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- Are you an Author, Reader, Publisher, Editor, Agent or Other?
- I'm an author who started freelancing professionally in 1957, so thast's (egad) fifty years ago. Though our little corporation I'm also a publisher, not that this is making much money. My first published book was nautical humor and came out from Wescott Cove, a niche publisher which has since been bought out by Far Horizons which is coming out with a new edition. My second books was another niche publisher, Isaac Nathan Co., which brought out an abridged version of my short story collection,"Threads of the Covenant." But then I got into electronic books with companion paperback editions, so far about seventeen books in all. I record most of them for broadcast over Oregon Public Broadcasting and convert my copies of the recordings to audio books, now under contract with an agency for distribution, but we still do CD and cassette formats ourselves. Busy busy. In additgion I'm a contributing editor for Northern Express, a weekly newspaper for whom I write technology columns.
- Do You Have A Website?
- Yes, though the university. I'm a retired professor, and the web address is www.hu.mtu.edu/~hlsachs where you can listen to two stories as broadcast on the BBC world wide short wave and rfead a short mystery. There are also reviews of my books. It's not a pretty web site, strictly cobbled together, bugt is full of information.
- About Me:
- I'm professor emeritus (technical communication) from Michigan Technological University. After college (MAT from Indiana University) I took what was left of my GI Bill and moved to Sweden where I stayed four years and married Ulla. We bicycled from there to Britain for a year long honeymoon at Borthwick Castle, lived a couple of years in Denmark, returned to the USA, raised three daughters, and now divide the year between a hundred year old house in Michigan and a studio "apartment" in a retirement building in Portland, Oregon.
- Do you have a blog site?
- http://blog.myspace.cdn/121285142
- Favorite Books:
- I don't have a single book that I return to again and again. A recent joy was "Born to Kvetsch" which turns out to be a scholarly romp through Yiddish. Favorite authors include John leCarre for his spy novels, as I used to be in that "business."
- Favorite Bookstores on land or cyberspace
- Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon is a wonderful store. Unfortunately, I haven't space to keep books and many that I acquire I give away. In Michigan I frequent the Portage Lake District Library where I once served on the Board.
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My new book is about our 1963 winter living in a VW bus with our 20 month old daughter while I freelanced through Europe for the trade journals. I need a title and offer a freecopy of the book to the one who comes up with the winning title. Send your suggestions to hlsachs@mtu.edu.
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Helpless
Over the Holiday weekend I took a good look at my house and that familiar helples feeling washed over me again. It seemed like an insurmountable task to get the place in order. It still does.I spend so much time writing and promoting after I do my day job, what little time I have left is precious. Still, sometimes I just have to buckle down and ignore my compulsion to write and make myself clean house instead. I tackled the spare bedroom, which had clothes and all kinds of other articles strewn over the bed, on the floor, and anywhere you can think of, compliments of myself and the DH, who were equally guilty. I did make some headway, which made me feel good, but if I had more time I know I could do better. Also, there are so many other projects left to do if I were to get the house really into shape. I'm wondering how much I'll get done before Christmas, when I have my family over.
Maybe over the weekend I can get more done, that is, after I do the Illinois sales tax form first, which is due by the end of the month. I've got almost all of my check statements, except one, which I think I can find online, so maybe I can get that done. You may have guessed I'm not the most organized person in the world.
Anyway, let's see how far I can get cleaning up. I've got this kindle on loan from the library, with about 9 days left on it, and lots of good books on it beckoning to me. I've got some great ideas for stories I want to start and others I want to continue. I've got some blog buddies I haven't visited for a while. I wonder what will win out. (g)
What about you? What do you do about housework? Does it get in the way sometimes?
PS The not so surprising results are up on the left for my EZ poll. I'll have to do a harder one some time.
New Killer Career Excerpt at Acme Authors Link
Hi Gang,Today, I've got a new Killer Career excerpt up at http://acmeauthorslink.blogspot.com/ . This one continues from the first excerpt I posted on Monday at http://makeminemystery.blogspot.com/
If you're curious about my recently released romantic suspense, come on over to one or both blogs to check it out.
Thanks,
Morgan
Time Out for Kindle Reading
Our local library has 8 kindles available for its patrons. The DH and I both got on the waiting list, mainly so I could use one. His number was reached and we picked up the kindle on Sunday afternoon. Now I've got a kindle to read for 2 weeks! So far I'm really loving it, especially the current book I'm reading, My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult.What about you? Do you own a kindle? Or, have you tried someone else's? Would you like to?
Who's Doing Cyber Monday?
I'm very carefully going to check out the Cyber Monday deals. I have a few items in mind that I plan to buy, but it would be very nice if they'd go on sale and save me some money. I won't be spending much. Can't afford to do so this year.What about you?
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Thanks for the suggestion about Penny. I get her newsletter. You're right, she would make a great addition to our conference. Thanks!
I certainly understand about picking and choosing what conferences to attend. I stick to the east coast, within driving distance, usually. I may eventually venture further afield, if I can combine a vacation with a conferfence.
Deb
I can do that.
So what budget are we talking for the cover work? And do you have anything in wind for the cover, or would you rather me just be inspired by your synopsis?
Aidana WillowRaven
Looking at your brief synopsis on lulu for Murder in the Keweenaw, I would definitely like to give the cover a shot.
I am assuming the current cover is not available for print, or you would just like a different look?
Aidana WllowRaven
Let me know how to order your book.
Abe
Since you are in Germany you might find a couple of my books interesting as both have a German connection. One is "Scratch--out!" about a German exchsange student who is conned into working for a terrorist organization in an attack on the USA with junk mail. It's a cheap download from Wings ePress, but the paperback are only available from me and the postage to Germany is an outrage. The other book is "Ben Zakkai's Coffin" published by Zumaya in both ebook and papeback formats. It's about a trade journal photographer who is forced to go after an old Nazi war criminal in exchange for legal help in defending himself on a false murder charge. My heros tend to get conned and escape by the skin of their teeth.
I wouldn't want to live in my wife's home town, Bad Arnis an der Schlei. Nothing much to do there.She's not a war bride, though. Some wives of GI's discover that the soldier's home town was not like New York City, but West Armpit, Oklahoma, a dusty almost ghost town.
your message was very interesting. Meine Frau is auch urspruenglich Deutsch. Sie ist aus Rheinlandpfalz und in Pirmasens geboren. Ich war in Ramstein stationiert und habe dort meine Frau kennengelernt. Seit 1961 sind wir verheiratet und das war bei der USAF in Ramstein.
Ich bin Amerikaner in Pennsylvania geboren. Ich versprach meiner Frau dass wenn ich in Rente komme, wir nach Deutchland zurueck kommen.
Jetzt wohnen wir in einem kleinen Dorf - Goecklingen in der Pfalz. Es ist entlang der Weinstrasse in der Naehe von Frankreich. Ungefaehr 15 KM von Weissenbourg.
Your books sound interesting and I will investigate them further.
I've been free-lancing for over 30 years. Of course, I occasionally took "regular" jobs at times to make ends meet, ranging from a magazine editor and an OTR truck driver (that's the job that really pays).
You've really got to be prolific to make even minimum wage free-lancing. Seems everyone respects the written word--except those who pay for it.
I'm published through PA. And yes I did work as a grocery bagger, when minimum wage was less than $2.00 an hour (doesn't that give age away). I've been out of work since January, plenty of interviews, but no one wants to hire a middle aged white male these days. So I might have to go back to bagging groceries.
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