Big V Mumbles About Something

Well finally. As you may recall in the distant past, I did an interview with a newspaper type (early August actually.) He sent me an email early this morning saying that because of the huge number of sports stories coming in, he had to edit my interview down to fit in another gentleman's interview... Sign in to see full entry.

For those reading "The Touch," today's post is of a particularly climatic one. I'll explain how this ending really happened when this is all done but it isn't that far from the truth. It is a long post for this forum, close to 1300 words. There was one place to break it and make it into two posts... Sign in to see full entry.

I'm not sure how it will go over here but my next novella will be of a political nature. It is something I started about 18 months ago and in the hurricane of events that have happened since then, it has languished in the 'bone pile.' By posting it here, I feel obligated to add to it daily and thus... Sign in to see full entry.

I need some help. I am putting out auditions for my short story audio book form for "Say Hello To Dave" and I have gotten some really decent responses. I have narrowed it down to these four. Each one is about four minutes or so. If you have about 20 minutes, listen to each one and then tell me which... Sign in to see full entry.

Euphoria can sometimes lead to stupidity. I had so many things go right yesterday that I decided to upload the completed version of "The Touch - A Gift" to Amazon. In my hurry, I initially uploaded the right cover art but the wrong text. You can't change it until Amazon approves everything so I had... Sign in to see full entry.

A great day! Not only did I finish "The Touch" or,as it will be officially on Amazon, "The Touch - A Gift," I just got an email saying my second audio book was just made public and available for purchase! Sign in to see full entry.

It is late (2 AM here now) but I'm happy. I just spent the last four hours completing "The Touch." I've yet to add the foreword and epilogue but it came in just about 22,000 words, which is exactly where I wanted it to be. This piece of work isn't for everyone, that I promise you. It is a story of... Sign in to see full entry.

I don't know how many of you really want to hear this stuff but as "The Touch" heads to its ending, I find myself a bit too frequently extremely emotionally moved as I finish it. This story is about 90% true so far. Now all compressed as it is, it sounds like miracle after miracle but that is why I... Sign in to see full entry.

As I mentioned yesterday afternoon in this blog, I finished my days as a columnist and reporter for a few papers and online sites with the last race of the year. The nice thing was I had already done my final interview with a man I had covered for years. We had both been at the same race track for... Sign in to see full entry.

My last race as a 'reporter' begins in about 35 minutes. I guess I'm kind of ambivalent about this deal. I'm tired of the grind of dead lines, giving up 24 weekends of the year as I've done since 1979, and always getting emails asking for a 'real quick article about...' but then again, I know I'm... Sign in to see full entry.