Two Bits
~ Yesterday I got an e-mail from my friend, Fragments Fred, a blogger who has been mulling over the idea of a “blook” (a book drawn from blog entries), according to a recent post at “Fragments From Floyd.” He asked if I wanted to meet him and some out-of-town fellow bloggers at the local Café for lunch. I wanted to go but had too much to do (mostly writing), and so I declined saying, “Sorry Fred, I’m too backlogged…or should I say “backblogged.”
~ On Monday, I called the Easy Chair Bookstore to thank them for my $100 gift certificate slam prize and to give them my Loose Leaf address. The woman I spoke with told me that the store would like to carry my poetry book, “Muses Like Moonlight,” and that they wanted to discuss the possibility of another event, which could include a booksigning. After finishing our conversation, I hung up the phone and exclaimed to my husband, “Wow, you’re not going to believe this?!”
“What? They meant for the gift certificate to be for $10, right?” he responded.
June 1st, 2005 1:50 pm
congrats on the gift certificate colleen! i wish i could have been there last friday to hear your funny poem–:)
June 1st, 2005 2:38 pm
Hi Sean, They’ll be doing another one in June. But maybe you’ll be moved to Floyd by then. Look for posted flyers with more details. PS: Do you or your wife like to play scrabble? I’m serious.
June 1st, 2005 3:58 pm
Oh, HE of little faith!
I wish I lived close – I’d play Scrabble with you!
June 2nd, 2005 7:33 am
I love your friend’s word “blook” … fact is, that is precisely what my blog is about, though it’s kind of the opposite of his idea. My book (near ready for publication) is the stem from which I pluck many of my blog posts. Book first … blog second. The book is a work of memoirs, and was started as a means to allow my daughter to one day read and learn all the little details of her mom’s life. I only wish my mother and grandmother had done the same.
Congrats on the bookstore thing! Excellent!