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Coverage on Local News
Here is the piece on Carmella's Quest that ran on WLTX (local CBS affiliate) on Oct 1.
http://www.wltx.com/video/default.aspx?maven_playerId=news&maven_referralObject=1281710559
And here is the press release I wrote which Curtis Rogers (SC State Library) circulated to his local media contacts. This resulted in Ashleigh Walters from WLTX contacting ( Read more... ) -
Long overdue update
I know, its been quite a while since I've updated this blog. Its probably having about as many abandonment issues as I have right about now. I've been slack. I could give reasons but there are no real excuses or justifications. A writer should keep up her blog. No ifs, ands, or buts about that. As with many things, I have good intentions and ( Read more... ) -
Carolinian Article
With permission of Marshall Swanson and the Carolinian, I am posting this on my blog for those who don't have access to the print magazine. The Carolinian is the Alumni magazine for the University of South Carolina. The picture was great, so I'm told. Unfortunately, for some reason, Live Journal won't let me upload it here. It is of me and ( Read more... ) -
Book Feedback From Peggy Vaughan of DearPeggy.com
Below is a review of Carmella's Quest, or at least feedback about it, from Peggy Vaughan. Peggy is one of the country's leading researchers and experts in marital infidelity of all types. She has a website devoted to the topic and also has had several books on the subject published, including the classic The Monogamy Myth. This book also ( Read more... ) -
Belated Birthday Post for Maggie
My guide dog Maggie recently celebrated her twelth birthday. It seems only right to spend a few minutes describing the impact she's had on my life during the ten years she's been with me and to appreciate her for the wonderful helper and friend she is. To say that I love this dog and that my life has been so much better because of her seems like ( Read more... ) -
Posting A Carmella's Quest Review On Amazon.com
Hi folks,
I'm doing some housekeeping stuff this week, since I'm on vacation from work for a few days. If you have read my book and want to post a review on Amazon, which would be enormously appreciated by me, here is how to go about doing it. You don't have to have bought it through them to do so, but you do have to have an Amazon account and ( Read more... ) -
Bryan and Me, Nearly Fifteen Years Later
I had the chance to spend some q time with Bryan, one of the friends I talk about in Carmella’s Quest, during the past several days. We hadn’t seen each other in about five years, I’m thinking, and had gone through some friendship drift during the past couple years. He contacted me unexpectedly this past Saturday and said he’d be in town on ( Read more... ) -
CQ Update
I finished reading Carmella’s Quest into digital audio format at the SC State Talking Book Library yesterday. I’ll have to go in one more time to do any needed edits, but the book itself is done. That was so much fun. I just rhymed about my recording for the blind. I didn't mean to do it, and won't keep putting my readers' through it. I never ( Read more... ) -
Special follow up to the entry on Leroy Hoeck
I received the following message soon after posting information about Dr. Leroy Hoeck, who was involved in early research on the link between oxygen and vision loss in premature babies in the early 1950s. Dr. Hoeck recently passed away at the age of 97. This is from his great niece. It means a lot to me that she wrote me personally and I'm ( Read more... )