I have not abandoned this blog…well, not entirely…
It’s just that I’ve started another blog at my new website, YellowBalloonPublications.com, and I’ve been concentrating on getting that populated with sufficient blogs to let the search engines find it and to let people know I’m going to be active there…
YellowBalloonPublication.com is my official book website. Here you can read book descriptions, excerpts, reviews, recommendations and reflections. You can get all versions of my book here, too. (Amazon only has softcover and Kindle versions of my books.) DeForest Kelley Up Close and Personal: A Harvest of memories from the Fan Who Knew Him Best is available in audio and PDF versions at this site. The audio version is narrated by me (the author) and includes an exclusive benefit: you get to hear more than 15 minutes of actual voice mail messages from DeForest and Carolyn Kelley and other notable Hollywood celebrities.
WordWhisperer.net is my official copy writing/editing business website. If you want to hire me as a writer (or speaker on the topic of copy, content or features writing), this is where you’ll find portfolio examples, client testimonials and other stuff. (Be sure to click on all graphics, because most of them open up to explain additional insights about the topic at hand.)
WordWhisperer.net is also the site where I share copy writing tips and techniques to DIY business owners and newbie copywriters who can presently write pleasantly and properly but can’t figure out how to write powerfully. (The vast majority of teachers teach their students to write pleasantly and properly; they’re technicians, not word artists. They don’t know how to write powerfully.) I haven’t been contributing much to it because there is so little feedback from its visitors that I think it’s probably not worthwhile to invest time and heart into. Let me know if I’m wrong! I will start it up again if enough people are getting value from it…
AlmostFamousByDesFault is my oldest blog (since 2007). It is a blog (chiefly) about my day-to-day existence and insights but it includes lots of fun snippets about to my 30-year friendship with Carolyn and DeForest Kelley. I haven’t been contributing much to it lately, as I’m putting most of my De-related stuff in the two newest blogs, what with the 50th Anniversary of Star Trek being front-and-center this year.
I’ve been doing just about back-to-back interviews and podcasts for the past month in the lead up to Star Trek’s official 50th Anniversary date on September 8th. Lots of people are revisiting their love for DeForest Kelley and I’m their point gal for that, since he launched my writing career in 1969 and since I became his personal assistant and caregiver at the end of his life. The hosts are reading my book and having me on to talk about the man and his legacy. Some podcast hosts who focus on motion picture and TV westerns have also had me on to talk about De’s career as a rowdy cowboy–and what fun that is! I’ve also written an article about De’s career in westerns for Cowboys and Indians magazine. It will be in the NOV-DEC issue, on newsstands in mid-October. Lots of fun anecdotes about De’s memories as a reel cowboy …
So that’s where I’ve been. If you’ve been missing me, please join me at YellowBalloonPublication.com. I’m still writing blogs, I promise!
I’m hooked on writing blogs. There is no cure!
