Need an activity to reduce your isolation? Would your Book Club like an online author talk/reading? It would be a mentally healthy activity and help break up the social distancing.
I’d love to Zoom in and talk! Using Zoom is very easy. A webcam is nice, but not necessary. People can even join us via the telephone.
Let’s schedule an online event!
During this coronavirus pandemic, we are all facing stress. I humbly submit a few tips that might be helpful to my fellow authors, nothing too outrageous. Be safe. Be healthy. Be well.
J.R. Bale will speak on book marketing on Saturday, November 9th, 11AM at the Edison Library. His presentation will cover marketing considerations when creating a book, building an authors platform and cooperative marketing with fellow authors. The Edison Library is located at 340 Plainfield Avenue, Edison, NJ.
Learn more about Liberty States Fiction Writers at www.libertystatesfictionwriters.com.
I was nine years old. Like many boys my age in the 1960s, I wanted to be an astronaut. For me, it began with watching TV reports on the Gemini missions. Who could resist reaching for the stars?
That night 50 years ago, we were at my grandparents’ house where we watched the most amazing event of our lives on television. Two men were landing on the moon! Afterward, my parents raced home. And then, in my pajamas, on an old Zenith black-and-white television, I watched Neil Armstrong place the first footprint on the lunar soil, an event that in the history of humankind had never occurred before, and was replicated only a few times since.
To be honest, the “Space Age” became a disappointment for many. I never got my flying car or jet pack. We never got to Mars by 2000, as promised. But for that night on July 20, 1969, anything was possible.
In the intervening years, we’ve put satellites in orbit, enabling us to use GPS to easily navigate on land and sea. Diseases have been diminished or eliminated by medical science. Knowledge is distributed in a way never before imagined through the Internet. Thousands of innovations have come out of the space program or from those who were inspired by it.
Yet today, science must constantly reprove itself in the glare of selfishness interests and prejudices. Science deniers of many stripes abound. But on that night 50 years ago, we were one people, one species, imperfect to be sure, but we were inspired to become better.
As we reflect on that mind-boggling event, still delivering awe 50 years later, I ask can we do better? Can we be better? The answer is YES, if we show the same courage and adventurous spirit shown during Apollo. There is no problem that faces humanity that it can’t solve if we are united. Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin did not go to the moon on their own. Thousands of workers made it happen. Millions supported the effort. When we are truly united, anything is possible.
September 7 & 8, 2019 – “Author’s Grove” at Belvidere Victorian Days
Saturday, 9am – 6pm & Sunday, 11:30am – 5pm
Garrett D. Wall Park, Park Triangle along 3rd Street
Belvidere, NJ
www.BelvidereHeritage.com
September 21, 2019 – Women Who Write Conference
Satruday – 9am – 5 pm
Afternoon Keynote Speaker at 3pm: “The Checklist for Self-Marketing Authors”
Madison, NJ
www.WomenWhoWrite.org
September 22, 2019 – New Providence Book Festival
Sunday, 9am – 4pm
Salt Box Museum, 1350 Springfield Avenue, New Providence, NJ
www.NewProvidenceBookFestival.com
October 12, 2019 – Indie Author Day
Time & Location to be Determined
September 8 & 9, 2018 – Belvidere Victorian Days
Saturday, 9am – 6pm & Sunday, 11:30am – 5pm
Author’s Grove – Park Triangle along 3rd Street
Belvidere, NJ
http://www.belvidereheritage.com
September 22, 2018 – New Providence Book Festival
Saturday, 9am – 3pm
Salt Box Museum, 1350 Springfield Avenue, New Providence, NJ
http://www.NewProvidenceBookFestival.com
October 14, 2018 – Indie Author Day at Springfield Library
Saturday, 1 – 3pm
Springfield Library, 66 Mountain Avenue, Springfield, NJ
http://www.sfplnj.org
Saturday, June 9, 2018
J.R. Bale will be signing copies of his books at the 2018 ParkFest2018 in
Bread Lock Park, Stewartsville, NJ.
Friday, April 20, 2018
J.R. Bale will speak and sign books at the Porch Club in Riverton, NJ, along with authors, Donna Marie Nowak, Janet Benton and columnist Sally Friedman. The event begins at 7 PM. Learn more at theporchclub.org.
Sunday, April 22, 2018
J.R. Bale will be signing books and talking to readers at the Stirling Street Fair, Main Street, Stirling, NJ.
J.R. Bale’s second novel, Cognition Chronicles: The Redstone Legacy, is now available for sale. Unlike his first novel, Phoenix in the Middle of the Road, this one is a science fiction story. The book examines issues such as identity, reality, artificial intelligence and the soul itself in a series of interconnected stories.
Cognition Chronicles is available in paperback and ebook.
J.R. Bale will be making a presentation on “Developing Characters Who Are Real” at 1:00-1:45 PM on October 15th at the River Writes Writer’s Workshop at Prallsville Mill.
More information to come.
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