Here are some comments I received from Joe over several e-mails. I thought you’d enjoy them too. The free edition of Broom 1 is still available; go to the www.americanflyingbroomstick.com site to subscribe to a free chapter a week.
Since the 1st chapter I’ve been enjoying your book, and thank you for it being free.
This chapter [74], however, I enjoyed very, very much. Being in the aerospace business…and having been to London, today’s chapter was extra fun, great narrative and descriptions.
Randy Cassingham is the reason I signed up for your book, I’ve been a This is True subscriber for many years (the premium edition with this email address, the free edition with another.)
I was actually thinking, less than 5 minutes ago, that I hadn’t received a chapter recently (meaning this week) and that I miss it, and briefly considered buying the book, then quickly realized I just can’t realistically take the time to read a book and will settle for a chapter a week.
At any rate, I do immensely enjoy your writing and story, and thank you very much for providing the free version!
Readers have four options for the first book in the American Flying Broomstick series: buy the book from us ($9.95+S&H), buy the hard copy from Amazon ($9.95+S&H, eligible for free Super Saver shipping if your order totals $25 or more), buy it on Kindle (currently $6.95), or get a free chapter a week. Anyway you do it is fine with me. I’m delighted so many readers are enjoying it.
Writing: Dialog
Randy Cassingham, author of the popular weekly newsletter "This is True," has joined our list of Extended Authors
Author and close personal friend Randy Cassingham has joined our list of
Extended Authors with two compilations from his
This is True weekly newsletters. Volume 5 in the series is “
Cost of Being Poor Rising.” Volume 6 is “
Platform Shoes Claim Another Life.”
Randy Cassingham has a university degree in journalism, but he could never quite deal with the concept of intruding on people in disasters to ask, “How do you
feel about this?” Nor could he ever keep a straight face when presented with outrageously silly situations that people tend to get themselves into that might make it into the “news.” So, not counting brief stings as a writer and photographer on his school paper (“It doesn’t count; it was a long time ago”), he has never been a reporter. Instead, he drove an ambulance in northern California (keeping a straight face
most of the time, and since has been a search and rescue sheriff’s deputy, commercial photographer, writer, editor, publisher, software engineer, consultant, curmudgeon, and staff jester for various projects and companies. He is happily non-single and lives in Ridgway, Colorado. His
personal website has more details.
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Greta Hemstrom, author of Slates, Chalk, & Inkwells is offering her book via Mt. Sneffels Press's Extended Authors Catalog.
Greta Hemstrom, author of
Slates, Chalk, & Inkwells, has joined our list of
Extended Authors.
Greta writes about herself:
I grew up on a farm and have been a farm/ranch wife most of my married life. After the last of our five children left home, I acquired a Liberal Arts Degree at Mesa State in Grand Junction, Colorado. My degree included many studies in Creative Writing and Literature. I have been writing for nearly thirty years, and finally published my first book in 2008, which is titled
Slates, Chalk, & Inkwells, A History of Schools in Colorado’s Uncompahgre Valley.
The inspiration for this book came about when I walked into the old 1912, two-room, yellow-brick,
Pea Green schoolhouse on nearby California Mesa. The building had been remodeled and contained a convenience store in the east room and a small breakfast/luncheon establishment in the west room. When I walked in, the friendly spirits of the past grabbed me and my heart rate went up; I had just stepped back into the golden era of the old country school. I was hooked, and immediately began a search for the rural schools in the Uncompahgre Valley.
In the beginning, I did not realize how many, many schools were in session back then; I was totally surprised at how many were still standing and in use as dwellings or otherwise. What a joy the research became and what lovely people I met as I dug deeply for rural school information!
My husband and I retired from the farm almost twenty years ago. We now live on forty acres, where the pinon and jumipers grow and where the critters come to visit us in our high-desert yard on the east side of the Uncompahgre Plateau in Southwest Colorado. Life is good!
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Linda Louise Ashley, author of "How Much, Woodchuck?", a children's book
Linda Louise Ashley has joined our list of
Extended Authors. She is the author of a children’s book,
“How Much, Woodchuck?: A Book of Ponderings and Opposites,” which she has extensively illustrated with original watercolor paintings.
Linda started her painting career in earnest in the mid-1990s. Soon after taking her first art classes, she found my true passion: watercolor. From then on she has had the opportunity to paint with many fine artists in workshop setting in wonderful locations here in Colorado and California. She always comes away with renewed inspiration and techniques to add to her repertoire.
She am fortunate to have a studio behind her home in Montrose, Colorado, and it is there she offers workshops in “watercolor basics” and several ongoing classes. Some of her
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