Monday, March 31, 2014

Free Guild workshop 4/5 helps writers get the most from conferences

Discover how to “Get the Most from Writing Conferences” at the St. Louis Writers Guild’s free, public workshop from 10 a.m. to noon, April 5, at the Kirkwood Community Center, 111 S. Geyer Rd. in Kirkwood.
Local publishers Lisa Miller, Kristina Blank Makansi, and Brad R. Cook will talk about what writers need to do before, during, and after conferences, such as:
           How to select the best conferences for you (location, genre, agents, cost, etc.)
           Benefits to signing up early & staying late
           "Agent etiquette" & your future career
           How to choose between sessions 
           Networking opportunities 
With author Peter H. Green as moderator, the three panelists will share their insider knowledge as organizers of these upcoming conferences:
·      April 11-13--Missouri Writers’ Guild’s Fifty Shades of Writing conference at the Ramada Inn St. Louis, Downtown at Convention Center: www.missouriwritersguild.org
·      August 23--St. Louis Writers Guild’s Writers in the Park: FREE at Lions Amphitheater in Kirkwood Park www.stlwritersguild.org 
·      Oct. 10-12--St. Louis Literary Consortium’s first annual Lit In The Lou: A festival of the book for St. Louis! In the University City Loop http://stllit.blogspot.com/ 

Lisa Miller founded Walrus Publishing, Inc., in 2007. She expanded its mission beyond St. Louis by publishing books people enjoy reading, collaborating with writing groups and programs, and assisting writers to reach their publication goals.
Kristina Blank Makansi founded Blank Slate Press in 2010, and has since edited and published several award-winning novels. As co-founder of Treehouse Author Services, she works with authors seeking representation and those who want to self-publish. A Young Adult dystopian novel she co-authored, THE SOWING, has garnered nearly 50 Amazon reviews and hit several Amazon best-seller lists.

Brad R. Cook, president of the St. Louis Writers Guild since 2011, leads author management, acquisitions, and marketing at Blank Slate Press. He writes historical fantasy and poetry, and is a founding contributor to The Writers’ Lens blog and The Write Pack, a weekly show on BlogTalkRadio.
Learn more about the St. Louis Writers Guild, a MWG chapter, at www.stlwritersguild.org

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

SLWG Author Series with Angie Fox

SLWG Author Series with Angie Fox
By Brad R. Cook

Angie Fox, New York Times Bestselling Author of the Accidental Demon Slayer Series and The Monster M.A.S.H Series sat down with me the other night for St. Louis Writers Guild Author Series.

Angie discusses her novels, being one of the first hybrid authors, and her writing process in the interview!

The SLWG Author Series with Angie Fox – recorded March 20, 2014

Angie Fox
Angie Fox is the New York Times bestselling author of several books about vampires, werewolves and things that go bump in the night.

She claims that researching her stories can be just as much fun as writing them. In the name of fact-finding, Angie has ridden with Harley biker gangs, explored the tunnels underneath Hoover Dam and found an interesting recipe for Mamma Coalpot’s Southern Skunk Surprise (she’s still trying to get her courage up to try it).

Angie earned a Journalism degree from the University of Missouri. She worked in television news and then in advertising before beginning her career as an author. Angie enjoys making up fun quizzes and thinks you should take one right now.

Find more about all her novels and novellas at www.angiefox.com

You can purchase any of her books here – Angie Fox on Amazon – http://www.amazon.com/Angie-Fox/e/B002ATV0G2






















Interview conducted by Brad R. Cook, President of St. Louis Writers Guild
SLWG would like to thank STLBooks for hosting the event!

SLWG Author Series
Third Thursday of every month
7-8pm
Recorded at STLBooks
100 W Jefferson Ave.
Kirkwood, MO 63122

Find all the SLWG Author Series interviews on www.stlwritersguild.org or on Youtube!





Brad R. Cook, author, publisher at Blank Slate Press, and President of St. Louis Writers Guild. Please visit www.bradrcook.com or www.blankslatepress.com for more information. Hear more on the Write Pack Radio www.blogtalkradio.com/writepackradio. Follow me on Twitter @bradrcook https://twitter.com/bradrcook, @blankslatepress https://twitter.com/blankslatepress, @stlwritersguild https://twitter.com/stlwritersguild, or my tumblr page Thoughts from Midnight http://bradrcook.tumblr.com/

Monday, March 24, 2014

Traditional vs. Self vs. Hybrid - Part Two

Traditional vs. Self vs. Hybrid – Part Two

The Write Pack Radio Rebroadcast

The question every writer faces in the modern world of publishing is if they should choose to try to be traditionally published, self-published or a hybrid. It is not an easy decision and can shape your career as a writer. This debate, which has raged and simmered for years, has been fanned into an inferno of dueling blogs around the question: Has the publishing world now been divided into a “caste system.” Follow along as the Write Pack feels their way through this maze.

This is part 2 of the discussion,
The Write Pack goes more into what do you really market, your book or yourself? They provide tips and insight based on their experiences!

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/writepackradio/2014/03/23/traditional-vs-self-vs-hybrid-publishing-part-2 

The following blog posts are for reference.

The blog that fanned the flames: The New Class System
http://writerunboxed.com/2014/02/05/the-new-class-system/

My Amazon bestseller made me nothing: 
http://www.salon.com/2013/03/15/hey_amazon_wheres_my_money/

Author Earnings Data Supports DBW Findings | Digital Book World: 
http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2014/author-earnings-data-supports-dbw-findings/

The 50k Report – Author Earnings: 
http://authorearnings.com/reports/the-50k-report/

Book Sales: Running the Number: 
http://stlsinc.blogspot.com/2014/02/book-sales-running-numbers.html

Hugh Howey and the Indie Author Revolt: 
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/61116-hugh-howey-and-the-indie-author-revolt.html?et_mid=661161&rid=240749728 (Note you need a subscription to the magazine to see this---so if you don’t have one, check out your local library. Many subscribe to Publishers Weekly)


There are many talks on the internet about writing, but nothing like Write Pack Radio. Write Pack Radio brings Pop Culture, Writing, and Publishing together and throws them into a crucible of humor, clarity, and passion.

Every Sunday at 3pm CST, Write Pack Radio brings you a new topic and a lively discussion of issues facing every writer or anyone navigating the tumultuous waters of the publishing industry.

Find the Write Pack Radio on www.blogtalkradio.com/writepackradio 

Other Episodes you’ll find on The Write Pack Radio
Amusing the Muse
Traditional vs. Self vs. Hybrid – Part One
Brown Bagging Books: Are You Judged By What You Read


Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Narrator Laurel Schroeder shares the "other" side of audiobooks

Welcome to Laurel Schroeder, narrator of the audiobook of my novelette, JAGUAR HOPE. I didn't want to pass up a chance to get "insider" information about doing audiobooks from the "talent."



With an MFA in acting and a BA in Theatre, what is the next step in your acting career? The next step for me is putting those degrees to good use! As an actor, the training I've had has been an invaluable part of shaping who I am as an artist. I like to think of creativity as a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it gets. My graduate program was very intensive, and definitely strengthened my creative muscles! I also got a lot of vocal training in school, which is infinitely useful in recording audiobooks.

What advice would you give authors about how to solicit auditions for their book? For instance, ACX gives choices such as female/male/male reading as female, Spanish/British accent, brooding/storytelling/etc. Some of those categories are a lot easier to sort through than others. It's pretty easy to decide if you want a male or female voice for your book, or if you're open to either. Same with accents -- you pretty much either want one or don't, depending on where your book is set. But the 'vocal style' category is a little trickier. I think of it as a jumping off point, or a way to help the narrator understand the main tone of the book. But it always seems to me that a well written story will require a number of different vocal styles!

$4.86 at Audible
SAMPLE available
You've produced a variety of audiobooks -- from nonfiction to genre, short stories to full-length. How do you choose which books to narrate? I really just look for work that is well written and interesting to me. As a narrator, I spend a lot of time with whatever project I'm working on at the moment, so the process is much more enjoyable if it's a book that I love! Jaguar Hope has such an interesting story, I was really intrigued after reading the sample Teresa posted on ACX. I partly hoped I'd get the job just so I could find out how the story ended!


How long does it take you to produce an audiobook? It takes about 6-7 hours for me to complete one hour of finished audio. That includes recording (sometimes multiple takes of tricky passages), editing, and mastering the audio. It's time consuming, but I'm really happy working as both narrator and producer of the audiobooks I've done on ACX. I get attached, and I have very high standards, so it's nice to have my hands on all aspects of the project, rather than passing it off to an editor. 
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LAUREL SCHROEDER graduated from the MFA Acting program at the University of Houston. 

In the summer of 2012, she worked with the Peterborough Players in New Hampshire, where she played Jo in Little Men and Agatha in The Admirable Crichton (for which she received a New Hampshire Theatre Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress). At the University of Houston, she recently appeared as Masha in Three Sisters and Scilla in Serious Money.

After graduating, she joined the cast of Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club at The Alley Theatre in Houston. 

Monday, March 17, 2014

Brown Bagging Books: Are you judged by what you read?

Brown Bagging Books: Are you judged by what you read?

The Write Pack Radio Show Rebroadcast

The Write Pack was howling about the stigma of some books, how about you, do you feel judged by the guilty pleasures you read?

The latest episode of The Write Pack Radio
Brown Bagging Books: Are You Judged By What You Read

Have you ever had to hide what you read? Have you ever not read a book or a series because others have told you that it is wrong, evil, or other derogatory term ? Have you ever been turned down for a date, lost a friend, kicked out of a group, because you choose to read something they thought you shouldn't? Why do we have banned books? Inspired by a situation where a girl turned down a guy for reading the Hunger Games and Twilight, The Write Pack dives into the question—Are we judged by what we read and do we hide it? 

There are many talks on the internet about writing, but nothing like Write Pack Radio. Write Pack Radio brings Pop Culture, Writing, and Publishing together and throws them into a crucible of humor, clarity, and passion.

Every Sunday at 3pm CST, Write Pack Radio brings you a new topic and a lively discussion of issues facing every writer or anyone navigating the tumultuous waters of the publishing industry.

Find the Write Pack Radio on www.blogtalkradio.com/writepackradio 

Other Episodes you’ll find on The Write Pack Radio
Amusing the Muse

Traditional vs. Self vs. Hybrid – Part One

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Reclaiming a Writer’s Life

This is the Lenten Season, when many Christians who observe it sacrifice something out of their lives for 40 days until Easter. I am trying to regain something instead.


Whether you like it our not, a life of a writer must be filled with self-discipline. It is the discipline to sit and write when we don’t want to. It is the discipline to carve out of our day and night time devoted to our art. It is the discipline to continue despite the rejections and the criticism and the sense of failure. It was a discipline that I never thought would be broken. It took years to break it. Now—now I am determine to recover it.


Years ago, my daily routine and discipline was:
  • 4:00 AM wake up and write for 1 hour
  • 5:00 AM go to the gym and then:
  • 7:00 AM on work days, arrive at the bill paying job. On weekends back to writing.
  • Lunch time on work days was spent writing or researching. On weekends take a break, go to karate workout and sparing classes  then back to writing.
  • On workdays in the evening: return home from the bill pay job, go to karate , go to karate workout and sparing classes  then back to writing.
  • On weekends in the evening: research, write, spend some time with others.


With the door that led to possible success opening, this all changed slowly over several years as my bill paying job didn’t allow for too much free time and I was busy taking care of an elderly parent on top of that. I would make time to write, but my concentration wasn’t there as I had to keep an ear open for problems. There wasn’t anyone else to help. I am an only child and my cousins have their own families and parents to take care of. In the peak of the parent’s bad health, I was going for months living on one or two hours of interrupted sleep a day. I went from producing a fully drafted novel in two months to not being able to produce a novel in four years. I felt like a fraud as this talent in me shriveled and all but died on the vine.  After a lifetime of writing, with only very mild success of short stories and poems published, I came to the point of walking away from this art. I was devastated—no, worse than that. My soul felt like it was broken and bleeding out, a wasted life with all that was left was a long count to the final grave.


I don’t like anyone whining and I am intolerant of it in me, even when others would say it is deserved. I made a decision months ago when I hit bottom that I was going to somehow crawl out of this hole and use this gift—this talent—this insanity as it was meant to be done. There is a graduation speech on YouTube by Neil Gaiman that somehow rekindled the fire within. It was slow, but like a good camp fire that would last the night and not one that was built to burn quick and die, I felt my soul come back to life. Mr. Gaiman said over and over again in the address that when life handed you something bad, make good art. Those words, like seeds spread on good soil, have taken root.


There is a painting that I once saw at the St. Louis Art Museum that called to me. I own a print and if you Google Image search the name "Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion" you will find it. The painting is about man who had the love of his life stolen by a Genii. The man was determined to find his love and rescue her.  In the painting he is crawling up an impossible cliff, his clothes ripped to shreds and he is almost to the point of surrender—but there is something just holding on. I feel like that man. Every time I have been told how good of a writer I am, I feel like I have climbed this cliff only to have failed. Every time I have been told that I kept a fellow writer going, I wonder –can I keep going? Finally I know the answer is yes.

While many people are observing Lent, I am digging up the old discipline like an archaeologist—not digging with a back hoe but carefully shifting the dirt and brushing it away carefully with a toothbrush. It is labor intensive, but like that archeologist who knows that they have discovered something and will bring it back to civilization, I have the patience to see it through. Each day I am doing one more thing to move myself down that road.

What am I doing? There was an article I read that I used as a framework to build my plan. Here is that plan step by step:

1. Maintain the to do list.
For each project I am working on as a writer or in my bill pay job or with my martial arts, I have a to do list. Then I have a master to do list. The to do list is not just a list, but it is categorized and prioritized. As I mark each item off the list or mark it as in progress, I sync the project list that night where the item came from.

2. When working on multiple projects, focus on the ones that will yield results first.
I need a win. One thing hasn’t changed, I am always working on multiple projects. In fact right now I am working on:
A. A chap book of crime and criminal investigation related poetry
B. A book on Writing the Fight Scene
C. A Science-Fiction/Crime Thriller Novel
D. Looking at starting self-defense and writing the fight scene webinars
E. I have started, with several other writers, an internet radio show addressing issues in writing and publishing. The show is called The Write Pack Radio. (I will post links below)
I take all of these, and give each of these projects their own to do list and their own focus time-1 hour at a time.

3. Exercise
I am slowly getting back to the level of exercise and dedication to my marital arts that I had for decades before everything collapsed. I am not just jumping back in. I have tried that and it is a recipe for failure. As I said, I need a win. So, I am working with my Kenpo instructor going back over every single technique and kata and polishing them to be executed like the 3rd Degree Black Belt I am. While I have always trained for the street first and foremost, it is this –path that I need to take right now. These are my new workout routines.  I can’t run anymore after a surgery I had. But these I can do.

While my old battojusu instructor passed away decades ago, I remember his teachings and I am weaving the Katana techniques in with the Kenpo, as I had started to before.

4. Unplugging
With my cell phone being the main life line for the parent I take care of to get a hold of me, I can’t do this 100%. However, I am unplugging myself more and more from the Internet, Social Media and the cell phone as I can. I am not answering calls—even from the bill pay job (which before I was on call 24/7)—if I am in the zone of “writing project focus”. The calls can be returned when I am done.

5. Establish a stay focus process
I am using a timer to help with my focus time and I am also using certain meditation-focusing techniques.

6. Changing my diet.
My diet has not been something that I can easily control. I know there are people out there that will say, “You can control what you put in your mouth.” I welcome them into my shoes. When dinner is the only true social time that the parent you care for gets (not because they can’t do it other times, but won’t) you are forced to go to dinner almost on a nightly basis. While I could sit there and eat a salad, assuming I am at a place that has a salad, or soup or just drink water, that doesn’t work in the long term day after day year after year.

Instead, I have to pick more carefully what I can and should eat. I have created a list of main foods that help keep you focused and control your blood sugar.  I have created a list of foods that I should avoid. Sadly, where the elderly parent wants to go is where the foods I should avoid are most abundant. I am still working on this. It is slow. But I would rather have the slow fire that lasts than the one that burns bright and dies quick.

Along with this, I have returned to keeping a food log. I limit myself each week with the number of calories I can consume. It is like a weekly bank account. If I go over  on one day, then the other days suffer.

7. Re-establish my old writing habit.
With the focus techniques I talked about, I am slowly learning and adjusting to being able to write at home. I am also, very slowly returning to my old morning routine. If all goes right, I should be back to that on Easter Day-by making 5 minute adjustments each day.


None of this is easy.  Success is never guaranteed. Yet, I am determined to make 2014 a year where I rebuild and get my feet back under me. Every Black Belt and every successful writer out there will tell you that no ordinary person ever achieves success. Each of us climbs the mountain following a different path and each of us knows it takes a lot more than an ordinary person can do to achieve it. There is a saying in martial arts that says no Black Belt can stand on its own. It is only the mark displaying the change that went on in the person wearing it.

Please visit www.davidalanlucas.com and www.thewriterslens.com. You can also follow me on twitter @Owlkenpowriter and the Writer’s Lens @TheWritersLens.  You can also find me on Facebook at www.facebook.com/DavidAlanLucasAuthor.

Also, check out Write Pack Radio at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/writepackradio or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Write-Pack-Radio/258130144353624 or on twitter @WritePackRadio. Write Pack Radio brings Pop Culture, Writing, and Publishing together and throws them into a crucible of humor, clarity, and passion.

Fiction is the world where the philosopher is the most free in our society to explore the human condition as he chooses.

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Write Pack Radio

Write Pack Radio

The Write Pack is back and you can find us howling about the written word every week! 

There are many talks on the internet about writing, but nothing like Write Pack Radio. Write Pack Radio brings Pop Culture, Writing, and Publishing together and throws them into a crucible of humor, clarity, and passion.

Every Sunday at 3pm CST, Write Pack Radio brings you a new topic and a lively discussion of issues facing every writer or anyone navigating the tumultuous waters of the publishing industry.

Find the The Write Pack Radio on www.blogtalkradio.com/writepackradio   

You can also find the episodes on The Writers' Lens tumblr page:  http://writerslens.tumblr.com/  


Episode 1 – Amusing the Muse

What is the muse? Why does it drive us so crazy? Is it something inside of us or, as the ancient Greeks thought, something external? The Write Pack explores what the muse inspires and how it drives us nuts. Write Pack Radio‘s first episode airs on 3/2, with the Pack exploring that crazy thing we call a muse. What the heck is this drive, this arrogance, this urge to create art with the belief that others will want it? Why does it drive some to success and others to self-destruction? The Write Pack explores … 


Episode 2 – Traditional vs. Self vs. Hybrid Publishing – Part 1

The question every writer faces in the modern world of publishing is if they should choose to try to be traditionally published, self-published or a hybrid. It is not an easy decision and can shape your career as a writer. This debate, which has raged and simmered for years, has been fanned into an inferno of dueling blogs around the question: Has the publishing world now been divided into a “caste system.” Follow along as the Write Pack feels their way through this maze. The following blog posts are for reference.

The blog that fanned the flames:


Author Earnings Data Supports DBW Findings | Digital Book World: http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2014/author-earnings-data-supports-dbw-findings/ 

The 50k Report – Author Earnings: http://authorearnings.com/reports/the-50k-report/ 


(Note you need a subscription to the magazine to see this—-so if you don’t have one, check out your local library. Many subscribe to Publishers Weekly) 

Lead by David Alan Lucas and Kathleen Kayembe, 
The Write Pack Radio Show includes Fedora Amis, Jennifer Stolzer, Matthew McGraw, Jamie Krakover, Peter Green, T.W. Fendley, Melanie Koleini, and Brad R. Cook. 

Write Pack Radio would like to thank STLBooks for hosting the recordings!
STLBooks
St. Louis’ newest independent bookstore!
100 W. Jefferson Ave, Kirkwood, MO 63122

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Brad R. Cook, author, publisher at Blank Slate Press, and President of St. Louis Writers Guild. Please visit www.bradrcook.com or www.blankslatepress.com for more information. Hear more on the Write Pack Radio www.blogtalkradio.com/writepackradio. Follow me on Twitter @bradrcook https://twitter.com/bradrcook, @blankslatepress https://twitter.com/blankslatepress, @stlwritersguild https://twitter.com/stlwritersguild, or my tumblr page Thoughts from Midnight http://bradrcook.tumblr.com/

Monday, March 10, 2014

Peter Green shares humor of BEN'S WAR


Welcome to Peter H. Green, whom I've had the pleasure to know as a member of the St. Louis Writers Guild board and as an L&L Dreamspell author. Today's a special post, announcing the re-release of his narrative nonfiction account of BEN'S WAR WITH THE U.S. MARINES.

A writer, architect and city planner, Peter found his father’s 400 World War II letters, his humorous war stories, his mother’s writings and their family’s often hilarious doings too good a tale to keep to himself, so he launched a second career as a writer. His first book recounted the often hilarious antics and serious achievements of his dad’s World War II adventure, Seaboard Press, 2005, to be re-issued shortly by Greenskills Press as Ben’s War with the U. S. Marines. His first novel, Crimes of Design, a Patrick MacKenna mystery, is an intrigue of murder and sabotage set in St. Louis during the highest flood of record, first appeared in 2012 from L & L Dreamspell. It will be re-published, along with the second in this series, Fatal Designs, in Spring, 2014, His awards include, Second Place in the St. Louis Writers Guild 2012 Short Story Contest, for “Tappy,” and the  Robin Moore Thiess award for Outstanding Volunteer Service, 2010. He lives in St. Louis with his wife Connie, and has two married daughters and three grandchildren. His website is www.peterhgreen.com

Featured book: Ben’s War with the U. S. Marines
By Peter H. Green, Greenskills Press, March 11, 2014

First I want to thank you, Teresa, Brad and David at The Writers' Lens, for your interest in my work. It’s quite an honor to be part of your lineup of distinguished authors.

What inspired your latest book? At our 40th college reunion my classmates posed the provocative question: What are you going to do with the last third of your life? On that trip my wife Connie and I also visited one of her college classmates, Mary Oates Johnson, a writer and editor herself, in Andover, Mass. I happened to mention that I spent the summer of 1945, when I turned six, just up the coast with my mother, sister, aunt and her family in a rented seaside house at Annisquam, while Dad was off to war. She insisted on guiding us toward that tiny fishing hamlet. Along the shore road in Annisquam, I recognized a beach turnoff and found the house where we spent that summer! Later that evening, over much great seafood and wine, Mary convinced me I had the story I needed to write a biography and family memoir, based on some 400 letters my mother had saved from that time. My classmates had already convinced me I needed a new career, and I resolved at that moment to become a writer. The letters revealed, among much other hitherto unpublished WW2 history: as de facto manager of Armed Forces Radio Station WXLI on Guam on August 14, 1945, Ben scooped the stateside networks on news of the Japanese surrender.

What brings your writing into focus-—the characters, the stories, the love of words? If you’ll pardon my impertinence, “focus” could have a fuzzy meaning—what it means for me may be quite different from its significance for each reader. But in this book, for me it was placing two strong-willed characters at the mercy of powerful forces in very different settings.

Ben Green was a low-ranking but resourceful nonconformist whose talents were lost in the military bureaucracy. As 1944 began, he had just enlisted in the Marine Corps with the intent of assisting the war effort as an officer in combat intelligence. He was 35 years old and left behind a wife and two small children. The vagaries of war, however, did not result in his anticipated officer training. Instead, he found himself training in the Marine infantry along with tough, angry kids, half his age.

Back home, his family coped with economics, emotional stress, and fear of the unthinkable as they waited in dread for the news of Ben’s assignment to the next island invasion.

Like Luther Billis in Michener’s Tales of the South Pacific, however, Ben learned how to work the system and adapt to both the absurdities and opportunities of military life. He did so in way that provided meaningful service to his country and promised the hope of returning to his family. Also as in Michener’s tale, the indescribable beauty of a tropical paradise contrasts starkly with the horror of war, while unhappy soldiers endure tense boredom, torn from their loved ones, waiting for something to happen but desperately hoping it will not.

What music could be the theme song for your book? There are many, but “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” as sung by the Andrews Sisters sets the tone. My next biography, will have a big band song of the era connected with each chapter, and I’m considering a multimedia e-book.  A book-match for Ben’s War with the U. S. Marines, his wife Alice’s war story, will be called Radio: A Love Story in War and Pieces, to be published by Greenskills Press in 2015. 

After the March 11th release date, which will be the 106th anniversary of Ben Green’s birth, this book, richly illustrated with photos and Ben’s own sketches, reviews and the Print and e-books editions will be available at Amazon.com, other book websites  and the author’s website, www.peterhgreen.com .

Ben's War with the U. S. Marines This biography is faithful account of the charming and 
hilarious World War II misadventures of Pfc. Ben  Green--a low ranking but quick-witted individualist who battled the system to serve his country with honor  and yet preserve the hope of returning home to his family.

You can find Peter and his work at:
Pete’s Bookshop: bookshop.peterhgreen.com
e-mail: writerpeter [at] peterhgreen.com (to avoid robots)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/writerpeter


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This is T.W. Fendley. You can find out more about me and my books at www.twfendley.com. Thanks for reading and commenting on The Writers' Lens.