Larry M. Edwards's Blog, page 5
June 19, 2017
Winner, 2017 San Diego Book Awards
[image error]I am gratified to announce that I took first place in the Best Unpublished Short Story category at the San Diego Book Awards ceremony on June 10. I won with By the Light of the Moon, a story about a moonshiner suspected of murder.
[image error][image error]Also, Pennie James, one of the authors in my writing group, won in the Best Published Memoir category with Getting Rid of Ian: A Memoir of Poison, Pills, and Mortal Sins, and Indy Quillen, an author I work with, was a finalist in the Best Published Mystery category...
June 7, 2017
Stolen Violins/Fiddles, San Diego, CA
Stolen Violins
San Diego Police Dept. crime report #17007643
Two violins in a double case, with three bows and accessories, were taken on June 5, 2017, in San Diego, California, in the 3700 block of Mount Acadia Drive (Clairemont area). The case is brown, with deep-red plush interior and hydrometer; the case has broken zippers.
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Dimensions
body length 35.9 cm upper bout 16.7 cm center bout 11.9 cm lower bout 21.0 cmDescription
No label. The varnish is a honey-brown color with slig...
April 27, 2017
The Most Pernicious Problem in Punctuation Today . . .
Oops.
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I encountered this abomination in a motel in Bentonville, Arkansas. Lest you try to foist the blame on the Arkansas education system, Wyndham Hotel Group is headquartered in Parsippany, NJ, across the Hudson from NYC.
I blame Bill Gates. The geniuses at Microsoft have yet to come up with a solution for this egregious error; never mind that they’ve had three decades to do it. But some folks seem to believe it is OK. After all, Microsoft Word and other word processing software automatica...
April 5, 2017
Death Penalty Extends Trauma
Good thoughts . . .
Check out this editorial by the LA TIMES 3/31/17
The death penalty doesn’t bring closure so much as it extends trauma
http://fw.to/Sz7fJdh
Quote: “studies have found that capital-murder trials and executions rarely bring a sense of closure, or peace, to the families.”
Quote: “Grief, as those who have experienced it can attest, never really goes away. But it does fade with time. It takes much longer to fade, however, if the criminal justice system,...
New Book: Food & Provisions of the Mountain Men
offers glimpse of 19th century frontier diet 3rd edition expanded to 80 pages, color cover,
three new chapters, 50+ illustrations
SAN DIEGO, CA, April 3, 2017—What did the Rocky Mountain fur trappers eat? Not tofu, nor kale wraps, that’s for sure.
Food & Provisions of the Mountain Men: A Guide to Authentic Provisions of Fur Trappers, Traders and Explorers in the Early American West, offer...
January 30, 2017
Larry Edwards to Speak on Impact of Violent Death, Feb. 11
Larry Edwards, Connie Saindon to Speak at
San Diego Chapter of Sisters in Crime, February 11
Partners in Crime, the recently reestablished San Diego chapter of the national organization Sisters in Crime, welcomes Larry Edwards, author of several books including the true-crime memoir Dare I Call It Murder?: A Memoir of Violent Loss, and Connie Saindon, author of the Murder Survivor’s Handbook: Real-Life Stories, Tips & Resources and The Journey: Learning to Live with Violent Death.
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December 28, 2016
Book Review: “Charcoal Joe” by Walter Mosley; Hypnotic
[image error]I love this hypnotic book, the 14th in Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins series—best book I’ve read in ages.
Easy’s childhood friend Mouse introduces him to Rufus Tyler, a man everyone calls Charcoal Joe. Joe, for reasons unclear at the outset, wants a young black man—Seymour (top of his class in physics at Stanford)—cleared of charges that he murdered two white men. Joe tells Easy he will pay well to see this young man exonerated, but seeing as how white cops—more inclined toward a quick close th...
December 20, 2016
Good Yule, Good Health
Good Yule
(and Happy Holidaze)
Waes Hael — Drinc Hael
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Wishing you good health and joy in the coming new year.
May you live as long as you want and
never want as long as you live.
Larry and Janis
2016 Highlights
• Book News:
• In the better-late-than-never department, book trailer (video) for Book sales have trailed off but remain at a steady, if modest, pace. I continue to be gratified by the overwhelmingly positive...
December 16, 2016
A Day in the Life: Author, Editor, and Independent Publisher
A Day in the Life Presents: Author, Editor, and Independent Publisher, Larry M.Edwards
Interview with yours truly by Terrie Relf, founder of the Ocean Beach Writers Networking Group.
The group meets most Thursdays at Te Mana Café in San Diego’s Ocean Beach neighborhood, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., or until we run out of things to talk about.
December 13, 2016
Violent Loss Resources Newsletter, December 2016
NewsViolent Loss Resources Newsletter, December 2016
= Edward Rynearson, MD, keynote speaker, Safe Crossings on Childhood Grief, February 24
= Traumatic Grief after Violent Dying, two-day conference, April 8-9
= Topic of the Month: Remembering and Rituals
= Question of the Month: What do you want us to remember about your loved one?
= Poem: Christmas in Heaven
= Contact us
Edward Rynearson, MD, leading specialist in Violent Death Bereavement, will be the keynote spe...
