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» greggpasterick - Re: CDs and books
In response to message posted by jerrib:Hey Jerri...
The book starrted out as a short story, and I began turning it into a novel two years back, when we were in North Carolina. I am, btw, approving the galleys today. I should have my author's copy in about three weeks.
The CDs. Granted, I am burning them myself, and I do record everything at home, but I have a little studios thingie that allows me to overdub, so there are about ten of me doin' all the music and voices. I've been strummin' a guitar and writin' tunes from thirty years if a day. "Bigfoot" is a collection of some of the stuff I have been workin' on the last couple years in ohio. "Do What" is a collection of the songs I've written since leavin' Ohio. "Music from Kilbourne" is stuff I wrote during the 90's.
...sound like a P/R guy...sorry...
I'm queryin' some places with about a nature manuscript, and tryin' to sell a short story to some places......
-- posted by greggpasterick
» mastiffs2005 - Re: Re: CDs and books
In response to message posted by greggpasterick:Congratulations, Gregg! How very cool! So you burn your CD's at home... I've been trying to find a good program to burn taped hypnosis sessions... any suggestions? Completely off topic, eh? 
Thanks for any help!
Love & Hugs,
Dar
-- posted by mastiffs2005
» greggpasterick - Re: CDs and books
In response to message posted by DarleneCheek:Hey Dar,
Thanks on the congrats...
Well, I'm no expert on the matter of burnin' CDs. The reason I chose the software/burner I chose was price ... not the the cheapest one on the shelf, not the most expensive. I'm not at my own computer right now, so I can't even tell ya what brand it is.
It has worked well for me, though. I mix my music into my computer, which saves it as a WAV file. When I've saved all the tunes I want for my CD (yes, I have "designed" specific playlists for each CD)I burn the entire group of selections. The software includes stuff for designing CD covers and labels and so on. It's a lotta fun.
The only problems I've ever had have been sometimes, I guess when the computer launches into some of its computer stuff while I'm copying a song to a WAV file, it creates a kinda skip in the file. So I've gotta listen to everything I do for that as well as how the mix came out anyway. And there is a time limit on how long the wav files can be ... depends on memory I think. I have a few songs up to 10 minutes long, but at some point beyond that, yer computer tells ya not enough memory or something.
So if yer gonna burn hypnosis sessions, ya may have to break 'em up into segments.
Hope that helps. Again, I buy what I can afford and go with the flow.
I have sold CDs at the inns we've worked ... I think folks are surprised the ol' innkeeper can do more than check people in and make sure there's fresh coffee. I think I'm gonna offer a free CD with each book purchased.
okay?
Peace and a happy solstice!!!!
-- posted by greggpasterick
» mastiffs2005 - Re: Re: CDs and books
In response to message posted by greggpasterick:.wav files! That's been my problem, finding a program that will hold 20-30 minutes or more. I've got the CD burner and all, but can't find a voice recording program to hold a session. I've got one that's 20 seconds and one that's 40 seconds LOL If I do find a program that will record 10 minutes at a time, then yes, I could certainly break them down into sections and then create a playlist. Thanks for the idea!
I'm a little bit of a guitar player, too... I'm just terrified of singing LOL Your idea to give a free CD with each book is an excellent idea!
Hope ya sell a million copies and more!
Thanks again for the help... now back to our regularly scheduled wildflower
Love & Hugs,
Dar
-- posted by mastiffs2005
» biogardener - Magenta flowers
The magenta flowers near Los Angeles were definitely one color, not a mixture, and the literally flooded the hillsides. I did not see them from close-up and do not know how large the flower was or how high the plant. They looked like wild rhododendron, but I always think of that plant as growing in cooler, shadier areas, not on an exposed hillside.-- posted by biogardener
» greggpasterick - Re: CDs and books
In response to message posted by DarleneCheek:btw Dar,
I didn't wanna give ya the impression it saves the files on CD as wav files. It converts the WAV files into music on yer CD. Technology. Go figure...
I understand about bein' afraid to sing, but what the hell. Lettin' folks hear it on CDs is a lot easier than in person though...
And I hope I sell a million copies too! five hundred thousand even.
Ho ho ho ... isn't that a kind of owl call?
-- posted by greggpasterick
» greggpasterick - Re: Magenta flowers
In response to message posted by biogardener:Yeah,
While there are some rhododendrons down there, in places like the Santa Monica Mts, they certainly wouldn't be on those exposed hillsides. Stuff there has to get in, bloom, and get out before the dry season really kicks in.
Could you see much, plant-wise, foliage-wise, in addition to all the magenta blossoms?
Notning else comes to mind in addition to what I mentioned earlier. I'll have to thumb through some field gudies, see if ther could be anything else...
I love a good wildflower mystery...
-- posted by greggpasterick
» biogardener - solution
The only way to find the solution to this question would be to find someone who lives north of Los Angeles to go and check it out. The hills were not close enough to the highway for me to see more except magenta flowers with dark green foliage covering entire hillsides, and that was only on the west side of the highway, which means that it was on the east side of the hills.-- posted by biogardener
» biogardener - Ice Flower?
Someone has suggested that it might have been "ice plant."Here is what I have found out on that plant:
- Low, fleshy plant (Cryophytum crystalinum or Mesembryanthemum crystallinum) is found in warm, dry, barren regions and prefers poor soil. It is cultivated chiefly as a curiosity because of its leaves, densely coated with small, glistening, bladder-shaped hairs. The ice plant and many other related herbs (e.g., New Zealand spinach), often with fantastic shapes, are sometimes combined in the genus Mesembryanthemum. They grow in abundance in South Africa, from where many had been introduced to European botanical gardens by 1600.
It looks and tastes like purslane (Portulaca oleracea) and is used the same. Both have a slightly sour taste, have pink or yellow flowers and fleshy leaves. Both grow in the same conditions, arid region and poor soil, except that purslane is found in much colder areas. The cultivated form of purslane, sold as a bedding plant, is called portulaca.
If what I saw was ice plant, then it was introduced is and is not a native plant.
-- posted by biogardener
» greggpasterick - Re: Ice Flower?
In response to message posted by biogardener:Ah ha! Ice plant!! I forgot all about ice plant. I had so many California wildflowers on the brain this past year, what with all we saw that was new, I completely forgot about that.
It is non-native, planted for stabilization, but of course gets invasive. I wrote an article about it last year, my Jan 14, 2003 article. There's a photo of it there.
Gosh, if that's what ya saw, that's kinda disappointing; not a native species strutting its stuff but that...
Mystery solved? Maybe...
-- posted by greggpasterick
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