Two parts
goofy... three parts shameless self-promotion... six years
of fun... the date is drawing close...
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Six years ago, after releasing Time
Just Drifts Away, efforts were moving
toward promoting the effort...
Six years ago, while looking around the internet,
postings were seen for National Raspberry Cream Pie
Day and other assorted days of silly celebration...
Six years ago, a "you got peanut butter
in my chocolate, you got chocolate in my peanut butter"
chaos swirled and created a thought:
If raspberry cream
pie can have a day, offered with humor and fun, why
not Bob's books?
August 26, 2017 ~ The Sixth
Annual event!
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Life
Won't Pass Me By
&
Conversations
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The new releases are NOW
AVAILABLE!!!
Life Won't Pass Me
By contains more than forty essays that have been posted
on the In My Backpack web site since the earliest days.
Conversations
is a collection of interviews, and includes bonus content that
you can only find on its pages.
Each of these efforts
was designed to recognize the Fourteenth Annivesarty of In
My Backpack.
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National
Buy Bob's Book Day
When the annual event
arrives in 2017, Bob will have released four titles since last
year's National Buy Bob's Book Day festivities.
In 2012, he was putting
the finishing touches on his first book (Time Just Drifts
Away). At some point in later that month, he started seeing
pictures and images that all had to do with national days of celebration.
LOTS of them.
It was like National Day
of This and National Day of That were taunting him.
Every day… a new national
day. Pictures and posters and links and videos for pies… ice cream…
date nights… fried foods… relatives… and… well... the light-switch
moment usually noted is National Raspberry Cream Pie Day.
When there are days being
dedicated by someone for cleaning floors, deviled eggs, talking
like a pirate and dressing in blue… it didn’t seem too outrageous
to organize a shameless plug for his writing.
Around In My Backpack.
We’ve celebrated it every year since.
The Sixth Annual National
Buy Bob's Book Day arrives on August 26, 2017.
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It's the monthly newsletter...
featuring at least two essays in each edition (with one taking
a bow exclusively in A Parkside View).
If you would like to receive
it...
- To sign up, send an e-mail asking
to be added to the distribution list. (Or, if using our pages
on social media, a message will work.)
- It is distributed by e-mail. Along
with a short announcement in the body of the e-mail, a PDF
file of the newsletter is attached.
We have some exciting
plans for A
Parkside View, and hope you'll be a part of this
project by receiving it each month, and by sending along your
feedback and suggestions for it.
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Local
Friends for Local Business
This month
the Local Friends challenge is...
I
Scream You Scream
If there is only one treat
of summer to be named, I doubt anything but ice cream would receive
the designation.
Yes... great throughout
the year. But on a warm, beautiful, summer evening, there's something
about a cone picked up at a roadside stand... the debate of candies
and crunchies and other coatings... the joys of shakes and sundaes
and bananas and more.
And with so many amazing
places to visit, ice cream stands are one of the truly great community
destinations.
I
Scream You Scream
August 1st - 31st
Join the August Local
Friends for Local Business...
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Should learning more
about Bob's writing be of interest to you -- and if it is, THANK
YOU -- use this link...
Writing
& Books
We appreciate the support,
comments, and suggestions you've made about all of Bob's projects
(and for the feedback and interest you may offer in the future).
Do you have a Kindle?
How about a smartphone? (Did you know you can get the Kindle app
for your smartphone?) In addition to paperback editions, all
of the books are available for Kindle.
You can
get more information by checking out...
Writing
& Books
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I want to point out some
places where you can follow In My Backpack, ComplemenTerry
Designs, Local Friends for Local Business, and my published writing
(and other assorted efforts). We have pages on Facebook, Twitter,
and Amazon.com, where you can receive updates and details, read
postings, and learn all sorts of exciting stuff.
Amazon.com
--
Bob's
author page
In
My Backpack --
Facebook
-- In My Backpack
Twitter
-- @Bobinmybackpack
ComplemenTerry
Designs --
Facebook
-- CT Designs
Twitter
-- @CTerryDesigns
Local
Friends for Local Business --
Facebook
-- Local Friends for Local Business
Twitter
-- @FriendsLocal
There are a couple of
other pages over at Facebook that I'd like to nod in the direction
of...
Time
Just Drifts Away -- I use this page
at Facebook for my published and professional writing efforts.
Muddy
Paws and Puppy Love -- This is a fun
page on Facebook where we celebrate Lady, Travis, Molly and Gus...
along with their friends (and ours).
I would be incredibly
grateful if you took a few minutes to check out some of these
pages. (And if you have a Facebook and/or Twitter account, my
on-going appreciation and ever-lasting gratitude goes along with
every "Like" or "Follow"
you add. (So you'll have that going for you.))
(Thank you!)
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I am tremendously
grateful for your time and consideration, and appreciate your
comments and feedback.
If you
can, please send along an e-mail and let me know what you think
of things around here. A lot of work goes into the material that
gets posted on the web site and the routine tidying of content,
and if you spot something that you particularly like... or something
you believe we might be able to do a bit better... that information
is always welcomed by us.
Have a
great month folks... and thank you again for all of your attention
and visits.
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My dearest
companions and supporters since the beginning of the site... proud
to call them family...
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