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Last weekend, I was contacted by an author/journalist who is writing a book for media professionals listing her favorite blogs. She wants to include A Flyover Blog. Am I excited? Of course! The book will be released this summer. I'll give you more details as I get them. I just had to share my news.
... I wrote my first post for this blog. I haven't posted as consistently as I would have liked in A Flyover Blog's first year, but all things considered, I think I did pretty good. Let's see, since last August 12th, Mitch and I have published our company's first book, Your Path To A Job. We lost my father-in-law suddenly just days after Christmas. We've moved my MIL here and got her settled. I had an emergency hysterectomy and Mitch broke his arm. Did I mention we both have full-time jobs, too? "Life" has kept us from devoting as much time to our young publishing company as we would have liked. You know what they say about the best-laid plans of mice and men...
In the coming months, we'll get back to marketing Mitch's book and begin design and layout for the first book of a fiction series I'm writing. I'm looking forward to both of these projects. I'll keep you posted on our progress. I also think it's probably time to contact Susie at Bluebird Blogs and have her spruce up my blog a bit.
I have met so many wonderful new friends through this blog. Thank you for checking in to see how Mitch and I are doing, for reading my posts, for laughing on my good days, and for encouraging me on the ones that weren't so good. You have truly been a blessing.
Now, on to Year Two!
On the evening of August 12th I opened a Typepad account, and made my very first post on this blog. I was really nervous, but I figured, Hey, blogging is like sending a message in a bottle... without the water. Nobody's ever going to find your blog, so don't worry about it. You can imagine how shocked I was to learn someone did find A Flyover Blog the very next day. I had a reader!
Just two weeks before, I wasn't even familiar with blogging. Blogs were those teen cyberspace diaries that dirty old men scoured looking for unwitting victims. I had no idea there was a vibrant community of normal, well-adjusted people online! Okay, normal may be pushing it. A big thank you to Mike Justice for saying, You really need to be blogging, Deb.
Anyway, thanks to everybody who has dropped by to say hi, read my posts, and welcome me to the blogosphere! According to Sitemeter, I've already had nearly 2400 visits in the past 12 weeks. I thought I was setting my sites high when I hoped for 500 visits. I still have tons to learn, so bear with me while I continue this work in progress. Only yesterday, I figured out how to center a picture in a post.
I look forward to meeting many more people and making new friends in the coming months! Now back to our regularly scheduled programming...
What an eventful day!
Mitch and I had a great meeting this morning with book designer, Craig Schutt and Justin Wells, who is configuring the webpage for Mitch's new book. I'll have news on that front in a couple of days...
I showed them the new banner Susie at Bluebird Blogs created for me; they both loved it... and you know how hard it is to get grown men to rave about something pretty!
When I returned home, I found a message from Susie; she'd applied the new template while I was on the road! I love modern technology. Now I feel like a real live blogger!
If you are even remotely considering a fresh new look for your blog, go to Susie's website and take a look around. You'll be amazed at the wide variety of styles she's created for her clients, and you'll be just as impressed with her extremely reasonable prices! (Honestly, I don't know how she does it!)
Typepad is not the most friendly platform in the world for blog customizing options, so Susie wasn't able to do her total "magic" with the restrictions given. But I am thrilled with the results! Susie is a creative genius and an absolute dream to work with. (Hmm... I wonder if she does interior decorating, too?)
If you want a blog that really pops, then you want Bluebird Blogs!
How cool is that?! This is my very first blog ring and I look forward to meeting many new friends. And I love the cute little chicken pictures! Please look through the Blogging Chicks Blogroll and visit some, if not all of the sites listed.
I've written movie scripts for a living for nearly four years. I love my job; it goes from fun to hectic, to totally frustrating, then back to fun again. It is never dull. The people I work with are the best! They are totally committed to the idea of bringing family-friendly entertainment to the big screen and into your living rooms. It is not an easy task, given the current cultural climate.
I have encountered many people in the movie business who haven't a clue about Midwesterners. They call us "flyover people" - the boring masses who live in the broad green expanse between New York and L.A. They are used to viewing us from several thousand feet in the air as they fly from coast to coast and they would prefer to keep it that way, thank you very much! In their eyes we are prudish and culturally irrelevant. We lack imagination and creative vision. We have absolutely nothing interesting to say!
Those of us who live in the Great American Heartland, and the Great Lakes Region, the Pacific Northwest, the Deep South, Appalachia, New England, and the great Western States know this is simply not true. Hense the name of this blog. New York and L.A. might not be interested in us, but I certainly am!
I look forward to meeting you - no matter where you live - and reading about your life. Where do film producers think all the great movie stories come from anyway?
Welcome!
I'm glad you found my blog. There's nothing like staring at a blank screen and a blinking cursor to drain all the words from one's brain. How embarrassing... and I write for a living!
Moving on. My hubby and I live in a quirky little tourist town in the heart of the Midwest. Mitch (my hubby) is an administrator for a chain of retail stores. And, like I said before, I write. Fiction is my forte; I write screenplays and develop projects for a New York company that produces family-friendly entertainment. In my spare time I write novels. Mitch writes too. Non-fiction. Do you see a pattern here?
FYI: Our two dogs don't write.
We have a fun disfunctional family, a handfull of very close friends, and a big church family; they all provide me with tons of story fodder. Our lives are hectic but we're always up for a new adventure. So, a few months ago, we decided to start a publishing company. Seemed a logical idea since we write all the time anyway. I thought our journey might be fun to blog about, so here I am stumbling through my first post.
I hope you'll join us. Along the way I'll tell you some stories (all true) and introduce you to some very colorful characters. If you're ready, let's go!
