Monday, June 15, 2009

Day One is... ginkered....

I left CA a couple hours late yesterday--and was just enjoying the drive, listening to Riverhorse by William Least Heat Moon on tape. Once I entered Arizona on Hwy 40, I slowed down, my eyes searching for elk alongside the road. Bingo--two large elk, full racks and all, were grazing about fifty yards off the highway... as everyone barreled by at 80mph. It was all great... until I got lost in Sedona (has anyone seen the construction through the middle of town?!?) and called Willma Gore's number (I'm staying with her) repeatedly until some nice lady returned one of my messages and said, "Honey, you've been calling this number all day, and I'm not Willma." By the time I got the directions straightened out and found Willma's, I was hungry, tired and not a little stressed. But I had homemade vegetarian soup made my Willma's friend, Jean, then hit my cot to sleep for 8 hours.

This morning, Willma hosted a gathering of her writer friends, and I got to blab on and on about writing Tainted Legacy. I sold books, made friends, and heard great stories. To celebrate, I walked across the street and, in 20 minutes, augmented my poor writer's wardrobe at one of the outlet stores. (Ladies, you have no idea how much more affordable clothes are in AZ!) So it has been a good day... and I'm trying to look forward to a beautiful drive up Oak Creek Canyon at dawn tomorrow morning... instead of missing my cat, my 'coonie, and my kids (not necessarily in that order).

5 comments:

  1. psha! we all know it's in that order! ;) miss you mom!

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  2. last comment was from me mom, not Joseph, sorry! (he never logs out dammit)

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  3. Glad you are still safe out there... have your books. Will be keeping an eye here to follow the wild and windy road of your trip. Give Willma a hug for me.

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  4. I ordered "Tainted Legacy" on Amazon yesterday. I look forward to reading it. I ordered a new copy because I doubt that authors get royalties on used copies. Odd. Yesterday used copies of your book were $5 more than new copies! (Ok: a second reason I ordered a new copy rather than a used one!) Today that is not so, but for a while there, your book was worth more used than new ... strange.

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  5. Thanks, JP. Hope you enjoy it. TL was done by Publish America, so it's a POD book. If a person orders it from a seller of "used" books, that bookseller generally orders it from PA (for about $10), then re-sells it. Thus the mark-up. I tried to find a publisher for 5 years--after pouring my heart & soul into this book (and it really is one of the best things I've written, and I've written a lot)--but no one was interested. So I finally went POD--and the book is selling really well. Let me know what you think of it....

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