Catching UP!

 

Books that went to press or back to press this week:

Final Victim by Ann Nolder Heinz

The Comfort of the Shepherd, by Barbara Garro

 

Galleys that went out, or went out again this week:

Go Tell Aunt Rhody, by Thornton Parsons

World Without End, by Nancy Madison

Work Began or Continued on the Following:

LIONS, KISSES AND PETRODOLLAR$, by Gabriel Timar

STAR-WOLF, by Warren Graffeo

MURDER BY BEST SELLER, by Gabriel Timar


WILT THOU BE MINE, by Ann Nolder Heinz


HANNAH'S GHOST, by Robert Kanehl

STAR WOLF, by Warren Graffeo

If anyone here knows Warren Graffeo or is in contact with him, PLEASE ask him to contact me at:

arline@mail.com

The college e-mail we have for him is not working, another college is listed on his Facebook page, but despite repeated requests, he will not befriend us or give anyone access to his new e-mail. Both his books  are stalled and we cannot proceed with either of them until we hear from him.

Fictionwise Best Sellers

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Fiction anyone????

The book above is fiction that chronicles social change in
our country and a well written tale it is, too!

Question: You used to print a lot of non-fiction, but now you guys only publish fiction. How come? Non-fiction books are the kind that make people think? If you can't learn something from a book, what good is it, except a pleasant pastime? Don't you people want to publish important books???

Answer: Actually, all the books we publish are always important to us. 

Fiction is a pleasant way to pass the time, but it also does something non-fiction books cannot do. It touches the heart as well as the mind. It makes the reader care about the people involved.

Take Dickens, for instance. He grew up a disadvantaged child, in a land where there were no public schools for the lower classes. He was raised in an age where social entitlements were unthinkable, and if you were sick, naked and hungry, nobody cared. Charity was the duty of relatives. Often of reluctant relatives who had little enough to get by on themselves.

He wrote for the upper classes who read for pleasure, in an age when the lower classes largely were illiterate. Rather than concentrating on the genteel poor, as Jane Austin had, or the landed gentry as most of his contemporaries did, Dickens wrote about the lower classes. People who lived in poverty, in squalor, and who often didn't wash or even eat regularly.

In a time where the upper classes ruled, Dickens alone made the plight of the lower classes understandable to members of parliament and the House of Lords. He cared and because he cared about his characters, they came to care about similar people who lived in their cities.

Dickens has fallen out of favor with the academics now. Few college instructors take time to note the enormous social change his work inspired. He wrote movingingly of his horrible childhood and what it was like to be poor and was read widely by the upper classes, who then voted to change the deplorable social conditions he depicted so vividly. 

When Dickens began to write, there were no public schools for the lower classes, no regulated housing for the poor. No housing codes, not fire regulations, nothing. No organizations were around to address the needs of those less fortunate. Widows, orphans, the sick, aged, and  hungry had no place to go, when Mr. Dickens started to write. By the time he was done, none of that was any longer true.

Non-fiction gives you information you may need, But fiction involves the reader's emotions and makes him or her care what is happening to people.

And don't even get me started on Harriet Beecher Stowe!

Try Pico de Gallo at your next barbecue!

Matthew L. Schoonover’s Pico de Gallo

2     large tomatoes (do not use Romano tomatoes), diced
1     twined bunch of cilantro, finely chopped
1     large onion (yellow or white, your choice), finely diced, not minced
2 to 4     Serrano peppers (with or without seeds, per your own tastebuds), finely chopped
    mix everything together
    Juice of half a lime or lemon, squeezed over concoction - er, I mean ingredients

Serve with corn tortilla chips, or over assorted foods of your liking.
(Personally, I enjoy it with Spanish rice.)

Contributed by Matthew L. Schoonover, author of the Arbiter Series featuring Incubus Detective Augustus Pilot, and Doing Dead Man's Time.

Haunted by Style Book Decisions - writing tip

In the mood for a great Ghost Story???

Question: I didn't know there were different Style manuals. Which is the "right" one?

Answer: Depends on who and what and where you are. 

If you are an American Publisher, then the best style manual is the Chicago Manual of Style, the "Bible" for U.S. publishers. And then each publishing house will make changes according to what they personally choose to do.  For instance, CMS says O.K. is correct. Ditto A.M. and P.M., but we use okay, p.m. and a.m. because caps can have an embarrassing way of disappearing in e-book files. It also firmly states that possessives that end in S still get the following apostrophe S.  So if something belonged to James, it would be James's.

If you're a newspaper reporter, the AP Handbook will be the final word. It says that possessives that end in S only get the apostrophe, not the following S.  So if something belonged to James, it would be James'.  Almost all AP choices have to do with saving space and using fewer column inches -- saving all that room for ads to pay the bills.

If you are a college student and your English 101 instructor uses Strunk &White, as a style book,  you will be taught not to use the following S for possessives. Also quotation marks are ' single not " double and quotes within a quote are " double, not single '.  And if something belonged to James, it would be James'. Again, it varies from style book to style book.

Spelling also varies.That is the firm rule in the United Kingdom, Canada, and other British places and Strunk & White were British. In fact, E. B. White was the author of Stuart Little. But if your English 101 instructor uses Turabian as a style book, you will be taught to use the final S. Also in the UK it is  recognised that it's the advertisers who pay the bills. Boats dock in a harbour, color and check are both spelled with a U,  and people try to be kind to their neighbours.  This is why Americans shouldn't use the Oxford English Dictionary  for a spelling reference. Any Mirriam-Webster will do. There's a good one at: www.m-w.com

Who cares?????  Well if you are a writer, you do. Words are the tools of your trade. Using them correctly is almost as important as finding the right one. 

Crab Cakes -- recipe

Birdie DeCoursey’s Killraven Island Crab Cakes

1         lb. Crab meat (more if crabs are plentiful)
2         eggs
2/3     cup corn meal ( or left over mashed potatoes)
1/4     cup milk
1/4     cup grated onion
½         cup grated green pepper
1         tsp. Salt
½        tsp blackPepper
½         tsp curry powder* more if you like it spicy

In a bowl, beat eggs, milk, and seasonings. Add onion, pepper, and corn meal, or mashed potatoes and mix well. Gently add in crab meat and shape into cakes about as big around as a water glass and half an inch or so thick. Drop into hot shortening and fry (turning only once) until golden brown.

Fry with plenty of shortening in a heavy iron skillet. Birdye always used lard, though Crisco is permissible for modern cooks

(*The Curry Powder is Birdey’s secret ingredient. Coursey gets it for her in  Baltimore and only her dearest friends know about this.) Modern Day cooks may use Old Bay Seasoning if they wish. It tastes about the same

Contributed by Arline Chase, author of The Drowned Land, a collection of short stories where Birdy made her first appearance,  and Killraven, a novel where  Hope Voeschell, a gentle young woman, falls in love with DeCoursey Rogers a violent man.... but when their island community encounters rape and murder, Coursey’s “eye-for-an-eye” reaction may cost him everything.

Catching UP!

CONTRATULATIONS TO VIRGINIA WINTERS, WHOSE BOOK

THE FACEPAINTER MURDERS,

was a finalist in the Kindle Book Reviewers

BEST INDIE BOOKS OF 2012!!!

Print Books that went to Press this week:

LADY SLIPPERS FOR MY LADY, Coverton Mills Romance Series, Vol. 1, by Lynette Hall Hampton

E-Books that went to press this week: 

THE SAND BLUFF MURDERS, by C. M. Albrecht

MURDER BY BRASS, by Gabriel Timar

LITTLE MORNINGS, by C. M. Albrecht

Print Galleys that went out, or went out again, this week:

HANNAH'S GHOST, by Robert Kanehl

SHE CAME FROM AWAY, by D. Edward Bradley

LIONS, KISSES, AND PETRODOLLARS, by Gabriel Timar

TWO FACES: TWO FACED, by Kathryn Flatt

 e-Book Galleys that went up for sale, or went up again, this week:

DRAGON SPEAKER: Book 4 of the Red Dragon Chronicles

CUP OF JOY: Harmony Village Series, Vol. 6, by Anna Dynowski

NO MOTIVE FOR MURDER, by Virginia Winters

Work Began or Continued on the Following Books

WORLD WITHOUT END, by Nancy Madison

STAR-WOLF, by Warren Graffeo

MURDER BY BEST SELLER, by Gabriel Timar

GO TELL AUNT RHODY, by Thornton Parsons


HANNAH'S GHOST, by Robert Kanehl

STAR WOLF, by Warren Graffeo

If anyone here knows Warren Graffeo or is in contact with him, PLEASE ask him to contact me at:

arline@mail.com

The college e-mail we have for him is not working, another college is listed on his Facebook page, but despite repeated requests, he will not befriend us or give anyone access to his new e-mail. Both his books  are stalled and we cannot proceed with either of them until we hear from him.

LIST OF NEW BOOKS FOR SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

POSTCARDS FROM MR. PISH: EAST COAST EDITION, by K. S. Brooks

CHILDREN OF THE ENEMY, by D. W. Swykert

NO MOTIVE FOR MURDER, by Virginia Winters

CUP OF JOY: Harmony Village Series, Vol. 6, by Anna Dynowski

JUSTICE FOR CALEB, by Ed Petty

DRAGON SPEAKER, Red Dragon Chronicles, Vol. 4 by Ray Morand

THE COMFORT OF THE SHEPHERD, by Barbara Garro

MURDER BY BRASS, by Gabriel Timar

SAND BLUFF MURDERS, by C. M. Albrecht