Local Fall Fairs ~

Caledonia: September 27 to 30
Theme:  "Remember When"

Norfolk County Fair & Horse Show: (Simcoe) October 2 - 8

www.caledoniafair.ca
www.norfolkcountyfair.com

Photo:  lbwalker

"Authors should, and usually do, appreciate the fact that one of the editor's most crucial challenges is to be able to articulate, clearly and appealingly, the signal virtues of a given book.  From editorial reports on through catalog copy, jacket flaps, and publicity releases, it is the editor's initial core descriptions that implicitly explain why the book has been chosen in the first place and explicitly set the tone for how a book will be perceived both in and out of the house....

"...the role of editors, like everything else, is bound to change.  Corporate pressures for economies in overhead and benefits are likely to lead to more outside free-lance editing and diminished house staffs.  It's a toss-up question as to whether more or less editing in general will be needed.  On the one hand, entropic degeneration of the language, diminished devotion to accuracy, and word processor bloat all cry out for increased editorial ministrations.  On the other hand, the legions crying "Who cares?" show no signs of fading away either."

~Alan D. Williams (Two decades at Viking Press among other editorial positions) Editors on Editing, edited by Gerald Gross, 1993

Key to Friendship ~

"Friendship is based upon
What we give, not what we take,
And it steers its kindly course
For a special friend's own sake."

~ Edith H. Shank, The Gift of Friendship, 1995, Ideals Publications Incorporated.  Editor, N. J. Skarmeas.

NEW ~ WAR OF 1812 - 14 Native History by Zig Misiak

www.realpeopleshistory.com

Available at The Neat Little Bookshop,  $29.95.

I Saw in Louisiana a Live Oak Growing

I saw in Louisiana a live oak growing,

All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches,

Without any companion it grew there uttering joyous leaves of dark green,

And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself,

But I wondered how it could utter joyous leaves standing alone there
without its friend near, for I knew I could not,

And I broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it,

and twined around it a little moss,
And brought it away, and I have placed it in sight of my room.
It is not needed to remind me of my own dear friends

(For I believe lately I think of little else than of them),

Yet it remains to me a curious token, it makes me think of manly love;
For all that, and though the live oak glistens there in Louisiana solitary

in a wide flat space,

Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend a lover near,

I know very well I could not.

~ Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)  American author, poet, journalist.

Smile For Today ~

"Brahms*, who enjoyed his food, was distressed when he became ill and his doctor prescribed a strict diet. 'But this evening I am dining with Strauss and we shall have chicken paprika,' he protested. 'Out of the question,' said the doctor.
'Very well, then,' said Brahms.  'Please consider that I did not come to consult you until tomorrow.'"


~ THE LITTLE, BROWN BOOK OF ANECDOTES, Clifton Fadiman, 1885
*Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897) German Composer.

"In his old age Brahms announced to his friends that he was going to stop composing music and enjoy the time left to him.  Several months went by without Brahm's writing a note.  But there came the day when a new Brahms composition made its debut.  "I thought you weren't going to write any more," a friend reminded him.  "I wasn't," said the composer, "but after a few days away from it, I was so happy at the thought of no more writing that the music came to me without effort."

~ THE LITTLE, BROWN BOOK OF ANECDOTES, Clifton Fadiman, 1985.