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Here’s the 2008 Publishing Schedule as previously promised:

February 2008 – ONE SLOOP, SLOW MATCH – JAMES SPURR (Historical Action/Adventure)
May 2008 – CALEDONIAN PRIVATEER – GAIL MACMILLAN (historical romance)
August 2008 – THE MULE SHOE – PERRY TROUCHE (Historical – Civil War) pending contract signing
November 2008 – open slot

For the repeat authors (Gail and Jim) your advances [...]

DECEMBER 21, 2007 PRESS RELEASE
 Double Edge Press Title Nominated for Prestigious DWAA 2007 Maxwell Award
 
Ceilidh’s Quest, a Double Edge Press title by Gail MacMillan, has received a nomination for the DWAA’s (Dog Writer’s Association of America) prestigious Maxwell Award.
 
The DWAA has been around since 1935 and was born in the Westminster Kennel Club’s meeting room. [...]

Stop the presses and hold everything. Exciting news received last night.
Ceilidh’s Quest, a Double Edge Press title by Gail MacMillan, has received a nomination for the DWAA’s (Dog Writer’s Association of America) prestigious Maxwell award. The DWAA has been around since 1935 and was born in the Westminster Kennel Club’s meeting room. It’s writing competition [...]

Today is Monday, the snow is on the ground and the sun is shining! Yes, not gloomy, not snowy (although it is still blowy), but sunny. And memory never quite serves the purpose when thinking of a sunny winter’s day with the light bouncing off the white of the snow and brightening everything. The reality [...]

If you noticed I didn’t blog the past several days, it is because the dreaded stomach bug I was concerned about here finally caught up with me. It is a nasty little bugger that tends to come in two waves, with a little intermission in between where you think you are over it only to [...]

Today is probably going to be my last day of unfocused blogging for a while. Tomorrow, I’m hoping to start an editing series on the book I’m currently working on, James Spurr’s One Sloop and Slow Match. This is the first title scheduled for release in 2008 and should be of particular interest to anyone writing historical [...]

One of my little side projects is coming into the forefront beginning tonight:
Website building.
My mother’s church is looking to have an on-line presence and the pastor asked if I would be willing to do it, and how much I would charge. “Oh, probably a piece of chicken,” I joked.
I really don’t want anything.
I’m by no [...]

Borders was by no means a crowning success. The sales were far less than I would have hoped for. They weren’t bad, but they weren’t great.
That being said, I can’t say that I had a bad time. After all, I was at Borders, I was talking to people about my work, and of those that [...]

With Borders only a few days away, I find myself out of immediate tasks. I’ve done all I can do in the way of preparing for the event, and hence am re-resurrecting the agenda list to see where we’re at in the near-long term. I’ve added notes after each one to update where I am [...]

Every morning I do my Bible Study. Well, some mornings I miss, but most mornings I do my Bible Study. This morning, I’m in the Book of Daniel, Chapter 6, which is the familiar story of Daniel being placed in the lion’s den.
One of the cool things about doing Bible study is that you often [...]