I am pretty excited this morning so I\u2019m not sure I can write a meaningful blog post for you. What is so exciting? The one photo that I entered in the county fair WON the People\u2019s Choice Award. This means that, even while the judges didn\u2019t give it a ribbon, the people visiting the photography exhibit voted it best of show. <\/p>\n
This is a photo of my mom\u2019s cat, Smokey, leaping, quite unexpectedly, out of some bushes and flowers in pursuit of a bee. I was trying to get a sweet shot of him peering out from behind some flowers. At the moment I pressed the shutter release button, I heard Smokey crashing through the bushes and thought\u2014\u201cdarn it, I missed the shot.\u201d When I looked at my digital camera screen, however, I saw the most marvelous action shot I\u2019ve ever taken. And this is the photo I entered in the local fair.<\/p>\n
People\u2019s Choice Award. Wow!<\/p>\n
If you want to see the photo visit my Catscapades blog at http:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades<\/a> <\/p>\n In the meantime, I am attending a friend\u2019s book signing today. Do you support your friends, authors from your writers\u2019 group and other local authors by attending their book signings? You should. We should all help and support each other by attending library events featuring authors, book signings wherever they are being held, public presentations by authors, etc. Not only is it a nice thing to do, you could learn volumes\u2014that is, if you pay attention. <\/p>\n Observe what makes this event successful or unsuccessful. What would you do differently as far as the program or your approach? Did the author advertise\u2014how, through what channels? Is this author able to engage attendees or is she\/he stand-offish? What sort of book display does the author have? Is it attractive? What gimmick does the author use to entice interaction with attendees?<\/p>\n The signing I\u2019m attending today is at a cupcake bakery. Strange place, you say? Well, not really. The book, \u201cI Murdered the PTA,\u201d has a cupcake on the cover. The main character refers to the women in PTA as \u201ccupcakes.\u201d Here\u2019s an example of a novelist using a nonfiction hook to promote her book. Can\u2019t wait to get my mouth around one of those yummy cupcakes today. What a treat!<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.matilijapress.com<\/a> I am pretty excited this morning so I\u2019m not sure I can write a meaningful blog post for you. What is so exciting? The one photo that I entered in the county fair WON the People\u2019s Choice Award. This means that, even while the judges didn\u2019t give it a ribbon, the people visiting the photography […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
\n http:\/\/www.patriciafry.com<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"