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(Sunset over Honeoye Lake)
JOE: Good afternoon Calliope.
CALLIOPE: Good afternoon Joe. Where have you been.
JOE: I've been here but my computer has been busy uploading my CD for distribution for quite a while.
CALLIOPE: You couldn't type aroun...
(Butterfly in the Trees)
JOE: Good morning Calliope.
CALLIOPE: Good morning Joe. Did you crank up your Spiritual Wisdom Project?
JOE: Glad you asked. I experimented with ways to record a sample selection.
CALLIOPE: With any success?
JOE: Yes, I...
(Queen Anne's Lace)
JOE: Good morning Calliope.
CALLIOPE: Good morning Joe. I liked your thoughts yesterday on passion. Are you following yours?
JOE: Touché . As a matter of fact I am. Other than one trip out for extended errands, I focused on ...
(Metropolitan Opera)
JOE: Good morning Calliope.
CALLIOPE: Good morning Joe. How was your weekend?
JOE: Eventful and quiet.
CALLIOPE: Both?
JOE: Yes. Saturday Carol and I attended a simulcast of Metropolitan Opera's Turandot in which her son Mi...
(Oatka Creek Dam)
JOE: Good morning Calliope.
CALLIOPE: Good morning Joe. What's new?
JOE: I just received Joan Chittister's new book, Welcome to the Wisdom of the World.
CALLIOPE: It sounds similar to the theme of your writing.
JOE: Very obse...
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- Are you an Author, Reader, Publisher, Editor, Agent or Other?
- I am an author of two books of spiritual reflections, a memoir about my nine years in a seminary and monastery and a novel about an abusive priest's search for redemption. I also read everything I can and self publish my own books.
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- My website at http://www.slidingotter.com describes my writing and offers selections from my four books and recent newspaper columns.
- About Me:
- I am a retired psychologist now writing full time. I have published four books, Commonsense Wisdom for Everyday Life, Young Man of the Cloth, The Pastor's Inferno and Navigating Life: Commonsense Reflections for the Voyage. I maintain a regular blog, an ongoing dialogue with my muse, Calliope (see below) and write a regular newspaper column on commonsense wisdom topics. See my website for details. Listen to Rambling Verses Podcast interview with me about the development of my writing, early influences and publication efforts at www.storyinstitute.com/2009/02/09/story-institute-ramblingverser-podcast-episode-4/
- Do you have a blog site?
- http://www.commonsense-wisdom.blogspot.com
- Favorite Books:
- The Gift of Years, A Vein of Gold,The Source, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Care of the Soul, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New American Spirituality, Soul Mates.
- Favorite Bookstores on land or cyberspace
- Amazon
Lift Bridge Book Store- Brockport, NY
Borders
Conversations with Calliope Blog
I meet frequently to dialogue with my muse, Calliope, about the writing life, its joys and frustrations, inspiration, joys and frustrations, publishing and marketing. Please join our discussion and feel free to jump in if you have something to add.
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Conversations with Calliope- QED
(Sunset over Honeoye Lake)
JOE: Good afternoon Calliope.
CALLIOPE: Good afternoon Joe. Where have you been.
JOE: I've been here but my computer has been busy uploading my CD for distribution for quite a while.
CALLIOPE: You couldn't type around it?
JOE: Not very easily. It seemed to take up most… Continue
Posted on November 14, 2009 at 2:02pm —
Conversations with Calliope- Pen and Voice
(Seaman's Bethel Chapel)
JOE: Good morning Calliope.
CALLIOPE: Good morning Joe. How goes the fray?
JOE: Making progress. I printed sample cover and insert designs for my CD and produced a trial Master CD as well.
CALLIOPE: Are you ready to go public?
JOE: Not quite yet. Although the quality of th… Continue
Posted on November 13, 2009 at 6:59am —
Conversations with Calliope- Knowledge and Wisdom
(Monastery Pulpit)
JOE: Good morning Calliope.
CALLIOPE: Good morning Joe. What's on your mind this morning?
JOE: Just thinking about knowledge and wisdom.
CALLIOPE: What about them?
JOE: As I see it, knowledge is a collection of facts and procedures.
CALLIOPE: And wisdom?
JOE: A much larger question… Continue
Posted on November 12, 2009 at 9:08am —
Conversations with Calliope- Baby Steps
(Butterfly in the Trees)
JOE: Good morning Calliope.
CALLIOPE: Good morning Joe. Did you crank up your Spiritual Wisdom Project?
JOE: Glad you asked. I experimented with ways to record a sample selection.
CALLIOPE: With any success?
JOE: Yes, I'm glad to report. I was satisfied with the results.
C… Continue
Posted on November 11, 2009 at 7:54am —
Conversations with Calliope- Spiritual Wisdom
(Queen Anne's Lace)
JOE: Good morning Calliope.
CALLIOPE: Good morning Joe. I liked your thoughts yesterday on passion. Are you following yours?
JOE: Touché . As a matter of fact I am. Other than one trip out for extended errands, I focused on my Spiritual Wisdom CD.
CALLIOPE: Good. Tell me about it.
J… Continue
Posted on November 10, 2009 at 7:53am —
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I added a few slides of my books to my blogspot. I'm not sure yet if they should stay on or not.Do you have more trouble loading my blogspot with the slides up? Do you like them or are they too distracting?
A Christmas Tree Already
On the way home from work yesterday, I passed a house that already had a lighted and decorated Christmas tree up and showing by the window.Is it not too soon for that? In my mind, the day after Thanksgiving is when the Christmas Season starts. That's when it's fair game to put up a tree and decorations and start shopping. The way things are going this year, I'll be lucky if I get organized enough to decorate a few days before Christmas.
With our dog, Rascal, who lives up to her name, we'll probably go with a fiber optic small tree on top of an end table. One of these days I may pull put the larger tree from the box in the basement and set it up, but not until our doggy is a little more sedate. I don't feel like chasing her to get ornaments out of her mouth. I will be putting up knick knacks, lights inside and decorations on the walls, so it will still look Christmasy. No lights outside because for some reason we have no outlets outside.
While we're on the subject of Christmas trees and such, be sure to add holidays in your books. You can mention decorations and lights or Easter eggs and baskets, or even mattress sales in your descriptions to ground the reader as to the season.
Now, back to that tree I saw. What about you? When do you decorate for Christmas? What do you put up?
Winners and Losers at the CMAs and Life
I love country music and almost every country performer. While watching the CMAs, I enjoyed seeing the winners accept their awards. On the other hand, it was hard for me to see the losers do their best to appear gracious and for the most part succeeding.For every winner, there's a loser. In life and in books, it's the same way. How people react to their good and bad fortune shows what their characters are made of. You don't have to tell a reader who the good guy or bad guy is. Let their actions speak for themselves. The readers are smart enough to figure it out.
PS Can't finish this blog without saying - You Rock, Taylor Swift! You are one smart, talented teenager! Congrats on all your awards, especially, Entertainer of the Year!!!
CMA Awards Tonight and Twitter
One of my favorite shows is on tonight - the CMA Awards. If you're a country music fan, you're probably like me and will be glued to the TV 8pm EST, or in my case 7pm, in the flatlands of Illinois.Almost all my favorite performers will be there, except I hear that Rascal Flatts can't make it.
I'll be on Twitter during the show also. That's part of the fun of it - discussing and dissecting outfits, performers, songs and even commercials, kind of like I'm at a giant party with people who all go for the same thing and want to share.
What about you? What kind of music do you like? Do you tweet during a favorite show or event?
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When RASCAL wakes up, you'll hear from her and/or her Mom - that would be me, Morgan Mandel.
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Kudos on being so prolific, you give me hope! jen
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Early Endorsements for “A Circle of Souls”
Linda Fairstein, NYT Bestselling Author: "A fascinating debut - this novel takes the reader to the darkest places in the human soul, from a writer with the authenticity to lead us there. A stunning thriller and an important read."
Judge Judy Sheindlin, star of the Judge Judy Show: "The seminal work of this fine author kept me glued to my chair until the adventure was over and the mystery solved. A great read!"
Book Synopsis:
The sleepy town of Newbury, Connecticut, is shocked when a little girl is found brutally murdered. The town s top detective, perplexed by a complete lack of leads, calls in FBI agent Leia Bines, an expert in cases involving children.
Meanwhile, Dr. Peter Gram, a psychiatrist at Newbury s hospital, searches desperately for the cause of seven-year-old Naya Hastings devastating nightmares. Afraid that she might hurt herself in the midst of a torturous episode, Naya s parents have turned to the bright young doctor as their only hope.
The situations confronting Leia and Peter converge when Naya begins drawing chilling images of murder after being bombarded by the disturbing images in her dreams. Amazingly, her sketches are the only clues to the crime that has panicked Newbury residents. Against her better judgment, Leia explores the clues in Naya s crude drawings, only to set off an alarming chain of events.
In this stunning psychological thriller, innocence gives way to evil, and trust lies forgotten in a web of deceit, fear, and murder.
There's a new site called "The Muse Mystique" http://mysticalmuseredux.ning.com Sounds like your kind of hang-out. I just discovered it and joined, got my friends over there.
As for being serious, I have two mysteries out and love marketing. There are many places to pick up marketing tips on the 'net.
Also, you might want to check out my critique group, http://fridaynightwrite.blogspot.com We post what we discussed at our sessions on the following Monday. If you don't have a critique group, it gets you sort of in the mix and can be a good guide for starting one. If you have one you work with, it can lend ideas of what to discuss, apart from critiquing each other's work.
with a wild imagination running through the sparks.