Book Signing: Books N Things, Main Street, Norway, Maine. Saturday, July 18, 2009. 11 am - 1 pm. Spider Lake.  Come and introduce yourself, if you're an old friend, come by and say hello. Ask questions, or just visit and talk.

Book Signing and Reading:  Mechanic Falls Public Library, Elm Street, Mechanic Falls, Maine. Saturday, August 22, 2009, Time To Be Announced it will be in mid afternoon. Call Mechanic Falls Public Library, tel: 207-345-9450 for correct time. Or email me at rwc1v@yahoo.com  This event takes place at my home town library. The one I visited on a regular basis as a kid. This excellent, small town library kept me thirsty for more reading and supplied me with the eagerness to write. It is a place with  much of its original charm and atmosphere. Small, and crowded with books, it is rich in history itself. There will be light refreshments and maybe a short reading from the book. Lots of time to meet and talk. Please drop by as you pass through my home town (Cold Brook Mills--the setting for A Certain Fall).

On Writing

"As to the work itself, only time will show whether it has been good. Sometimes it seems to me actually to have the high purpose I set for it, and at other times it seems pedestrian and trite."

~ John Steinbeck, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner, in a letter to his friend and editor, Pascal Covici while writing East of Eden.

"You can, in short, lead the life of the mind, which is, despite some appalling frustrations, the happiest life on earth. And one day, in the thick of this, approaching some partial vision, you will (I swear) find yourself on the receiving end of--of all things--an 'idea for a story', and you will, God save you, start thinking about writing some fiction of your own. Then you will understand, in what I fancy might be a blinding flash, that all this passionate thinking is what fiction is about, that all those other fiction writers started as you did, and are laborers in the same vineyard."

~Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize winner, from Living By Fiction.

"Remember to get the weather in your god damned book--weather is very important."

~Ernest Hemingway, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner, in a letter to John Dos Passos, 1932.
           
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