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Interesting Copyright and Workshop Fun!
Copyright Notice… Kris and I went to see Wicked (part one) tonight. Great movie and I am a fan of L. Frank Baum’s work in all manner. I have read all 14 of the original OZ books, some numbers of time, and most of his short stories. At one point before my house fire, I even had 12 of the original hardback with dust editions with the fantastic (Denslow and Neill) art. So I am sitting watching the credits tonight and made note of the credit given to the author of the derivative novel, Gregory Maguire. But unless I missed it, not one credit to the original Baum source material…
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Our Holiday Traditions…
I Like This Time of Year… Over the years here in Las Vegas, Kris and I have developed some really fun holiday traditions. We start off the holiday season with the Glittering Run 5K charity event, walking and running 5K through a billion holiday lights. That is always before Thanksgiving, but a great start. This year I walked it while enjoying all the families around me, but also an amazing cup of hot chocolate. Then around the first of December we go to storage and dig out all the holiday decorations. We did that last night and we now have stunning holiday pillows and a holiday blanket from the HOLIDAY…
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Knowing How Lucky You Are…
I Know For a Fact I Am Stunningly Lucky… Just to be alive and well. My old-time friends all say that all the time and I can’t argue with them. I have been lucky to have friends for thirty, forty, and fifty years that I treasure and they are there when something happens and I hope I am there for them in return. I have been stunningly lucky to have been with Kris the last 38 years. I was lucky to be a free-style professional skier, a PGA Professional, get a masters degree in architecture, and do three years of law school. I was lucky enough to write a lot…
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Life Rolls…
That Means “Life Events”… And so many different kinds of Life Rolls and different sizes and events. Health issues, family issues, money, job issues, publishing issues, and so on and so on. Major life events can stop you cold, like me falling last fall and smashing up my shoulder and being in a brace for a month after surgery and then nine months of PT. (Quarterback of the Las Vegas Raiders just had that happen to him on Sunday, same injury.) You just never know what kind of life event will hit and what size and shape. Today, (Monday), Kris and I both had pretty busy days planned with writing…
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Author Nation…
Just Finished Here in Vegas… Author Nation is the name of the conference that took over the 20 Books Conference. Kris and I did not attend this year, but we had some wonderful dinners and lunches with writer friends who were attending. That was great fun. Everyone I have talked to so far who attended has been positive about the conference. Some very positive. So for a few years into the future, it sounds like this will be the conference to attend for indie writers and publishers. Don’t ask… I do not know if I will go next year or not. But if I decide to go or they invite…
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Voted Today… Also Sale Continues…
I Dropped Off My Ballot Today… I was born in the Truman administration , vaguely remember the Nixon/Kennedy election, remember clearly Kennedy getting shot, remember being angry Nixon was elected in 1968 and I gave up being active when he was reelected in 1972. Kris got me paying attention again to politics in the late 1980s and ever since then I have been active. But in all those years, I never remember being as scared for the results of an election as I am now. I always had policy disagreements with one party or the other, always worried about what would happen. Sure. We all did. Nature of a democracy…
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We Are In!
Part of the Stuff from Oregon Office Now Here! We still have a large four-room office complex in Oregon to bring down next April, but for now the main part of the work for WMG is going on down here. We have one wonderful employee left up there trying to clean up messes and organize things before we move the last of the business south. Steph is here now as well. So today we had six professional fiction writers helping with the unloading and I hired two professional movers to help as well. Then all the writers went to get Good Pie pizza. Yummy. And really fun. Sorry I got…
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Night Before A Holiday…
I Hate This Holiday… People with little to no sense blowing stuff up to honor something that chances are a lot of them will vote to get rid of in November… So Vets, hang in there. Get friends around you if you can. Pet owners, make sure your animals are protected and safe. The stupidity of blowing stuff up will end with some people injured or killed, others with their homes burnt down, and animal shelters full. Sounds like a bad novel. Hang in there, everyone. The celebration with carnage will be over soon. On a much more fun topic…
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Thank You All…
For the Very Kind Thoughts and Well-Wishes… Very much appreciated. And as each day goes by I notice the shoulder less and less and do more and more. Every-so-often I move wrong or try a little too much and it reminds me. But otherwise no issues. I don’t even think I have taken Advil (my pain medication of choice) for a while now. Kris is thinking of doing one more month of writing challenge to really keep her going through all the business stuff. If tomorrow she is 100% certain I will put it up on Teachable and announce it here. Two days left in the May challenge. How is…
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An Update On My Injury…
Still in Physical Therapy… But nearing the end of the process. Most of you know here that around the end of October last year, I was running in a 5K charity run, far too fast for my 73 years (staying with the leaders), tripped on a curb I did not see and went down rolling on concrete. (Rolling to save hitting my head.) Destroyed my right shoulder. First broken bones I had ever had. Surgery four days later to put in Titanium shoulder and upper arm. First surgery I had ever had. Big brace and sitting up in a chair sleeping for over a month, then started PT around the…