-school kidstrying to puton a full-scale musical show and…

…NAILED IT!!

‘A Work In Progress’ consists of a group of instructors from diverse backgroundstaking home-schoolers on stage and training them to perform. And they rocked!

My 6 year old daughter sat with heruncle and barely mo...

An Employment Fable…

Once upon a time, in years long past, there lived a lowly kitchen boy.

The boy had been raised rightly by his father and mother and he worked hard and well at the tasks given him wherever he toiled.

Each place he worked, he excelled at the chores he was assigned, however menial they may be, and in each workplace he came to the attention of his overseer and promoted.

With each new position he moved onward and upward through the land. He finally took a position as an under-steward to a foul-temper...

Yowza! Sales galore…

FinnFunnwas, by far, the most successful book-selling adventure I have undertaken!

My first whirlwind sale was to Katrina & Steve at the table next door. They roast coffee…for Finns…there really should have been caution signs around their booth. Coffee roasted specially for Finns is a dangerously strong product.

In all, largely in part to my Lovely Bride, who seemed to grow is size and enthusiasm as she absorbed Sisu from the air around her, (think of Gandalf seeming to expand when Bilbo lied t...

Selling Books @ FinnFunn Weekend in Troy, NH

So, here’s a whirlwind book tour for me. My wife found out about FinnFunn Weekend sponsored by Finlandia Foundation National.

They are hosting a Finnish Marketplace (Tori) on Saturday morning. Handcrafted hats and scarfs, baked goods, displays of Finnish heritage etc.I will sell copies of HUNTSMANthere from

Here is the website: Finnish Tori and a page of vendors for the event. (My info is towards the bottom since I am a late addition scrambling to get it going.)

We discovered the event from my s...

Here is my interview with Michael R. Wilson

michaelrwilson:

Here’s a quick blog interview!

Originally posted on authorsinterviews:

Name: Michael R. Wilson

Age: 45

Where are you from: Mount Washington Valley, New Hampshire, USA

A little about yourself ie your education Family life etc:

I have been a writer since my early years and completed HUNTSMAN, Book One of my Hunted Mage Trilogy while living on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

I have now returned to my beloved White Mountains and continue the story with the soon to be released Book Two: DAGGER.

I...

Perilously close now! DAGGER is on the horizon!

I have designed the paperback cover for Book Two of the Hunted Mage Trilogy! There is a proof in the mail so that I can make sure every little bit is just right.

There was one miserable point in HUNTSMAN history where I failed to inspect such things properly and got 20 books in the mail that were too pixelated to sell. Tisn’t a mistake ya make twice…

So…I am in exciting times. All of the self-fu skills I earned during the making of Book One are still there…a tad rusty, but coming back slowly bu...

Gotta get my butt in gear…

Alright…back into the swing o’ things. I have been a lazy (insert your favorite expletive here for loads of interactive Blog fun! It’s like a Choose Your Own Adventure Book today.) this summer!

A Move from a small apartment to a small house had my little family scrambling to get our gear out of a storage unit and into place after six years of solitary confinement. It does NOT fit…

(To throw it all into a dumpster turn to page 8)
(To painstakingly sort each box and re-discover the treasures of 24...

Not a sale to be had…

While the goal at Saturday’s Local Author’s Book Fair was to sell books…I don’t think too many of us did. But that’s okay!

Conversations I had with fellow authors were fantastic: One lives in the extremely rural Maine town I lived next to for many years (unless you’ve lived there you’ve probably never heard of it). One is newly self-published and too shy to talk up her new ‘baby’.

Another sent me to a site of New Hampshire based anthologies in different genres that I plan to look into…

One autho...

I am participating in the 2nd Annual Loc

I am participating in the 2nd Annual Local Author’s Book Fair at the Conway Public Library Sat Sept 20th from 11 AM to 2 PM. About 13 local Authors participating this year. Supplies of Huntsman are limited so come early for a painstakingly hand-scribed message and free foot rub with every purchase. (I personally will NOT touch your feet. I am volunteering my lovely bride Lea Wilson for that. Plenty of time to talk her into that by morning…)

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In someone else’s shoes…

Weekly Writing Challenge: Leave Your Shoes at the Door

It is cold…so cold, but I refuse to think on it for long. It won’t change anything. It wastes my time.

I need that time to watch and wait for just the right group to enter the building. It’s not easy. Too small a group and I will attract their notice. And their scorn.

I hate people’s eyes on me. The haughty looks; the disgust when they realize that I am not like them; the pity when they see how far beneath them I have fallen.

I see a family a...