A Glance Back
It’s been a busy week at the Harrison household, with lots of family members coming and going. So very much fun! We also celebrated my husband’s birthday, and I’ve been trying to prepare for two separate book tours, one a virtual tour online for my eBook publisher Open Road Integrated Media, and the other a Michigan and Wisconsin tour for Wayne State University Press, to celebrate the release of their anthology, THE WAY NORTH. My short story, “Una Corda,” is a part of that anthology.
In addition during this busy week, Open Road released a video to tout my Alaska novels. You may recall a post I wrote about two weeks ago that featured producer Corey Maloney and cinematographer Luke Locurcio, the team who came to our house to shoot the video. Later this month, when I have a few minutes to catch my breath, I’ll be highlighting a video of Luke and Corey as they filmed the video. Meanwhile here’s the finished product! You can probably tell that I’m delighted!
For those who are wondering, most of the video was shot here at our house and on our beach and surrounding woods. The hand hefting the axe is my husband’s. And no, we do not have that spectacular waterfall in our backyard. That is Tahquamenon Falls, located about an hour and a half drive northwest of us, and is one of the most recognized landmarks in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
Many Blessings!
Sue
The video is so well done, Sue! In showing your surroundings it gives credibility to the stories you write… your knowledge of the land provides authenticity to their settings. Plus I love your home! 🙂
Must admit though, my arthritic fingers rebel at the idea of returning to a typewriter for manuscripts. Do you use one all the time?
Thank you, Carol. I’m glad you like the video. It was so much fun to do and cinematographer Luke Locurcio and producer Corey Maloney were wonderful to work with, as is the rest of the Open Road team. I’m so fortunate.
About that typewriter… Maybe you can sense my smile. That typewriter belonged to my husband’s parents when they owned a business (for 38 years), and it had been relegated to the attic. My husband found it there and we asked permission to have it. It was gladly given (Sorry about the passive sentence!). I have it in my office on a bookcase as a decoration. It was the first thing that Corey and Luke noticed when I took them upstairs to the office, and they both loved it. I typed on it for about a half hour to get those few minutes of video. I think, in that video, it makes everything about my writing seem old and hard-won, which is actually true. I love the sound of the keys striking the paper, and the look of that old typewriter, but I’m very happy for my computer (split keyboard for my carpel tunnel hands, spell check, cut and paste) where I write every day. 🙂
It’s taken me a while to get back here and read your reply. I, too, have an old typewriter… that’s partly why I asked. My hubby discovered it at our church’s garage sale a couple years ago along with a few newer-but-also-old ones that nobody wanted. It’s a decoration in my office, too, and I love having it. But my arthritis would never survive even a half-hour of typing on it. I’m sure yours is especially precious since it belonged to family.
That typewriter is especially precious, Carol. I am fortunate with my hands, and the only real problem I had was minor arthritis, which seems to have cleared up now, and carpel tunnel, which took 2 surgeries, but is not a problem anymore. For that I am highly grateful!