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April 3, 2019
Wigeon Publishing Launches 4th Edition of Food & Provisions of the Mountain Men
This fourth edition of Food & Provisions of the Mountain Men: A Guide to Authentic Provisions of Fur Trappers, Traders and Explorers in the Early American West includes twelve additional pages and more illustrations.
The additional information comprises an expanded section on honey and bee hunters, a recipe for mule-blood soup, and more first-hand accounts of the “starvin’ times” as well as the “shinin’ times.”
Author Larry “Friar” Edwards created this guide for those who participate in r...
February 4, 2019
Diagnosis: McPhIDS
Dear Friends,
Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers.
I learned this morning that I have been diagnosed with a recently identified, trauma-related ailment spawned by the technology sector. This ailment is known as McPhIDS, the acronym for My Cell Phone Is Dead Syndrome. This occurs when one’s indispensible mobile phone or similar device inexplicably stops functioning.
(Did I mention that technology sucks?)
Here’s what happened . . .
My alleged smart phone went dumb. As in mute.
It died...
September 10, 2018
Hinton’s 1967 coming-of-age novel credited teenagers with a rich interior life
The Enduring Spell of ‘The Outsiders’: S. E. Hinton’s 1967 coming-of-age novel credited teenagers with a rich interior life.
Here, a tribute by Lena Dunham to the book that created young adult fiction as we know it today.
Writing of YA fiction — or any fiction — take note.
#yafiction #writing #reading
August 16, 2018
The Coming Switch From Createspace to KDP Print
Good info here on Amazon’s coming transition from CreateSpace to KDP Print . . . it could get ugly.
David Gaughran advises do it sooner than later . . .
How To Switch From Createspace to KDP Print
http://davidgaughran.com/2018/08/16/switch-createspace-kdp-print-paperback/
via @DavidGaughran
March 7, 2018
New Series Entry: Parallel Justice by Susan Herman and more
New Series on dealing with violent loss from Connie Saindon, founder of Survivors of Violent Loss: Parallel Justice by Susan Herman, Poem: I will cry again…, and How to Survive a School Shooting . . .
New Series entries: Parallel Justice by Susan Herman, Poem-I will cry again…, How to Survive a School Shooting
Murder Survivors Handbook has been well received across the country and won the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best in Self Help by Independent B...
January 16, 2018
The War on Apostrophe
O, the much-embattled apostrophe, whose legacy is under fire in the English language, now faces an even greater, if not farcical, fight in Kazakhstan as folks become apoplectic. Is this apocalyptic? Or merely apocryphal?
“Linguists . . . protested that the president’s approach would be ugly and imprecise.
“Others complained the use of apostrophes will make it impossible to do Google searches for many Kazakh words or to create hashtags on Twitter.”
O, the horror.
November 21, 2017
Holiday Coping Tips
Don’t be surprised at the power of unexpected pangs of grief, also knows as SUGS (Sudden upsurges of Grief). Recognize that it is not unusual to re-experience waves of intense sadness. Find places to have quiet times until these pass. Keep yourself safe while reducing your expectations. This is not a normal event. These reactions are NORMAL.
Arrange to be with others who have gone through a similar loss. ...
October 25, 2017
Larry Edwards Joins Editors Panel at Memoir Writers Event
Freelance editor Larry Edwards, of Polishing Your Prose, will join a panel of editors at an event sponsored by the San Diego Memoir Writers Association.
The event, 2730 Historic Decatur Rd.
Barracks 16, Suite 202 & 204
San Diego, CA 92106
Learn more . . . Larry Edwards Joins Editors Panel at Memoir Writers Association Event, Nov. 4
October 13, 2017
News you can use… October 4, 2017
Trigger Warning . . . Violent Loss/Death
Good thoughts. I had a similar “trigger” experience recently while attending “Hamlet” at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego. I hadn’t seen the play since before my parents were killed. But with having experienced the trauma of the violent deaths of my parents, the play, its theme, and its message took on much greater depth and meaning.
These news items are being posted on the heels of the worst shooting incident in our country...
September 21, 2017
On Writing: The Primrose Path to Prologue
The Prologue Question: To P or not to P?
[image error]Should one choose to tread the primrose path to prologue, ’tis a dalliance I wish not to rede.*
As a judge for the San Diego Book Awards, I recently read about a dozen novels, some as published books, some as unpublished manuscripts. Most of them had prologues—and in every case of a book with a prologue I lowered the author’s score.
The problem?
These so-called prologues either were not prologues, or they were unnecessary, or they could (should) have b...
