Meeting Novelist Archer Mayor

Upcoming Events

Archer Mayor, Vermont author of the Joe Gunther mystery series is speaking at my local library tonight. A friend who collects his books—I’ve read several—says he publishes his own books. I don’t know if that means he has a firm or is self-published. I’ll post about the evening next time.

Writer’s Tools

Your teenage kids may be one of your best assets, especially regarding the use of social media, though getting them to slow down sufficiently to take in the details gets tricky. Anyway, I think I’ve got down the basics of Facebook. The notice on my page that they’re soon changing the format didn’t thrill me. I really hope how to use it is self-evident. If not, my kid will figure it out.

He told me the difference between uploading and downloading. The first—I have to compare it with something else to remember this—sends something from my computer to the internet. I think of sending it up to a cloud. The second, I take something down from the cloud and download it onto my computer. Convoluted maybe, but it works for me.

Writing Status

I have both a professional and a personal Facebook page. My son says people can tell the difference by the profile. I hope so. I didn’t realize it and was first posting blog updates on the personal instead of the professional page.

I received a sample copy of the Fantasy and Science Fiction—I’m not sure what to call it—it’s advertised as a magazine but comes bound like a paperback. I like the stories but don’t think the story I wrote fits well. Back to the drawing board.