Non-Fiction

MWSA member Lt. Col. Vicki Hudson's ebook, Chow, has been accepted into nomination for Dan Poynter's 2012 Global eBook Awards in both the Best Cover and Military non-fiction categories. The second annual Global eBook Awards, with entries accepted in 72 specific categories, honor and bring attention to the future of book publishing – ebooks. The awards ceremony will be August 18 in Santa Barbara, CA.

Is this just me? I’ve been more than once bitten by the tones in my Internet emailed messages. I thought I’d learned from the past, but along came someone who misinterpreted what I wrote, probably due to tone. Once again, I've become shy, unsure ofmyself.

As for "bitten"– My ancestry includes England where a late 1400s printer translated an Aesop fable line from Greek to "He that hath ben ones begyled by somme other ought to kepe hym wel fro(m) the same." Through centuries of translations came the phrase, “once bitten, twice shy.”

• Lucky Buckaroo Bonus Drawing – To add even more fun to the auction, the first two auction items will be “Eye Glass Repair Kits and Grocery Coupon Cards.” They will be numbered 1-37. After they are sold, I will hand five sealed envelopes to Joyce Gilmour who will open the fifth envelope first. The envelope will contain 1000 buckaroos and a number between 1-37. Whoever purchased the item with that number will receive the buckaroos. Joyce will then open the fourth envelope and so on.