Author Readings?
A.V. Walters–
In a twist on the usual book store fare, author A.V. Walters will be giving author readings at Horizons Bookstore, Friday the 13th, in Traverse City. She’ll be reading cards–fortune telling–in a “Local Color” celebration of authors expressing other talents,
doing non-typical author activities.
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OOOH! will I will the lottery?
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Must be present to enter….
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That’s pretty cool! Have fun!
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Fun is the whole point of it.
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How’d it go? I wish I could have joined you!
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Well, not much turn out on Friday evening–I read the cards of my fellow writers. But, the next day, at the Cadillac Horizons store, it was hopping! I read many fortunes and the event, with numerous local writers, was a smashing success. Mostly, I think that we need to offer a “value-added” experience. That authors+card tables+books formula is just a boring disaster. Add card reading, or pumpkin carving (or anything) and it becomes fun all the way around. I just wish that I was good enough to play the banjo–someday…someday.
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I have done just a few author tables and not liked any of them. I think your approach is great.
Ha! I used to play mandolin while my Grampa played the banjo. We had so much fun.
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Time to pull out that mandolin! Flatback or antique?
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It was a gourd shape–not sure if that’s fallback or antique. I still have it. No one in the family has any interest in playing it but I can’t let go of the memories.
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Damn that auto-correct. It was supposed to say “flatback.” You have a bowlback, probably antique. After the new flatback mandolins revolutionized American mandolin sound (I think in 1913 or 1914, the bowlbacks fell out of favor. (Though the Japanese liked them and continued to make them.) I like the “water-fountain” sound of the bowlbacks, but, admittedly, they do not project like a modern instrument.
Take it out. Dust it off. Take for a spin down memory lane.
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Got it–definitely antique then. It’s a gorgeous instrument from prior to WWI.
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I have one, too. I think it’s a “Midland” from about 1914. There’s butterfly inlay on the front, which I’m not so crazy about, but it sounds like angels. I also have a banjolin, mandolin tuning on a banjo head–sort of halfway between you and your grandfather.
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That butterfly inlay sounds familiar. I’m not going to dig the mandolin out but we might have twins of each other.
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I cannot figure out how to put an image into a Comment. I’ll post the mandolin as a new blog.
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The only way I know to do it is to post the comment and then click edit. Then, add an image using the ‘image’ button. I know there’s an easier way because some people do post image comments to my blog.
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Ah, that’s a tip for the future. For now, the new post.
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