The Writer's Life 3/1 - New Toy

The second external floppy drive I ordered from Amazon arrived yesterday. It took me about 20 minutes to figure out how to get it to work. It did not require a driver installation. It’s a simple plug and play. The trick was finding the right drive on the PC, A, to get it running. Unfortunately, I didn’t find the files I’d hoped to. There was only an excerpt from Close to the Edge, not the entire novel. I must have assumed there was no need to keep it anymore, since it was in print. Who knew this Kindle thing would create a whole new potential distribution outlet? When the book contract with AH runs out, I want to move Edge to Create Space, which is infinitely more cost effective and will allow me to offer the Kindle for a buck. The e-book currently costs $4.95. Also missing from the discs: a play I wrote for my friend John’s acting company and a teleplay for a short-lived anthology program on Fox produced by Martin Scorsese. I would have liked to combine them and another one-act play, which I do have on file, into a Kindle offering. I may have hard copies of the former two, but I do remember giving copies to another actor friend, Johnny Socks. I hope they weren’t the only copies I had. I may have never transferred them to the PC. Transferring all my novels and short stories was a major task, taking at least two years. There are about eight discs. I haven’t checked them all. If they’re labeled properly, the files I want aren‘t there. C’est la vie. At least I now know. I did find three essays I may be able to use for this blog on days when I come up with nothing interesting. I’ll have to see if the subjects are dated.

I downloaded the Close to the Edge ebook. To my surprise, there was no copy guard. I transferred it a Works and now it needs only reformatting to get it ready for Kindle.

Last night I was rooting around with the remote and came upon a John Wayne western from 1935, The Dawn Rider. He banged out eight that year. He was a few years from his breakout performance in Stagecoach (1939). The villain in the aforementioned flick had a strong screen presence. I had no recollection of him, so this morning I looked him up at IMDb. Dennis Moore, who died at 56 in 1964, has 258 credits listed, and that does not include multiple guest starring appearances on shows like The Lone Ranger, The Cisco Kid, 77 Sunset Strip, and several others. I laughed out loud when I saw him billed frequently as “Henchman.” Here’s a pic of this prolific actor:

A few days ago the forecast for today was sunny, in the 40's. Not even close! Is there any reason to get excited about the projections for temperatures near 50 by mid week?

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