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It's been a busy six months. Evenings, weekends, mornings, late nights writing, rewriting, rewriting, editing, more rewriting, and even more rewriting. I missed some weddings and other social events, missed lots of beautiful spring days (but watched them through the windows), spent lots of days at the libraries, meeting with people, interviewing, studying old photographs, writing details, and more researching. And I was (and still am) working a full-time job.
I stuck to a writing schedule and monthly deadlines and managed to stay on schedule. I finished slightly ahead of time, and had to stop rewriting when it got to the point where I was rewriting just to change, not to improve. That's when I knew it was finished. That was this week.
And I submitted the manuscript today, and will have it at the publisher's a day before the deadline date.
See the book here
with an Introduction, seven chapters, 31,000 words (text and captions), 210 vintage photographs and illustrations, 128 pages. Publisher: Arcadia.
This is my third book with Arcadia.
This is an exploration of entertainment history in Cincinnati, with lots of unpublished and unseen photographs.
I'm taking a couple weeks off to watch some DVDs I've been wanting to see, get some house maintenance done, and attend my sister's wedding. Then I'll be starting the next book, this time a children's book with an end of World War II setting. Oh yes, it takes place in Cincinnati.
It's been a hectic six months, but AW has been my constant companion for inspiration and support all along the way. Even something Uncle Jim said once made it into my book. Oh, and Uncle Jim and AW received an acknowledgement.
Look for it Christmas, 2005.
underthecity
I stuck to a writing schedule and monthly deadlines and managed to stay on schedule. I finished slightly ahead of time, and had to stop rewriting when it got to the point where I was rewriting just to change, not to improve. That's when I knew it was finished. That was this week.
And I submitted the manuscript today, and will have it at the publisher's a day before the deadline date.
See the book here
with an Introduction, seven chapters, 31,000 words (text and captions), 210 vintage photographs and illustrations, 128 pages. Publisher: Arcadia.
This is my third book with Arcadia.
This is an exploration of entertainment history in Cincinnati, with lots of unpublished and unseen photographs.
- Movie theaters and palaces: where they were, what they were like, what it was like to see a movie a hundred years ago, what finally happened to the palaces. A total of 51 theater and early movie-related photos and illustrations.
- Prohibition era: discussion of saloons, 3,000 speakeasies in Cincinnati, life during a time with no alcohol (they drank anyway).
- Burlesque and vaudeville history: with a selection of never-before-seen photographs of actual vaudeville and burlesque stage performances, and even a few from the 1934 Ziegfeld Follies.
- Nightclub and hotel ballroom entertainment: live orchestras, small bands, lives of vaudevillians and traveling musicians.
- Gambling casinos and prostitution across the Ohio River in Newport: photos showing the clubs, and clandestine photos taken inside several Northern Kentucky casinos
- Black entertainment venues. Black folks didn't mingle in public with the white folks in pre-1960 Cincinnati. This chapter gives their story, as well as 20 great photographs of clubs and performances.
- Radio and television history in Cincinnati. Radio replaced vaudeville, television helped put an end to downtown movie-going. Lots of rare, some never-before-seen photographs of early radio and television entertainment.
I'm taking a couple weeks off to watch some DVDs I've been wanting to see, get some house maintenance done, and attend my sister's wedding. Then I'll be starting the next book, this time a children's book with an end of World War II setting. Oh yes, it takes place in Cincinnati.
It's been a hectic six months, but AW has been my constant companion for inspiration and support all along the way. Even something Uncle Jim said once made it into my book. Oh, and Uncle Jim and AW received an acknowledgement.
Look for it Christmas, 2005.
underthecity
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