Looking Forward to a Busy February

Goodness, the month is almost over. The next few days promise to be very busy. Here is a list of what will happen around here, in order of importance to you, the reader.

For Fred Zuker

1.  Fred Zuker’s booksigning at  Half Price Books (#001) in Dallas, TX, on the 16th from 1:00-3:00pm.   Paperbacks of The Dark Angel Turned Away will be available! Or, bring your own. Be sure to plan some time to just chat with Fred!
2. A repeat showing of Fred Zuker’s interview on Coffee withe Claire on the YouTube and Facebook pages for Coffee with Claire on the 7th at 9:00am. 
3. Release of the paperback version of Standing Tall and Looking Good, any day now! Hopefully, in time to have copies at the booksigning at Half Price Books on the 16th.
4. Release of the ebook Grace with Meals, again, any day now.
5. More blog posts written by Fred, including a few bits of wisdom from Grace with Meals and at least one excerpt.

For Valerie Coskrey

1. A Book Sale at the Sweeny Community Library, Sweeny, TX, 10:00am until 6:00pm, except on Tuesday, until 8:00pm. Now that I have joined the library association, I will be working at least one day at the Book Sale. Y’all come!
2. Maybe I will write that essay for the Ageless Author’s Contest, due on the 29th. This is 1000-word contest for those 65 and over.
3. Wayne and I should be publishing Fred’s books asap.
4. Keeping up with my Facebook and LinkedIn posts and expanding my social life.
5. Housework, which I hate. When I was teaching, I hired it out.
6. Yardwork, because here in southern Texas, the spring planting season is way early. In fact, it is almost too late to prune my fig tree.
7. I will be working on the poems of Edith Taylor. My neice (Aunt Edith’s great-neice) will be illustrating the book. She is a very talented artist.  I took pictures of the wall mural she painted in her daughter’s bedroom years before they left the rental house and bought a home. I used the photos to make icons for my first website, for Coskrey Biz,  and bullets for PowerPoint presentations. Here are a few.  (Remember, I was the photographer and the I made the images for web use–many years ago. The actual mural was beautiful, then I used resizing, funny filters, and color balances. She is talented. I was learning.)
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   • A button made from a trim painted by Jessica.  A butterfly.  A butterfly button. A flower. And my favorite, the bookworm on the flower. 
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(If you know the significance of the magnolia at the top of the page, please comment.)