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April 8, 2012
A thank you at Easter
Lady Word-of-Mouth, look kindly upon me!
"No advertising or promotional campaign can take the place of readers talking to other readers and thrusting a book into their hands and saying, 'Hey, you've got to read this.'"
--George R. R. Martin
Thanks to 694 readers for reading/downloading chapter one of A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage at Scribd since pub date on March 30th.
"No advertising or promotional campaign can take the place of readers talking to other readers and thrusting a book into their hands and saying, 'Hey, you've got to read this.'"
--George R. R. Martin
Thanks to 694 readers for reading/downloading chapter one of A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage at Scribd since pub date on March 30th.
April 7, 2012
Happy Easter-to-come from little M.
See there?
Little M. with her hair in a fat braid.
Little M. in footies with her father and a Christmas stocking
made by a nice librarian at the Louisiana State Library.
Little M. with a book bag! She loves Mrs. Stringfellow.
Little M. in her little desk.
Little M. likes to read!
There she is in Louisiana, land of magic, but she still wants a book.
Chapter one of A Death at the White
Little M. with her hair in a fat braid.
Little M. in footies with her father and a Christmas stocking
made by a nice librarian at the Louisiana State Library.
Little M. with a book bag! She loves Mrs. Stringfellow.
Little M. in her little desk.
Little M. likes to read!
There she is in Louisiana, land of magic, but she still wants a book.
Chapter one of A Death at the White
April 6, 2012
24 Camellias to give away
A case of books (that's 24 copies) of A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage has just been promised to Goodreads for April 15-May 15 giveaways. Thanks to Barbara Keene and Mercer University Press. So if you're a Goodreads member or a reader who might want to become one, please sign up for the giveaway--hope you'll like it enough to talk about it there and elsewhere. Right now the
April 5, 2012
Reading at The Green Toad etc.
A reading from A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage for Cooperstown-Oneonta area readers: I'm so glad that we changed the date on this one--maybe I'll have my voice completely back by this date. Post-laryngitis, I would have croaked like a green toad, certainly! A Bacallian green toad. Now set for Thursday, April 12th, 7 p.m.
New online:
Brand new: "The Fugitive Light" at qarrtsiluni
In
New online:
Brand new: "The Fugitive Light" at qarrtsiluni
In
April 4, 2012
Good morning, world--
Coughing the dark to bits means rolling out of bed and having time to watch the sun leak into the late-winter, early-spring sky. A wan sunrise over Sleeping Lion (or whatever it's called. Lying Lion? Meatloaf-position Lion?) Kingfisher tower just an admonitory finger from the shallows of the lake. Chill northern birds attempting with faint cries to rooster the sun into its proper place.
April 3, 2012
The Fugitive Light
qarrtsiluni
Imitation
January-April 2012
Editors: Siona van Dijk and Dave Bonta
"The Fugitive Light" is up at qarrtsiluni, one of those interesting 'zines where one can leave comments and have a discussion with readers. So I shall turn comments off here in honor of the hard work of Siona van Dijk and Dave Bonta. This one is, I believe, my favorite issue so far. qarrtsiluni is managed by Dave
Imitation
January-April 2012
Editors: Siona van Dijk and Dave Bonta
"The Fugitive Light" is up at qarrtsiluni, one of those interesting 'zines where one can leave comments and have a discussion with readers. So I shall turn comments off here in honor of the hard work of Siona van Dijk and Dave Bonta. This one is, I believe, my favorite issue so far. qarrtsiluni is managed by Dave
Poem at qarrtsiluni
qarrtsiluni
Imitation
January-April 2012
Editors: Siona van Dijk and Dave Bonta
"The Fugitive Light" is up at qarrtsiluni, one of those interesting 'zines where one can leave comments and have a discussion with readers. So I shall turn comments off here in honor of the hard work of Siona van Dijk and Dave Bonta. This one is, I believe, my favorite issue so far. qarrtsiluni is managed by Dave
Imitation
January-April 2012
Editors: Siona van Dijk and Dave Bonta
"The Fugitive Light" is up at qarrtsiluni, one of those interesting 'zines where one can leave comments and have a discussion with readers. So I shall turn comments off here in honor of the hard work of Siona van Dijk and Dave Bonta. This one is, I believe, my favorite issue so far. qarrtsiluni is managed by Dave
April 2, 2012
In which I am thankful
The Ferrol Sams Award for Fiction
Read chapter one at Scribd.
Thank you to Marc Jolley, publisher of The Mercer University Press (as well as to Barbara Keene, marketing director, and to the staff) for deciding to nominate A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage for several national awards.
While evident to them that few books make the short list for a major award, writers are quite grateful
Read chapter one at Scribd.
Thank you to Marc Jolley, publisher of The Mercer University Press (as well as to Barbara Keene, marketing director, and to the staff) for deciding to nominate A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage for several national awards.
While evident to them that few books make the short list for a major award, writers are quite grateful
April 1, 2012
The April Fool, voiceless
I loved The Anesthesia Book Club! No fooling! They cooked up a wonderful Greek dinner. And they were smart and fun-loving and read that great big (well, for a volume of poetry) book, The Throne of Psyche, and had wonderful requests and questions. Got home by pumpkin hour, though I now have laryngitis from the odd little bug that's going around the village. So it's Palm Sunday without cheers and
March 31, 2012
The Anesthesia Book Club
Anesthesia... I managed to catch a cold while ferrying our daughter home from Bard College. Nevertheless, I shall plow forth in stalwart fashion through the snow (alas, it is snowing on the flowers) and have dinner and a fine chat with The Anesthesia Book Club of Cooperstown and Fly Creek and Parts Ajacent! Millions of good jokes possible there, mostly about putting to sleep... Their book for
