Randy Ford Author-Get set for a good hard luck story

Wien (Vienna)
July, 1971
      Get set for a good hard luck story.   “Hard luck story” was an understatement.   By then a number of things compounded our problems: a gibbon, no money, and a telegraph strike back home.   It didn’t help that we were in a big city.   German which we didn’t know, studying it would later [...]

Abingdon Theatre-Readings of new plays

UPCOMING READINGS

FIRST READINGS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2 AT 7:00   The Lake Effect
by Jen Camp
Coordinated Nancy Opel,
OBIE Award-winner for her role in Abingdon’s My Deah
       The disappearance of a local teenage girl in suburban Cleveland has a profound affect on her community, particularly on a family who each struggle to understand their connection to her as well [...]

Randy Ford Author-on our earthy Peace Corps mentor

      He clearly did things to shock us, since he was supposed to have been our mentor and teacher.  Indeed, he brought himself down to our level by doing what he did.   He didn’t have to impress us; he was, at the time, someone who had gone to the Philippines before we did.   He had [...]

Arizona Daily Star-What the future holds for publishing

What the future holds
      Publishers Weekly Editor Sara Nelson said traditional publishing houses are taking self-publishing’s lead and are creating a new publishing model that fuses both.
      “At least one of the traditional houses, Harper Collins, is starting a (publishing) studio, which will work on a model somewhere between the traditional and the self-publisher: lower [...]

Randy Ford-a writer and an adventurer matching his imagination with naivete

      As a writer, I have known a sense of insecurity: it was to know I would have to do something else to survive.   And inside me I held onto the belief that one-day I would be able to earn a living writing, when in the world and throughout history there were those who did [...]

Arizona Daily Star-Self-publishing How do I sort out the rip-offs from the opportunities?

      How do I sort out the rip-offs from the opportunities?
      Do your research including checking with state, federal and local agencies to find out if the company has any bad business practice complaints.
      Contact authors who have published with the company.
      Comparison shop.
      Make sure you know all of the hidden fees in the [...]

Poets & Writers, Inc.-Readings/Workshops program offers small grants

      Poets & Writers, Inc.’s Readings/Workshops program offers small grants for literary events in Tucson .   Applications are due a minimum of eight weeks in advance, so now is the perfect time to apply for spring events.   Organizations must apply for the grants on behalf of the writer(s) they are hosting.   However, many writers initiate [...]