Hey Cuz... I like all your funnies on Face Book Haven't been on this one for awhile but making my rounds, that time of year ...lol Fall is a good time to settle in snuggle down and start to write, I have several coming out this year. Hope all is well with the Loves, back there on the east coast.

I was re-reading a comment you sent me a long time ago about "if a man writes a book in the forest..."
and lately, it hit me, a great many authors are being "rediscovered" long after fading from view (the cynic says the publishers are gypping the author of paying a living writer, the optimist says it is entirely possible --especially given the reviews attendant-- that an entirely new generation by fluke or design will come across an author and give them the due they long deserved)

Hi Newt. How's everything in Mary-land?

Kudos on your new accomplishments.

Congratulations on your foreign sales! Who's the publisher? Film rights too. Very exciting.
I'm about done with agents too. All they've done for me is get my hopes up and slow me down.

Thank You for your comment. I am looking forward to reading you book and putting it on my shelfari shelf. for others to see. Then it will show on my space also.

I keep stumbling over you on all my sites, Glad to know my realatives, Cuz..
will keep reading more of your work catch Ya soon.

So it has! We are taking a break from infesting traffic signs, and are thinking through our new host target. It could be anything.

Thanks, Newt. I agree. Where would we writers be without readers? And if not for us to gear our writing towards the readers, then shame on us. =] Good luck on novel number 4!

The traffic signs are out there! You know in this technological age it is possible that I can be both one and many, and indeed every time you see a traffic sign don't you wonder? What is it thinking, can it see inside? And with my Italian links, I think the conclusion is forgone. Al Capone, schmone.

Wow, that was a hard comment to follow before my morning coffee. :)
In addition to free thinking, crime novels are the only place I can kill people and still go free, too.
gotta love that.

~Gemma

"If a author writes a novel in the forest, and nobody reads it, did it make a sound?"

Love this! Great quote. Nice to meet you, Newt!

~Gemma

Aye, that it is. Me Da' was part Cherokee. What a mixture. My mother is German and I was born there as well, but am a proud citizen of the US. So, a hello to you cousin(?). lol

I'll be there!!! Can't wait!

Newt, you have a seriously quirky brain...assuming you translated that poem sober. Who the heck is Henri Nouwen, by the way? Never heard of the dude.

I love your jack-of-all-trades blog. Guess I'm sorta there too. I've tried doing a little bit of a lot of things. Hey, my maiden name is Love too and I'm from Pennyslvania - we could have 6 degrees of relative-ness. PS: Do you speak French, or are you faking it?

(Laughs) Hey, man. Nice to meet you! You are my kinda thinker.

Hi Newt,

I'm up to page 181 in How The Strong Survive. May not get anything else done today but read.

Hey, Newt, thanks!
Good luck with your books and talk soon
Cheers, Jason