Excessive posting? ... Interesting.....

[jamespowers]

Thank you!!!

Just click on the link - it will take you to Amazon.com.

Wow! I know a famous author!

 

[AmateisGal]

Well, not exactly famous...BUT! You never know. LOL I now have a literary agent representing me with my historical fiction, so I'm hoping my novel sells soon!

 

[Trapped in T-wilight Zone]

I would never get used to Evil Snow. That is always a deal breaker.

I hate to disagree with you jamespowers. One of the reasons we wound up in Grass Valley is that (most years?) we get enough snow to love it! But not enough snow to hate it. We are only about three hours from San Francisco. This is the first year since we came here that we have had NO snow at our place. I find it funny that about six inches of snow will nearly shut the whole town down for a couple days. Even people that grew up here cannot drive in it. Lizzie Maine I am sure would laugh herself silly at them.
I have no trouble driving around in anything under a foot on the road. I did find out that a snow day is the best time to go to the DMV to clear a title for one of my antique automobiles. Two brave (and bored) clerks and one manager were willing to stay and keep the office open (the other staff all got sent home after the first inch). I was the only customer in the building.
When we get a good snow? It is so beautiful around our house. (I need to look for a photo to post. Do I need to re-size them for this website?) The snow absorbs sound, and the quiet is incredible. Even if the power goes out, if I listen carefully, I may hear a few generators running (including ours). But most of that noise is soaked up and hardly noticed.

 

[Trapped in T-wilight Zone]

Zombie_61
I quote you:

"I'm the guy who will hold the door open while an entire crowd of people passes through, with my wife waiting for me (sometimes impatiently) on the other side. And, as best I can remember, the closest I've come to being "yelled at" for doing so is someone simply walking through the open door with no acknowledgement of the favor. I also like to open the car door for my wife and for any other female passengers, help them don their coats or jackets. walk on the "outside" of the sidewalk, and so on. I don't make a big show of doing any of these things, I just do them because it's normally the sensible thing to do at that moment. The odd thing is, I can't recall ever having been "taught" to do any of them--it's just sort of "second nature" to me, and I do them because I enjoy it, not because society "demands" I do them."

Funny? When I look in the mirror, I don't look anything like your avatar?

 

[jamespowers]

I hate to disagree with you jamespowers. One of the reasons we wound up in Grass Valley is that (most years?) we get enough snow to love it! But not enough snow to hate it. We are only about three hours from San Francisco. This is the first year since we came here that we have had NO snow at our place. I find it funny that about six inches of snow will nearly shut the whole town down for a couple days. Even people that grew up here cannot drive in it. Lizzie Maine I am sure would laugh herself silly at them.
I have no trouble driving around in anything under a foot on the road. I did find out that a snow day is the best time to go to the DMV to clear a title for one of my antique automobiles. Two brave (and bored) clerks and one manager were willing to stay and keep the office open (the other staff all got sent home after the first inch). I was the only customer in the building.
When we get a good snow? It is so beautiful around our house. (I need to look for a photo to post. Do I need to re-size them for this website?) The snow absorbs sound, and the quiet is incredible. Even if the power goes out, if I listen carefully, I may hear a few generators running (including ours). But most of that noise is soaked up and hardly noticed.

Any snow for me is too much. All snow is Evil and does not belong where I live. It snowed once here in 1976. I HATED it.:doh:

 

[jamespowers]

Well, not exactly famous...BUT! You never know. LOL I now have a literary agent representing me with my historical fiction, so I'm hoping my novel sells soon!

It is just a matter of time.

 

[Zombie_61]

Zombie_61
I quote you:

"I'm the guy who will hold the door open while an entire crowd of people passes through, with my wife waiting for me (sometimes impatiently) on the other side. And, as best I can remember, the closest I've come to being "yelled at" for doing so is someone simply walking through the open door with no acknowledgement of the favor. I also like to open the car door for my wife and for any other female passengers, help them don their coats or jackets. walk on the "outside" of the sidewalk, and so on. I don't make a big show of doing any of these things, I just do them because it's normally the sensible thing to do at that moment. The odd thing is, I can't recall ever having been "taught" to do any of them--it's just sort of "second nature" to me, and I do them because I enjoy it, not because society "demands" I do them."

Funny? When I look in the mirror, I don't look anything like your avatar?

Well, at least there are two of us out there showing society how things should be. :yo:

 

[HoosierDaddy]

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[AmateisGal]

It is just a matter of time.

Ha! Actually, I don't want to be famous. I'm too much of an introvert for that. But I'll take the dough.

 

[kaiser]

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[GHT]

Well, not exactly famous...BUT! You never know. LOL I now have a literary agent representing me with my historical fiction, so I'm hoping my novel sells soon!

Oh wow, well done you. Fame is not for me, but I wouldn't mind the extras that go with it, like an increasing income. My classic car is on the books of an agent that specialises in such things. So far it's booked for a number of weddings during the summer. Not bad at £250 per wedding, and only for a couple of hours work, that's roughly $400. The car has also earned me royalties for use in a couple of promotional flyers.

What I need now is some television work. Did you know that you not only get well paid for the use of a such a car, you also get a pre-agreed royalty payment, every time it comes up on a repeat, on any TV network, anywhere in the world. It certainly beats working for a living.

Now all I need is a car like Inspector Morse's and a highly successful television series to go with it.

 

[jamespowers]

Ha! Actually, I don't want to be famous. I'm too much of an introvert for that. But I'll take the dough.

If they give you money take it and pretend to not be an introvert.

 

[jamespowers]

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[AmateisGal]

Oh wow, well done you. Fame is not for me, but I wouldn't mind the extras that go with it, like an increasing income. My classic car is on the books of an agent that specialises in such things. So far it's booked for a number of weddings during the summer. Not bad at £250 per wedding, and only for a couple of hours work, that's roughly $400. The car has also earned me royalties for use in a couple of promotional flyers.

What I need now is some television work. Did you know that you not only get well paid for the use of a such a car, you also get a pre-agreed royalty payment, every time it comes up on a repeat, on any TV network, anywhere in the world. It certainly beats working for a living.

Now all I need is a car like Inspector Morse's and a highly successful television series to go with it.

Now that is interesting...I had no idea that you could get paid to have your car used. Very cool!

 

[AmateisGal]

If they give you money take it and pretend to not be an introvert.

Ha! I definitely can pretend to do that if they throw money at me!

 

[Formeruser012523]

Ah, to be paid for writing! That's a far off dream. How does one come to find a good agent these days, anyway?

 

[AmateisGal]

Ah, to be paid for writing! That's a far off dream. How does one come to find a good agent these days, anyway?

It took me YEARS to find an agent! This was the fifth novel I queried! A lot of it was all about the market, too. World War II historical fiction was not hot for a very long time. My rejections usually said, "Sorry, WW2 fiction is a hard sell." But that is changing now, I'm happy to say.

 

[jamespowers]

It took me YEARS to find an agent! This was the fifth novel I queried! A lot of it was all about the market, too. World War II historical fiction was not hot for a very long time. My rejections usually said, "Sorry, WW2 fiction is a hard sell." But that is changing now, I'm happy to say.

Now on to best seller status.

 

[AmateisGal]

Now on to best seller status.

I could live with that!

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

So how was everybody's Easter?

I went on a vintage bike ride in Long Beach riding a 1937 Mead Ranger with the local vintage bike group. Part of downtown is being prepared for the upcoming Long Beach Grand Prix and we rode through part of the track.