Can we do the Oprah thing and have a council book club?
Colin Gray Just Agreed to the Write the Foreword For My Book
I'm all giddy! Now all I have to do is finish it. Particularly since my wife is buying Christmas presents with the advance money as we speak (or as we type).
Can we do the Oprah thing and have a council book club?
Originally Posted by SteveMetz
As long as I don't have to give you all a car. Or hug you.
We were doing a book of the month but stalled at John Robbs book. I think Dr. Metz book would be a good additon.
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Oh Boy! Free Books!
I agree with selil. Would this mean that Steve now has to give us all free books?
Do we need to discuss Steve's book? He's already told us everything that's in it.
LOL! Good point.Do we need to discuss Steve's book? He's already told us everything that's in it.
I can't wait for the end. My writing is like something I heard a crusty old admiral say at the beginning of a presentation: "I speak without notes so I'm as anxious to hear what I'm going to say as you are."
Steve is writing a book? Who knew?
Why wasn't I informed...
I'll sign for an advance copy next time I go to B&N.
What a great idea
Tough crowd here...
... congrats on getting Colin Gray to write the intro and getting so close CINC HOME is spending the advance. Can't wait to read it.
Definitely a coup. Was it the BBQ that lured him in? I still am monitoring and coveting a slice of that. Disappointed 3 Dec was no-go terrain here for me.
We can most definitely re-energize the BOMC forum. Let's plan on it. Everyone buy on Amazon through links at SWJ, we all win, and it's forum discussion time. Alright!
Now all we need is the book finished and on the street!
Definitely a coup. Was it the BBQ that lured him in? I still am monitoring and coveting a slice of that. Disappointed 3 Dec was no-go terrain here for me.
We can most definitely re-energize the BOMC forum. Let's plan on it. Everyone buy on Amazon through links at SWJ, we all win, and it's forum discussion time. Alright!
Now all we need is the book finished and on the street!
3 December turned into a goat rope for me. I am growing senile by the minute (whether due to the book or having two teenage daughters). Got to the Pentagon Doubletree and noticed I'd forgotten to pack socks and underwear. Braved the arctic weather and walked to Marshall's to get some. Later that night I noticed I'd packed two pajama shirts and no bottoms. So I slept upside down.
Then the deal with losing my car in the Pentagon City garage. Then wreck on 270. Finally got home at 10.
Considering
how things are going so far I would probably recommend you order all your necessities for home delivery and have all the other VIP's come to you.
Otherwise we may never get the oportunity to buy it.
I'm planning to have the book jacket photo shot from the waist up. That way if I forget to pack underwear no one will be the wiser.how things are going so far I would probably recommend you order all your necessities for home delivery and have all the other VIP's come to you.
Otherwise we may never get the oportunity to buy it.
Heck, you might even be able to get away without the pants that way, in the event of a real senior moment.
Just make sure you get your pajamas right the night before so you pose with the right orientation.
0900 Saturday and I've already cranked out 1500 words. This may turn out to be a good day.
Epilogue For My Book
Revised version of a ditty that appeared in Military Review.
Baghdad April
Who would have thought even minutes ago
Blackhawk swept from the taupe
Medieval California Kuwait to the quivering sandust of Talil.
Sweat, Al-Hilah, Marine bird, older than damp crew, machine
Smell, vibration ammo cammo scraped paint web belts, still
Tighten gray roar
Chaos, nose down, brown. Just get us there.
Now green. For ten thousand lives this river ran brown with blood
Helping reeds limber bodies once passed as blind. Just get us there.
Down, then there
BIAP, uncrumbled hull
Spurts and unthinking tremors, the shakti of nonduality,
Bills unpaid as new planes kneel lame,
Crying tarmac, shattered dust.
Fade, then the comic book cantos: a prince of
Babylon, sword of Assyria, builder of Ur, heavens perturbed,
Trauma hung close in broken glass
Facade (yet more)
Meaning deep to those who looted that brief cosmic day
Missed by those who watched.
Stories, reprise, thunder run
Endless dust nights of expendable men
blind (they must have been)
To spin a rusty truck against a tank
With only, what? passion? hate?
fear?
Perhaps no thought at all
Except to hope the engine would start (or not)
and someone else would see.
No matter. They are now mist, counters in a game.
Destroy and build, Shiva in web gear
While somewhere a bridge is lost. But what?
Who is destroyer, who a builder? We know
Often great power owns only dust.
Still there is BIAP
Flight out
Home, strong shoulders
Hiphop, fading you.
And then
A tiny point of blood receding on the glass.
May 2003
Last edited by SteveMetz; 12-18-2007 at 02:05 PM.
Finished!!!
Just shipped that bad boy off to my editor. Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty I'm free at last!
Let me be the first to say congratulations!
Going to enjoy some time off?
ahh yes, but they'll want the script for the movie now
Congratulations on getting it done, Steve! Now if I could just finish this $%&^ ten page paper...
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