In recent weeks I have fielded a few questions relative to when I might be conducting another writers’ workshop for folks who are considering making their living, or at least supplementing their income, creating books, articles and other materials for publication. The fact is, I have been so busy with concert bookings that I have not had the time to plan participating in a workshop of any kind. I like doing them, so perhaps in the near future we may get an opportunity to do so. If you want me to conduct one in your town, email me and provide some specifics. In the meantime, there are some books you can read and enlighten yourself on this whole business of writing for a living. You can order these books from www.amazon.com or go to my website and order them from me (www.wcjameson.com). Notes from Texas: On Writing in the Lone Star State (TCU Press) is [...] Read more »

Pardon my tardiness at composing a current blog – I’ve been on the road playing music and promoting my latest book. There were too many highlights on this trip to mention in a single blog, so I’ll just mention a few. One was the Book Nook, a cool independently owned bookstore in Wheatland, Wyoming, that set up a signing as well as a concert for me. A grand lunch was provided, lots of great folks from town dropped in, and the great Texas singer/songwriter Susan Gibson joined me for part of the show. Susan, as most of you know, wrote the #1 hit song “Wide Open Spaces” for the Dixie Chicks. The new book is Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of Old Wyoming published by High Plains Press in Glendo, Wyoming. Several of my readers have told me it is the most beautiful book of the series. Another great concert/signing was booked in Glendo with [...] Read more »

Regular readers of this blog are well aware that this kind of thing doesn’t come easy for me. Other than writing books, songs, and poetry, I tend to be somewhat uncommunicative. It’s not that I’m unfriendly or reclusive, I’ve just never been convinced I had anything worthwhile to say, particularly when it comes to blogging. At the urging of my nationally famous and ever-charming webgal, however, I agreed to write blogs for this website, as well as for the new Billy the Kid-oriented site. The experience hasn’t been as painful as I thought it would be. One of the truly positive aspects of blogging, however, is the subsequent contact made by friends and acquaintances with whom I have had little or no communication for many years. When my webmaster recently informed me that I had a number of responses to my blogs on the site, I checked them out, and I plan to respond to [...] Read more »

Following a delightful stay, productive, and profitable time in Woodland Park and Colorado Springs, I traveled back to Gunnison for another leg of the tour. Since LWB had bookings and clients in Woodland Park, she remained with plans to fly home a week later. Taking up lodging once again at the beautiful home of Jim Swaim and Missy Kizer, I looked forward to another show at the Palisades as well as Jim’s cooking. One of the best parts of staying here is sitting on their front porch sipping coffee and engaging in conversation while looking out across the richly landscaped lawn. It was, in fact, named Yard of the Month in a Gunnison competition, but that doesn’t come close to doing it justice. Here, the visitor is treated to an unbelievable array of colors, multiple species of healthy, vibrant flowers, a carpet of manicured green lawn, and tribes of hummingbirds feasting upon the nectar. Nirvana! [...] Read more »

I just returned from one of the best concert tours I’ve ever had. I set out from Llano, Texas on the morning of August 6 with Laurie Wagner Buyer, the famous poet, memoirist, novelist, and editor. The day before we left, the temperature was 109 degrees F. I had a full schedule of concerts and LWB’s schedule was filled with writing workshops and seminars along with consulting with several of her clients. On arriving at our first stop in the cool and beautiful Gunnison, Colorado, we moved into the home of our great hosts, Jim Swaim and Missy Kizer. Missy is a poet and writer and Jim does pretty much everything. On this leg of our travels, he served as cook and bartender and put together some quality meals. Around 7:00 a.m. on the morning after our arrival the temperature was 28 degrees! I stepped outside with a hot cup of coffee and watched three [...] Read more »