PUT ON YOUR LISTENING EARS!

Can you can hear me now! 

In two weeks COAST TO COAST WITH A CAT AND A GHOST  will be available as an audio book.
CLICK  ON THE LINK BELOW TO LISTEN.


http://www.sportsterandme.com/BUYAUDIO-BOOKS.html

AUDIO BOOKS are fast becoming the newest media for folks on the go.
Stuck in traffic? Going to Grandma’s house for Thanksgiving? Or driving across Texas with nothing to see but an occasional cow or oil well? Or maybe you just want to escape from your thoughts?  The answer is AUDIO BOOKS.

Both of my books, COAST TO COAST WITH A CAT AND A GHOST and GOING HOME WITH A CAT AND A GHOST will be available as AUDIO BOOKS soon. 

Have you already read them? If so I’m sure you know folks who enjoy them and would prefer to listen to them instead of reading them. Be sure to give your friends a heads up. The first will be available in July and the second in October. Birthday gifts, Christmas gifts? Just Because gifts?

Sportster and I want to thank all of our  fans, each and every one of you, from every state and every country, for being a part of  our  books sales that have allowed us to  climb to the top 10% as an author in Amazon’s Author Ranking. Thank you everyone. And Sportster sends his big MEOW. 

 I  hope by offering my books as AUDIO BOOKS they will be able to become not only “a book you can’t put down,” but also “a book you can’t turn off.”

So put on your listening ears!!  Click on the fifteen minute sample to preview. And don’t forget to forward this to others.

COAST TO COAST WITH A CAT AND A GHOST- AUDIO

If you are too excited to wait for the audio I am offering my e-books  FOR A LIMITED TIME AT $ 1.99.
CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW.

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SANTA BARBARA MUSINGS

Sportster and I have spent the last two weeks in beautiful Santa Barbara area. We rested our wheels at the Elks Lodge in Goleta, California. The first half of our visit included enjoying the amenities here – the exercise room and, after working up a good sweat, the sauna and hot tub. We also strolled in the serene, forested picnic area.

We were here to attend the Santa Barbara Writers Conference at the Hyatt. The facilities Winnebago offered may not have been superb to the Hyatt, but they offered my own pillow, coffee served while I lounged in my pj’s at no extra cost, and an outdoor patio to soak up the sunshine after the marine layer dissipated. Let’s see, $199.00 a night or $25.00 a night?  Oh, and did I forget to mention? Winnebago allows pets.  So there you have it. 

 Of course the second week was not leisurely. It was jam packed with education, inspiration, new friends and did I mention?  Education!  Authors, Editors, Workshop leaders, top notch speakers offered up with great service from the hotel staff and the conference volunteers. I met Fannie Flagg the author of FRIED GREEN TOMATOES, Catherine Ann Jones who wrote for TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL   and THE CHRISTMAS WIFE and Monte Schultz, the son of Charles Schultz, the creator of PEANUTS.

I met with agents as well in which four of the six wanted to see more of my work. Their publishing houses included Bantam Doubleday Dell, Simon and Schuster, St. Martin’s Press, and McMacmillan. These agents have represented John Updike, Louis L’Amour, and Tani O’Dell.

I had my picture taken with Gk Parish-Philp whose ten years of experience in online digital media products and brands led him to create Mp3.com and Stage6.com and participated on a panel moderated by Marla Miller with www.marketingthemuse.com. What a fantasic woman full of energy and information on marketing.

With the overwhelming wealth of knowledge I absorbed I hope to pass it along in some new workshops that will feature the bones of the story, character development, dialogue, and plot.

But now I am unwinding and soaking up the last of the salty air and the moist filled mornings before I head back to the real world from which I acquire the grist for my writing mill.
DON'T FORGET TO CHECK OUT SPORTSTER'S BLOG  - HIS TAKE ON THE SANTA BARBARA EXPERIENCE.

THE GOLETA PIER