Tuesday, October 28, 2008

"The Sun Singer" - E-BOOK


The Sun Singer e-book, a PDF file that can be printed out, is available for only $5.33 at Powell's. Not a bad price. Plus, you can get the book right this minute and start reading.

Or, click HERE to see my bookshelf of favorites at Powell's.

Meanwhile, Yvonne Perry has interviewed me and will be posting "the results" on her blog on November 2. More news on that when it appears.

Tonight, in NE Georgia, we're getting our first freeze warning of the season. Before dinner, we brought in all the plants that spend the winter in the garage.

I hope you are staying warm wherever you are.

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Saturday's Stream of Consciousness

"Often I tried the frightening way of 'reality,' where things that count are profession, fashion, finance, but disillusioned and freed I fled away alone to the other side, the place of dreams and blessed folly."

--Hermann Hesse


Another day to ignore standard reality and contemplate the latest volume from Heron Dance, "Gratitude and Wild Wivers,"

to imagine the consciousness of water,

to hear water's voice,

to find connexions with dreams and, as MaAnna Stephenson ("The Age Age") suggests, viewing those dreams with clarity,

clarity enough to manifest them into the temporal,

clarity enough to draw like minds into the energy of creation and healing the earth and loving that which matters and setting aside old habits such as disease and war and the notion we are alone.

The sun is out today after yesterday's welcome rain, the sound of water on the roof in harmony with wind's voice, a good day to discover poems and put them on paper, to sleep and, perchance to dream.



Copyright (c) 2008 by Malcolm R. Campbell

Thursday, October 09, 2008

This and That

Read-a-Thon

I will be participating in a 24-hour read-a-thon celebrating the 25th anniversary of Hall Book Exchange in Gainesville, Georgia, October 17th and 18th. I'll read a few excerpts from The Sun Singer at 6 p.m. on the 17th.

Hall Book Exchange
1854 Thompson Bridge Rd
Gainesville, GA 30501
(770) 532-6693

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A little marketing humor

Yes, those of us who write like to poke fun at ourselves as long as whole mobs of people don't join in. On my Trick Falls blog, see Virus Marketing Didn't Work Out as Well as I Hoped.

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Next "Living Jackson Magazine" Review

After skipping a month, I've just finished reviewing "Zero Degrees of Separation" by Sandra Hatfield for the November issue of the magazine. While I can't copy my print review into a weblog (!!!), I posted my comments about this delightful book in my Malcolm's Round Table weblog. See The Illusion of Separation.

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Crawford W. Long Museum

One of the three buildings in the Crawford W. Long Museum complex in Jefferson, Georgia, is an 1858 general store. As a nice break from fiction writing, I'm researching the history of The Pendergrass Store for use in a National Register of Historic Places application which the museum plans to submit next year.

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

A few links

I started this weblog in 2004 when my metaphysical fantasy novel The Sun Singer was published. Since then, it's gone through a variety of changes for better or worse. Thanks for your visits.

Meanwhile, I'd like to invite you to explore other parts of my writing puzzle. Here's the website for The Sun Singer and here's the site for the Garden of Heaven. My general author's site is Malcolm R. Campbell.

For more information about the Forever Friends anthology of poems and short stories, see the Mandinam Press website. (I have a poem in the anthology.)

You can find me on both MySpace and Facebook.

In addition to this blog, I have Malcolm's Round Table on WordPress and Writer's Notebook on Type Pad.

In you live in Northeast Georgia, I invite you to subscribe to Living Jackson Magazine, a monthly magazine that focuses on Jackson County. I'm a contributing writer for book reviews.

When you're out surfing the net, stop by and visit.