{"id":1307,"date":"2017-07-18T13:33:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T20:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2017-07-26T15:24:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T22:24:23","slug":"backroads-tour-of-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/?p=1307","title":{"rendered":"Backroads Tour of Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of news, my friends. I sent the final, edited, corrected, all-done version of Forty Dead Men to my publisher two days ago. It is now being copy edited (they&#8217;re looking for typos) and typeset. I sent a 250 word summary to my editor so she can create a publicity blurb, then it goes to the cover artist. The publication date at last report is February, 2018. I have to say that I liked the way this tenth Alafair Tucker adventure turned out. Now let us hope that you like it as well, Dear Reader.<\/p>\n<p>The new<a href=\"http:\/\/mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/murder-in-wartime-mystery-readers.html\"> Mystery Readers Journal<\/a> is out. The theme is &#8220;Murder in Wartime&#8221;, and it includes an article I wrote about Oklahoma&#8217;s infamous Green Corn Rebellion during WWI. This is a great journal for mystery readers. So many articles by so many great writers!<\/p>\n<p>I will be facilitating another ten-week creative writing seminar for the Arizona State University Emeritus College beginning Sept 21, so I&#8217;m brushing up on my writing exercises. I taught this course last fall, and discovered that science professors are accomplished writers, but they have a tendency to maintain a professional distance from the reader. Active voice in fiction, Professor. Active voice!<\/p>\n<p>Also, \u00a0it looks like I&#8217;ll be returning to the motherland of Oklahoma in September, if the stars align. Below is the tentative schedule for the Backroads Tour of the Eastern OK Department of Libraries. When I have contact information for each library, I will add it to the Events page. I&#8217;m really looking forward to seeing you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The BACKROADS TOUR OF OKLAHOMA<\/strong><br \/>\nDonis Casey visit September 12-September 16, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, September 12<\/strong><br \/>\nStanley Tubbs Memorial Library, Sallisaw, OK<br \/>\n1:30pm-3:00pm<\/p>\n<p>Muldrow Public Library, Muldrow, OK<br \/>\n5:30pm-7:00pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, September 13<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Jim Lucas Checotah Public Library Checotah, OK<br \/>\n11:30am-1:00pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, September 14<\/strong><br \/>\nDelaware County Library Jay, OK<br \/>\n11:30am-1:15pm<\/p>\n<p>Kansas Public Library Kansas OK<br \/>\n2:30pm-4:00pm<\/p>\n<p>Tahlequah Public Library Tahlequah, OK<br \/>\n6:30pm-7:30pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, September 15<\/strong><br \/>\nEufaula Memorial Library Eufaula, OK<br \/>\n11:30am-1:00pm<\/p>\n<p>Hulbert Community Library Hulbert, OK<br \/>\n5:00pm-6:00pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday, September 16<\/strong><br \/>\nMuskogee Public Library, Muskogee, OK<br \/>\n11:00am-1:00pm<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of news, my friends. I sent the final, edited, corrected, all-done version of Forty Dead Men to my publisher two days ago. It is now being copy edited (they&#8217;re looking for typos) and typeset. I sent a 250 word summary to my editor so she can create a publicity blurb, then it goes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2H58s-l5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1309,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions\/1309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}