I’ve been in almost constant contact with Rod Janpol the past few days. He’s within easy striking distance of getting the final touches added to the tail end of the upcoming DeForest Kelley Up Close and Personal A Harvest of Memories from the Fan Who Knew Him Best audio book. He is meeting every […]
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In the next few weeks, I’ll be able to give you a definite launch date for the audio book version of DeForest Kelley Up Close and Personal, A Harvest of Memories from the Fan Who Knew Him Best. My friend (and yours, too, I’ll bet!) Rod Janpol is an audio tech in addition to being
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Tuesday April 25-28, 2016 Oi vey…what a week, culminating in my presence here in a hospital bed at St Clare Hospital in Lakewood with a chest full of Pulmonary Embolisms. Yes, yes, and if I live ‘til 8 tonight (April 26) I’ll probably live to 80. I’m on a serious “blood thinner” (misnomer) to stabilize
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Deaken and me at Shambala, 1989 I’ve been facing a recent health challenge that presently has no definite conclusion, so I’m in a kind of holding pattern until I find out more. It could be minor, or something more serious.I’m betting on “something minor” and playing on that note because “worry deprives today of
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Here is the link to today’s USA TODAY INTERVIEW with me. Thank you, Nick Thomas, for the opportunity! http://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/2016/02/25/star-treks-deforest-kelley-real-mccoy/80753966/
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How to Outshine Your Competition Whether you’re dating, in business, or in any other kind of competition with a slew of other “suitors”, the only way to outshine your competition is to promise–and deliver–more than they’re delivering. Yes, that sounds daunting. But it’s entirely do-able. Lots of businesses and entrepreneurs are doing
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This Valentine’s Day, Meet #DeForestKelley, a Real Sweetheart One of the appellations applied most often to DeForest Kelley was “sweet”. It fits. So does sassy, sensitive, compassionate, funny, composed, elegant, and gentlemanly. What fans resonated to when meeting him was his genuine niceness. Even when he was joking or being completely honest, he was
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I’m close to hyperventilating here. If I could reach the ceiling, I’d dance on it. Read this and find out why! http://1701news.com/node/998/deforest-kelleys-personal-life-spotlighted-memoir.html Maybe it takes a writer to truly “get” a writer. John K. Kirk certainly “gets” the trajectory of my book. His is an eloquent recounting of its elements and essence.
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Links to articles by/interviews with Kristine M. Smith Just ran across these when I was documenting my “expert” status on a new authority website I joined tonight. They wanted to know if I had any national or international name recognition as Kristine M. Smith in my field(s), and I remembered compiling this list of interviews
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If not for a question I couldn’t answer back in 2000, “DeForest Kelley Up Close and Personal, A Harvest of Memories from the Fan Who Knew Him Best” probably would never have been written. When DeForest Kelley’s biographer Terry Lee Rioux asked me, “How did you go from being a fan–on the outermost reaches
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