Never give up hope. The week before Art on Chocolate 2017 in downtown Hershey, we were looking at 100% chance of rain and unseasonably cool temperatures. Weather predictions in the midstate are notoriously unreliable, but day after day, as we pulled together the equipment and worked on the books, the numbers didn’t change. We braced […]
We all use grocery bags. We buy our groceries, get them bagged, take them home and then, well, what do we do with those one-use bags? Paper grocery bags can be easily recycled, whether at home as gift-wrap, book covers, underlayment under patio pavers, lining trashcans, as compost, or tossed into the recycling bin. Plastic […]
I hate being late to my own rodeo, but better late than never. Last week, we released “Suburban Stockade” (now called “Fed, Safe, and Sheltered”) as a Kindle ebook. It’s exclusive to Amazon, so that we could put it into Kindle Unlimited. The trade paperback has been out for a month, and we set up […]
This post is part of a series about sewing NotQuilts. If you’re unfamiliar with this method, The NotQuilt series begins here. I measured correctly. Each binding strip was long enough to go from one edge to the other. Even the top strip! Because this one was sewn on last, it had to enclose the raw […]
This post is part of a series about sewing NotQuilts. If you’re unfamiliar with this method, The NotQuilt series begins here. Dragon Princess has been determined since day one to thwart my will, but this time I had come thisclose (yes, “thisclose”) to dumping the project. By itself, it was a minor problem, but it […]
This post is part of a series about sewing NotQuilts. If you’re unfamiliar with this method, The NotQuilt series begins here. I’ve been filling in the border, that strip of empty real estate a few inches wide that runs all around the edges of Dragon Princess. This border is actually in eight separate sections. Because […]
The Kenneth Branaugh Orient Express remake made Twitter recently, but in a way that had nothing to do with the movie. It seems that reporters these days are not trained to do any research before opening their mouths or sending a tweet. Back in my days at journalism school, we were taught the unofficial motto […]
This post is part of a series about sewing NotQuilts. If you’re unfamiliar with this method, The NotQuilt series begins here. With the roses on white floral, it was time to do more fill-in. I looked at a moderate pink gingham. I have plenty but it just didn’t look right. It read as too dark, […]
In 2017, we released “Suburban Stockade: Strengthening Your Life Against an Uncertain Future” and in 2020 we rereleased it with a newer, snappier (we hope) title “Fed, Safe, and Sheltered.” Teresa Peschel spent several years writing her “manifesto memoir” about her concerns for the future and how you can best protect your family from the […]
This episode of the Career Indie Author is overdue. This week has been full of editing my wife’s first book, “Suburban Stockade.” It’s in the hands of CreateSpace, and if everything goes well, we’ll have copies available at the Downtown Hershey Association’s “Art on Chocolate” in Hershey on Saturday, May 13. Yay! Instead, I’ll put […]