Thursday Threats
Okay today is definitely Spring Showers and then some but worse because we are having 45 mile an hour winds, rain, hail and whatever else Mother Nature decides to throw in so I don't get bored.
My friend Terri is going to Malice Domestic as we all know because I've said it in my blog before but anyway this year for those who are going looks to be one of the better years for all types of workshops, panels etc....Terri is going to have one heck of a good time.
Now this month on our group we are honoring Elaine Viets but I have to say I am stumped as to what to do for her she is not easy to draw out and I can't think of things to make her in the 'limelight' she's a great author and probably a busy one but still....we need to make her shine but this month it's very hard because I am out of ideas before I start. Maybe everyone will loosen up when Terri does the group read of her book. Even out members are too reserved this month on asking her questions and so not quite sure what to do to turn this around. Although with her going to Malice and I know she's on a panel it could be she is just trying to gear up for that...I really don't like public speaking but have done it numerous times. Still for me it's unerving and not really my favorite thing.
However Ido have a few tricks to make it easier...first off if at all possible I try to sit and have the group sit in a circle or semi circle that way I am on their eye level and it seems more cozy like chit chatting. I try to cover how I came up with the idea for my books, talk a little on character development and sometimes I'll stand long enough to read an excert from my book. I always wear comfortable shoes and when signing books I always try to leave them laughing either at me or my character. I know what I need today but can't get it and that is I need a good dose of Mary Daheim as in Judith and Renie DEAD MAN DOCKING but so far none of the bookstores have the paperback version of this one out here. They are sold out and I don't shop for books online anymore as Frank is paranoid...do often wonder what your ancestors read when they were our age? I mean besides the Bible nobody in their generations ever copped to not reading the Bible and in recent generations we know they read cookbooks but what else did they read? What was 'normal' reading for them? I know I have a great great grandmother who was a poet and also wrote hymns so I do know she read poetry and wrote it and hymns too...but what else? I know people used to live for THE SATURDAY EVENING POST..... I am so glad to live in a day and age where we have such huge selection of books to read and variety but does NEW YORK ever listen to the common reader? I don't think so because there is more to life than Mary Higgins Clark and CHICKEN SOUP BOOKS ..........I hate that we are losing our legends famous actors, actress, novelist, authors, singers, enertainers and it's so sad....I was truely saddened by Don Knotts Death....John Ritter.....WHAT A GREAT LOSS.......these men made me laugh and love just a little bit better.....Anne George another great loss to the mystery world and she should have her series picked up as it's such a shame to let it all go....same with Elizabeth Daniels Squire......I like to think these ladies are looking down on us and chuckling that they now have crossed over and have even more time to write and when we die we will have an unendless supply of their writing....okay time to go cause merry mischief....Hugs, Pamela
My friend Terri is going to Malice Domestic as we all know because I've said it in my blog before but anyway this year for those who are going looks to be one of the better years for all types of workshops, panels etc....Terri is going to have one heck of a good time.
Now this month on our group we are honoring Elaine Viets but I have to say I am stumped as to what to do for her she is not easy to draw out and I can't think of things to make her in the 'limelight' she's a great author and probably a busy one but still....we need to make her shine but this month it's very hard because I am out of ideas before I start. Maybe everyone will loosen up when Terri does the group read of her book. Even out members are too reserved this month on asking her questions and so not quite sure what to do to turn this around. Although with her going to Malice and I know she's on a panel it could be she is just trying to gear up for that...I really don't like public speaking but have done it numerous times. Still for me it's unerving and not really my favorite thing.
However Ido have a few tricks to make it easier...first off if at all possible I try to sit and have the group sit in a circle or semi circle that way I am on their eye level and it seems more cozy like chit chatting. I try to cover how I came up with the idea for my books, talk a little on character development and sometimes I'll stand long enough to read an excert from my book. I always wear comfortable shoes and when signing books I always try to leave them laughing either at me or my character. I know what I need today but can't get it and that is I need a good dose of Mary Daheim as in Judith and Renie DEAD MAN DOCKING but so far none of the bookstores have the paperback version of this one out here. They are sold out and I don't shop for books online anymore as Frank is paranoid...do often wonder what your ancestors read when they were our age? I mean besides the Bible nobody in their generations ever copped to not reading the Bible and in recent generations we know they read cookbooks but what else did they read? What was 'normal' reading for them? I know I have a great great grandmother who was a poet and also wrote hymns so I do know she read poetry and wrote it and hymns too...but what else? I know people used to live for THE SATURDAY EVENING POST..... I am so glad to live in a day and age where we have such huge selection of books to read and variety but does NEW YORK ever listen to the common reader? I don't think so because there is more to life than Mary Higgins Clark and CHICKEN SOUP BOOKS ..........I hate that we are losing our legends famous actors, actress, novelist, authors, singers, enertainers and it's so sad....I was truely saddened by Don Knotts Death....John Ritter.....WHAT A GREAT LOSS.......these men made me laugh and love just a little bit better.....Anne George another great loss to the mystery world and she should have her series picked up as it's such a shame to let it all go....same with Elizabeth Daniels Squire......I like to think these ladies are looking down on us and chuckling that they now have crossed over and have even more time to write and when we die we will have an unendless supply of their writing....okay time to go cause merry mischief....Hugs, Pamela
posted by Pamela | 9:48 AM
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Some read those dime novels - pulp fiction. Women often silly romances (not that they wanted to admit it) and before that there were penny dreadfuls.... And the classics had to become classics by people reading them right? Mark Twain? Jane Austen? I think magazines a lot with women too - Harpers, etc...
I am SOOOO SOOOO glad to be able to read, choose and have so many great choices and contact with others who read them and stuff. We are lucky in that regard.
And I think the internet is helping with getting more choice for people, but the big publishing houses seem to still be afraid to take chances and give up on series that are GOOD (Tim Myers comes to mind since it just happened) just because it doesn't meet some projected sales number by a marketing person who probably has never read a book since they left college.
Do you know they have done surverys saying over half the people in this country never read a book again after they get out of school (Bible is the exception). That is beyond sad.
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