Thanks Argy! I hope you've fully recovered from your lack of YA book accident. 
Scotch Fans we've all read about how Dale intends to branch out into some other genres. What does this have to do with scotch you ask? Well it doesn't really have anything to do with scotch. But if you start a topic about something that interests you and jump on the soap box from time to time I'm sure no one will mind either (And if they do well they can just pass on your topic) I've said this before but it bears repeating. I started this topic to have fun and be a bit silly. I have a very dry sense of humor and based on some of your emails people don't always get it. If I've offended you or yours I apologize. Oh and yes I know I don't always use correct grammar etc but you know what..I'm not the writer here..Dale is. I mostly just type along like I'm talking and it turns out like it turns out. Now back to the topic at hand.
Dale intends to write some books under different names and genres. To be honest I mostly read sci fi/fantasy. I have since I was a boy and it never seemed to change as I grew older. Most of you having read the scotch forum know that I'm a middle aged guy. But the way I think hasn't changed that much from my mid 20s to mid 40s (My mother says I need to grow up) I have read other kinds of books but I would say it was maybe 10% of my reading. I enjoy these kinds of books because it's an escape from the 9 to 5 real world grind. I already have plenty of real world drama going on. My experience with growing older has been less about maturity and more about my back hurts and I can't run as fast. Sorry have to stop for a second that last thought brought another to mind that made me laugh. For those of you that have seen the movie "Dazed and Confused" I was thinking of the scene where the character played by Matthew Mcconaughey says "That's what I like about high school girls...I keep getting older and they stay the same age." I know.. total PED line.. but if you see it in the context of the movie it's funny. Oh and if your going to yell at me for laughing at it.. yell at Dale as well. He had 20 something year old Trice marry 11 year old children of the corn Timon (My wife will never forgive Dale for that as I had what she calls an episode) Not so much because Timon was so young but because as most of you know I don't like him. I had big plans for Trice in my story..hmm Dale's story.. and this twist interfered with those plans. Again you've forced me away from our topic!
I'll support whatever Dale decides to do because he's already given me so many books that I enjoy. But I can't help but thinking that Dale is a bit like a juggler that already has a lot of balls in the air. I wonder if trying to keep all those balls up is part of whats wearing on him. I think that maybe He should focus on a couple of the balls and do his fancy tricks with them instead of adding more. Pull up 10 random authors on amazon and see how many different series they have going at one time. Very few if any are going to have as many as Dale. My respectful opinion is that it's becoming too much.
The old saying is "Dance with the one that brung you."
Anyway rattled on enough and Marcia is wagging her get off the soap box finger so I'll wish you all a good day and see you later.
Scotch Fans we've all read about how Dale intends to branch out into some other genres. What does this have to do with scotch you ask? Well it doesn't really have anything to do with scotch. But if you start a topic about something that interests you and jump on the soap box from time to time I'm sure no one will mind either (And if they do well they can just pass on your topic) I've said this before but it bears repeating. I started this topic to have fun and be a bit silly. I have a very dry sense of humor and based on some of your emails people don't always get it. If I've offended you or yours I apologize. Oh and yes I know I don't always use correct grammar etc but you know what..I'm not the writer here..Dale is. I mostly just type along like I'm talking and it turns out like it turns out. Now back to the topic at hand.
Dale intends to write some books under different names and genres. To be honest I mostly read sci fi/fantasy. I have since I was a boy and it never seemed to change as I grew older. Most of you having read the scotch forum know that I'm a middle aged guy. But the way I think hasn't changed that much from my mid 20s to mid 40s (My mother says I need to grow up) I have read other kinds of books but I would say it was maybe 10% of my reading. I enjoy these kinds of books because it's an escape from the 9 to 5 real world grind. I already have plenty of real world drama going on. My experience with growing older has been less about maturity and more about my back hurts and I can't run as fast. Sorry have to stop for a second that last thought brought another to mind that made me laugh. For those of you that have seen the movie "Dazed and Confused" I was thinking of the scene where the character played by Matthew Mcconaughey says "That's what I like about high school girls...I keep getting older and they stay the same age." I know.. total PED line.. but if you see it in the context of the movie it's funny. Oh and if your going to yell at me for laughing at it.. yell at Dale as well. He had 20 something year old Trice marry 11 year old children of the corn Timon (My wife will never forgive Dale for that as I had what she calls an episode) Not so much because Timon was so young but because as most of you know I don't like him. I had big plans for Trice in my story..hmm Dale's story.. and this twist interfered with those plans. Again you've forced me away from our topic!
I'll support whatever Dale decides to do because he's already given me so many books that I enjoy. But I can't help but thinking that Dale is a bit like a juggler that already has a lot of balls in the air. I wonder if trying to keep all those balls up is part of whats wearing on him. I think that maybe He should focus on a couple of the balls and do his fancy tricks with them instead of adding more. Pull up 10 random authors on amazon and see how many different series they have going at one time. Very few if any are going to have as many as Dale. My respectful opinion is that it's becoming too much.
The old saying is "Dance with the one that brung you."
Anyway rattled on enough and Marcia is wagging her get off the soap box finger so I'll wish you all a good day and see you later.
I'll just go ahead and send those off to you in the morning..Look under the file labeled "These are for Dale not you Estrid!"
I know I know but what are friends for..I'm more then happy to do this small thing for you Dale.