Wildrose Communication

Catching up to Wildrose Communication...a new Mike Malone novel is on its way: Cost of Goods Sold. I edited this one, too...It features a young Chinese woman as well as the usual suspects from Book #1 of the Silicon Valley Quartet.

Check it out: you can read a free 4-chapter sample of Mike Malone's Silicon Valley novel Learning Curve. Mike is an old high school friend, and I was lucky enough to be his editor for this book, and for the 3 to follow in his "Silicon Valley Quartet." I'm currently working on Book 2, Cost of Goods Sold. It'll be out soon!

Learning Curve (Silicon Valley) | Free Preview Preview the first four chapters of Learning Curve: A Novel of Silicon Valley for free.

For fun, take a look at the blog I wrote about performing the Carmina Burana with PSC and the Oregon Symphony...

The Carmina Burana, 2015 | Portland Symphonic Choir The Carmina Burana, 2015 February 12, 2015 Shannon McNerney What is is like to sing a big work with a big orchestra? Can you still get excited about performing a piece you may have sung many times before? A few weeks ago, I asked Sharon Smith, writer, historian, and PSC alto if she would be willing…

Side yard of a neighbor, Halloween afternoon.

Did you know that the original 1857 Oregon constitution denied the vote to African-Americans, and both Japanese and Chinese Americans? Women and Native Americans aren't mentioned at all. It banned slavery, but excluded free blacks from living here.

Not only that, in 1870, the Oregon legislature rejected the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting voting rights to black adult males. It took 90 years--until 1957--for the recalcitrant Oregon legislature to ratify the thing.

More here:

Oregon History Project Delazon Smith, Chairman of the Committee on Suffrage and Election, presented this handwritten report to the Oregon Constitutional Convention in Salem on August 25, 1857.

I'm living vicariously in Namibia these days - as I edit Mike Malone's latest book, a novel entitled "The Sable." There's more to the story than its setting and the animals he describes: he's looking at attitudes about race--and making it personal. I'm loving this one.

Check this out: A great review of Michael Malone's book, Learning Curve - the first one I was privileged to edit for him.

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Late spring evening at Mount Tabor...A volcanic cinder cone--which erupted last over 100,000 years ago. It was named by Plympton Kelly, son of Oregon City pioneer resident Clinton Kelly--in honor of Mount Tabor in Israel.

This is classic Welty. Wish I could've known her. Thanks to Barb D**e for sending this to me.

Eudora Welty to The New Yorker— The best job application ever In March of 1933, Eudora Welty, then 23 and looking for writing work, sent this charming letter to the offices of The New Yorker.

The mini-park in Eastmoreland - which runs up the middle of Reed College Place. Incidentally, Eastmoreland was one of the first planned neighborhoods on the West coast, planned and platted around 1909-1910. The east-west streets were planted with elm trees, the north-south streets with big-leaf maples, and the mini-park with two rows of linden trees.

My down-the-street neighbor took this photo today - thanks, Kristi!

Read the article...and consider this:
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
Ray Bradbury

Thanks to Ray Boomhower for posting.

Read, Kids, Read  It’s not a chore. It’s a path to fulfillment that fewer are traveling.