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What's A Book Trailer?

#MagnoliaElegy, #BookTrailer What's a book Trailer? I had no idea. But, then I had no book. Now, all that has changed. ____________ Read more →

eBook Availability

eBook Availability I am culturally attached to paper and ink printed books. So…I did not mention the availability of the eBook versions of “Magnolia Elegy: Place In the Edisto Fork.” Take a look at the publisher’s Magnolia Elegy page where you can play the book trailer, read a preview of... Read more →

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Considerations The publishing industry, like other businesses, is suffering from "supply chain" issues—materials shortages and job market difficulties. There are steps you can take that might reduce your exposure to supply chain issues. If you are ordering a book, then order it direct from the publisher. If you... Read more →

Thank You Readers

"Loved the bio on the back cover. It alone would make me want to read your opus." - A reader “Magnolia Elegy: Place In the Edisto Fork” is available from your local independent bookseller, the publisher, and most of the other usual suspects. ____________ Read more →

#EarthDay

Human Survival Earth Day keeps coming around again, and that’s a good thing. Earth Day was first observed by United Nations Proclamation on March 21, 1970, and again as an environmental teach-in on April 22, 1970, founded by U. S. Senator Gaylord Nelson (Wisconsin Democrat). The April 22 date was... Read more →

Publication Day #pubday

#MagnoliaElegy At long last. “Magnolia Elegy: Place In the Edisto Fork” pays homage to an Agrarian time and place. It tells of the passing of that Time and the loss of that Place—undespairing, seeking no pity—through the eyes of the writer, the third generation of his placeholder family. It is... Read more →

German Prisoners of War In South Carolina: Update

Call them Hanz, or call them Ishmael. They were European men who, by accident of birth, were caught on the losing side of the Second World War and were confined behind barbed wire fences in mostly rural communities in the United States. Since “German POWs in South Carolina” was published... Read more →

2022

Here we go trudging into the third winter of our time of pestilence. But we have survived much, and we’re stronger—we have reason for optimism. The Omicron variant is burning through humanity (a flash in the pandemic?) and optimistic smart people say that we will thereby achieve some global immunity... Read more →

The Old Ways — And the Real Deal

Note: This story was dealt with in several scattered posts on Old Ones Dream back during the summer of 2013. The following is to collect and expand and replace those posts in more appropriate fashion. Classic Rock, a Longhorn steer with a story and a part to play — one... Read more →

Living On Virus Time

I sit in the dark with my morning coffee and I ruminate - and I smile. It has become a useful habit for me. I watch the lights come on across the valley of the East Fork. I imagine the heat sources rumbling and the water heaters hissing. Then the... Read more →