Book Q&A Question 2

Continuing the Everyone's Gone to the Moon Q&A this morning with question #2. Be sure to pick up your copy of the book at your favorite local book store or online retailer! And thank you!!

 

Book Q&A Question 1

 I've been getting a few questions about the new book, "Everyone's Gone to the Moon: July 1969, Life on Earth, and the Epic Voyage of Apollo 11", so I thought it would be a good idea to do a few Q&A sessions. There I go thinking again. My Mom would always tell me that. "There you go thinking again." Anyway, question 1. More to comes.

And We're Back

 

Good morning, everyone! Well, I have finally settled into the new home and I can tell you, it has been great to get back to a familiar routine – up at 4am, grab a cup of hot mango green tea and an onion bagel, then head off into the comfy confines of my writing room to get lost typing away at the keyboard getting lost down the rabbit hole of a story. Who knows where it will lead today?

While I really love researching and writing my outdoor recreation guides for Falcon, there is a calming peace getting lost in a fictional world of my own making or heading down the back alleys of history to uncover some little known or forgotten tale. For me, it’s almost like serenely floating down a black water river, not knowing what lies ahead around the next bend at that sandbar up ahead.

And that’s where I am this morning. Luxuriating in a make believe world set in the early 1940s as a mystery unfolds at a radio station in a bustling Southern city (could the characters be patterned after the many quirky personalities I met in my early days in radio?) Now, if I can only stay on course. I have a mind that tends to wander, but isn’t that what writing is all about and what writers do?

It was a nice break from writing during the move the last two months but I can tell you, I missed it and there are a lot of articles, book proposals, and manuscripts waiting to be unleashed. I can’t wait to get all of this to paper, or Word document, anyway.

Stay tuned!

The EGM Podcast is On the Air

Now that my latest book, Everyone's Gone to the Moon, is out in book stores, it's time to introduce the companion podcast. The first episode, "Independence Day," is available right now on BuzzSprout or on the podcast platforms listed below (click the image to access them.) 

You can also hear the podcast on my website where you will have access to additional resources used in the production of the episode. 

The podcast will be a bi-monthly production.

I hope you enjoy it! I look forward to hearing your comments on each episode.

The New Book Is Here!

It's Box\ing Day! Or actually, unboxing day. I felt like Steve Martin in the movie, "The Jerk" - "The new book is here! The new book is here!" Everyone's Gone to the Moon is on bookshelves now!

 

 

Release Day is Here

 

It seems like it has been forever waiting for this day to arrive but it is finally here. My new book, Everyone's Gone to the Moon: July 1969, Life on Earth, and the Epic Voyage of Apollo, starts rolling out to online and brick & mortar bookstores today! The book takes a deep dive into the month that changed history, the month when we first landed on the moon, through the events both famous and long since forgotten, the pop culture, and personal stories of what life was like that historic month as told by average Americans, and NASA engineers and contractors. Get your copy today! I'll be posting some more excerpts over the next few days and an additional podcast series is in the works. Stay tuned.

Here is only a small sample of what you will find within the book's pages:

New York City welcomes the Apollo 11 astronauts upon their return to Earth.

Cooling off with an ice cream on the streets of New York City, July 1969.

A fictional cartoon band, the Archies, hit #1 on the music charts with the song, "Sugar, Sugar." Sales got a boost when the Kellogg's cereal company printed a copy of the song on what was called a FlexiDisc on the boxes of Sugar Pops.

Women were beginning to make inroads as engineers at NASA and with their contractors.

The man who leased his land to the organizers of the Woodstock music festival saw his neighbors threaten his life and farm.

Cigarette manufacturers were forced by Congress to put warning labels about the dangers of cigarette smoking on their products.

Everyone's Gone to the Moon Ready for Release

 

Tomorrow (Oct. 16th) is the big day - the release of my latest book, "Everyone's Gone to the Moon." Here is a brief word from our sponsor (that would be me :) )