Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all my Irish friends! (No green here, sorry, I’m Austrian.) I spent this morning speaking with the good folks at WWED 89.5 FM Fredericksburg and WWEM 91.7 FM in Lynchburg (Bluegrass/Gospel). My publishers at Patriot Press have generously donated 20 copies of The Southern Cross and additional copies of Shades of Gray to be offered as gifts for their radio pledge drives. We are also recording several 90 sec. spots featuring devotional readings (by myself) that are taken from TSC. You will begin hearing these spots broadcast throughout the course of the week in the Central VA area fairly soon.

Traci Lower, my publisher at Patriot Press has already begun selling copies to stores up in Gettysburg and there will be additional announcements and book reviews for me to share with you very soon. The book has been announced both at the Christian networks ShoutLife and FaithWriters and the orders are already beginning to come in. This looks to be a blessed project for sure, and I am grateful for the early interest and support that we have received.

Additionally, Eric W. sent me the draft of his wonderful half of our Preface for the baseball book project and I have begun assembling completed materials here and there. The good folks at The History Press are also beginning design on the cover and promo materials of Houses of the Holy so I will have handouts at my upcoming lectures. And speaking of lectures, I spent the afternoon learning to use the digital projector that I borrowed for my Wed. talk at the ’55 Club. Very cool technology indeed. All an author needs nowadays is a laptop and one of these projectors and he’s a one-man traveling multimedia show.

Health-wise, I am doing much better. I started doing office work from home this week and I get stronger everyday. The pain is manageable, but I do get tired. Recovery is a tedious process indeed and patience is the key. The meds help, but I know when they wear off and it will be sometime before I’m able to be med-free. Everyday brings a smile to my face though and I’ll be back to ‘normal’ (w/ some radical life-style changes) soon enough.

BTW: Friday I had a wonderful phone conversation with my good friend Richard Williams who also has a lot of great stuff going on too. Between him, and Eric, and John Hennessy, the good folks at CWi and the Civil War Chatroom, I have plenty of historians pushing me to get better. It’s nice to have a ‘professional’ support group like that. Even my blog readers continue to send their regards. Thanks guys and gals. I appreciate you all more than I can say.