Since I can't copy and paste my blog today, I'll just type this short version of what I'd intended to paste.
I visited an "art" gallery yesterday that I've unsuccessfully tried to get my paintings in several times. Canvases covered with hideous smears were displayed with astonishing prices. This was art like mud pies are food. The lady there said she'd sold one of these things for $3,500 last week. People think they're superior to others because they understand this "art". They turn their elite noses up at my paintings.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Harbor Day
Report on Harbor Day:
I looked forward to selling my book, Wet and Hungry, at Harbor Day, a day that celebrates the local fishing industry. The organizers had a tent for arts and craft vendors and organizations. Booth rent in the tent was $150, so I didn’t rent one. People who did complained about the cost and went in together. A lot of booths were rented by spendthrift gov , quasi gov and environmental organizations such as the Coast Guard, Maryland Coastal Bays, Reef Foundation, Assateague Coastal Trust, etc.
One writer shared a booth with boat models. You could hardly find the guy behind a seven-foot model of the Pride of Baltimore.
Merrill offered to let me sell my book in his booth outside the tent, but the organizer told him he couldn’t sell anything from his booth because it wasn’t in the tent. Bright, who docks in the harbor near the Harbor Day site, said I could sell my book in front of his boat, where he was going to sell lobsters. The organizer said he couldn’t do this and that only items relative to fishing could be sold, as if my book had nothing to do with fishing! Bright looked into it and learned that since he rents the slip, he could sell what he wanted there.
Despite the rules against selling in the outside booths, other people did it.
I sat outside in front of the fishing boats, Skiligillee and Pelican, tied side by side. Bright’s crewman showed a giant lobster to children. Bright sold lobsters and did demonstrations. The new owners of the Pelican had beer on their boat, which attracted quite a few people who traipsed across Skiligillee to get to the beer. That and the giant lobster drew a crowd and I sold a number of books. When it rained, I put away most of my promo stuff and left out two books in grip-lock plastic bags. I covered my other stuff with a black garbage bag and held an umbrella. And sold more books. By the end of the day, we were all wet and hungry.
If any of your readers, all two of you, think I should write another book, please send some feedback. I'm considering a book of stories, mostly funny and Eastern Shore oriented.
I looked forward to selling my book, Wet and Hungry, at Harbor Day, a day that celebrates the local fishing industry. The organizers had a tent for arts and craft vendors and organizations. Booth rent in the tent was $150, so I didn’t rent one. People who did complained about the cost and went in together. A lot of booths were rented by spendthrift gov , quasi gov and environmental organizations such as the Coast Guard, Maryland Coastal Bays, Reef Foundation, Assateague Coastal Trust, etc.
One writer shared a booth with boat models. You could hardly find the guy behind a seven-foot model of the Pride of Baltimore.
Merrill offered to let me sell my book in his booth outside the tent, but the organizer told him he couldn’t sell anything from his booth because it wasn’t in the tent. Bright, who docks in the harbor near the Harbor Day site, said I could sell my book in front of his boat, where he was going to sell lobsters. The organizer said he couldn’t do this and that only items relative to fishing could be sold, as if my book had nothing to do with fishing! Bright looked into it and learned that since he rents the slip, he could sell what he wanted there.
Despite the rules against selling in the outside booths, other people did it.
I sat outside in front of the fishing boats, Skiligillee and Pelican, tied side by side. Bright’s crewman showed a giant lobster to children. Bright sold lobsters and did demonstrations. The new owners of the Pelican had beer on their boat, which attracted quite a few people who traipsed across Skiligillee to get to the beer. That and the giant lobster drew a crowd and I sold a number of books. When it rained, I put away most of my promo stuff and left out two books in grip-lock plastic bags. I covered my other stuff with a black garbage bag and held an umbrella. And sold more books. By the end of the day, we were all wet and hungry.
If any of your readers, all two of you, think I should write another book, please send some feedback. I'm considering a book of stories, mostly funny and Eastern Shore oriented.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Politician's Books
Ulysses Grant wrote the first presidential best seller and it was a good one. Grant had lived an exciting life and HE WROTE HIS BOOK HIMSELF in a clear and thrifty style.
Dwight Eisenhower wrote a memoire of WWII, also a best seller and, I believe, he wrote it himself. Grant and Eisenhower both graduated from West Point and weren’t the doddering fools their enemies insinuated they were.
John Kennedy won a Pulitzer Prize for Profiles in Courage, but he might not have writen it.
Barry Goldwater wrote drafts of his newspaper column, which his assistant completed. I believe his assistant helped with Goldwater’s first book. Goldwater resigned from the senate when he ran for President. He said a person didn’t have time to serve in the senate and run for president. That didn’t stop Hillary Clinton, Jim McCain and Barack Obama. Goldwater couldn’t mult-task like these modern politicians.
If ghost writers wrote Jimmy Carter’s books, they aren’t claiming them.
Al Gore’s Earth in the Balance was ghost written.
Hillary had assistance with her books.
Jim McCain is unable to use a keyboard due to war injuries and dictated his book.
Ron Paul writes his own books. He’s too frugal to hire a writer.
I’ve heard that Bill Ayers wrote at least one of Obama’s books.
Sarah Palin used an assistant for her book, which has sold 1,500,000 copies and it isn’t even in print yet.
I wrote my book, Wet and Hungry, myself. It tells exciting stories of real, working people and it’s more entertaining than the recent spate of over-paid politicians’ self-promotional pulp. Don’t give those people more of your money, buy Wet and Hungry, instead.
Dwight Eisenhower wrote a memoire of WWII, also a best seller and, I believe, he wrote it himself. Grant and Eisenhower both graduated from West Point and weren’t the doddering fools their enemies insinuated they were.
John Kennedy won a Pulitzer Prize for Profiles in Courage, but he might not have writen it.
Barry Goldwater wrote drafts of his newspaper column, which his assistant completed. I believe his assistant helped with Goldwater’s first book. Goldwater resigned from the senate when he ran for President. He said a person didn’t have time to serve in the senate and run for president. That didn’t stop Hillary Clinton, Jim McCain and Barack Obama. Goldwater couldn’t mult-task like these modern politicians.
If ghost writers wrote Jimmy Carter’s books, they aren’t claiming them.
Al Gore’s Earth in the Balance was ghost written.
Hillary had assistance with her books.
Jim McCain is unable to use a keyboard due to war injuries and dictated his book.
Ron Paul writes his own books. He’s too frugal to hire a writer.
I’ve heard that Bill Ayers wrote at least one of Obama’s books.
Sarah Palin used an assistant for her book, which has sold 1,500,000 copies and it isn’t even in print yet.
I wrote my book, Wet and Hungry, myself. It tells exciting stories of real, working people and it’s more entertaining than the recent spate of over-paid politicians’ self-promotional pulp. Don’t give those people more of your money, buy Wet and Hungry, instead.
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