Drilling for Ink

I’ve “scene” it a hundred times. The soldiers gather anxiously for mail call and when the looks of dejection appear on their faces, a drill sergeant shouts “Ya gotta writem to getem!” It’s the same thing with Social Networking and Publicity. So, we’re going to do this...

Comic Cons and Prose

This week San Diego will host some 125,000 people attending, Comic Con 2008. No one seems to mind that the politically correct term is now Graphic Novel. But then Graphic Con does not connote the real sense of whimsy that surrounds this event. On the other hand this...

iRonically Delicious

Several months ago, I signed books at the Fountain Hills Book Festival in Arizona. I arrived about a half hour before the event began and witnessed dozens of people already forming a line in anticpation of Joe Gargiola’s arrival. So it came as no surprise to me...

Watch Out!

Five of my six Grandkids now proudly proclaim that they can tell time.(the sixth just turned one, we’ll cut him some slack). I then inquire “What do you tell it?” To which they turn to their parents and say, “Grampa’s doing it...