Sunday, March 22, 2020

Never cross racing lines at other than racing speed

One more chapter to go for "Track Lessons"!  In this chapter we're dealing with lessons, rules and depth of knowledge.  It's one thing to "know" a rule because the teacher told you, and quite another to "Know" it because you understand why it is taught and a bit more if you had some memorable experience with it.  So that's the point of chapter 7.

When my son John was a teenager we had some father/son clashes and one thing that helped a lot when we were trying to communicate was our mutual love of motorcycles and motorcycle racing.  So a lot of our important conversations were in terms of issues on the track, "track lessons".  The various metaphors we used usually came from the track, we sharpened our values by discussing heroes, villains, and events from the race track.  It is noteworthy how theses same lessons show up in school, on the job, in relationships, and , yes, in church.

Some things are easy to "know" but there's usually a lot more to know about them.  For example, the area of a circle,
A
=
π
r
2
not hard to know or remember, but nor really "intuitively obvious".

Rules and lessons.

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

LAVIDGE Publicity press release

Check out the press release here https://bit.ly/38356TQ.

Got a little bump on my web site (this site) and several interesting inquiries already

Monday, January 27, 2020

Press release for "Walt"

As I mentioned previously, I am working with Archway to learn about selling my books, and to fan the flames on sales.  Today we launched a press release for "Walt".

The press release was developed by LAVIDGE Publicity and they distributed it to thousands of outlets and other interested parties they selected.  LAVIDGE will also take initial inquiries that result from the press release and teach me how to manage them.

I have been very pleased with Archway Publishing (they published "Walt"), and I wasn't surprised to be equally impressed and pleased by their chosen publicity company, LAVIDGE.

I'll report results here in a few weeks.

Sunday, January 12, 2020

I recently contracted with Archway Publishing and LAVIDGE Publicity to publicize "Walt"...

...and I am looking forward to working with these professionals to learn this aspect of being an author.  First step will be to develop a "press release".  Next will be the distribution of the press release.  And then, how to handle the inquiries.  Should be fun!

Monday, December 9, 2019

FREE ebook version of "Walt"

FREE ebook version of "Walt" to first person who emails a request to me.  I'll email instructions to the winner.

Saturday, November 16, 2019


As part of my efforts to market my writing, Archway Publishing will be showing "Walt, a Story of Fathers, Sons, and Road Trips" next weekend (Nov. 22-24) at the Miami Book Fair

Unfortunately I won't be able to attend this year but it's on my list for next year.

If you have been to this fair or have used similar events to promote your writing, I would love to hear your comments.