Deborah Macgillivray's Blog, page 15
July 22, 2018
Mental Floss article on One Snowy Knight's strange secondary pricing
http://mentalfloss.com/article/551530...
Mental Floss picked up the story from the New York Times about One Snowy Knight
on the secondary market.
July 21, 2018
July 19, 2018
A happy birthday to my mum
After the fire, I was faced with devastation of losing many things -- my laptop which had my books and WIPs on it, all my clothes, my jewellery -- my cats. One of the most haunting was I lost every photo I had. I was left no image of my mother. Recently, I found a cousin has posted on, and suddenly, I had an image of mum.
She was born on July 19th, suffered crippling manic-depression, which went untreated most of her life. She died when she was 52, after a long battle with cancer--way too young, so much of life still to live.
So for the first time in years, I am able to post a picture of her.
Happy Birthday, Mama
She was fifteen, and the photo was for the high school yearbook
Happy dancing at Big R's and Shannon's
Still happy dancing over my release of One Snowy Knight.
had a stuffed bake potato - with cheese, BBQ brisket and cheese....yum
We were stWas at supper at Big R's and Shannon'sto help kick off the Mayor's race for La Grange
Go Shannon!!
July 18, 2018
Kentucky Book Festival invitation
I got news today I was invited to Kentucky Book Festival in November. It is juried and by invitation. One Snowy Knight was the book I entered, so I am thrilled to be invited. Trying to work things out so I will be able to go.
Honored and excited!
Happy Birthday, Candy
Tomorrow is Miz Candy's birthday. I will be taking her shopping and her favourite stores and will take her to lunch at Steak and Shake, because she wants to go there...lol.
She came here in 2010--from circumstances that were getting dire - to say the least. NYC wasn't being too good to Candy. I knew Dawn would love it if I kept an eye on her, so magic was worked with a friend, Rowena Cherry, and she came to live near me. Almost immediately, she was in hospital with a bad heart, overweight, not eating good, and in a wheel chair. Since that time, she now runs circles around me, has lost a lot of weight, eats better and loves life.Getting her to come here, where she can live independently, yet have me close at hand has been on of the best things I ever did in my life. Yes, life was a bit easier, calmer, but we have been laughing through merry an adventure. So Happy Birthday, Candy....a friend like none other!!
July 17, 2018
Expensive book offering update
The story by author David Streitfeld was on page B1 of the New York Times Monday. It was a trending story on Yahoo news, and picked up on Publishers Marketplace daily newsletter.
He said he requested a response from Red Rhino -- the nickname of the Amazon Secondary seller, but received no response. Well, there sort of was one -- This morning Red Rhino deleted the $2850+ offering, thought the $1558 from another dealer is list there.
I have to admit it was total shock to open my browser, going to check my email, and see my book there as trending. Very bizarre sensation! lol
