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My Time

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Joe Clark

This time of year is my time. There is nothing better than the early morning cool, listening to the birds, and feeling the cool damp of the morning while drinking coffee in the sunrise. When I was learning to fly … Continue reading →

Posted in Aviation, Flying, Life in General, Personal, Writing | Tagged a Sam Lyon’s painting, airplanes, airspeed, altitude, an escapee housecat, cats, Cessnas, early morning cool, early morning writing, early spring, flight training, Florida, flying, flying in the early morning, friends, learning to fly, listening to the birds, memories, military service, most pleasant flying memories, Navy, productive times, Reveille, rising early, sitting outside, sunrise, taildraggers, the delightful things I could see, the first cup of coffee, watching Cubs taking off, watching the fog on the lake, writers | Leave a comment

Bear’s Books

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Joe Clark

As we wrapped up 2011, one of the goals I missed was completing production on the third book of The Bear’s trilogy, The Owl Hoot Trail. I wanted so much to complete the last book, Book Three, The Turning of … Continue reading →

Posted in Life in General, Publishing, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing | Tagged editors, friends, Gold in the Red Desert, publishers, TH Bear, The Owl Hoot Trail Trilogy, The Withlacoochee Renegades, writers | Leave a comment

“CHRISTMAS AT SEA”

Posted on December 25, 2011 by Joe Clark

The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand; The decks were like a slide, where a seamen scarce could stand; The wind was a nor’wester, blowing squally off the sea; And cliffs and spouting breakers were the … Continue reading →

Posted in Flying, Life in General, Personal | Tagged airmen, airspeed, altitude, black shoe sailors, coastguardsmen, discipline, flying, friends, inexperienced pilots, instrument flying, judgment, loved ones, Marines, memories, military service, Navy, professional pilots, Robert Louis Stevenson, sailing ships, sailors, soldiers, writers | Leave a comment

BluewaterPress Goes National

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Joe Clark

Yesterday and the day before were busy days for BluewaterPress. As I finished the fall term at school, my mind naturally began thinking of the things I had to finish for the press. Highest on the list was drafting a … Continue reading →

Posted in Aviation, Aviation History, History, Life in General, Personal, Publishing | Tagged airplanes, flying, inexperienced pilots, Juan Trippe, judgment, Lockerbie, oeing 314 Clipper, Pan Am 103, Pan American World Airways, Pearl Harbor, pilots, professional pilots, publishers, Tenerife, World War II, writers | 1 Comment

In Search of Perfection–Drat!

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Joe Clark

OK, this weekend was a rough one regarding writing and publishing the blog. I literally wrote the blog at the last moment while Ardis drove home late at night from her granddaughter’s baptism. Additionally, I was tired because I did … Continue reading →

Posted in Life in General, Personal, Publishing, Reading, Writing | Tagged a critical place, a perfectionist, catching all the mistakes before publishing, discipline, do your best, granddaughter’s baptism, In Search of Perfection--Drat!, it is really bad to make a mistake as a pilot, making it perfect, my most ardent proofreader--Holly, not sleeping well, publishers, rough weekend, Saturday night, taking pride in writing, the probability of making mistakes, unforgivable, working hard and fast, working tired, writers, writing and publishing the blog | Leave a comment

Writer’s NATOPS

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Joe Clark

In the days of flying tactical jets, I spent time reading the NATOPS manual and pocket checklist (PCL). Carrying the PCL in the lower pocket of your G-suit could sometimes keep you out of trouble and if you found yourself … Continue reading →

Posted in Life in General, Personal, Writing | Tagged "writer's NATOPS/PCL", a Skyhawk or a Corsair screaming through the air at .9 Mach, commas inside or outside of quotation marks, discipline, editors, flying tactical jets, G-suits, grammar, judgment, logical thought, memories, NATOPS manuals, parentheses, pocket checklists (PCL), publishers, spelling, syntax, the Internet, Writer's NATOPS, writers, “friends who can function as editors”, “word-emergency”, “writer’s NATOPS Manuals” | 2 Comments

A Paradigm Shift in the Wind

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Joe Clark

Sniff the wind. Can you smell it? It is very faint, but it is there. It is the odor of a completely new change coming to the publishing industry. More succinctly, the slight smell on the wind is the fear … Continue reading →

Posted in Life in General, Personal, Publishing, Reading, Writing | Tagged a complete change to the publishing industry, A Paradigm Shift in the Wind, A Portrait of Grandma's Dog, access to hundreds of free publications, Amazon Kindle, Cyclotron Factor, e-books, February 2011, first time e-book sales outstripped sales of paperbacks, Gone to meet the British, independent publishers, IPads, Keeping House, Lucky Infantryman, Papa's Problem, Patriots, personal computers, publishers, Road to Barrister, Smartphones, Sunday Morning Prayers for Monday Morning People, Switch Pitchers, The Eighth Day, Will Power, writers | Leave a comment

More Books About Flying

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Joe Clark

After finishing yesterday’s blog about books on the subject of the Doolittle Raid, I began thinking of other books written of flying that all serious pilots should read. There are so many great novels and historical accounts written of flying that once … Continue reading →

Posted in Aviation, Flying, History, Life in General, Personal, Reading | Tagged a very unconventional life, Beryl Markham, British East Africa, England, Ernest Hemingway, flight training, flying, friends, great novels and historical accounts about flying, inexperienced pilots, judgment, Kenya, learning to fly, memories, More Books About Flying, mountains, Mt. Kilimanjaro, one of the most talented writers ever, open cockpit biplanes, pilots, professional pilots, student pilots, taildraggers, West with the Night, writers | 3 Comments

Learning to Read

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Joe Clark

I always knew I was going to be a pilot and I also knew I would be a writer. When it came to reading and writing, there are a couple of people to whom I am very indebted. My mother … Continue reading →

Posted in Life in General, Personal, Reading, Writing | Tagged baby-books, bookmobiles, books appropriate to age-level, boyhood crushes, Florida, friends, Hillsborough County, Learning to Read, Marianne, mom, new worlds, pictures in books, Pierce Junior High School, pilot, reading and writing, Saturday morning, Tampa, The world of words!, writer, writers | 3 Comments

Reindeer and Gun Sights

Posted on December 27, 2010 by Joe Clark

We were sitting around the table last night catching up. That was when my father-in-law hit on something close to the heart of every editor. Apparently, he and his wife were thinking back across their 85 years reflecting on terms … Continue reading →

Posted in Publishing, Reading, Writing | Tagged dictionary, edit, editor, father-in-law, gun sight, gun site, homonyms, homophones, manuscript, preparing books for publication, professional editing, raindeer, reigndeer, reindeer, Reindeer and Gun Sights, terms we no longer use, writers | 7 Comments

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