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Frank P. Baron
Awareness Member
Post Number:
1
Registered: 10-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, November 04, 2003 - 09:44 am: |   |
I was looking for an "introductions" thread and couldn't find one.
So.....
My name is Frank Baron, though I've been using the "eraser" handle online for years. I've been freelancing off and on for 30 years, and writing full time for the last 3+. (Selling my business and living off the now-dwindled proceeds is what allowed the "full time" thing.)
I primarily write non fiction, with an emphasis on fishing and humour but like 95% of writers, I have a novel on the back-burner. Most of my sales have been to newspapers and magazines.
My first book, a how-to with humour was published in August by Ragged Mountain Press/McGraw-Hill. It's called "What Fish Don't Want You to Know." I've recently begun sending out a free, humourous, weekly column via email called "BaronItAll" (If interested in checking it out, send an email to BaronItAll@rogers.com )
I found my way here via a PA thread (did I just hear a collective groan?) on Absolute Write's Water Cooler, where I've been a regular poster since Day One. I've lurked here for a couple of weeks and decided to "out" myself.
I suppose by now all those "u"s have betrayed the fact that I'm a Canuck.
I look forward to learning and sharing what I've learned with you folks.
Author: What Fish Don't Want You to Know |
Dennis Collins
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
409
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, November 04, 2003 - 09:58 am: | |
Greetings...
From a former fisherman... (they're on to me)
Welcome to mindsight. I hope you'll find the climate friendly and the natives helpful and supportive.
As an open forum, we're not entirely troll free but at least most of them seem pretty tongue-in-cheek and just stop in for a little "sport taunting."
You'll see a cast of regulars here who are sometimes serious and sometimes just having fun. I can't always tell the difference.
Dennis |
Olen Armstrong
Wandering Member
Post Number:
103
Registered: 06-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, November 04, 2003 - 10:09 am: | |
How do, Frank.
Nice to meet a fellow lurker. I lurk in spurts, then feel compelled by some weighty discussion to "open mouth-insert foot-chew vigorously". Of course I then run in shame and crawl back to the safety of the shadows.
I used to fish a lot but drifted into raisin' kids and payin' bills instead.
I was better off before.
I've never been able to explain its attraction to non-fishing types.
I usually just end the discussions with:
"If fishin' was only about catchin' fish, they'd call it catchin'."
See ya' in the shadows,
>Olen A<
9-11-01
Never forget....Never forgive |
Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
699
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, November 04, 2003 - 12:20 pm: | |
Hullo, Frank.....
I have done my share of fishin' and I lurk on the absolute board from time to time. I have seen yours posts. Good to meet ya'. Hope you can chip in and give some of us who need it a helping hand or two.
I used to put out a little community newspaper each week for a valley I live in just outside of Reno, NV. I could have used some of your humor columns. It gets a bit hard to come up with something new and fresh every week. But I stopped that about two years ago, so no more pressure deadlines for me.
Anyway, nice to meet you, come sit a while and chime in when you feel the need to spout some innovative ways of getting the job done, please. 
Claudia
http://notesfromnobody.homestead.com/book.html |
C. E. Winterland
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1223
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, November 04, 2003 - 03:50 pm: | |
Welcome to the Forum, Frank, it's always good to have another fresh perspective (or if 'fresh' isn't the proper term, then perhaps different suits.)
Olen, I've heard that as you get further into raisin' kids and payin' bills, it all turns on ya until yer raisin' bills and payin' kids... keep us apprised as to whether that's true... I've also heard that in the end it all comes back around to where yer raised kids often pay yer bills... but that may just be an old wives tale in this day and age, yeah?
Well, Frank, you've chosen to introduce yourself in the mead hall, where the discussion is meant to stray far from the toils of a writer's life and get right into drinking jokes and such. The regulars in here are usually havin fun.
You've already seen some of the other threads where things can get quite heated quite fast - we try to keep it level, but people are people everywhere, even here from time to time hehehe.
Have a good one.
CEW |
Kevin P. Grover
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
947
Registered: 03-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, November 04, 2003 - 04:12 pm: | |
C.E.!!!!
'fresh' is the proper term...just remember with WHOM you're getting 'fresh' with....ok?
After all, wouldn't want you getting yourself in any trouble with the barkeep now, would we?
Speaking of which...where in the hell is my vodka fireball???
www.winterwolfpublishing.com |
Todd Hunter
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
871
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, November 04, 2003 - 04:18 pm: | |
Welcome Frank...
Have a good time around here...
Myself, I don't have enough patience to fish...a character flaw, I suppose...
I'm still cracking up over "BaronItAll", though... ;-)
Personally, I put out a monthly newsletter about books and writing, entitled "In This Corner"...one of these days, all this work with MS Publisher is going to come in handy...maybe...... |
Steven Shrewsbury
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
338
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, November 04, 2003 - 06:53 pm: | |
Welcome in and hey everyone else.
I need a drink.
Sorry to be cliched as most writers drink....eh, I really don't drink that much. I'm no Hemingway...but I am no Dan Quayle either...although I am so conservative I think Pat Buchanan is a wuss....
Or do I?
Ya think a leftist would create Dack Shannon, Thor Alexander, Elijah Blackthorn, August MaKallum, Erik Bedlam and Lucan Mac Aliester??
I write alot. Will check that link, Frank....
www.stevenshrewsbury.com
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Frank P. Baron
Awareness Member
Post Number:
3
Registered: 10-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, November 04, 2003 - 09:01 pm: | |
Thanks for the warm welcome folks. I look forward to spending time here.
Author: What Fish Don't Want You to Know |
Fred Dungan
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
402
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, November 04, 2003 - 11:47 pm: | |
Welcome, Frank. Since I live in the inner city, the only fish I see are frozen and coated with bread crumbs. I do, however, listen regularly to the CBC and fully appreciate Canada's contribution to journalism.
http://www.fdungan.com/publish.htm |
Jennifer Lynn
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
855
Registered: 03-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2003 - 12:22 am: | |
Welcome Frank.. where in Canuckdom do you hail from? I'm in Southern Alberta, also known as Winter Central.
Mmmm.. fishing. Nothing like some pan fried trout over an open fire...
Jenn |
Frank P. Baron
Awareness Member
Post Number:
4
Registered: 10-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2003 - 08:05 am: | |
G'day eh Jenn...I'm in southern Ontario, a smallish town about an hour east of Toronto. *If* anything beats those pan-fried trout, it might be walleye.
Author: What Fish Don't Want You to Know |
Olen Armstrong
Wandering Member
Post Number:
104
Registered: 06-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2003 - 08:14 am: | |
CE,
I've been married for 30 years because I keep my focus on only ONE old wife's tail...oh...hold one....that's not what you mean, is it.
Never mind.
Later,
>Olen A<
9-11-01
Never forget....Never forgive |
C. E. Winterland
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1226
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2003 - 05:26 pm: | |
LOL!!!
Not quite what I meant, but well put
CEW |
Nancy Marie
Unity Member
Post Number:
1622
Registered: 08-2001
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2003 - 09:02 pm: | |
Hi Frank, and welcome.
I'm a fisherwoman, who lives near some of the best trophy waters in the west, but I ain't never caught any trophy size trout. Mostly I fish to get away from the kids and the husband for awhile, and depending upon my mood, either seriously fishing or not, I take a book with me, the book's for the not seriously fishing days, of course. That's when I cast my line in, pull out my camper's chair sit back and forget about everything. Maybe that's why I've never caught a trophy size trout, ya' think?
anyway Welcome to the forum.
blessings, Kitty
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Frank P. Baron
Awareness Member
Post Number:
5
Registered: 10-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2003 - 09:16 pm: | |
Thanks Kitty.
No trophy trout yet eh?
Gee, I think I might be able to recommend a book for your next outing.
Author: What Fish Don't Want You to Know |
Nancy Marie
Unity Member
Post Number:
1623
Registered: 08-2001
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, November 06, 2003 - 08:02 am: | |
LOL!! ya' think |
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