SIDEWALK SALE ACROSS AMERICA now has six 5-Star reviews. The headline on the last one is "The ingenuity of the American spirit shines through".
The headline before that is "Ordinary People Striving in Extraordinary Times".
Please, if you have read the book, let me hear from you.
I first read The Front Page, that landmark stage play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, in high school as a printed script, and it was not an assignment. I had to go to a lot of trouble to get a copy. I was mesmerized. It was decades before I saw the story as a movie. Since, I have seen it as a stage play twice and several movie versions. The first time we were in London, my daughter insisted we would see the stage play, 'The Windy City'. I balked. Drug my feet. Why did I go all the way to London to see a play about Chicago? When the curtains opened, I knew -- it was The Front Page! So why did I go and marry a journalist? There must have been a reason.
A kind fellow writer has posted SIDEWALK SALE ACROSS AMERICA on ReadLocalKC at https://www.facebook.com/
Both the Oskaloosa Independent (full disclosure, my son, Rick, is the editor) and the Valley Falls Vindicator ran an article, along with a picture of the front cover, I thought it appropriate, then, to offer a free copy of SIDEWALK SALE ACROSS AMERICA to the Jefferson County libraries.
That would be Winchester, (which has a lovely separate library building, made possible by funds contributed by a former resident who had a successful career in Silicon Valley). Others were Nortonville, McClouth, Oskaloosa, Valley Falls, Meriden/Osawkie, and the commlunity library at the Highland College satellite campus in Perry. Mission completed yessterday.
So what have I been doing during the Pandemic?
Writing a novel about the Pandemic.
The Harkins family is struggling to get back to normal. Harold, also an amateur radio ham, is fearful his day job with a vending machine company will vanish -- so many people working from home -- but he feels confident the family will survive with the income from his wife's yarn shop. Sabrina is afraid her yarn shop will go broke, but she feels comfortable that the family will stay afloat with her husband's steady paycheck.
Unless you can catch me or my co-editor, Britt Nichols, tooling around in our vehicles, you can order SIDEWALK SALE ACROSS AMERICA from Amazon -- either Kindle or paperback. If you like the book, consider posting a 5-STAR review on Amazon. If you do not like it, send me an e-mail at kd0vqo@arrl.net
She's back. Not for the first time. She's elusive, comes and goes. Every time I try to access blogspot the navigation has changed, and I am an old grey-haired mouse in a new maze. Lost again. Long ago I gave up trying to find some coaching for blogspot. Went to computer class after computer class. I learned a lot from one group that I joined. Every month a questionnaire was passed out to the members, how did you like today's meeting, what future topics would you like to see covered and I would write "blogspot" and the next month we would have someone speaking about youtube, or how to send e-mails, or managing spread sheets. All helpful except for blogspot.
