Fragments From Floyd

Book placement is ready for Notebooks in Floyd (also Cafe del Sol) and Ramshead Books in Roanoke. Signing and reading scheduled for Fathers Day (June 18) at Notebooks, and pending at Ramshead.

It was a good omen, perhaps, that the first interview about the book was by someone who had actually read it (in digital pre-press form) and "got it". Leslie Shelor's questions about the book invited responses I was pleased to offer. As I told her, each entry in the book represents the tip of a submerged story--just pull the thread and more will come. Her interview and a book review are both posted now at Blue Ridge Gazette. Go by Leslie's blog as well and see (literally) WHAT'S UP.

I've hit a glitch in sending the book to England. The only choices for mailing start at an additional fee of about $10 charged to the seller. Less expensive (and slow) media rates are available, but not through PayPal. I'll have to sort this out. Anybody have experience shipping to Europe via PayPal?

I attended a meeting of the Valley Writers in Roanoke last week. One of the members, Becky Mushko, an publishing writer from Franklin County, suggested I might want to look attending the Appalachian Writers Association conference in Bristol. Funny thing: turns out the keynote speaker is my friend Jack Higgs, who has been so supportive of the writing, and first planted the seed that there might be a book in there somewhere. He wrote a very kind and extensive endorsement for the book, only a short snippet of which appears inside the front cover.