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Loungers In Print!
Wow! This is awesome news! I would LOVE to read your book, but since I am legally blind, I do not read eBooks very well and a paperback copy would take me ages to complete. So, I do best with audio versions of books these days. I hope an audio version will be released one day...- KayEn78
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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Started a blog called Kristi's Writing Desk...
Started a blog called Kristi's Writing Desk. https://kristiswritingdesk.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-first-post.html- KayEn78
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What are you Writing?
No, I have not. The only mystery-type stories I have written, have been the Dragnet ones. Even that was a surprise a few years ago when I began to write them. I had never written a mystery/crime-drama before then. The only writing I have actually had published in a magazine was my article...- KayEn78
- Post #680
- Forum: The Reading Room
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What are you Writing?
I really don't think my writing can be as good as Ellroy's, but I'll think about it (changing the names, tactics, yet still keeping it Dragnet-influenced). It's interesting at what does get published. Someone wrote these Johnny Dollar books (I guess that wasn't under copyright) and you can buy...- KayEn78
- Post #678
- Forum: The Reading Room
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What are you Writing?
So, you didn't like my story? :) I would have to change quite a bit because people would recognize Dragnet right away. I know someone who self-published her police drama stories and the main characters are name Jim and Pete. It screams Adam-12. I've thought about changing the names and...- KayEn78
- Post #675
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Working on the final chapter of my Dragnet 1948 story, The Big Witness...
Working on the final chapter of my Dragnet 1948 story, The Big Witness. https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12862499/1/The-Big-Witness- KayEn78
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Working on the final chapter of my Dragnet 1948 story, The Big Witness.
Working on the final chapter of my Dragnet 1948 story, The Big Witness.- KayEn78
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What are you Writing?
I have finally gotten back into writing after a four-year lull (partly due to divorce, moving, a severe blood clot (which resulted in a hospital stay), and back surgery (another hospital stay). I began, what I call my Dragnet 1948 story, The Big Witness back in 2017 and only now have posted...- KayEn78
- Post #673
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
I've seen rotary dial phones and have one from the '60s (non-working) displayed in my living room, but have never used one. Having only used push-button phones and now cell phones--I just thought "dialing a number" was pressing (or for an iPhone "tapping") the numbers to make your call. It...- KayEn78
- Post #4,685
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Loungers In Print!
Thanks, LizzieMaine! Yes, they are definitely still around. In the past they used to publish more frequently, but now they have issues each year. I had a subscription back in the '90s when I was in high school. Bought six copies this weekend and passed them out to family members. :)- KayEn78
- Post #62
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Loungers In Print!
Recently, an article I wrote for The Nostalgia Digest Magazine has been published in the Spring, 2017 issue with William Powell & Myrna Loy on the cover. This magazine with my piece, And Me, Harlow Wilcox, can be found at the above link or the magazine rack of your local Barnes & Noble bookstore.- KayEn78
- Post #60
- Forum: The Reading Room
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I've officially been published! "And Me, Harlow Wilcox" by Kristi Zanker Nostalgia Digest...
I've officially been published! "And Me, Harlow Wilcox" by Kristi Zanker Nostalgia Digest Magazine, Spring, 2017 pp: 18-21- KayEn78
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Verbal anachronisms in period movies
I saw the film 36 Hours with James Garner awhile back. Thought it was a fascinating plot. I'll have to dig that one out and watch it again soon. I did see the 1979 made-for-TV movie, All Quiet on the Western Front (with Richard Thomas) and thought it was odd that the Germans spoke perfect...- KayEn78
- Post #60
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Verbal anachronisms in period movies
It's interesting. Years ago, I read the 1961 book, Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates. There was swearing in it--mostly g.d. and other milder curse words. However, there was one use of the "F" word. In the 2008 movie of the same name, there are about 8 to 10 "F" words splattered throughout...- KayEn78
- Post #40
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Golden Era Dog Names
We had a tri-colored beagle growin up named Snoopy. :) -Kristi- KayEn78
- Post #42
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Fibber McGee & Molly theme music change
I could not understand why the theme song changed for the Fall, 1946 broadcasts and then went back to Wing to Wing after the New Year 1947. I read (I think it might've been in the Heavenly Days book that Gale Gordon played "Foggy" Williams the weatherman for a year because Mayor LaGuardia had... -
Stateside funerals in the WW2 era?
I once spoke with a lady who grew up in Bloomington, IL who played Taps during the funerals of those who died in the war (WWII) throughout that area. Back when I was in college, she, and friend of mine and I visited the town war memorial and she pointed to at least a dozen names of men she had... -
Terms Which Have Disappeared
There's an OTR episode of Suspense called, Short Order that aired around 1945. We know the term "fast food" didn't exist then, but "short order" cook did. Is this in reference to "quick" food like at drugstore lunch counters or automats? You order a sandwich and it's ready in minutes, if not...- KayEn78
- Post #921
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Do you count 1945 through 1963 as part of the Golden Era?
I agree with your definition/explanation of The Golden Era as a bell-shaped curve, rjb1. That's how I view the entire "Golden Era" myself.- KayEn78
- Post #168
- Forum: The Golden Era
