June 30th, 2008

And there goes June…. It’s been a busy year. I finished the sample chapter for the spy book, made revisions to the posse book, completed a rough promotional schedule for Thunder Over the Prairie, and am getting ready to submit most of the material needed for the children’s book. Jim Sherer, the former mayor of Dodge City is working with me on setting up the launch party for Thunder. The launch is scheduled for October 3, 2009 at the Dodge City Public Library. Invitations will go out to politicians and local history lovers, the press will be invited…it’s going to be fun. I’m going to cram everything I know about marketing into this title. I really want the book to do well. The publishing industry as a whole is suffering along with the rest of the economy and this might be the last time I get a chance to do something this grand again. Not that it matters much given what I do for a living, but I have the worst case of laryngitis I’ve ever had. It’s very quiet in my home office. The smoke in Northern California is bad right now and I think that’s what brought this on. I haven’t spent as much time as I wanted to working on the Buffalo Bill Cody book. I make up a schedule for my daily work and I’m supposed to be completing two pages a day on that project. I’m three pages behind. I think I’m going to blame that on the layngitis. How can I write when I can’t read aloud what I put down on paper? A Beautiful Mine comes out tomorrow. I received my copies today. I’ve never received the finished book this early. It’s a refreashing change. I’ll be sending copies of the book out to everyone who emailed and asked for a complimentary copy. I’ve got a few remaining for anyone else that signs up for the newsletter and emails telling me they’d like an advanced copy of their own. Let me know.