No blogbast today, is our intention. The holiday season being a time for joyful celebration, and tidying up a book proposal. Being all in-between things on thesis chapters, the writing, reading and revision thereof.
So, it’s back to a labor I dropped last winter, when transitioning to new employment gripped my fevered imagination and the world pressed in on every side. We’re all about narrative structure and dramatic arcs, and that.
You’ve no one to blame but yourselves.
I hope you’re happy now.
All I have to say is YOHOOO, put me down for 5
Damn. . .I guess that means they won’t be available for Christmas. At least next year’s gift load will be easy to buy.
Autographed, of course.
Huh! Who knew that nagging worked?
Merry Christmas to us all!
Happy Now? No, but but soon, when my copy is in hand…
Happy?
Very!
I may not be happy now, but I’m pretty certain the ends will justify the means in this case
BOFFO!
Joining the party well past the point considered fashionably late I enjoyed the benefit of consuming Rhythms in one very long sitting. I didn’t get to join the chorus that cheered you on to completion yet am content that I will be able to say I heard of him before Oprah did….
All right!
I knew nagging would work, I just knew it!!
Heh,
Mark On Top! MADMAN! MADMAN! Weapon Away!
That’s some great news for we, your devoted fans, Lex. Check six, Ward Carroll!
So, are signed copies potentially in the offering for us LORCs??? Could be, you know… worth somethin’ someday. Oh, and the read-to-my-kids possibilities of it all. Truly we are blessed today for sure.
My husband is wondering why I’m grinning from ear to ear. Like Lee, I can’t wait to read this to my son.
Yeah, I’m happy. And I’ll buy one when it comes out.
Soon as I see it’s up, I’m fer sure in as well. Cap’n Lex will be added to my “must read” category.
Having a raw manuscript has been – fun. That said, I want the hardcover book – first edition, signed if-you-please.
We aren’t all that demanding, but we know what we want. And it’s Lex’s signature in his book.
Book signing party!!!
In fact, a travelling road show book signing party is in order. I will buy the first round Guinness when he gets to Jax!
And then there’s birthdays and such.
Methinks the book signings should be fun too.
Kris has hit upon a idea worth putting into play at…hmmm…suggestions anyone?
Mongo – Flight Deck of the Midway, at Broadway Pier in San Diego. Best view in town, and with meaning!
Book signing tour…. you’ll need rehab after we get through with you!
Well, first stop on the tour would *have* to be Shakespeare’s, eh Lex? For the sentimentality in it.
That’s right, blame us! Even when you stroke a pilot’s ego, he still get’s down in the dumps and blames us.
Your welcome!
Gee, How about a book signing fly in?
“The best airmen are mostly simple people, who have been so overwhelmed by their love for flying that it has driven some of them to drink, others to silence, as great love often does. But occasionally there arises one, a poet, a philosopher, who succeeds in lending coherent reason to their love.” – British fighter pilot Peter Townsend.
A toast to our warrior-poet-philosopher!
A signed copy Lex, even if you do have a girls name
Yak, I’ll gladly stand the second…and third
Now all we have to do is find a pub in good standing somewhat near a bookstore…
Wow.
So there really is a Santa Claus…
Ah, the fruits of our (nagging) labor here are showing! BZ, Lex…we knew you had it in you…for a long, long, long time now.
History: For all of you begging for a signed first edition, know some wounded troops were well cared for the year before last when Lex graciously put a very first hard copy (signed, of course) up for auction supporting VALOUR-IT…brought in $600, it did, so know the best you can do is beg for a second.
Some lucky person has a real jewel in their hands.
So does this mean there will be more additions to the story?
WELL DONE, sir!
So far, that is. There may be much more work ahead, but after The Thesis is completed, writing for fun will seem like, well, FUN!
At least we all hope so.
Few people have the skill to weave word pictures that turn on all the sensors and truly immerse the reader in the thoughts and scenes and people which only exist in the author’s mind, until they magically appear on paper.
You have the gift. Thank you for using it, and allowing us to join you in your world.
Allow me to suggest bird farms in NYC and Charleston, SC as venues for your parties as well. And, there a lot of other big ugly gray things around the country where an aviator may be welcome (at risk of getting black shoes…)
THANKS IN ADVANCE. Don’t give up on us now!
Hot Damn & Halleluia!!!
Good luck, Cap’n.
Brian
God bless us, everyone! Christmas has come early. Somewhere the spirit of Antoine de Saint-exupery is smiling.
I will look forward, with great anticipation, to adding Lex to my professional library. And I suspect that he may well end up as an addition to the Commandant’s Reading List.
The Merriest of Christmases to all the inhabitants of Chez Hobbit, and to Lex, may your success rival that of W.E.B. Griffin!
I’ll have to check with a buddy in the business, if Lex were to pound out a finished copy by February it might be to press and hard copies available, oh, about the time the air show circuit opens up this summer.
Which, as a book-signing venue, might not be such a bad place to be.
I’ll give him a shout this afternoon, have him contact you directly.
And yes, I’ll take an even half-dozen. Signed, if you please.
– Max
My brother, the bug smasher pilot, has promised to take me to Osh Kosh this summer. Think we can arrange a book signing there, Max?
Pretty please …
Mid-country for a book signing soiree would be great – Osh Kosh? Oh my that could work mighty well.
Wow — just wow.
I’m speechless, I am.
Finally. I can’t wait for a hardbound and autographed copy of my own. We Lex Babes (and the fella’s too, whatever you decided to call yourselves) aren’t greedy, no sir!
Good luck and congrats! May the spirit of inspriation grace you with clarity and wisdom on this venture. Along with patience — for you and for your family!
Put me in for two autographed copies. One for me and one for my grandson. Great, Great news!!!!
That is *great* news.
I’ll gladly organize the book signing in OSH!