You can go ahead and add the title of "publisher" to my resume. Not that I update my resume anymore. Just sayin'. It's a title I didn't think I'd ever have, mush less aspire to have. Author, journalist, sports writer, editor ... sure, all those titles I expected to have at one point in my... Continue Reading →
One of the author events that my wife and I were scheduled to go to but was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic was one at a library not far from us. The authors fair at the Clark-Pleasant Branch of the Johnson County (Ind.) Public Library was to feature several area authors on March 21.... Continue Reading →
March 26, 2020 Like many high-end magazines, I'm posting my April newsletter at the end of the previous month. Please do not freak out. And now on to our regularly scheduled newsletter. Howdy, folks. This Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic sure has made a mess of things, hasn’t it? Hopefully, we can halt the spread of this... Continue Reading →
March 3, 2020 Well hello there, faithful followers, inquisitive types, and those who accidentally stumbled in thinking this was going to give you guidance on dealing with the coronavirus or election ads. Coronavirus (not anything to do with beer) Let us get right to the coronavirus. In order to prevent the spread of this thing... Continue Reading →
Feb. 9, 2020 Howdy, folks. It has come to my attention that there is no subscribe button on my home page. I wondered how this could be as the number of followers this site has is into triple digits. How did 100-plus people subscribe to this site if there is no subscribe button? Well, as... Continue Reading →
Found out this morning that "Wicked Columbus, Indiana" has made the top spot on Amazon's Indianapolis Travel Books best seller list. I am fairly certain that neither of my books have ever maintained the No. 1 rank on any of Amazon's lists. The paperback version of the book has shot up the lists in the... Continue Reading →
It's 2020, which is the year of perfect sight, hindsight and Barbara Walters. If you get all those references, you're cool. If not, looks like you've got some Internet searches to do. Raise your hand if you thought we'd have flying cars by now. Sorry, The Jetsons are post-apocalyptic, so you have to wait for... Continue Reading →
I am eating Wisconsin cheese curds, drinking cold brew coffee (honey caramel flavor if you must know), and trying very hard to get a lot of things accomplished. I have already finished eating three blueberry pancakes that had been in deep freeze until my microwave admirably performed its duty. But I have done more than... Continue Reading →
My wife, Kimberly S. Hoffman, was featured on Page 1 of The (Columbus, Indiana) Republic newspaper this morning. The story centers on her third book, "Cleo and Roger Discover Columbus, Indiana," in which two inquisitive squirrels travel around the city meeting delightful characters and pointing out interesting facts about some of the famous buildings in... Continue Reading →
