- Heaven Fest 2011!
Yes folks, just a few more days until Heaven Fest 2011! My family founded the massive Christian music festival which last year saw over 27,000 in attendance! This year we are pleased to be at The Ranch in Loveland, CO. Along with over 100 artists on 8 stages, I am privileged to have 3 slots on what we call The VOX stage to participate in a book-signing along with Nationally known Christian author, Robert Liparulo!
- Bob
Me
Bob and I have been friends for a couple of years now and I’m so excited that we will get a chance to hang out in the Presence of the Lord and have some fun promoting and signing our books in between my other duties at Heaven Fest this year.
Come on out and hang with us in a great family atmosphere, with inspirational music, wonderful fun for the kids, delicious food and a stellar time of talking about writing!
You’ll be able to identify us by these banners:
See you there!
Here’s our schedule- look for the VOX tent:
2:40-3:10pm
6:25-6:55pm
8:30-8:55pm (Just before the main event)
Questions? Contact me at dave@daverhoades.com
- Bob and I at the Colorado Writer’s Conference in Estes Park last year.
Yes, I’ll be playing Daddy Warbucks in Annie!
No, no skull cap for me! Bald!
Come and see!
http://www.prairieplayhouse.com/ for ticket information.
Unfortunately we missed by only 10 votes of it going to the top 3.
My grateful thanks to all of you that hung in with us for all these weeks.
I have implemented an alternative plan so stay tuned for more information on the publishing of Altar!
I am publishing Altar but need your help!
My publisher has entered me in a contest and whoever gets the most votes get published!I’ve made it through to the 2nd round thanks to you.
And now the voting is November 28,29,30, 2009
You can now go out and read the first 500 words of my book.
Here’s the easy way:
This is a pdf that you can download to expedite matters. Step by step instructions…
http://www.daverhoades.com/pdffiles/step_by_step_altar_voting.pdfFollow the instructions.
If you have problems, email me at dave@daverhoades.com
There will be 3-4 rounds, Nov. Dec. Jan.
Whoever makes it through will get published!
Please help!
Thanks, dave
I found some interesting schools of thought…
Writing Tip: January 18, 2003
One or Two Spaces after a Period?
Those of us who use word processing software are no longer typists but typographers. While our typewriter keyboards limited our capabilities in creating text, our word processors allow us to do what professional typesetters have been doing for centuries. Consequently, many of the rules we learned as typists do not apply in the world of word processing.
Here are a few rules of typography (word processing) that differ from those we learned to use for the typewriter:
(A) Use one space after all punctuation, including periods, question marks, exclamation points, and colons. Putting two spaces after these marks of punctuation is a convention that evolved because typewriters were equipped only with monospaced fonts, which made it difficult to see where sentences ended. Professional typographers have always used only one space because they use proportionally spaced fonts, which do not require the extra spaces in order for a series of sentences to be readable. Because most of the fonts in today’s word processing software programs are proportional, in other words, we do not need to put an additional space after end punctuation or colons when we use our computers to compose.
(B) Use em dashes and en dashes where appropriate instead of hyphens. (For an explanation of situations in which the en dash and em dash are appropriate, see our recent tip on this subject in our tip archive.)
(C) Use typographer’s quotation marks. Typographer’s quotes–the turned, or “curly,” quotation marks–are actually quite different from straight quotes, which were all that our old typewriters could muster. Straight quotes should be used only as symbols to denote minutes, seconds, feet, and inches–and then, only in charts, tables, and the like. In professional writing, we never use such symbols in running text (i.e., the regular paragraph text of a document).
Most word processing software is already programmed to use these “smart quotes,” as they are called. We must remember, however, to convert back to straight quotes to indicate seconds and inches (double straight quotes) and minutes and feet (single straight quotes) in charts and tables.
(D) Use italics, not underlining, for such purposes as indicating the titles of works that stand alone and emphasizing words in running text. Because our typewriters could not italicize, we underlined instead. Now we reserve underlining for those situations in which we cannot use italics, such as when we are writing in longhand or using the old-fashioned typewriter. (For guidance about when to use italics and when to use quotation marks with titles, see our tip on the titles of works at .)
(E) Avoid using the space bar to indent a paragraph or to move text (say, for example, to center it). Word processing software offers a host of formatting options, including tab options, centering, right and left justification, and columns. When we use manual spacing rather than formatting the text using these handy functions, we create two problems: our text will never be evenly aligned, and our work will be made more difficult if we ever want to revise the text in any way.
These are just a few basic rules of typography. A quick search of the Internet will yield a wealth of additional information on the subject–including historical perspectives on the one-space-versus-two-after-colons-and-periods issue. Most style manuals also include sections on typography, as do many writing handbooks.
Copyright 2003 Get It Write
more info from this website… http://www.getitwriteonline.com/archive/011803TypographySpacePeriods.htm
James Scott Bell has released his new book: Deceived
Go Check it out!
Two bodies in an isolated canyon on the edge of L.A. One with saddlebags filled with diamonds.
That’s how it begins for Liz Towne, a stunning blonde with a devout husband who has given up a prime job for reasons Liz cannot understand—for “Mac” MacDonald, a Gulf War vet who’s done time in prison and is just now finding his way back to normal life—and for Roxanne “Rocky” Towne, Liz’s sister-in-law, who suspects things she cannot prove. All three are thrown together after a tragedy in Pack Canyon.
After stumbling upon the stolen diamonds, Liz is faced with an escalating set of choices: Truth or lies? Love or money? Saint or sinner? Liz thinks she knows who she is and what she wants, but when the web gets terribly tangled, will her game of deception be a clever lie or a deadly trap?
“Former trial lawyer and Christy Award–winner Bell (Presumed Guilty) hits his stride in this twist-filled suspense thriller…Dialogue carries the book with rich characters…a fast-paced thriller with its Los Angeles music scene, creepy canyons and a slew of cons. Bell, who also writes nonfiction books on writing, is a master of the cliffhanger, creating scene after scene of mounting suspense and revelation in this heart-whamming read.”
– Publishers Weekly
more: www.jamesscottbell.com
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