Just finished the book and it was GREAT! Where did all that come from??? - Did you pull any of it from real life? I loved it. I could never do that. I just don't know how. I don't have enough imagination and not enough of real life experiences. Congratulations! I 'm so glad you finished it while we are still going to retreat. It is proof that it can be done with lots of hard work. love ya Rita
Hubba hubba and hurdy gurdy !!!!! delightful thus far - I've only gotten to chapter 13. Hubba hubba and hurdy gurdy have a blessed day! ! ! (Will I find out what it means?) Has a happy little ring to it - we may have to adopt it as a little line! - Carol
I've started reading your book ... actually I'm more than halfway through it ... and I'm REALLY enjoying it. You did a great job!! And I'm truly sincere about that. I'm trying to figure out how it will end, but don't know yet, though I think Tom may play a bigger role in Liddy's life. Don't tell me if I'm wrong! I've been talking it up. We met Nolen's cousin and his wife in Branson this past weekend and she wants a copy. (They live in Sioux City)
Thanks for writing the book ... and I'm waiting for the next one!!!!
love,
judy
A Journey of Choice is available at Amazon.com and B&N.com
Friday, October 15, 2010
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Birth of a new book --A Journey of Choice is online
THE BOOK IS OUT~!!! THE BOOK IS OUT!!! Finally, the pregnancy is over and the baby is here. Both author and book are doing fine.
Apparently it is selling well, according to friend and editor Sandy R. who lives in Oregon.
My Pasadena CA brother's clients are--to hear him tell it--buying it. One even showed him his name as listed in the Acknowledgments page. He gets his copy tomorrow.
Amazon and Barnes & Noble have it listed and for sale. Soon, I'll have other copies myself.
Word has gone out to all the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow (Eureka Spgs. AR) alums. I heard from one in Chicago today.
The local newspaper called wanting information and photos for an article in Friday's paper.
No book signings scheduled locally since I have yet to receive my book order and my complimentary copies. Stay tuned. Er, online.
Pat Laster, new (and excited) author
Apparently it is selling well, according to friend and editor Sandy R. who lives in Oregon.
My Pasadena CA brother's clients are--to hear him tell it--buying it. One even showed him his name as listed in the Acknowledgments page. He gets his copy tomorrow.
Amazon and Barnes & Noble have it listed and for sale. Soon, I'll have other copies myself.
Word has gone out to all the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow (Eureka Spgs. AR) alums. I heard from one in Chicago today.
The local newspaper called wanting information and photos for an article in Friday's paper.
No book signings scheduled locally since I have yet to receive my book order and my complimentary copies. Stay tuned. Er, online.
Pat Laster, new (and excited) author
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Sayonara, September
cleaning the closet
in an Easy Spirit shoebox
our mother's keepsakes
~
donating
to a station never watched
she gets a free mug
~
State Poet Laureate
Late, she
swept in and waved
like Queen Elizabeth,
missing my speech on 'poetic
techniques.'
~
leaving the deck chair
to raise the umbrella
red wasp takes my seat
~
first day of autumn
blowing snow and icy roads
close the interstate
~
one persimmon falls
then two more ... clumsy squirrel
or over-ripe fruit?
~
crisp autumn morning~
white umbrella mushroom
in the dried, cut grass
~
"You're out!"
the newly-fired umpire's
last call
~
cool temp and a breeze
foretell the changing season
bee at the seed stalk
c 2010 lovepat press, Pat Laster
author, A Journey of Choice
in an Easy Spirit shoebox
our mother's keepsakes
~
donating
to a station never watched
she gets a free mug
~
State Poet Laureate
Late, she
swept in and waved
like Queen Elizabeth,
missing my speech on 'poetic
techniques.'
~
leaving the deck chair
to raise the umbrella
red wasp takes my seat
~
first day of autumn
blowing snow and icy roads
close the interstate
~
one persimmon falls
then two more ... clumsy squirrel
or over-ripe fruit?
~
crisp autumn morning~
white umbrella mushroom
in the dried, cut grass
~
"You're out!"
the newly-fired umpire's
last call
~
cool temp and a breeze
foretell the changing season
bee at the seed stalk
c 2010 lovepat press, Pat Laster
author, A Journey of Choice
Friday, September 24, 2010
Impending birth of A Journey of Choice
Two and 1/2 more weeks, she said, and my first novel, A Journey of Choice, should be ready to order at iUniverse.com. In two more weeks, it should be available at Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.
The writing part took long enough--from 1998 to 2010--that's the "art," someone said.
The publication--the "business" part--from the day I submitted the manuscript, June 24 of this year till the day I hold the finished book in my hand will have taken a little over three months. And close to $2,000, counting the reading fees I willingly gave two of my friends.
Oh, iUniverse set the prices for the books, not me.
A friend who heard me read two chapters to her study club told me it reminded her of "...that Portis guy, what's his name?" Great praise, comparing my book to Charles Portis of True Grit fame.
We'll see.
Pat Laster, Benton AR USA
The writing part took long enough--from 1998 to 2010--that's the "art," someone said.
The publication--the "business" part--from the day I submitted the manuscript, June 24 of this year till the day I hold the finished book in my hand will have taken a little over three months. And close to $2,000, counting the reading fees I willingly gave two of my friends.
Oh, iUniverse set the prices for the books, not me.
A friend who heard me read two chapters to her study club told me it reminded her of "...that Portis guy, what's his name?" Great praise, comparing my book to Charles Portis of True Grit fame.
We'll see.
Pat Laster, Benton AR USA
Sunday, September 19, 2010
As a 70-something, I participated in my first church mission trip
Nine-and-a-half hours in a 15-passenger church van with eight other missioners on a hot September Sunday took us through the south half of Arkansas into Louisiana, thence to the southern town of Baldwin,which was close to Morgan City, New Iberia, Patterson, and Franklin.
Our point of departure was Salem United Methodist Church north of Benton, AR, and our destination was the Sager Brown campus of UMCOR, a United Methodist Committee on Relief depot. Here, volunteers sort through hundreds of health and school kits that had been put together in churches all over the nation and shipped to the warehouse. Flood or cleaning buckets also needed packing--all of these for use in any disaster anywhere in the world where they were asked for.
In future posts, I will be more specific about the week's experience. Till then....
Our point of departure was Salem United Methodist Church north of Benton, AR, and our destination was the Sager Brown campus of UMCOR, a United Methodist Committee on Relief depot. Here, volunteers sort through hundreds of health and school kits that had been put together in churches all over the nation and shipped to the warehouse. Flood or cleaning buckets also needed packing--all of these for use in any disaster anywhere in the world where they were asked for.
In future posts, I will be more specific about the week's experience. Till then....
Friday, September 10, 2010
Sanguine September
TANKA
the station asks
for a money donation
I ask for a mug
(ugly, baby-poop yellow
made in China)
~
SENRYU
three huge projects loom
yet she sits outside and reads
the morning paper
~
FOUND CINQUAIN
Asleep,
lying face down,
flat in the road, squirrel slow
to stir in August's heat. He rolls
over. (from Ron Wolfe, ADG)
~
HAIKU
bluejay and starling
face off for the fallen seeds
late summer shower
~
SENRYU
Mom...gone these four years
still, she gets address labels
from Feed the Children
~
HAIK-SEN
I'm still outside
but outside, it's not still
welcome summer breeze
~
SENRYU
WEATHER GUARD business
not resting on Labor Day~
breeze through the windchimes
~
SEN-NEWS
combat forces gone
but two US servicemen
killed walking to talks
~
HAIKU
on the porch swing
driven inside
by blowing rain
~
c September 10 2010 lovepat press
Pat Laster
the station asks
for a money donation
I ask for a mug
(ugly, baby-poop yellow
made in China)
~
SENRYU
three huge projects loom
yet she sits outside and reads
the morning paper
~
FOUND CINQUAIN
Asleep,
lying face down,
flat in the road, squirrel slow
to stir in August's heat. He rolls
over. (from Ron Wolfe, ADG)
~
HAIKU
bluejay and starling
face off for the fallen seeds
late summer shower
~
SENRYU
Mom...gone these four years
still, she gets address labels
from Feed the Children
~
HAIK-SEN
I'm still outside
but outside, it's not still
welcome summer breeze
~
SENRYU
WEATHER GUARD business
not resting on Labor Day~
breeze through the windchimes
~
SEN-NEWS
combat forces gone
but two US servicemen
killed walking to talks
~
HAIKU
on the porch swing
driven inside
by blowing rain
~
c September 10 2010 lovepat press
Pat Laster
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Learning more about blogging at WCCW conference
Geez! Guess I'll have to rename my blog--and make other changes. That is, if I listen to Linda Fulkerson, Blog Coach and Internet Marketing Advisor, (see http://onbloggingwell.com/) who spoke at the White County Creative Writers (Searcy, Arkansas) conference yesterday.
From notes I took as she barreled through her allotted time with hardly a breath, I learned that:
(1) My (anyone's) blog should contain "excellent content about solutions to a specific problem the public has or on subjects the public is interested in. A blog should be relevant, authoritative.
(2). A blog should foster activity. Ask a question at the end of your posts. Host guest posts. This is another way to "network."
(3) Linking: Swap links. Your blog is your face to the general public, she said. Get your name out there as much as possible.
(4) Blog at least twice a week. Oops! for sure, that's a change.
~~~ Pat Laster, author of the forthcoming novel, A Journey of Choice.
From notes I took as she barreled through her allotted time with hardly a breath, I learned that:
(1) My (anyone's) blog should contain "excellent content about solutions to a specific problem the public has or on subjects the public is interested in. A blog should be relevant, authoritative.
(2). A blog should foster activity. Ask a question at the end of your posts. Host guest posts. This is another way to "network."
(3) Linking: Swap links. Your blog is your face to the general public, she said. Get your name out there as much as possible.
(4) Blog at least twice a week. Oops! for sure, that's a change.
~~~ Pat Laster, author of the forthcoming novel, A Journey of Choice.
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