So What About April?
By Tom Barnes
No National holidays this month but April is not without its rewards. The Boys of Summer open the month with a new baseball season. Then not to give the only headlines to baseball, the thoroughbred horse world is working its way through the final prep races and pointing their best three year olds toward the first Saturday in May and the Kentucky Derby. In late April Southern California will again be treated to the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books held on the UCLA Campus on the weekend of the 26th and 27th. I'll be at booth 619 Saturday morning April 26 from 10:00 am to noon and again on Sunday April 27, when I'll be joined by Lenora Smalley, from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm to talk about Books and Clubs. Rita Schiano, author of "Painting the Invisible Man," hosts a live Internet show called "Talk To Me" on Blog Radio Tuesday's at 4:30 pm EDT. Rita says she has conversations with creative and unconventional people. I suspect an actor; writer and Hurricane Hunter might qualify as unconventional. I'll be Rita's guest on "Talk To Me" Tuesday April 15th at 4:30 pm EDT. Tune in, call in live! 347-327-9158 and ask some of your own questions. For more information on the show and Blog Talk Radio go to www.blogtalkradio.com/Rita Writers Corner: Several years ago Paula Zahn was interviewing Katharine Hepburn on the CBS morning show. Paula asked about the main difference in films today versus earlier motion pictures. Miss Hepburn's answer was, "Writers, Writers, Writers. Wit"¦ Humor"¦ You see when I started out there was great wit and humor, there isn't now." Miss Hepburn's words are as true today as they were when she said them. Lighten up writers and laugh at yourself once in a while. Robert Benchley once said, "It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous."
About the Author
Tom Barnes -- Actor, Writer and Hurricand Hunter. Check out my website for books, blogs, western legends, a literary icon, reviews and interviews. Also my novels The Goring Collection and Doc Holliday's Road to Tombstone along with a non fiction remembrance of The Hurricane Hunters and Lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
www.tombarnes39.com
www.rockthetower.com
More Books by Tom Barnes
The Hurricane Hunters and Lost in the Bermuda Triangle
Doc Holliday's Road to Tombstone
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