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Showing posts with label new book. Show all posts

Friday, February 10, 2012

YESTERDAY I GOT A BIG SURPRISE!


In March of 2008 I took a picture of a cold dragonfly in my hand. She was a slender baskettail. Beautiful wing markings. I love taking photos of them and of course, butterflies. Always a challenge. You can't just tell them to "Stand still!"

I'm on a list of southern odonata lovers and I asked for an ID. Giff Beaton is a naturalist, an airline pilot, takes people on WINGS birding tours, and writer of field guides was "envious" because he'd never seen one.

Dennis Paulson from Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, said they are difficult to find and he might want to put it in his
newest field guide. The one he had was posed (chilled, photographed and released). This one was just cold, hanging
outside on the siding near the back door. Actually, I thought a spider had gotten to it. I took her picture and put her in the morning sun to warm up.

I got another email asking for the photo. I sent him four different ones.

Then he asked me to let him use one and to give my approval and after I said "yes", I forgot about it.

Today I got a package. It's this HUMUNGOUS, 538 page field guide, "Dragonflies and Damselflies of the East" (eastern US and Canada) by Dennis, a complimentary copy. I forgot what I had given him! I just found the name and need to go look. I hate to crack the cover! But
there she is, page 389, clinging to my finger, unposed.

Anyway, that's my little surprise. I will to treasure this. I didn't know he'd finished it or if he really did use my photo.

And people wonder why I'm out there in the heat, in muck or in fields, on the water and always with a camera? You just NEVER know what you can find.

Thanks, Dennis!

May

http://sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com/2012/02/on-dragonflies-generosity-and-marketing.html


Monday, August 22, 2011

"THE LAW" BY FREDERIC BASTIAT (IN AUDIO AND FREE)

http://www.freeaudio.org/fbastiat/thelaw.html

Somewhere on this blog is a free download as either pdf or ebook of the same thing.

Essential reading for everyone. Even liberals.

Friday, December 10, 2010

SAM, THE GROUCHY AS USUAL BEAR

My book, a story of love, loss and magic is my little offering to children of fallen soldiers, and those who are struggling to cope with loss and grief at Christmas and throughout the holidays, and waiting for you on Amazon.com and through the publisher's website in many different forms: http://irishstoryplayhouse.com/IrishBookStore.html.

The reviews are excellent.

If you are stumped on what to give a child (or even an adult) for Christmas, the story of the grouchy looking little bear who no one loved and lonely, fatherless five year-old Katy, is a thoughtful story I created to give comfort to the bereaved.

For some of us, Christmas and the holidays can be nearly unbearable. But remember this: There is something or someone ready to reach out to you, if you let it happen, just like Katy and the unsmiling, enchanted bear. Things may not be what they seem. Open yourself to magic and find comfort in love.

It's beautifully illustrated by Maggie Guinn, a wonderful artist from Panama City, FL.
When the idea finally took form on paper, I gave the manuscript to Maggie, who did such beautiful artwork for my "Waltz on the Wild Side - An Animal Lover's Journal".

She called the delightful watercolors, "scribbles". Some "scribbles", Maggie!




Monday, November 22, 2010

HERE'S THE TRAILER FOR MY NEW CHRISTMAS BOOK FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN (AND ADULTS)

I wrote this for children of military families who lost a parent this Christmas. I do hope
it will help heal them. But if someone has experienced a recent loss, maybe this will help uplift them, too. It's up on Amazon today, and when you read it, please leave me a review. It is still being processed for Kindle and Nook readers. So watch for it. It comes in audio and ebook form as well.

Writing books is all about those who enjoy the words we can't hold back. I hope you enjoy mine.

I rant and I rave and I stamp my feet here, but I'm a marshmallow. And when I stood in the bookstores, I couldn't find a book like this for children. So Sam, the Grouchy As Usual Bear was born and so was little Katy Morris. And now it's a reality.




Sunday, November 21, 2010

OBAMA GIVES GUN CONTROL ADVOCATE TRAVER FROM CHICAGO TO HEAD ATF.

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/gun-control-advocate-traver-to-head-atf/

Good morning.

I'm sorry to have to start your morning by frying your brain.

We have the Senate happily passing net neutrality - the first stages, anyway, we now have an extra tax burden in the form of college education funding for illegal aliens, TSA putting the screws to us by the hour (I haven't even looked at Drudge or Alex Jones' Prison Planet) yet.

Crap.

Buy my book, Sam, the Grouchy As Usual Bear. You'll at least have 15 minutes of gentle, emotional and uplifting reading.

Saturday, November 6, 2010

I'D LIKE TO TELL YOU ABOUT A NEW BOOK FOR CHILDREN, JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS. IT'S CALLED "SAM, THE GROUCHY AS USUAL BEAR", ..

A STORY OF LOVE, LOSS AND MAGIC". And I'm happy to say, I wrote it.

A while back I was thinking of all our brave and heroic servicemen and women who in combat situations have left their children with one parent.

My writer thing kicked in - I am not organized, don't write outlines, character descriptions, timelines or anything else. A phrase will come and tickle me, compel me and a few days later, my hands hit the keyboard and out comes a story. The phrase was "Sam, The Grouchy As Usual Bear".

So "Sam" was born. A Christmas story for young and old.

I promise it will touch you. And if you have a grieving child in your life who has suffered any loss, but particularly the loss of a parent, this is the perfect gift.

It is delightfully illustrated by my favorite Panama City, Florida artist, the same talented lady who did the artwork for my first book, "Waltz on the Wild Side ~ An Animal Lover's Journal".

"Sam" will be delivered to you in several versions, including perfect bound, audio, ebooks...
For all your choices, please visit this link to pre-order in any of its versions at this lovely children's literary site: http://irishstoryplayhouse.com/IrishBookStore.html

It is the just-right Christmas gift for the children in your life.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

KAGAN WILL BAN BOOKS. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THAT?

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=172653

JUST THINK - SHE CAN WORK AT HER DEVIOUS, COMMUNIST AGENDA FOR A WHOLE GENERATION.

TOLL FREE TO CONGRESS - BOTH HOUSES 877-851-6437

Do you understand how dangerous this woman is to our Constitutional rights and freedoms? She's Obama's girl. And she will push his communist plans for this country to the letter, and so will Sotomayor.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

FREE DOWNLOAD - THE LAW BY FREDERIC BASTIAT

Burnie Thompson, local conservative talk show host on WYOO locally, has a book list for conservatives/libertarians and he often speaks glowingly of this book. I was going to order it, but I found a free download and here is the link.

The subject is the perversion of the law.

It's FREE. Use the resource. The book unread cannot help you, cannot teach you.

Enjoy.

http://digg.com/political_opinion/The_Law_By_Frederic_Bastiat_Free_Download_Foundation