Saturday, November 30, 2013

Giving Thanks

Two days ago was Thanksgiving, and I spent that day with family and food, and a heart full of thanks for many blessings. It seems crass and self-serving to exploit a national mood of gratitude to promote my new book, so I will refrain.
Or at least I’ll be subtle about it.
I genuinely am thankful to my publisher, Billie Johnson of Oak Tree Press, and to her fine, capable assistants, Jeana Thompson and Suzi Yazell. They’ve been a pleasure to work with, they make fine books, and promote them well.
 I’m also grateful for the support, advice, and encouragement I’ve received from a large network of writing colleagues, most of whom I’ve never met in person. These include a gang called “The Posse,” a gift created by Sunny Fraser, which is now coordinated by James R. Callan.
To close, I will quote the last paragraph of my book:
As always, I thank my friends and supporters: the members of my writing group, The Great Intenders; Toby Tompkins, Meredith Phillips, Janine Volkmar, and Larry Karp; Michael Moreland, for introducing me to the gentleman on the cover of the book; and most of all Susan Daniel, my partner in all I do.

Oh yes. The name of my new book is Hooperman: A Bookstore Mystery. Here’s what it looks like:


For more info, http://www.danielpublishing.com/jmd/hooperman.html

10 comments:

  1. And I'm thankful for all the same reasons, John. It's been a rough year in many way, but there are so many things to be thankful for.
    Marja McGraw

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  2. I'm with both of you. I'm particularly thankful to all of my internet writing friends who have been so supportive, and to my hubby who has been doing all the cooking for the past four weeks while I've been recovering from my "blonde" disease (vertigo).

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  3. And, I have to thank you back for publishing Valley Fever. It started my career!

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  4. Thank you for your comments and responses, friends. This post is developing into an all-out thankfest. Nothin wrong with that!

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  5. Short and sweet and full of gratitude. Thanks for posting this, John. I'm so grateful to you and to Sunny, as you both know, for your help in bringing Only You to Billie's attention. January will soon be here, along with the publication of the memoir..

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  6. I'm thankful for all my writer friends on the Internet, my Sisters in Crime chapter, local friends, my parish and my cats. Also grateful for an amazing year that saw the publication of three short stories and my new book, "The Sinister Sitcom Caper." Wow! Who could ask for more?

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  7. I'm thankful for many of the same things as you, John. And I'm also thankful for my big family (the ones I'm actually related to) and for my writing family which includes all my faithful readers and my writing friends.

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  8. Thanks again everybody. We writers have much to be thankful for: our publishers, our supporters, our readers, and of course the great joy of writing

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  9. Thank you, John. It means so very much that you would think of including little ol' me! I really appreciate it. Thanks again!

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  10. Oh yes, Bookworm is my alter ego! ~ Suzi :)

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