[FRIAM] Legado de Nuevo Mexico

[Frank Wimberly]

I might even find this an excuse to make it to the weekly meeting of the
congregation just to prise a few more anecdotes from you.

Here's one that I could have put in the chapter "Summer of 1962".  I may
have mentioned this at the weekly meeting but you haven't been there for a
long time.  When my sister, her boyfriend and I were staying with my
childless aunt and uncle for the summer, my aunt said, "Frank, can you go
to the store and pick up a fifth of milk?".  They bought much more liquor
than milk.

Frank


Frank Wimberly
Phone (505) 670-9918

On Aug 2, 2017 5:53 PM, "Steven A Smith" <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

>
> It's interesting that you would have liked more anecdotes.  I could have
> made the book twice as long but I thought that would make  it boring and I
> was in a hurry for fear of becoming disabled before it was published.
> Irrational, I know.
>
> Let's just say I was captivated, but I have  a lot of natural
> resonance/affinity for your subject (general place-time).
>
> I admit that it WAS a treat to be able to take it all in one long gulp
> which was a close call.... I was done with my meal and on my 3rd ice-tea
> and ready to pack it in when I realized the remainder of the pages weren't
> all full (what with back-matter and all) and soldiered on to the end.
>
> I might even find this an excuse to make it to the weekly meeting of the
> congregation just to prise a few more anecdotes from you.
>
>
> Thanks too for the plan to pass the book along to your friend.
>
> I doubt it will inspire him to write his own but in it's own way is
> equally interesting (at least to me!).
>
> Your point about authors being interested in reader feedback reminds me of
> an open-ended conversation with our own Tim Taylor (aka Ramick) regarding
> the role of "audience" in poetry/writing.
>
> In my own experience the timesqew for regularly published writers seems to
> cause them some annoyance with fans.  Unless they are on a riff of a 10
> part Trilogy by the time I have read one of their works, it is likely they
> were done with it's creation years before... at best they were bouncing
> back and forth with Editor/Publisher for a year or more from their final
> draft and their final draft might have been a year or more past a "pretty
> good draft" and are NOW well into their next novel (or next dozenth short
> piece) so discussing the characters/setting/conceit of their LAST work (or
> something from a decade past) seems to be at least a mild annoyance to them.
>
> I have always been fascinated with Scientific/Technical people who became
> fiction authors, whether they write tech/sci fiction or not.   One of my
> favorites is Robert Forward, and LANL has it's own contemporary Ian
> Tregellis
> <http://www.lanl.gov/careers/stories/spotlight/ian-tregillis.php> to
> offer up in that category.
>
> - Steve
>
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