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Fay Risner's Blog – January 2011 Archive (3)

Bushwhacker Museum, Nevada, Mo. & Civil War books

I just finished reading The Saber and the Ring by Patrick Brophy (ISBN 1893046168). The proceeds of his books go to the Bushwhacker Museum in Nevada, Missouri to help with expenses. Mr. Brophy had a love for words and a pride in being able to put those words into articles and books about a subject he knew well which was his birthplace, Vernon County, and its history, the Civil War.

My father used to tell his children stories about the Civil War, but I must confess I paid very little… Continue

Added by Fay Risner on January 24, 2011 at 1:52pm — No Comments

Smashwords Ebook Sales

I spent this last weekend downloading four of my books to Smashwords.com to be approved and put for sale on the website. It will take a week to find out if the downloads meet the hosts approval. Though they can turn the books into many different formats for different type of ebook readers, the format they wanted for the download was Microsoft document. Took me awhile to figure that one out because I don't have Microsoft. There are many other format guidelines to follow. I had to unpublish and… Continue

Added by Fay Risner on January 17, 2011 at 2:24pm — No Comments

Good Reads Historical Read Challenge

Historical de Genre Tour on Good Reads sponsored by host site Bitsy Bling Books for the year 2011, and I signed up for the challenge. My reading time consists mostly of evenings during a television show I don't like or during the commercials of a show I do like. I love to read. Historical fiction is one of my favorite genre so what few books I do get read in this year I will be more than happy to enter at Good Reads.

A good many of the historical books I read are westerns which might not… Continue

Added by Fay Risner on January 5, 2011 at 11:48am — No Comments