As the sun set slowly on I-85 northbound, I drove home from Newnan, the Great Peach State Book Tour officially over.
In the CD player: One Sweet Day by Tom Watts, our musician for the American Pie Tour. We had just reprised the Tour at the Corner Arts Gallery: Sara DeLuca and Paul Lentz reading, along with yours truly, and Blue Donkey Coffee providing the stellar coffee for our pies.
Jenny, our hostess, was a gem--not only for opening up her gallery to
us to perform, but locating chairs, moving space heaters, letting
finances go through her system, taking photos and pushing PR. Thank
you, Jenny!
Tom's wife Rebecca, who facilitates our writer's group, closed the afternoon by declaring us a bonafide group, that needs a funky head shot, and to go on the road through the 50-odd libraries in Georgia. What do you think?!
A great idea that will have to wait...I'm about to close the boatyard for the season...the season of new adventures!
On January 1, my sister and I began edits of my brother Peter's novel, and we are having a great time! Who knew how much editing fun we were missing en famille?! While Mary and Pete hunt for dangling participles, adverbs and passive verbs, I'm tackling structural and character issues. We're all on grammar police duty. Grateful for the workout with fiction for a change, and hoping for a writers' retreat this summer with the peeps.
We also took time to edit my chapbook submission "Squibs"--
produced during the November PAD Challenge--now at Poetic Asides, awaiting final judging--due today! Either way it goes, I'll
begin submissions of individual poems in other journals and see how I
do.
I'll leave a note on the door, while I head out to sea...well, over the sea...four months in Europe await me, and you'll have to shift over to my travel blog if you want to read about those. Among other things), the trip will include continuing edits on The Culture Shock Poems--with maybe a few additions.
So stay tuned, shift if you like, and track the continuing adventures of an urban clamdigger in a foreign land.
Ciao for now!
